The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
I am simply the physical manifestation of what I was created to be in spirit. A energy of love and light in the world. This was my form prior to any physical form being developed. Now, I am visible, touchable, and simply being carried within the capsulation of my physical being. My life experiences are just that, experiences. They do not define me. I am not a velveteen rabbit, that is a by product of those experiences but a velveteen rabbit that the universe brought into realness, though a large spiritual injection of light and love that would allow me to endure and get through whatever my physical life experience became in its unfolding.
Now I see you. You are real. You are very real. And I will just simply love you where you are, the way you are, and for who you are. You don't have to meet any big criteria that warrants an earning or deserving of this ray of light and love... it was yours long before we met in this world.
In the spirit of Love,
John
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" And what did we gain? A new life, with purpose, meaning and constant progress, and all the contentment and fulfillment that comes from such growth."
A few have asked if I wrote the post above, if it was from a book, or a middle eastern religious belief, etc.. and here is one of the best responses I think I wrote to those questions.
LinSC, you inspired this response. Thank you. **************
I actually wrote it just a few days ago to someone via email who said they felt I was a velveteen rabbit who had been brought into realness by my many tough life experiences. I am not a velveteen rabbit as they had eluded to, or from another planet as eluded to by another. Just a friend reminding people of what they already know but may have forgotten. Where we all came from and what we were in our original form, which is what I believe we go back to being when we leave the physical world. A spiritual energy of light and love. A few phrases of scripture that would support this idea is...
"In my image I made them". and "I knew you before you were born".
Prior to our physical form being developed, how could we have been known? I believe we were in Spirit form prior to conception to the physical form of life.
If God is love, as accepted by many, and we are made in God's image, we are love.
If God is a light of hope, as accepted by many, we too are a light of hope.
Love and Light. (In God's image)
John
****This is my own personal experience, beliefs, idea's and values. It does not reflect any thing that another is required or even suggested they believe as a part of the Al-Anon program. I, like everyone else here is on a journey and I believe it is more about our personal spiritual journey we undertake then about the alcoholism we have been exposed to that lead us here. Through it we find our freedom, happiness, peace and contentment****
"Image" (noun) (As defined by Dictionary.com)
1. A physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing,photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible. 2. an optical counterpart or appearance of an object, as is produced by reflection from a mirror, refraction by a lens, or the passage of luminous rays through a small aperture and their reception on a surface. 3. a mental representation; idea; conception. 4. Psychology. a mental representation of something previously perceived, in the absence of the original stimulus. 5. form; appearance; semblance: We are all created in God's image. 6. counterpart; copy: That child is the image of his mother. 7. a symbol; emblem.
-- Edited by John on Tuesday 31st of March 2015 07:17:38 AM
never thought of the velveteen rabbit . that ? is exactly how i still feel somedays although i feel as though i am part velveteen now and part human .. the transformation is rough some days and then others like last night ? happy joy clarity free as can be .. if only each of my days could stay the same .. sigh .. not easy being human .. think for me ? i want my heaven on earth today .. Sigh .. feel the love and serenity of your share, John .. thank you for this beautiful post and for all the support you bring to these boards .. travelling on ..
