May your
spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.

May your mind whirl joyful
cartwheels of creativity.

May your heart
sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.

                                                            -Jonathan Lockwood
Huie

Today, as I send forth this blessing of abundance I am
struck by the paradox of life. You know that feeling; that sensation of a big hole in
your heart. In our youth we feel the exuberance of possibilities with the vast
horizon of life before us. As we move along on our  journey we experience the continual turning of life. Chapters end and new ones begin. Over time, a poignancy arises in the culmination of  perceived loss.

Perhaps, our busyness can distract us from being present to
life’s impermanence. We try to hold on tightly to safety with the false security of never endings. Yet, something deeper in us knows there is
value in acknowledging what is.

I scribbled down a few quotes from books that have been my
companion in times past. It has been a few years since I happened upon them but they still hold special meaning.

"As we come more into understanding that working with the
dying is a way of working on ourselves, we find that working on ourselves means
dying…letting go of the separate self, of the every foothold and gesture that
maintains our identity apart from others and our original nature, our profound
oneness with all that is. "                     -Stephen Levine

I received a call from a friend this week who is
experiencing a painful conflict.
As I listened and later reflected on the dilemma I realized that the players and
circumstances may be different but we all experience a similar
distress at one time or another. When we drop the story line  that vulnerable hole in our heart is a common  human experience. We are in this together.

"In the beginning was God and God was without form. For God
to have form there must be duality- a positive and a negative charge. God
created light and dark. The passive dark had no need to express, but the active
light did, the part of God that wanted to express and create. The light is
unconditional love; the dark is the space to receive it. Once we were created
we got attached to the form and forgot the formless. We forgot that God could
not express without us. Fear, the illusion that we are separate from that which
created and encompasses us, prevents us from remembering we are God and love in
form. When we remember we experience no separation between God in form and God
formless; we are both."                      ~Debra Duda

  Perhaps, we are here
to help each other remember.

"May our spirit's soar  throughout the vast cathedral of our being"…

on  the form and formless wing's of God's Love.

 Contributed by Liz  Sorensen Wessel

Polyprint watercolor  by ~liz