7-29-07

Thanks so much for your help with the defense fund. The letter expressing my need was a hard one for me to write, but there are times when we simply need each other.

This adventure of setting up a defense fund, hiring an attorney, and applying for a clemency hearing, is helping me to more fully live what I’ve written about over the years. I’m finding out that what was hard to do (writing that letter) can truly be a blessing. It has strengthened my faith and helped me to trust the divine process behind it all.

I told my little buddy, Ralphie (Tom’s cartoon dog), how all of this is beginning to unfold, and I expected some smart remark from him. He usually has one. This time, though, he was speechless. In fact, he became a little teary.

The value of being real has been deeply impressed upon me. This means saying we’re hurting when we’re hurting and we’re in need when we’re in need. It means accepting and embracing it all. An essay on this subject explores it a little further. “On Being Real” is enclosed.

Our journey of awakening is located right in the middle of all of this, right in the middle of life. Our true calling is to find out what it is to be a human being. The quest is about transformation rather than perfection. No moment is unwanted, and thus, awakening is possible right where we are. “We are invited to be intimate with the world and experience the bones and breath of each moment.”

We keep looking for the wings of a sparrow when the wings of an eagle have already been given us. We’re all like birds who have forgotten we have these wings and we were meant to spread them and fly. All we have to do is flap.

Shall we do a little flapping? Wheeee! What a magnificent view from up here.
From the “lofty regions”, I’m sending boundless love!

Comments

[eva]

Thank You for this letter!
I agree, we have wings, but we don`t believe in that! We have made our life comfortable here on earth and spreading our wings is so scary! But it`s in our nature to fly! So we either jump and learn it (again) or we shut our eyes and claim that we don`t have wings anymore.... We all meet our choices, whether we want it or not. As someone has said - every minute we are on crossroads.Every moment we have a choice.
Thanks for love! - It shows from your every word :))

Thank You, thank You!!!!!!!!!