THE POOREST BECOMING.

THE POOREST

BECOMING

Just as we are becoming

inwardly healed and changed, 

so we are enabled to see the world through new eyes. 

We are no longer servants to the false structures 

that once threatened and trapped us. 

We see the central weaknesses, 

and know that the old patterns are already defeated and passing. 

In the new life of faith and 

the shared love of the believing community, 

we have fresh hope.

Remembering John O Donohue.

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - NOTE the date !!

I was in Bloomingdales in Chicago USA yesterday morning and I picked up an email on my iPhone as MrsBeautiful shopped. 

The mail was from a stranger wanting to contact my friend Martin quickly about John O Donohue.

I forwarded the email to him and thought no more.

I have just flown home from Chicago and received the message that our great friend John O'Donohue has died.

John was on holiday in France with the family of Kristine, 

a wonderful woman he met at Greenbelt just last August.

I was there when Kristine and John met.

I snapped a series of pictures and delighted in that first contact for them 

as they hugged each other expressing the most powerful facial expressions..

I am shocked.

I am still in recovery from missing a nights sleep on the flight and this massive sad news.

Poet, priest and philosopher, John was a one-off, the warmest, funniest, wisest person you could hope to meet.

His most recent book, 'Benedictus', was published just before Christmas.

It is a book of blessings and this is an extract from one.

'May there be some beautiful surprise

Waiting for you inside death

Something you never knew or felt,

Which with one simple touch

Absolves you of all loneliness and loss,

As you quicken within the embrace

For which your soul was eternally made.

'May your heart be speechless

At the sight of the truth

Of all your belief had hoped,

Your heart breathless

In the light and lightness

Where each and every thing

Is at last its true self

Within that serene belonging

That dwells beside us

On the other side

Of what we see.'

I feel a cheat saying he was a friend.

I guess everyone who met him now calls him 'friend'.

We met a few times

smoked a cigar together

sipped a pint

talked until late.

I drove him around a bit at Greenbelt,

I had his umbrella in my car for two years.

We laughed and shared

although I didn't go and sit with him late one night at Greenbelt.

I was to be the last time we met - but rightly I

I felt I needed to be with the people I was with and thinking I would see John later.

If anyone can be my representative in the eternal place

I would count on him.

My heart is with Kristine who he loved

two way love

working well

cut so so short.

We will remember him

and I will on this day forever.

Quote ::

"May you recognise in your life

the presence, power and light of your soul.

May you realise that you are never alone,

that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe.

May you have respect for your own individuality and difference.

May you realise that the shape of your soul is unique,

that you have a special destiny here that behind the facade of your life there is something beautiful, good and eternal happening.

May you learn to see your self with the same delight,

pride and expectation with which God sees you in every moment."

John O´Donohue,

writer, philosopher

in his book 'Anam Cara'

SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL growth.

I hate this experiment

but watch it

it is a massive learning tool.

For us all.

I think of those damaged in Childhood.

Those who have not Loved

Those who have failed to Love

Those who were unable to Love

Those who Love was little or NO LOVE.

Communication is vital not only for moving through life

but essential for social and emotional growth.

Peaks and troughs in the WILSON MANSIONS 2012

Memorable 2012@WILSON MANSIONS

Eve - our dear friend - best friend to Mrs Beautiful is now in a nursing home and we love still - eternally.

Conniepops - nearly 3 and an increasing delight seeing her BECOMING all that she can become.

Young Humans still figure BIG in my life and greatest JOY is to work in small developmental groups - especially with those who have been battered/hurt/damaged in life.

500 - one of many memorable gigs I did was with 500 teachers.

10 books  - published this year. I think more - I must count them Some of them HERE. 

Bobby Book - a special book largely written by a man with immense courage and determined focus 'Between the Bars' - if you get ANY book/get this::  HERE

Friends visiting - we delight in friends from former life visiting and hanging out - making beautiful.

And to visit - our delight to see friends, I always feel I have not been good at 'friends'. Always busy working/missionising.

2 Goodwin weddings - our great friends invited us to TWO family weddings in a year - privileged to be with them at these special times.

Frank Funeral - our neighbour when we lived in Romford. He passed away and we joined them in the remembering and mourning.

Norway ROLLING MAGAZINE - I led hundreds of these shows over 15 years at Greenbelt but this year I led only one, in Norway, with the famous TENSING NORWAY as a great team.

Certain individuals who I feel closest to have gone through tough times, in/out of prison, tough times with drugs, past impacting present ...... I feel blessed to know them.

GREENBELT Heaven +mud - as always a special heaven for me. Not invited to 'do' this year. I always want to 'do' so dissatisfied but spent loads of time with 121 beautiful humans hmmm

New website - with the help of my best friend, Big John, a \new/ www.pipwilson.com was born - and I love it - my writing has come alive again.

Curry with friends - BRICK LANE is a special place to Curry. We have a group pretty regularly collide there. I love these humans. It is an important group/place of belonging

Joy new home - our number one daughter moved home (down the same street!) - beautiful to live so close now.

Gout managed - the thorn in my flesh which has hit be periodically since 2010. It is still there but being managed in a homeopathic way. 

L5 x 32 years old! The LEVEL FIVE group who came together in 1980 is still going strong/with blips! To journey so long with one closed group - a PRIVILEGE.

Reims champagne week-end - my one favourite place to visit. No holidays nowadays but we had one glorious w/end here with friends.

Zig - we lost our beautiful non-human friend of 12 years. He had some sad few weeks before he left us and it all broke my heart. RIP Zig.

The Sheilas, their men and Connie came to us for Christmas Day - the first time for 10 years. They are the home-base in our lives and we love hanging out with them ...... forever.

Interior - my interior has been as active as doing. I still yearn and reach to feel dissatisfaction and refresh my irritation. I want to become whole and stretch myself humanly/eternally.

SHALOM - In 2013 and beyond I will " Seek the Shalom of the city,  where I have sent you ........ and in it's Shalom you will find your own Shalom" (Jeremiah29:6-7)

youarebeautiful - not only because you join with me here - you are just  beautifullll.

Thank you for sharing your one precious life in this direction.

Thinking of 2013 and YOU. 

Wishing you

Happy New Year-ness 

and beyond as you give love & light to your closest, those who you will never know AND friends, like me, who love you with 100% eternally. 

Thank you for sharing your one precious life in this direction. 

Make Beautiful in 2013

www.pipwilson.com 

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Siblings separated by care.

Siblings Together organises a range of exciting opportunities for siblings separated by care. 

We strive to work in partnership with creative organisations to offer opportunities that enable siblings to develop their skills and confidence together, previously partnering with the young Vic Theatre and the Royal Opera House.

Upcoming activities:

Young Vic Theatre, Waterloo

Exciting FREE drama workshops for children in care/leaving care, in the famous Young Vic Theatre in Southwark in 2013. We have a programme for young people in care 12-18. Dates: April 3rd-5th 2013. We have a total of 15 places, so book your place now. For more information please emailMimmi@siblingstogether.co.uk

To book a place download a referral form here . Applications returned by January 31st 2013

If you are outside yourself.

It is very difficult 

to be natural. 

To be natural is to be at home with your own nature. 

If you are outside yourself, 

always reaching beyond yourself, 

you avoid the call of your own mystery. 

When you acknowledge 

the integrity of your solitude 

and settle into its mystery, 

your relationships with others 

take on a new warmth, 

adventure, 

and wonder.

John O'Donohue, 

Anam Cara

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