FREEDOM

"Freedom is the Eagle's gift to humanity."
Carlos Eastaneda

External pressures and internal struggles must not keep us bound by time and place. We can be free if we choose to be loving and giving and full of thanksgiving.

"All our choices reflect an economy of passion: how we decide to invest ourselves in what we care about. Large and small, we make thousands of such choices every day."

-The Awakened Heart byGerald G. May, M.D.

We have been studying Esther in our Wed. afternoon Bible study [where we also bring food to donate to the food bank] and she has to risk her life and her secure position with the King to confess that she is a Jew and now wants to save her people from the evil plots of Haman the second in command to the King. She won the King's favor by her beauty but now will need to have a plan, to plot and scheme to free her people from destruction. They are already in captivity but now their lives are in danger.

Esther is told "And who knows but that you have come to a royal position for such a time as this".

I think of our Governor-General Michaele John as a person of integrity, beauty and strength who has been chosen to be where she is for "such a time as this". In returniing to Jacmel Haiti where she was born and raised until she was 11; her family fled from the brutal regime of "Papa Doc" Duvalien. She takes a detour from the planned route to walk among the town's bustling street market arm in arm with her cousins and friends. She is deeply moved as she embraces her late-godmothers daughter and cups her hands around her face. Even though she is told of all the problems rebuilding and restoring she said: "I can feel the strength of the people."

Families joining other families to work together to rebuild and work for peace are the real power and strength in this country where there has been so much corruption and evil.

"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God"

Sons are not a gender but a position and women are also sons of God in His eyes.

"All our choices reflect an economy of passion:

how we decide to invest ourselves in what we care about." The Awakened Heart

P.S. Google tells me I can describe to Jewish History and learn a little each week at www.myjewishlearning.com/History.