Annelle Travis
Born 1948
Died 2011
“Beauty shines forth
from the depth
of all things.”
My late wife was a fierce practitioner
of detachment & discernment.
It was she that helped me find the Path –
Letting the Soul shine through the form.
The life given over to service,
teaching, healing, creating,
quietly showing the Way.
She taught me a thousand times
that the difficult personality
we are striving to serve
is a wounded spiritual being.
And our task is to help them
become what they are meant to be.
Annelle’s journey through Cancer
revealed the essence of Wisdom.
I witnessed her Soul
find its Way through
the crippling impacts,
to shine from her form
again & again & again.
As her health, her strength,
mobility, vitality, memory,
were all taken from her,
she strove to be there
fully for each being
whose path she crossed.
Amidst dreadful losses
she became a source
of deep peace & cheer.
The season of her dying
showed what we really are –
As the body falls away
a presence shines forth.
There comes a point on the Path.
Hopes are lost. But faith is kept.
This is the territory of surrender.
And the region of miracles.