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are still undergoing tremendous change here at Positive News, but we are
making good and steady process. We will shortly be moving our existing
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shortly, sometime over the next month or so.I thought I’d take this opportunity to tell you about the sad news of the death of Eileen Caddy in late December. Eileen was one of the founders of the Findhorn community along with Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean and I know that a lot of people from all around the world know about and visit Findhorn. I’m including an extract from a letter from David Spangler to the Findhorn community honouring Eileen and all she achieved in her truly remarkable life. “I share this story to emphasize my respect and honoring of Eileen Caddy. She truly walked her talk, and this gave her the power to change lives and to be a force in the world. At a time when she needed to change some of the most fundamental practices she had, she did so and, I believe, transformed Findhorn in the process, ensuring its growth. I only hope that should such a time come to me, I not only recognize it with the grace that Eileen did but have the courage she had to change accordingly. She, Peter, and Dorothy were all leaders who were not afraid to change and were open to their own ongoing development, even when at times it could be frightening or painful. Peter and Dorothy's callings led them out of the community and away from Findorn, though I know how much Dorothy still holds Findhorn and its destiny in her heart. But for Eileen, Findhorn was home and the place of her calling. It was where she rooted so that the tree of her light could grow strong and the branches of its wisdom could spread to cover and touch thousands of people in all the countries of the world. All of us whose paths have entwined with Findhorn's are the beneficiaries of her life and blessings, which we can continue to carry into the world. My focus has always been on what Eileen and I used to call "ordinary divinity" or the "divinely ordinary." The strength of Eileen (and Dorothy, as well) lay in the fact that she never made herself out to be special but was simply and profoundly a strong, ordinary person who had said yes to the God Within. That yes, which any of us can say, made all the difference. When we say Yes to our sacredness, we can shape worlds, move mountains, transform lives. Both Eileen and Dorothy prove this. Findhorn proves this. Eileen's messages are read throughout the world, uplifting hearts and inspiring minds. They truly bring light into darkness, love into hatred, courage into fear, and comfort and healing into suffering. And Findhorn itself is an achievement of which any person could be extraordinarily proud. While Eileen would be the first to say that Findhorn was built with many hands, had her hands not been part of those many, the community would not now exist.“ Eileen was very inspiring as are many of the people we are featuring in our stories this month. In peace and unity
Shauna Shauna Crockett-Burrows This is one of many stories available from Positive News newspaper. For more stories like this please visit: www.positivenews.org.uk (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) |
