Jim Rasa

[Guest guest]

Beloveds, my Friends,

Many of you have heard of our Sweet Brother, Jim Rasa's, home burning

down to the ground, and many may not have heard. Jim is also

beginning chemo therapy tomorrow in order to stop the colon cancer

from growing any greater in his body. Amidst all this literal burning

down all around him of everything he holds dear, Jim has maintained

the sweetest, the kindest, the most Loving attitude and demeanor that

I've ever witnessed. He is a god-given gift to me, and he is a

treasure-gift to anyone fortunate enough to know him and to be his

friend. There are few people in this world that I've come across as

truly dear and compassionately loving as Jim Rasa is. In light of

this new turn of events for him, I am writing to say that if there is

anyone who would like to help him in any way (he's lost nearly

everything he had,) please write to me at my email address:

sraddha54 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com and I'll be sure to see that he receives it. We

are all in this together, and I know that if it were any one of us, of

yourself or myself encountering this daunting changes and challenges,

I know that help would come ... even the smallest consideration is

utter elation at the Great and Benevolent Love which moves all our

Hearts.

"That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend

with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and

height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that

ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." ~ Ephesians iii.

17-19

))) On Wednesday morning, Bob and I are driving up to see Jim, and his

Dear Friend who took him in, Ursula the SweetHeart of Light, and we

will embrace him, and them ... for all of you.

“True surrender is love of God for the sake of love and nothing else,

not even for the sake of liberation. Love itself is the actual form

of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what

you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is

everything. The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is

the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real

love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the

undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Only

if one knows the truth of love, which is the nature of the Self, will

the strong entangled knot of life be untied. Only if one attains the

height of love will liberation be attained. The experience of Self is

only love, which is seeing only love, hearing only love, feeling only

love, tasting only love and smelling only love, and this is bliss.

God does not reside in any place other than the Heart. Be sure that

the heart is the Kingdom of Heaven."

... the Kingdom of Heaven. Oh, D'Oh, Whoa ... Yeah. ...This OneHeart!

"Reality is at once being and consciousness. To know that is to be

that in the heart, transcending thought." (Ramana Maharshi)

))) Helping one another, being there for one another, caring what

happens to one another, Loving one another always at all times in all

things .... this is Love made manifest, and this IS the Manifesto of

Love I strive to live by and in and as. As do we all, eh? May your

Hearts pour Light into the dark nights of all those who are suffering

right now.

"This whole world's wild at heart, and weird on top."

~ 'Lula', from David Lynch's "Wild at Heart"

But we do the best we can ... so if you've a helping hand to lend (in

any way at all), or slim shiny penny to send, please think of our

Beloved, our Dear Friend Jim Rasa at this time in his, (and our own)

life.

As I Am,

Mzie