From House Wife To Film Maker

Saw this scrawled on a bathroom wall:

“Love will save us”

Four simple words strung together in that particular order create a symphony. They gave me moment to pause. To consider the total encapsulation of a truth of magnitude proportions. They stand out juxtaposed to the images of pain and suffering that pollute our news sources and have etched themselves onto my memories. For days the words recycled. Today I’m telling you. I connect with those words. I agree. Let me explain. They’re the what of who I am. Love is what I am about. It is one of the deeper reasons we created our company: Free the Mind. It’s one of the major reasons that John1′s great great grandfather came to him and dictated the book: Red Book and Cotton. It’s the one of the reasons I believe in that book. I desire to do whatever I can to bring love (also peace and freedom) into being the dominate force that controls our planet. It has been a driving, relentless, passion for me these past 6 years when it comes to my inner healing and awakening. For John, decades. To, as Ghandi so aply said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Ergo, have it begin with me.

It’s not just the graffiti’s message or Ghandi’s message that I connected with– when I read it on a bumper sticker while sitting in 280 traffic four years ago, amusing where I find powerful messages–it actually started with the one my grandmother left in the closing moments of her life, while her family stood round her quietly weeping, she mustered the strength to say, “Always love each other.” How powerful. It never left me. After nearly 84 years of life one has learned a lot. An awful lot. So to choose to leave that message carries an unspoken message of immeasurable depth.

Those words have followed me with a life of their own. Haunting me. Asking, where were my demonstrations of love to make the earth a better place? Over the years I have strove to satisfy those questions and have found that the force of the opposite magnitude has been much easier to employ. It has been a struggle. It’s taken years of inner healing work, and the last six of dedicated, relentless determination, to really begin to cross over into the space of living and demonstrating the type of love, I feel was the message of my grandmother and others. The type that I believe is so urgently needed “to save us.” There is a struggle toward this end, to that there is no doubt. Our planet demonstrates it more each day. I still have much work to do myself. However I have made this my lifetime goal, to unleash it fully from within. I know it is possible since we are love already, as it’s the very essence of our creator. Therefore I will continue.

So in conclusion the graffiti that someone was driven to leave behind: “love will save us” is irrevocably true. It is something John1 and I both seek to leave behind as our legacy. Because with love this planet would be saved, love would transform it into a lush, warm environment where all life would thrive. Therefore this is my prayer and desire: to be love so that the negative/evil might have another challenge to it’s existence. Imagine what would happen if everyone did the same . . .

With love,
Theresa
P.S. what did I do today?? After Caleb and I slept way, way in–till 11! That was delicious!–it was the same throughout, I sat on my couch with Caleb right next to me. Me on my Mac. Him on my lap top, or reading, or doing circle the word puzzles. John2 came during his 2 1/2 hour break. I made pancakes, bacon, and eggs, we ate together, we worked on the web site. John2 left, I continued. Caleb went home at 9 pm., I continued the site. (We’re inching closer .) Then I chatted with you. Then bed . . . I promise it’s 12:33 am got to be up at 6 to work.

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