Beautiful friend,
When I was a little boy…
Resting in a field of wildflowers in Beirut.
It was a ceasefire day…
The bombs had gone deaf…
And I ran to the only place that felt safe to me.
The Meadow.
It was the only place I could breathe.
The only place the nightmare couldn’t reach me.
If I didn’t have this Meadow…
There was no way I would’ve survived.
Outside those fields…
There was chaos.
But here…
Among the petals and the mountains…
There was only Peace.
I didn’t realize it at the time…
But those flowers became my teachers.
The way they danced in the wind with grace…
So unbothered by the threat around them.
I would rest among them for hours…
Letting the sun warm my face…
The earth soft beneath me…
The smell of jasmine and wild herbs filling the air.
The Divine Light breaking through the clouds…
Nourishing all of Us.
I’d close my eyes…
And embrace the silence.
The Mountains stood guard over me…
Immovable and Eternal.
They became my Guiding Light.
And in their Presence…
I felt safe.
Witnessed.
I protected that meadow…
The way it did for me.
Because if the war destroyed this one sacred place…
I knew I’d lose a part of myself I could never get back.
I would talk to the flowers…
Share things I couldn’t tell anyone else.
My secret feelings…
Ask for advice…
The burden on my little Heart.
And they never judged me.
They just listened…
And in their silence…
I learned to hear the Source of inner wisdom…
Ignited within me.
In those fields…
I found Communion.
With the part of me that was untouched by the war.
I didn’t know it then…
But in that Communion…
The Core Work began to alchemize within me.
The meadow showed me…
That the strength I needed…
The peace I longed for…
Was already there.
Waiting in the quiet.
And all I had to do was remember.
The world gets loud…
And it’s easy to forget.
Yet we all have our own version of that Meadow…
A place where we can listen…
And reconnect with our Pure Inner Essence.
I invite you to visit that meadow with me.
Right now…
Close your eyes.
Take one deep breath.
Let the sun hit your face…
Inhale the jasmine…
Let the mountains hold you.
Later try to answer…
What part of you has remained untouched…
Even through all the chaos?
With love,
Emmanuel
Emmanuel Dagher | 323 East Matilija St. | Ojai, CA 93023 US
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