Love and Light: going home...

Friday, 10 February 2012

going home...

3 1/2 years ago I gave a piece of my heart away

to a place of great beauty

and unthinkable tragedy

I traveled there with my son

and a group of 30 others

I set up shop and did what it is I do...

It was an adventure of a life time.

And now I am privileged

to be going back

to see my kids

and

the heart friends I had made.

It is amazing how connections can be made

even when the language does not flow

How the human spirit surpasses all words

and finds a place of common ground.

When we arrived

the eager Canadians,

the looks were uncertain

the trust unsure

but the Heart has a way of shining

and the Heart has a way of softening

and Love

Love always wins....

a beautiful country...

full of brokenness and laughter

a place that holds a piece of my heart

a people that holds a piece of my heart

I am blessed to be going back

5 weeks and counting

This video holds pictures I took of our kids that we care for at our center...

for more of this story you can go here

take the time to watch

to listen

and say a prayer

for all children

who live in poverty

5 comments:

Kmarie10 February 2012 at 23:04
When I went to Nicaragua I could not handle it. I would not speak about it for months- still do not often. I do what I can here to fight poverty...the world needs more like you who can actually go and not be overcome...
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freshphotos10 February 2012 at 23:05
Yeah! You get to go back. Amazing heart you have Cat. Can see God's putting it to good use. Best, my friend!
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Tea11 February 2012 at 07:18
It's great that you get to go again, Cat. Saying a prayer for you and your trip and the children. ♥
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nyssa11 February 2012 at 13:00
I'm very emotional today. everything touches me.. and so this.. this went straight into a very deep place and I felt so honoured to have met you here and to see these things about your heart. I'm counting down the weeks with you.. So glad you're going back to a place that holds your heart. I'm all misty eyed and runny nosed over this for you xo
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Gail12 February 2012 at 04:23
So excited that you get to go back and revisit!! How long for? Will you set up shop again? Am praying that God will be your guide light in the front and rear guard behind you!.
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quotes that resonate...

"The world will know and understand me someday. but if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women." ~George Sands

"I have a new command for you. As I have loved you, so you must love others. "~Jesus

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul...you have a heart." ~C.S. Lewis

"Humankind has not woven the web of Life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. all things are bound together. all things connected." ~Chief Seattle, 1854

If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known."~ Matthew Arnold

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”~ Buddha

"The world will be saved by the Western woman....Some people will call me a feminist...but we need more effort to promote basic human values-human compassion, human affection. And in that respect, females have more sensitivity for others' pain and suffering." ~Dalai Lama

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." ~Anatole France

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a feild. I'll meet you there. ~Rumi

"Those who seem to know more truth than you simply reflect the part of you that has forgotten. They are your touchstones to remember." ~Alan Cohen

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another;unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, resent, and the future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." ~Anais Nin

"Process is more important than outcome. when the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there." ~ Bruce Mau

Love and Light

Friday, 10 February 2012

going home...

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where I have been...

Lovelies whom I learn from...

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