Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Somewhere, A Quiet World

One of the messages offers this gift:
  • "A quiet world, with gentle ordering and kindly thought, alive with hope and radiant in joy, without the smallest bitterness of fear upon its loveliness."
Many years earlier Helen dreamed of a quiet world, as a "happy dream". From her autobiography (circa pp 36)
  • ...”a picture of a young girl who resembled me in many ways, although she could not have been more than 16 years old herself. Her head was slightly thrown back in happy laughter, and her arms were outstretched as if in universal welcome. She seemed to be wholly joyous, literally incapable of grief or pain.   She was standing on a lawn of bright green grass, but in her extraordinary happiness her bare feet hardly seemed to touch the ground at all. She was dressed in a light, loose dress not reminiscent of any particular time or place. There was, in fact, nothing suggesting the past about her, nor did she seem likely to be concerned about the future. I do not think she even regarded time as we do.” 
The nightmares of today can yield to your happy dream. Like Barbra Streisand singing "Somewhere", 
  • your grasp of these messages awakens you to this quiet world, a welcome way-station on the prodigal son's homeward journey. 
Women/men, we make that same archetypal journey homeward ... just varied pathways.

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