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Touch of Spirit September 13 - 07 “A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Once gained, never lost, a true friend is for life because they are of our life. We invite them into our person, we learn to appreciate them, to nurture and care for them as they do us. They take up residence in our soul, that temple within us through which our spirit expresses itself. They become one with the fabric of our being, leaving behind threads of worth and value we have chosen to gather into the weavings of our life texture. This eventually becomes a tapestry of community as friends build on friends to join in the effort as one.
Friends are of the essence of our being, a light in dark moments when we cannot see beyond a fog of fear, a blanket when the fireplace is not enough. They know that we are well even when we lay prone in the bed of sickness. With a friend we are never inconsolable. When we want to forget our worth, they call us to rise into the mirrors of memories we have made with them to help us see our smile again. We learn to see into our own eyes because we learn to see with theirs. Words fail when we want to express our true feelings for them because the truth of our friendship lies in the landscape of truth, beauty and love that spreads before us as we open to each day. And this truth and beauty has no boundary. Our friendship is what fills the circle from here to the horizon in our dreams of joy and completion. Friendship dissolves ghosts of the night and clouds that rise up if we contemplate a lonely evening. We know they are true friends when we know without them our life is incomplete. We always welcome them within our heart no matter the circumstances of their life or ours. We live in compassion with them, knowing that what happens to them, happens to us and what happens to us, happens to them.
In some ways our friends have been with us since birth. Because all that is good in us is touched by them, enlivened by them. Our acceptance of them and their acceptance of us is the form into which we pour the matter of our life. Even though the form was always within us, their sight helps us learn about the exact nature of the form. Their touch assists us in learning which matter fills the form best. The structure of our life is more solid, more comfortable, expresses with more harmony because of their presence.
One is reminded of the little girl who, when her father held her hands to swing her in circles, would cry with delight, “Do it again daddy, do it again.” He wanted to stop, he was so dizzy; she would not hear of it, she was so exhilarated. Friends are fun and fulfilling; they make us dizzy with the delight of life shared. Lets do it again and again, today every day.
Bill Caldwell, The Center for Spiritual Discovery
The Center for Spiritual Discovery is a Science of Mind ä community associated with Religious Science International.We are located at 4801 Laguna Blvd., Ste. 105, PMB 255, Elk Grove, CA 95875. Feedback, information or comments: bzcaldwell@comcast.net, 916.208.5732
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