<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">This is a warm blanket in which I'm wrapping myself tonight. A bejeweled blanket with satin edges. Thank you, Toni. Nice find, Marc. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~ Ed</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Date: 11/25/23 7:40 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Subject: [Thespiritexpress] Jewels ~ 🌟 </div><div><br></div></div><div class="" style="text-align: left;">A real jewel from Toni ~ and with her permission I am posting it.</div><div class="" style="text-align: left;">Just found a copy of it today in a pile of papers.</div><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: left;">I think she read it at an Equinox/Solstice event not long ago.</div><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: left;">Keep that gratitude going ~ !!</div><div class="" style="text-align: left;"> ~~~ We are indeed each other. </div><div class="" style="text-align: left;">w/love, ~m.🙏💛⚡️</div><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">Within the garden of your heart a beautiful soul exists</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">the beautiful soul is you</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">This moment</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">with no beginning or end</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">no point of entry</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">no leaving</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">coming or going</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">just uncontaiable life</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">unpredictable </div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">like these words</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">trying to express the inexpressible</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">like light flickering through clouds of illusion</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">like a flame glowing inside us</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">and every leaf and blade of grass</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">for we are all flames of the sacred fire</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">burning our way through time</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">and all that lies beyond it</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">we are this most sacred Earth</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">and air</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">and water</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">the faint memory of an ancient sun</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">that still glows inside us</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">and crimson leaves</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">falling through </div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">gold light. </div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">🌟</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">May this new season bring an abundant harvest as you look inside at all that has come to pass as part of your one-and-only presence on this earth walk……to ponder all the many people you touched and helped in ways perhaps, you will never know, to be able to celebrate your power as a co-creator here to express and receive love and to be able to feel the gratitude for your life, your friends and family, your work, your health, even to be grateful for the things that are difficult or more challenging …but to be able to celebrate life and existence exactly as it is…. that is indeed a powerful thing to reflect on…. and the gift of truly living an abundant life.</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">Love and Blessings Always, Toni</div></body></html>