July 2024 Theme
Living with Humility

Dear Friends,

Our Theme for July is:

Please keep your eye out for our September 2024 ISM Residential Retreat announcement this week! The theme is “Love in Action” and the available spaces are filling up!

My half-year so far has been marvellous for me, yet with the adventures some back-log has mounted up and part of the bargain with myself is now is the time to tackle this mountain! 🙂 It was clear in advance it will come to this and I accepted the “bargain” gladly, so everything is fair and nothing to complain about.

Thus my intention is to try and see how much humility I can muster this month – by not complaining! 🙂

Lady Elizabeth’s sharing is very deep and poignant yet joyful.

With all my love,
(BH)
Milen

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Dear Friends,

Happy Month! Happy July!!

I have just arrived in Varna, Bulgaria, already had special time with special family members – and the seagulls are doing their thing and summer is in full swing here!

Our theme for July 2024 is “Living with humility”.

In zeroing in on a practical example to share I found myself confronted with this question. “How on earth can I share how humble I am?” Lol! All the humble people I know don’t even know they are humble. And then “What is the difference between being humble (adjective) and humility (noun) when they are closely related but have distinct meanings and usages?” Am I even on the right track here?

THERE EXISTS A VAST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ARROGANCE AND HUMILITY. ARROGANCE IS BASED UPON THE ASSUMPTION THAT ONE IS SUPERIOR TO SOMEONE OR SOMETHING ELSE.

HUMILITY IS BASED UPON THE KNOWLEDGE THAT ONE IS NOT ELEVATED ABOVE OR MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

BUT MAN REGARDS HIMSELF AS BEING HUMBLE WHEN HE UPHOLDS WHAT HE TERMS RESPECT FOR A SUPERIOR; THEREFORE IN HIS CONCEIT HE WORSHIPS ARROGANCE.

Oh my! Yes! I have many T-shirts of having done this exact thing. Having grown up without a father from age 11 there have been many men in my life where I did exactly this, until one fate-full day I realised in this respect, far from being humble I had turned myself into a beggar. 🙁

And in this realisation perhaps I had stumbled on the meaning of humility. That physical kick I got in my gut of admitting what I was doing to myself – that no one else was to blame – I had turned myself into a beggar. This was my turning point – acceptance. Acceptance that not only had I brought myself to this point, but that only I could turn my life around if only I chose to believe that …

“..man is truly a magical creature of the universe who not only has an apparently unlimited potential, but who is also enshrouded in a mystery defying all rational thought. Yet the bane of human existence is that average man today lives a sterile life of mundane pettiness, which automatically excludes all awareness of his exquisitely divine nature and his unbelievable potential. This state of affairs is a sad testimony to the extent of man’s ignorance, and to his own insistence upon adhering to a social conditioning which is utterly debilitating in every respect.”

I have a friend, J, who many years ago started treating her young cousin P with coMra. P was diagnosed with cerebral palsy from childhood. J was amazing in her patience and commitment in working with this young man and he was responding in leaps and bounds. One day I was on my way to Chile to join Théun and J turned down the invitation to join me because of P needing her.

Théun’s response: –

‘It is not ONLY coMra that is working for this young man, J, but it is also YOUR belief in him and YOUR love for him. Now take that NEXT step, which is to place in him your TRUST as well!
Join us in Chile.’

These past two weeks I have seen J wrestling with what she needs to do about P as his father is now unconscious in hospital and not expected to live more than a few days at most. What finally, finally has brought J her peace is in accepting that P is going to be okay WITHOUT her intervention. That he will be able to make his own decisions about his life.

J has come full circle 10/11 years later. She must place her trust in P. Allow him to have his own learnings. I am happy for them both that she has brought herself to this point.

As J stepped back from wrestling with herself being the solution and trusting P to make his own decisions, have his own learnings, that acceptance of P too, being “a magical creature of the universe who has apparently unlimited potential”, this was the mirror I needed to see.

A mirror of humility.

Have fun with our theme this month, my friends.

With all my love and sunshine,
(BigHugs)
Elizabeth