Japan,
To each of you who have lost – someone, your home, or the town you lived in….
I will ask if you can feel the love, prayers and admiration that is circling the world for you
There is nothing that we can give to take away the pain or the sorrow
Except to assure you that you are one among many survivors of great stamina,
To have survived the greatest of tragedies ever known in our modern world.
To you, you all are given the knowledge that can teach the peoples of
All other countries. Teaching by the very survival that you may not even choose
Teaching without a language learned, Teaching with or without an education that has
prepared you to teach, blest by an inner gift that draws others to you. For you – have
seen and experienced what the world did not know could demonstrate finding that gift – borne
by the connected community of being prepared to only ask what can be given, or taken as has
resulted from the united inability to help - - to reach, to hold, to listen
Our very own hearts ache with sadness – how limited we feel by the distance, by
Knowledge and the lack of knowledge, understanding and not understanding anything, not
Enough to find more ways to help, to share in the burden of a nation that is nearly mortally
Wounded, May you, collectively, know that through your joined recovering efforts, the joy
Of the effort made easier, of re-uniting a family, a group, a neighborhood, in fact every single
Way there is a re-connection of what was separated.
May our prayers help find and hold together any who belong together.
May your smiles of connecting hold solid every hand outstretched.
May we learn together that this gathering together again is the open door of
A united world, only as surviving hurt and loss can show.
Sent by
A woman who sees a strong, brave and amazing family in the population of Japan.
sfodi©3.17.2011
