Lucas and Cheryl's Guestbook

I'm in awe!!!
Sounds like a place you would want to stay for a very long time indeed!!!! When do you come back to Canada?

Daniel,Kelsi visit
Have so much enjoyed sharing your experiences over there. Daniel had previously shared ,via his travel blog, his/Kelsi's heartfelt time with you and it clearly made a deep impression on them. Helene and I are doing well. Mild winter with sunny days and it appears an early spring around the corner. Lot's of buzz over the olympics which commence soon. Love Al and Helene

Love
Hello Cheryl and Lucas, just returning from Peru with my kids and find the similarities in this Love and Devotion to the ONE in every culture. Mother Nature (Panchamama) enfolds you in Peru. What a wonderful blessing to read your blog about Christmas in India....the heart just pulls to be there and tears of joy come! I felt "the voice" most strongly when I first looked into Bhagavan's eyes and the words came: "you are already all of it"...from that day on I never wanted anything more than to know God. It was like a magneticism took over my spirit. What a gracious blessing it is to be able to share this with Aham in India, North Carolina and now Vancouver Island friends. I feel like the luckiest being alive! May Peace reign. Love, Kelly (Yarmouth, Maine)

:)
Love reading your blogs - it seems like you two are having a wonderful adventure. We wish you both a wonderful new year full of love and adventure.

Beautiful
Hello you two. Namaste and Merry Christmas. So good to read more of your adventures and insights in India. (I have time, I'm at work!) Yes, the voice that speaks, when we're ready, is loud and clear and must be listened to sooner or later...in my experience usually later until I got the hang of it! Thanks for sharing your experience, photos and love with all of us. Love, Christine G.

Thank You
Dear Cheryl and Lucas, Thank you for "putting into words" the beautiful experience all (or most) of us had with you this Christmas in India. As you know, I come here to our AHAM ashram every year, a month or so before Christmas, and stay for at least a couple of months into the following new year. This year I arrived with Vivian Zelig, who came with me to assist in the care of this old, becoming infirm, body. Many this year celebrated this body's 80th year in this dimension of time and space; I'm not saying that I "celebrated" it so much myself :-), but rather just observed in reverence and amazement that it has in fact survived this long, and am happy that even though its stamina is waning (due mainly to my own lack of physical activity), there is so much joy and appreciation in what I call "me," for the company of those I now know and love in AHAM. This HAS been a very special time at Christmas this year, although as you say, Cheryl, I too somewhat miss the traditional Christmas Dinner and times that I especially enjoyed (for example as a boy) at Christmas Time. My mother was an excellent cook, and the traditional turkey, sage stuffing (we called if "dressing"), cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green peas, and much more that my mother worked, for a week or more, to prepare "just right" for all of us when we had family coming to visit. That is still in my fond memories, and I guess it will be up until my last and final breath! However, the love and fellowship of the present AHAM family in many ways far surpasses those "mixed emotional" times now recalled as a boy and recharged in thought at Christmas, and that are again seen in the pictured eyes of the young AVS school children in this, your lovely blog. So, again thank you for sharing the special events that many in AHAM shared with you and Lucas, and for the news of our charitable contributions of the blankets with and for those Special Beings living without shelters around the holy hill, Sri Arunachala. It holds such a special place for us in the heart, or more correctly said, "IT itself holds us all in the Very Heart of Pure Being, when we are open and receptive to ITs influence in our life." May this special Christmas Time be just that... very special to one and all who read your kindred blog, as well as to those who don't have this wonderful opportunity; and yet, are themselves Awakened by the Voice of God abiding silently in the Heart of all beings, unknowingly (perhaps) as the Very Self of us all, as you and Lucas and AHAM participants have learned as the very Truth! May the Grace of the Christ-Self Awaken within, and Bless us all. A. Ramana

Wow!
Looks like a trip of a lifetime!! Cheryl, you look fabulous and right at home !!!! Look forward to more pics! Happy holidays!!!

Your gift to us
Cheryl, what a gift it is to all of us who get to read about your journey and live vicariously through you... I am so grateful to be included on your blog so I too can understand your journey and India better. Thank you... Merry Christmas to you and Lucas, you are living life and love to its fullest thats for sure - thanks for including me in this fullfillment.

Cheryl, you have my blue scarf on!
Hello, nice to hear about your adventures, you write like it's a travel guide, so great detail! I've read all 3 travel bogs, but this will be my reply. I must say, I feel the same as you do w the Indian people, w the Mexican people on my 3 week visit this year. I think when you have the time not to tour but to relax in the Villages, you create a sincere exchange of friendship, even w the language barrier. Both wanting to learn off each other, both having something to give/receive from each other, even if it's only a 1/2hr interaction. We really enjoyed our experiences there, and for me, nurtured by Larry all the way, it was fantastic. Now home, in our new home, waiting for the Mt to get some fresh softer snow on it, before going up to play. We are having all our children for Christmas, it's had to wait patiently for them all to arrive, but it's fun preparing. Yesterday, I created Elise's bed, so they don't have to bring a playpen. We had a brother/sister family dinner last Friday, and had mom/dad on skype w us. It would have been my dad's mom's 100th birthday, so we all brought something reminding us of her to the table. We also called extended family together. The office has got lots of fun and cheer in it amongst the work. Linda and I are going out to buy Christmas cheer for cheque issue this week, to give out when people come in. We are now open from 9-4, so we feel the relaxation from this step. We ae having a Christmas decoration station contest this week. We are going to be doing how to give and receive feedback workshop next month, all to create a good healthy office w our Kaisen group leading the way (it's taking the place of health/wellness, each office will have their own group, but linked by a site, promoting fun in amongst the work, I'm finally buying in) Have a great safe journey, thanks for taking the time to write such detailed memoirs, Love Sheri

Travel well
Ah, what a gift you both are. Thank you for sharing. I will look forward to following along on your colourful, spiritual journey. Much love, Tanya

WOW!!!!!
Cheryl...your pics so far are stunning. Youre right, the colors are sooo beautiful. Wish I could be there. Keep the pics comming. Glad you and Lucas are having a ball. Be safe and enjoy my friend! Miss you too. XOXOXO