Friday 12 July 2013

United Nations


We have just witnessed history in the making as sixteen year old Malala Yousafzai addressed the United Nations. When she was in her village in North Pakistan, relatively unknown, one voice, would we have believed that today she could stand in front of the whole world and speak for the rights of women and children everywhere to be educated; to speak for the peace and brotherhood that will enable that education to happen; to speak for tolerance and forgiveness when she has herself been through so much? ‘I am just one voice but together we can change the world’, was part of her message. The overthrowing of fear and prejudice was another. She called upon her sisters everywhere to stand in their own strength and speak out for equality and their human rights. One could almost feel the presence of the Brother/sisterhood in spirit standing with her. The whole of the UN stood for her, but she said it was not her day, but the day of all those who are oppressed. I truly feel she was speaking for the light.

We are not all in the position to speak out physically as Malala did today, but we all have the power of the light within us to bring about changes within ourselves and for our world, through healing, through compassion, through understanding, through forgiveness of which Malala spoke so eloquently, through love.

My cousin Jeremy wrote on Facebook: ‘God bless you Malala, and the tens of thousands of other girls around the world with similar courage. Bless you for your truth to Islam. Bless you for your truth to the human spirit!’

Wednesday 3 July 2013

Channels for the Light



Sometimes, just as you are waking up, you really get the feeling of coming back from a spiritual place. This happened to me the other day in an extraordinary way. I found myself waking up in the middle of sending out the light to all the Muslim countries of the world and areas where Islam is a strong faith—not just the Middle East, but countries in Africa and the Far East as well.
The feeling of divine love was very strong; the light of the Star reaching down to embrace all factions in its power for good. I also felt no judgement, just a sense of bringing all people to an understanding of their oneness in spirit.
Waking up like this confirmed in me how, if our motive is to bring healing, we are being channels for the light at all times waking or sleeping. Some of you may be doing this already, but perhaps before you go to bed at night you might ask to be used to bring light and peace wherever there is need.
I wish you pleasant dreams for yourself and for our world.