Thursday 11 September 2008

When friends go without saying goodbye

I only met Wendy on a couple of occasions. Both times I was amazed by her lightness and her absolute goodness. Teaching meditation means that sometimes people's personal stress comes up for them. Wendy was incredible to have around whenever this happened in a class because clearly here was a lady who had so much more on her plate than most people could even imagine and yet she came through shining. But she always listened with perfect compassion. She was incredible like that.

The saddest thing about most of humanity is that only others can truly see how magnificent we are. We are the last to appreciate our own being for the beauty that it contains. It reminds me to make sure that my loved ones know what a difference they make to my life. I wish in particular that Wendy could have known how deeply she touched my heart and inspired me.

If Wendy has taught me anything it is that we can choose to fill life with goodness and hope and magic and love. The only thing that stops us is ourselves. We are the only ones that see ourselves as not worthy, we are the only ones that see our lives as insignificant. We can make another choice though: we can choose to see ourselves as others see us, we can choose to see ourselves as God sees us.

With perfect love Wendy, fly free.