[Thespiritexpress] Our journey

[Cornelia Gerken]

Carlie,
yes, it gives hope and inspiration.
I feel so much appreciation and love for you beautiful souls in the spirit
house community. Even from afar.
🧡
Cornelia

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM Jima Abbott via Thespiritexpress <
thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

> From Carlie
>
> Riantee,….Reading the poem you read a few weeks ago has even more meaning
> to me as you have shared Charles and your current journey.  How much closer
> could you have gotten to the present?  Thank-you for sharing what your
> family is going through.  It gives me courage that I too can be present
> with my own challenges.  I hold your family tenderly in my heart with so
> much love.
>
> Carlie
>
> On Jan 21, 2025, at 8:37 PM, Lydia Rand via Thespiritexpress <
> thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
>
> Dear sisters and brothers.
> We wanted to thank all of you for your support and love during this
> difficult transition, not so difficult in fact because it has forced me to
> be totally and only ‘in the moment’ with no possible way to step out of it.
> And in the moment there is only bliss, everything else that comes through
> is so unreal, it just passes. . . And I believe that this elevated state is
> a direct result of the prayers and healing energy you all sent us.
> Charles had one night in the hospital when he believed he was dying, and
> so did we all.
> The whole family and friends regrouped and by morning Charles revived,
> ready to get out of the hospital and come home to our house to make the
> journey to his true home.
> But with the succor of morphine he has no pain, and he has been surrounded
> by so much love, his needs so well taken care by many devoted people in the
> help professions that it looks like he has decided to take his time leaving
> the planet. He is very conscious that this reprieve is a gift for us all to
> be able to have a loving closure, With humor he adds that he hopes, for the
> sake of the ones helping him, that it won’t take too long. He is ready to
> take the next step if it proves to be needed.
> With love from our whole family.
> Riantee
> Below is the poem that I read last Tuesday, written just before the
> accident,
>
> Change.
>
> *Change*, you tell me,
> *the **only** constant you can **always** count on.*
>
> Change.
> moving, cleansing, purifying
> transforming, transmuting,
> obliterating.
>
>
> A brief rest, a deep breath.
> I settle down, look around, find my footing, reassess,
> and then
> another run,
> change, movement, transformation, purification, annihilation. . .
>
> *Can anything else go wrong?*
> * I need to stop this!*
>
> Tension, stress,
> then fear, panic, despair:
> *Why me?*
>
> *Wait a minute* I tell myself! *Wait!*
> * Don’t totally lose it, stay calm, keep control,*
> * You can put things back in order.*
>
> *Not to worry, *you console me, *you know one thing for sure, *
> *it will change, everything always changes!*”
>
> Where do I find solidity then,
> a place where to put my foot down,
> settle on stable ground, be safe?
>
> When the fear demon opens its mouth wide to devour me
> who do I turn to?
> When the beast crushes me down and tramples me
> until I have no more strength for resistance
> how can I possibly control anything?
>
> I can’t even find my breath!
> So,
> I give up, I surrender, accept what is,
> what else can I do?
>
> And suddenly. . . a deep silence.
> Like a gentle mist, serenity settles upon the earth.
> I find myself in the eternal immensity
> of the place that never changes,
> that blissful place that has always been
> and will always be,
> that place without attributes,
> that place where I can only exist
> in the one reality that no word can describe,
> the only reality that will ever be,
> love.
>
> As there is no beginning to my being
> there is no end to my becoming,
> and that
> will never change.
>
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