[CitizensTruth] FW: You were made for this.......

[Robin Migalla]

Hello everyone,

This brought me great hope...

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Sent:	Saturday, September 13, 2008 14:10
Subject:	FW: You were made for this.......

Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:12:29 -0400From: 
peacemaker.ymani at gmail.comSubject: You were made for this.......

A wonderful reminder from Clarissa Pinkola Estes:

You were made for this

   My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have 
heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They 
are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time 
of daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations 
of what matters most to caring, visionary, civilized people. You are right 
in your assessments. The lustre and hubris, the bald faced audacity that 
some are engaged inwhile endorsing acts so heinous against children, 
elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, this mother 
earth, is breathtaking. Yet I urge you, ask you, gentle you . . . to please 
not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do 
not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is, we were made for 
these times. Yes. For years we have been learning, practicing, been in 
training for, and just waiting to meet, on this exact plain of engagement . 
. . I grew up on the great lakes, and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I 
see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels 
in the water than there are right now, across the world. They are fully 
provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history 
of humankind. Look out over the prow; there are millions of righteous souls 
on the waters with you. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave 
in the stormy roil, I assure you, that the long timbers composing your prow 
and rudder, come from a greater forest. That long grained lumber is known 
to withstand even the fiercest storms. To hold together. To hold its own, 
and to advance, regardless. In any dark time there is a tendency to veer 
towards fainting, over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not 
focus on that. There is a tendency too, to fall into being weakened by 
dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus 
there either. That is spending the wind, without raising the sails. We are 
needed, that is all we can know.  And though we meet resistance, we will 
also meet great souls who will hail us, love us, guide us, and we will know 
them when they appear. Didn't you say you were a believer? Didn't you say 
you are pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn't you ask for grace? 
Please remember . . .that to be in grace means to follow a voice greater. 
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of 
stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any 
small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another, to assist some 
portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given 
to us to know which acts, or by whom,will cause the critical mass to tip 
towards an enduring good and transformative shift. What is needed for 
dramatic change is an accumulation of acts great and small, adding, adding 
to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on 
earth to bring justice and peace, but small determined groups and 
individuals who will not give upduring the first, second, or hundreth gale. 
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a 
stormy world, is to stand up and show your soul. A soul on deck, shines 
like gold in dark times. The light of such a soul throws sparks, sends up 
flames, builds signal fires, causes the proper matters to catch fire. You, 
as much as anyone else, are this soul. And to display the lantern of the 
soul in shadowy times like these, to be fierce when necessary and yet show 
mercy toward others, both are acts of immense bravery and of greatest 
necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are brightly 
lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the turbulence,this 
is one of the strongest things you can do. There will often be times when 
you feel discouraged. I too have felt this despair many times in my life. 
But I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not 
allowed to eat from my plate. The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I 
know something, as do you. It is that there can be no lasting despair when 
you remember why you came to earth, what you are here for, who you serve, 
and why. The good words we say and the good deeds we do, are not ours. They 
are the words and deeds of the love and life that brought us here. In that 
spirit, I hope you may write this on your wall: When a great ship is in 
harbor and tied to the pier, it is safe, there can be no doubt.  But that 
is not, what great ships are built for.   - Clarissa Pinkola Estes -