Unending Persevereance

This has been forwarded to me by my friend Ginger and is definitely one of the most inspiring Videos I have seen. This is the Story:

In a Chinese modern dance competition on TV one very unique couple won oneof the top prizes. The lady, in her 30's, was a dancer who had trainedsince she was a little girl. Later in life, she lost her entire leftarm in an accident and fell into a state of depression for a few years.Someone then asked her to coach a Children's dancing group. From that pointon, she realized that she could not forget dancing. She still loved todance and wanted to dance again. So, she started to do some of her oldroutines, but, having lost her arm, she had also lost her balance.
It took a while before she could even make simple turns and spins withoutfalling. Then she heard of a man in his 20s who had lost a leg in an accident. He had also fallen into the usual denial, depression and anger type of emotional roller coaster. But, she was determined to find him and persuade him to dance with her.. He had never danced, and to dance with one leg....are you joking with me? "No way!"…But, she didn't give up, and he reluctantly agreed thinking, "I have nothing else to do anyway." She started to teach him dancing. The two brokeup a few times because he had no concept of using muscle, how to control his body, and knew none of the basic things about dancing.When she became frustrated and lost patience with him, he would walkout. Eventually, they came back together and started training seriously.
They hired a choreographer to design routines for them. She would fly high(held by him) with both arms (a sleeve for an arm) flying in the air.He could bend horizontally supported by one leg with her leaning onhim, etc. In the competition, as you will see, they dance beautifully and they legitimately won the competition. View their dance on You Tube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DArfA2kvP3Y&feature=related

A Chain of Love Divine

This came to me as I was reflecting on some of todays great sorrows of humanity:

"...Is anybody out there of us to have a chain made? A chain of Light and human hearts and arms and hands all embrasing one another as friends and lovers do. A chain to encircle the earth a Halo of a fiery Love and a unbended will to do Good whatever the costs in pleasure or pain a brotherhood of Love with the resolve of the Mighty God and the One Heart of the Human Race. I call upon you to grasp my hand once more cause the Cry is Vast and the Wailing in the wind is Too Much to Bare and My Ears can see and my eyes can hear the suffering of the many lost in the Darkness as the Great Storm draws near..."

Exceptional poetry through the Ages

"I was crowned by my God, my crown is living . . .
I received the face and the fashion of a new person . . .
And the thought of truth led me on.
I walked after it and did not wander.
And all that have seen me were amazed and I was regarded by them as a strange person.
And He who knew and brought me up is the Most High in all His perfection. And He glorified me by His kindness, and raised my thoughts to the height of His truth.
And from thence He gave me the way of His precepts and I opened the doors that were closed.
And broke in pieces the bars of iron; but my iron melted and dissolved before me:
Nothing appeared closed to me, because I was the door of everything."

King Solomon

Julie & Phoevos

For all of you who knows us in person and haven't seen Julie and Phoevos for awhile here is a recent photo of them.

We are Expecting a Baby

Dear friends I found quite extraordinary that in our mature age where others have grown up sons and daughters we are blessed in a short amount of time with yet another little baby.

We got the News about a month ago after I finished a painting presenting an Angel currying a little baby to a woman. I presented to my wife and without saying anything she did a pregnancy test and behold she was ...pregnant!!!

After an examination with the local doctor we found out that the baby was over 3 months old and in excellent condition. We love you little one and look forward to see you and touch you.

The painting isn't the one above but I think was much related with the baby's descent into the Earthly Life.

Welcome Friends

"...Dear friends welcome to my blog. As we adapt to our technological era here it is one more tool for the promotion of Spirituality in Action most commonly known as “ART”.

It gives me great pleasure to share with you some of my own reflections or those of others walking on the same path. Recently we initiated a big change on our lives. After 18 years in UK we took the decision to move to Greece.

We arrived on October 2008 in the County of Messinia in South East of Peloponnisos, which is in the South part of mainland in Greece.

The choice of area it isn’t only justified from its spectacular beauty, a harmonious combination of azure sea and majestic mountains with endless vegetation in a silvery sea of olive trees but as well as the above we must add to it a Glorious History that through out the centuries has inspired the imagination of mankind.

Here you will experience the Magic of the Arcadian mountains filled with the echoes of the Heroes & Nymphs of the old and walk the same shores of Homer where the Great Journey of “Iliad” has began.

You can go South and search as Hercules did the Gate of the Underworld in his quest of finding the Mighty Dog “Cerberus” the unholy guard of the subterranean.

“…Behold Stranger the Mighty Sparta and her Hero King the leader of the 300 “Leonidas”. Near by is the last stronghold of the Byzantine Empire “Mistras” the Great Castle or you could walk on the stone pavements of the Pirate City of “Monemvasia” a place untouched by time.

In those bare lands you could visit some of the places of the Great Rebellion of 1821 the first successful rebellion against oppression in modern history.।
In Holy “Epidaurus” where the Art of Theatre risen to the Greatest of Heights…listen the stories of the Mysteries of Gods and watch the Drama of Mankind.

Of course it wouldn’t be worth the visit in Peloponnisos if you couldn’t walk the hallowed ground of the Towering “Olympia” birth place of the Olympic Games.

To have a small taste you can view some images of the area by clicking this link http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/peloponnese.html

It is such honour that we have been allowed to stay here.

So from this place I will broadcast my reflections and in doing so I will try to bring you closer to me and I hope that I will be closer to you My unknown friend..."