I am in awe of you and your power and strength. I know very little about you except what I found today on A-Z Animals, which was that the life span for male lions is 8 years, while the life span for females is 20 in the wild. I was surprised to learn as well that the lioness is the hunter, providing food for the family.
To be honest, I am reading "The Chronicles of Narnia" for the first time and I am in awe of Aslan, the lion in the story. Because of him, I am looking at you with new eyes. Aslan speaks and sings, sharing his love and wisdom. He is honored and respected not feared by those in Narnia.
I know you speak to my heart..and I look forward to the day when we can speak as part of One Great Family.
I have read stories of young children facing death, who share with their doctor that their pain is lessened because the Angels "take them to play with the Dolphins" and , says one young nine year old, "The Dolphin, told me I was a good kid!!!" So like that young man, I believe you do speak and in time we can speak face to face as well. Until then I ask you to speak to my heart and speak what you know I need to hear.
One of the things that pained me, as I read about you on the A-Z Animal web site, was that you and your family like so many other creatures were rapidly losing your habitats due to so called "progress and development". We humans have not yet understood when enough is enough or when need becomes greed. To say I'm sorry that your needs are not being honored and respected seems so shallow in light of what we are doing to you.
What would you say to me dear Lion, I truly want to hear your truth.
Dear Assunta,
Thank you for being open to hearing my truth as I will speak. Thank you too for your apology as it is good to know that more and more of our human kin are seeing us with new eyes and beginning to honor and respect our very existence, more for who we are, rather than what we can give to them.
So many of you are in awe of our power and strength and I thank you, yet, our focus is not on our "so called" power and strength as you see us. Power and Strength in your culture usually leads to dominance and control and that is not the understanding of power and strength that we live by.
Our power and strength comes from and resides in our sense of community and family, our Pride.
Your sense of "Pride" too often relates to power, strength and control over someone or some thing! Yes, it's a good play on words yet it is a dangerous kind of play that you humans engage in. Power and Strength in their best sense are gifts that can be offered to benefit the whole in a positive way!
We use our power and our strength to meet a real need, we know the balance between need and greed and we know and respect the understanding of "enough"!
If you, our "conscious" family members, were to live out of those two understandings we would all be in a much "richer"place.
In order to open oneself to that understanding, we must listen to the message of the heart. Power and Strength in their worst sense, are so, because they are never affected by the message of the heart. When you let your heart speak, you will know and live differently and you will truly be able to take pride in who you are within our magnificent web of life. It is not to late. Look with new eyes at your Pride and let your heart speak!
Dear Lion,
Thank you for your strong, powerful and heart felt message. I am awed and humbled! You have given me and all of your human kin much to think about and more importantly key methods of acting for positive change and growth.
