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| Summer 2008 A Prayer As human beings, we all know and have known suffering. We have a tendency to hold onto the shape of our suffering as if it were us. But it is not us and to hold that identity as true is claiming a shadow as substance. The price of maintaining an identity that is based on suffering is too high. For in order for that identity to continue, the suffering must continue. In order to wear a winter coat, it has got to be cold out. I want to be warm. I am ready for Summer. I wish to be more than I what I was. I wish to do more than protect myself against all possible weather. I wish to see myself without the coat of suffering which confines me and defines me as so much less than what I am, what I can be. We share a common humanity, a vast inheritance of Winter costumes. Let us take off these shabby, dark coats and dare to experience the sunshine. Maybe, we can share that, too. Let us find out what life can be without history. Let us dare to experience joy, hope, confidence, compassion, courage, love and unimaginable inspiration. And let these come forth from within us and not be fitted to us, like our suffering has been, by the world. - LJXS 6/25/08 |