The Face of God

-----Original Message-----
From: Emma
Sent: Thursday, July 08
To: T---, Pluto, C---
Subject: RE: The Kingdom of God is Within You

Well, T---, you really pulled my covers on the "Face of God" thing. I'm happy to share it with the group because it has been on my mind very strongly the last couple of weeks.

Now for the story: About 12 or 13 years ago, when I was married, my in-laws were visiting from Colorado. We took them downtown to an open-air market one weekend just to enjoy the sunshine, fresh air, and local artisans. The area of downtown where this market is located borders Old Town and is a haven for homeless, street people, alcoholics, etc. The park, which runs along the waterfront especially in this area, is a place for street people to congregate or to sleep on park benches. While there, we saw an old, battered man in dirty, urine stained clothes sleeping either on a park bench or propped against a trash can. I pointed to the man and said to my in-laws, "See that man? He has the face of God."

That has percolated ever since and about 18 months ago crystallized into the idea of creating a photographic exhibit entitled, "The Face of God" with high contrast Black & White portraits of street people, children, old people, showing the face of god in all of us. As T--- says, the kingdom of god is within us. My vision is to have this be a traveling exhibit where it could be used to collect donations for homeless shelters, food for the homeless, whatever good could come of it. It is about healing and transformation. I sometimes attend a Quaker meeting and I value their commitment to social justice, peace and the environment and I know that is a place where the exhibit could be viewed. I don't want to limit the Universe or the possibilities for this project, but the Guggenheim seems a bit on the far other end of the scale :-).

What do I need to manifest this project? Belief that it is possible for me to create this. Thank you, T---, for reminding me I am not alone and don't have to do this alone. I have a loving supportive soul group to assist. Please help me manifest this project with good intentions for healing part of our world. As I said in an earlier e-mail, last night's meditation for me was on the 8th insight from the Celestine meditations (why is it I am unable to do that meditation without weeping?)

I want to share a dream I had last night. I have profound dreams from time to time and this feels like one of them. In this dream I was in an environment that seemed similar to where I grew up – C--- will relate because she knows where that is and had a similar growing up experience. There were 4 of us (the soul group?) together traveling into the mountains and we were well prepared for the journey, taking with us items we thought would be useful, but we also knew that we would be given everything we needed in its time. We were being carried up the mountain, but not in a vehicle. At times, I was being carried by one or more of the others; at times I was carrying others. But the mountains were incredible. There were designs placed on the ground in the most brilliant colors of precious and semi-precious stones, designs pointing the way to go, designs indicating places to rest, there was even another person at one of the resting places who looked at us and said, "19 million dollars." (That certainly caught my attention!!) And we walked on with joy and delight and fellowshipand innocence until Yoda, my kitten, bit my foot.

Peace, light and love.............Emma