TO BEAM BACK

by Margot Baker

It took a while until my dear friend Marilyn had some time for her own self care and got on my table for Healing Touch. We first met this way 16 years ago as she was going through her own cancer journey and I was paired to be her provider. This time she had just returned from the bedside vigil of her long time childhood best friend, Susie, whose cancer was claiming her life. It was heart breaking and soul wrenching to experience such a profound loss. From our session's first moments... designed to invite an expanded openness and awareness, to quiet the mind and welcome stillness... it was clear someone else had entered the room.

My arm hair stood on end, and Marilyn's right hand moved to welcome the hand link that came her way. Moving through the Healing Touch techniques, I heard a voice adding another technique....a gentle nudge but clear..."please add a wound seal for her broken heart." Of course, and so I began. My little dog, Scooter, almost asleep on the window seat's pillow, slowly sits up and looks out the window into our front yard - a labyrinth of walking paths among luscious plants. She clearly is aware of something I have't felt..... yet. In that moment a giant red feathered hawk... with huge extended wings....descends from the sky and perches on the big fountain just outside the window of Yonder....where Scooter is seated and we are engage in Healing Touch. I catch my breath... remain still... and to my astonishment, so does Scooter. This amazing bird is erect and looking around. It looks like a magnificent BEING..... as tall as my arm is long! Now she crouches and shifts her focus directly into this precious space I had named YONDER, my HealingTouch treatment room that had been Eve's art studio. I hear again the last words of poetry I read to Eve as she was dying.... 25 years ago.

Gerald Manley Hopkins...The Leaden Echo, The Golden Echo..

"Now we follow YONDER... Yes YONDER.... YONDER... YONDER. I touch Marilyn's shoulder, gently suggesting that she greet her guest just outside this window.

Their eyes... Marilyn and this extraordinary hawk... lock into each other. Marilyn's heart leaps up - with Susie's hand still in loving embrace... as this connection grows on the wings of FLIGHT.

Susie's message is clear: LOVE is always here!