APRIL 2008 NEWSLETTER

For the last several months there has been no newsletter. I have done very little in the way of communicating. My telephone rings, I answer and a voice starts immediately talking non-stop and when there appears to be a slight pause, and I attempt to respond the person then tells me that they are very busy and have to go. After several of these types of telephone calls I realize that I am being asked to listen. Not respond in any way, or to share the events in my life, just to listen. This is a different role that is being offered to me, one that I have not experienced previously. In taking on this role, I have found that I am experiencing life as an observer. Normally, even while practicing being present and having a still mind, I joyously love to participate in the life that is unfolding around me. Observing has not taken my joy or love of life but I am very aware that there is a greater degree of detachment from the events, encounters, and information within me.

In writing this newsletter I am also aware of a degree of sadness I am feeling within me. Right now I feel that my words won’t be heard and that there are few who would receive this message. It has been easy to procrastinate and avoid the message that I feel that I am being asked to bring. But I know that in being the messenger I am asked to deliver the words regardless of how it will be received.

As I have moved through my days the last several months, I have observed the lack of smiling faces. As I approach the many that I meet on my travels, my smile is greeted with a blank, glaze-like expression in their eyes. Very few respond but I hear their thoughts. Their thoughts convey the message of fear, pain, hopelessness and despair with occasional sprinkle of desperate hope. Hoping that someone, somewhere will arrive and turn the course of this world around. I see their auras and feel their energy. Their auras are mottled with shades of yellows, browns, blacks and reds revealing feelings of sadness, despair, confusion and anger. Their energy is frenetic and passively-aggressively ready to meet and confront their life challenges. There is an air of weariness around their mouths and eyes, as though moving through their day is taking tremendous effort.

I have observed people being pulled into the 2012 doomsday/resurrection theories and watched the “professionals” pontificate on what it all means. I have observed the many professional discourses’ on global warming, terrorism, group violence and the need for more rigid security measures, the current presidency, the presidential candidates who are seeking election and wars throughout our world. I have heard the perceived problems but I have as yet to hear any unified solutions.

The role of observer may seem to be a solitary pursuit. Yet, I have been astounded at the degree of joining, with the awakened, that fills my heart to overflowing with love and a greater degree of compassion than I have ever experienced! Through them I am learning and remembering what my true function is…forgiveness. I am so thankful for the abundance of love and compassion that is being held for all of us! In reflecting on my observations, I am aware of the critical need and the importance of love and compassion for this world. So many are lost in their nightmares and believe that they are alone without help or assistance available to them. There are many others that don’t even realize that they are lost. It is only through love and compassion that they and the world can change.

We are so enmeshed in our fantasy of control, power and self-fulfillment, which is supported by our many beliefs, that we can’t see the prisons that we are erecting to enclose ourselves. We feel that we are not responsible for the world we see. We feel that the responsibility lies somewhere outside of ourselves. We feel that we know what to do to change our lives around for our greater comfort, security, health and prosperity. So we don’t ask for help, instead we insist that we can do it alone. But we cannot do or accomplish anything eternal alone. We do have help available to us simply by first asking and then by being willing to accept the help. I wonder, how many will ask? How many will receive? How else will anything change?

Blessings,

Danielle