I wish from my heart to yours that we each know we are not now and can never be alone. I know these times have turned so much on its head. In the name of love we are told to stay away from loved ones, we can feel guilty if we choose to visit our elder parents. Perhaps fear stops us from visiting a new grandchild, a story I heard yesterday. Or restrictions have us locked away alone in our rooms for the holidays. There are a million ways today so many may be feeling afraid and alone. There is so much more I want to say on this, so much being revealed within.
For now I can only wish that if you happen to stumble across this little love letter, you will soak in these words and know that truly we are all unified by a force that does not have room for separation. You may not feel it, you may not believe it yet none the less ,there is a field of unity from which you will never be separated. Each of our true natures is simply the One. While the certainty of this slips in and out of this one, I have luxuriated enough in that direct Knowing to be certain it is true.
My great wish is to pass on even a scent of the nectar of that Truth. I have two dear friends right now literally immobilized with pain or they were when I last heard from them. It may have shifted seconds later. Both of them choose to rest in the certainty of their wellbeing.
As it seems on the global stage an epic opportunity to choose love or fear becomes even more enticing, I stand in awe of so many I know personally who have chosen love against all odds. I bow in gratitude for their modeling. I extend words of love and connection, of unity with the hope that perhaps even just one heart who believes in the lie of being alone might be soothed. Whatever your circumstances this holiday, my prayer is that each of us knows the Truth of our magnificence and that we are not now and can never be alone.
Savannah has her own story of falling into the abyss of isolation and loneliness. Years ago she might have focused on the sob story. Now she might focus on gratitude for the simplest kindness. Yet I choose to leave any of her stories perhaps for another day. For now I simply extend blessing of peace on earth, good will to wo/men. Perhaps trite words but this heart has tasted a time where this will be the global narrative and it is good. I know that reading the words of a beloved who was choosing to be at peace despite quite challenging circumstances lifted this heart powerfully as her words greeted me first thing this Christ mas morning. May all hearts be soothed with words, acts, gestures of comfort.
