I cannot help think that opportunity lies before us as individuals and a global community for profound transformation. So many have lost so much. We are fearful and way too vulnerable. When we view this in the context of the work of existence, it is clear that this loss has created a space, a void. As is in meditation, it is the spaces between the notes and the spaces between the breaths where the greatest expansion occurs. Perhaps it is time to just be in that space. Feel this space. If we just allow ourselves to be in a space of without, we continue to breathe and exist in our human form. We do not suddenly zap into a vacuum that is sure to bring our death. We can still hear the birds and feel the spring.
What is it that will replace our losses?
I remember reading about the caretakers who existed in the Jewish prison camps in Poland and Germany and that there were prisoners who gave up their food and comforted others while they themselves were disintegrating into skeletons as well. This struck me! In every situation, there is the opportunity to respond in wholeness, in love, in generosity, in kindness.
For some who have lost employment, such as some General Motors employees, they have decided to work in homeless shelters and help the children who reside in them. Giving homework and reading lessons and fixing bicycles. What a glorious way to fill the space created by the loss of job and money. What a powerful expression of humanity! This is what I mean by the opportunities that lie before us, the different forms of expression, one that we have never taken on before, is there for us to risk! And who knows what can happen! Trust and Courage
In loving awareness
Sam
