Happy New Year!!!!!
Thank you for your love and support all of these years...
Yesterday in class I read from a book called " Kitchen Table Wisdom" pg. 217
Rachel Ramen M.D
" We all can influence the life force. The tools and strategies of healing are so innate, so much a part of a common birthright, that we believers in technology pay very little attention to them. But they have lost none of their power.
People have been healing each other since the beginning. Long before there were surgeons, psychologists, oncologists and internists, we were there for each other. The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness.
Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can be best healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing and suffering is compassion, not expertise.
I like to look at the wounded person as someone who is not weak from his or her experiences...rather as someone who's heart has been touched in such a way that compassion and love become the outcome rather than bitterness and anger...empathy can emerge when there is less residue. May we all allow for the space in our hearts to be filled with this love rather than letting our confusion lead to judgement about what should and shouldn't happen in our lives or someone else's... or, who or who should not get sick. I know that I'm learning so much about the wonderful things in my life because of my obstacles than ever before... would I have learned these same things without the challenges???? I'm not sure...for now...I'm grateful. Thank you for throwing me an oar just as I encountered murky and turbulent waters...we have so much to share ...so much more to learn....
Let us truly embrace what 2006 has taught us and with love in our hearts and a willingness to stay open and compassionate....may we step into the light of 2007 !!!!!!
Love,
Summer
Thank you for your love and support all of these years...
Yesterday in class I read from a book called " Kitchen Table Wisdom" pg. 217
Rachel Ramen M.D
" We all can influence the life force. The tools and strategies of healing are so innate, so much a part of a common birthright, that we believers in technology pay very little attention to them. But they have lost none of their power.
People have been healing each other since the beginning. Long before there were surgeons, psychologists, oncologists and internists, we were there for each other. The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness.
Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can be best healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing and suffering is compassion, not expertise.
I like to look at the wounded person as someone who is not weak from his or her experiences...rather as someone who's heart has been touched in such a way that compassion and love become the outcome rather than bitterness and anger...empathy can emerge when there is less residue. May we all allow for the space in our hearts to be filled with this love rather than letting our confusion lead to judgement about what should and shouldn't happen in our lives or someone else's... or, who or who should not get sick. I know that I'm learning so much about the wonderful things in my life because of my obstacles than ever before... would I have learned these same things without the challenges???? I'm not sure...for now...I'm grateful. Thank you for throwing me an oar just as I encountered murky and turbulent waters...we have so much to share ...so much more to learn....
Let us truly embrace what 2006 has taught us and with love in our hearts and a willingness to stay open and compassionate....may we step into the light of 2007 !!!!!!
Love,
Summer
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