Friday, November 2, 2012

If I were a workshop leader...

...for a retreat to help people coping with chronic pain and illness, here is what my heart yearns to share with them (and someday I really hope to!):


I don’t fully understand why we have to go through pain and illness. I am beginning to understand parts of it – it gives us compassion and hones our understanding of the true value and purpose of life, so we can help others to feel this without having to go through so much trauma & drama.

But, I'm sorry you have to go through this.
I know it’s hard.

Somehow, I truly believe that if we work with what life presents us, it helps us to deepen and clarify in ways beyond my understanding – so we can continue to evolve the presentation of Spirit & Love through our forms ever more powerfully.

As much as I wish it were different, nothing has deepened my commitment to life and growing and learning as much as coping with the hardest parts of my life.

We are more than just this body, and what we learn, what we share, the ways we help and Love here, are not lost, not even when this body leaves. It goes into the greater fabric of Existence, of what we as the human race are helping to learn and integrate here. Our lives, both collectively and each and every one of us individually, are truly precious, and much more profound than we realize.

You are needed here. You are precious. Just as you are.

Please don’t let your physical limitations and struggles dim the shining of your Heart.

That’s what this program is really about – how to help you remember and feel Who You Truly Are again, and to help remind you of the tools & helpers that are always here to support us, through all the moments of our lives.

This retreat is about you, helping you reconnect to the most profound sense and expression of Who You Are and why you came here. You are needed here. The world desperately yearns for your healed presence.

That is what will bring true healing here. That is the reason we are here together now.

Welcome.