How Servas Started -- and Recent Trends
Bob Luitweiler is grandfather of Servas. Read his Seeds of Servas and compare to "Big Picture". See how far we have come!
Let us celebrate the life our founder, Bob Luitweiler who, over his long life, instilled a sense of purpose in many lives that he touched. Remember the greatness and goodness of the man.
Bob liked a photo that I took of him at our first meeting in 1989 at my first-attended SI Conference, in Montreal, Canada. I think it shows him as a man of vision.
Brides on Tour
On the road to the essence of humanity
If you rapidly spin a color chart, the color image that you see is white…White symbolizes peace, purity and innocence. It is open to changes, external influences and all taht is new. White has the capacity to have this effect on us and help us to understand the meaning of time and flow.
A bride dressed in white symbolizes a new expansion, innocence, fullness and peace with all its reflections. Two good friends, Pippa Bacca and Silvia Moro, set out on a journey in March. Wearing white wedding dresses to symbolize purity, beauty and change, their dream was to live this experience and have a positive effect on others.A philosopher once said, "A journey is an ideal like a star we can never reach. But just like the sailors, its the sign that helps us find our way" It is not known whether this is the same for all of us, but to move forward for our ideals and living in this way is real for the ones who share it.
Today, we faced one of those journeys. A journey that is difficult to understand, but with a spiritual message. A journey with no timescale but that was tragically cut short after only one month. A journey that has now had an impact on everybody's heart. A journey that began in Europe traveling through many civilizations with the Holy City of Jerusalem being the final destination.
A pure, naive journey of peace…
Brides On Tour…
Today we are on a very different stage of this journey, but not very different from the one that was planned. Today Pippa Baca has left the physical stage of this journey; however her spirit continues with Silvia Moro, heightening its awareness.
She showed us how to risk everything for the sake of our dreams, even if it is very difficult.
She reminded us that the move towards peace is more difficult than anybody knows.
She reminded us that peace for all is more important than individual peace and the first stage is peace within ourselves.
She, herself, took this first step.
We may not be Pippa Bacca or Sylvia Moro, but today we can feel what they feel and see the light in their path. This light not only showed us the path, but gave us warm feelings and also reminded us that the belief of change comes from inside and awakens our awareness.
It was a pleasure to know Pippa, to come together with her family at this stage of the journey, to listen to Sylvia sharing her thoughts with us and to feel the support of friends from around the world.
Most importantly it is to share these feelings.
Pippa, we send you our deepest love for everything that you remind us of on your journey to peace with Silvia and including us in your path to your inner self.
Pippa, we send you our deepest love for the road that you showed us Peace and for including us in your journey towards your inner self.
Sercan DUYGAN
(translated by Arzu Altinanıt & İrem Levend)
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