I know I have posted this before, but in light of the New Year I thought it fitting. May your 2014 be blessed with abundance and love and laughter.
Tonight I say a prayer of gratitude for all of you who read this. And for all the blessings that keep me warm, loved, happy, laughing, safe and protected. May all those who are wanting be blessed as well.
Happy New Year to all of you!
You will be missed.
than racism and racial profiling. I love this GAP ad!! We all have the power to end hateful taught behaviours. Let’s begin by accepting Loving every kind of beautiful there is.
To Arsalan Iftikhar™@TheMuslimGuy, thank you for using Social Media as a platform to call for change!
To all my friends and family, I am happy and thankful for your presence in this world. Most of all, to my Kenya family, I am happy and in praise of the Almighty for keeping you alive throughout the horrendous events of the Nairobi Westgate shootings. I know many of you were spared through what can only be described as Divine Intervention and for that, I stand in gratitude, in humble praise and in deference for those we lost. To my extended family who lost their beloveds, I pray for your strength of faith, for your peace and for the eternal peace and rest of those who were taken from us.
Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason; sometimes things have to happen that make no sense. All we can do is keep faith alive, keep praying, keep standing in the face of adversity and keep humble and keep loving each other. When events like this happen, let us remind each other that what really matters is us– you matter. I matter. We are here. Ameen. Amen. Ahmen.
Salama Kenya!
We have all been programmed since our collective childhoods to believe that the world works in a certain way. But here’s the truth of how this incredible Universe unfolds: “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so to have the life that is waiting for us.” (Joseph Campbell) For many of you, it will require an “unlearning” of everything you have been taught– the programming of “you have to.”
You have to go to school and you have to then get a job with benefits and you have to have a retirement plan and you have to get married and you have to have children, etc, etc.
The real truth is that the only thing you “have” to do is Live. Be who you are at all times. Love this. Love you. Love life. Re-write the software that planned your life before your life began.
Re-write it, learn anew, learn what the Yogis and the Sufis and the Mystics and the Gnostics and the Taoists have been saying for centuries: “You are the key. And you are enough.” Life is short- be brave.
“It is your turn now,
you waited, you were patient.
The time has come,
for us to polish you.
We will transform your inner pearl
into a house of fire.
You’re a gold mine.
Did you know that,
hidden in the dirt of the earth?
It is your turn now,
to be placed in fire.
Let us cremate your impurities.”
-Rumi
So many words, so many truths.
Wish I could have, wish I should have, wish I might have…
known you better.
You chose your journey –
A path we couldn’t follow.
Now, we are hollow.
Your absence is a presence profound
A truth newly found,
questions abound
For family, friends, kith and kin
We shall mourn and we shall grieve,
with a heartfelt prayer upon lips: may the memory of you never leave.
And a prayer upon heart: may you find divine, eternal peace.
© Safreena Rajan (Nyteflowr)
For Stan, loving son, brother, friend, artist and devoted would-be democrat.
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