Spoken Words of Love: Melanie Lutz talks Mels Love Land at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore

It’s amazing how it’s always all there.

So many cues, clues and symbols. Opening doors into new worlds just waiting. Waiting for the decoding and the processing and the recognition.

Sitting right in front of you.   

With the popularity of Dan Brown novels and all the scholars and resources and the internet you would think it would be easier to get it.

It took me a bit of time to find this recording of my first bookstore reading of Mels Love Land.  Through the magical practice of love and patience and faith, I share it now for your listening pleasure.  It was recorded at the now moved Bodhi Tree Bookstore in West Hollywood, California with lots of friends, strangers, lovers and family in the audience.

Enjoy.

Mels Love Land is a love movement into the heart of unconditional self love. It is a practice of seeing with love and having that be the beginning and ending of every conversation. Love is the decoder to every situation you find yourself in.

Like The Miracle Worker caring, loving, exhausting herself, to understand the blind and deaf, Helen Keller, to make a connection to something, to breakthrough the darkness, to find the sign and symbol that would lead to a light filled recognition and open the gateways of communication. A flash of a memory. Water. Water would open the door of recognition and language.  It nearly killed both of them, but once the connection was made, Helen Keller was able to unlock a way to speak, to share her voice, to open up to new possibilities.

Once you get “water” is this… instinct. feeling. emotion. You can use it to decode all the hidden messages in everything. It is all possible. Getting that first key stone is sometimes the hardest, as blinders are built into the universal framework, but ultimately with care and work and faith seeing through clouded and skewed vision and distorted perceptions is possible.

When we see. Life is easier. Love is easier.   

Seeing leads to the promised land.

            

Elaine Strich had it from her show At Liberty “I am mad as hell that I had to go through what I had to go through to get to what I’ve gotten to.”  And. Here I am. We’ve all gone through what we needed to go through, we’ve seen the outcomes of behavior, we’ve cycled through disconnection, we see the truth. We know what doesn’t feel warm and friendly, we know what closes our hearts, we know what we need to be. We are not going to be able to hide behind fences, technology, or whatever defenses we imagine will help us, the planetary population has eradicated that possibility. We are like little rabbits walking into the light for the first time naked into the perceived battlefield. Realizing how connected we are, realizing there is no one left to squeeze to make a profit, no dumps left to fill. No ways that can’t be inherent in our means. We are interdependent on each other. We are here to help each other. We are here to be in service with love.

If you are inspired please reach out, we have many loving activities to inspire and ignite your soul.

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Tales from Mobile Mel.

There's no doubt, when you get out and about, the world is a most beautiful place filled with beautiful people. People who have something to share. People who are inspiring because they were inspired and carried it forward. These amazing people live and breath in the fabric of the worlds cities and towns large and small. We celebrate them...

Tales from Mobile Mel will share some of the memorable stories and lessons learned from these extraordinary individuals. From doctors, to house cleaners, to bakers, and business men, to the homeless guy on the bus. Everyone has something to offer to the conversation.

DOCTOR HEAL THYSELF ~ (FROM THE ISLAND OF KAUAI)

In a small historic church on the beautiful island in the pacific one bright Sunday morning, a retired silver haired gentleman stood up during the sharing section of the service, and told a story. It was a simple story. A story of recognition and action.

This stately man talked of being forced to retire from his medical practice, a busy successful doctor told to "Go. Enjoy yourself, travel, see the world, you've earned it."

He did for awhile, but nothing brought him the joy he felt when he was active and productive in his work. He resigned himself into what he considered would be boring musings through the sunset of his life, as winter approached he and his wife sun birded to South Carolina.

It was there in a church very much like the one we were all standing in that he found himself, on a Sunday, listening.

A woman stood up in the congregation, "I've been diagnosed with a life threatening disease. I don't have insurance, and I don't know what I'm going to do. I have two small children I'm raising myself. No family. Nothing. What am I going to do?"

As the words of her story washed over him, he remembered his own childhood, his Dad was a minister and his Mom a teacher, and he grew up scraping alongside seven siblings. They all used to sit around the dinner table and his Dad would ask, "what have you done for someone today?" If he had something to say, to contribute, he would get an extra piece of chicken, dessert, something. What have you done for someone today? Pretty simple. As the thought spilled into his head, as the challenge stirred, as the voice filtered in. he said, "I noticed something. I noticed the gifts I had been given and I noticed how little it took for me to feel down and out and powerless."

As the realization hit him he said, "I found myself standing up, words busting out of my mouth, and, I knew, in my heart... I would be getting dessert."

This man offered his surgical services, free of cost, to that woman, and asked if anyone else in the congregation of retirees would join him. Without hesitation multiple hands went up, a retired anesthesiologist, a surgical nurse, a local hospital administrator, every one necessary to provide the health care service this woman needed.

That one action of standing up led to a movement.

It was the beginning of VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE. Free health care for people who can’t afford it. from a volunteer group of retirees.

He took two problems, the inability for working folks to see a doctor when they were sick, crowding emergency rooms, and an untapped resource, bored, sometimes cranky, retired medical professionals, highly skilled retirees with time to give something back. He had a notion, a notion that he wasn't alone. He bet there were plenty of people like himself, retired, who would want to give back, on a part time basis. At the time the un-insured in SC was one of the highest of any state in the country.

As he stood there, in that Kauai church, smiling broadly, "it seemed like a marriage to me."

Amazing, that one inkling of inspiration led to one of the largest private health care reforms in this country. Today every person who lives or works in their community in South Carolina has access to health care. All from a dude standing up in church and saying, "YES! and, who's with me!"

It has become a model in many cities and communities around the country.

Their motto is --
‘May we have eyes to see those who are rendered invisible and excluded, open arms and open hearts to reach out and include them, healing hands to touch their lives with love, and in the process heal ourselves.’

Indeed.

What have you done for someone today?