Subject: With Much Gratitude
From: "Kathy Deacon" <[email-masked]>
To: "K Deacon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:43:13 -0500

Hi Everyone,

The love and intimacy that we created and shared this weekend is truly
beyond my words. I can simply offer my gratitude to you. Thank you for
allowing me to be a part of your journey, for your trust and for the
boundless courage and willingness to open up that you embraced this
weekend.

To Jessica, Heather and the other guides, I continue to be amazed at the
Divine wisdom that is channeled through you and your capacity to love and
support others. I will forever be grateful to you for all you teach me each
time we are together.

I have been and will continue to be affected deeply and profoundly by each
of you in different and special ways!

I reverently bow to ALL that each of our lives contains and to this sacred
path we find ourselves on together. This is not the easy path but it is the
one that leads to pure joy, love of ourselves and all other beings, and to
the Essence of who we really are that we long to remember.

That being said, on the heals of this weekend and all that it brought up
for each one of us, I share below a beautiful passage from one of Jack
Kornfield's book.

I love you deeply and eternally - Kathy

*To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them;
and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we
learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion
than we could ever imagine. The Persian poet Rumi speaks of it this way:*

*This being human is a guest house.*
*Every morning a new arrival.*

*A joy, a depression, a meanness,*
*some momentary awareness comes *
*as an unexpected visitor.*

*Welcome and entertain them all*
*Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,*
*who violently sweep your house*
*empty of its furniture.*

*Still treat each guest honorably,*
*He may be clearing you out*
*for some new delight.*

*The dark thought, the shame, the malice, *
*meet them at the door laughing,*
*and invite them in.*

*Be grateful for whoever comes,*
*because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.