Love is the environment where the Wheel exists,
Desire is the fuel that feeds the engine,
Prayer is the engine that drives the Wheel,
Transformation is the product of the process.
The more you Love, the more you Desire,
The more you Desire, the more you Gaze,
The more you Gaze, the more you Contemplate,
The more you Contemplate, the more Grace you receive,
The more Grace you receive, the more you are Transformed,
The more you are Transformed, the more you Imitate Him,
The more you Imitate Him, the more you Love,
and so on, and so on, and so on.
The prayer wheel is a great way to synthesize what we’ve reflected on during the last two years with Ilia Delio’s “Franciscan Prayer”. Perhaps we need to show by some means that the prayer wheel leads us not only in a spiral motion but also outward not only to God but to all of creation — human as well as all that God’s wisdom has made. I believe that is what Francis learned as he deepenen in his relationship with Jesus and with the Father: all things are interrelated and all things lead us back to the One.
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Aloha to all who are on this site. This is truly an amazing discovery for me. I developed The Transformation Wheel first when I was on Maui in 1986; then it had another lifetime in Denver, when I was conducting workshops in Denver Human Services, for troubled youth. I am so very blessed that someone has picked it up and is actually doing something transformational with this concept. While yours does not look like mine, the concept is the same, which speaks for our connectedness at the quantum level. I celebrate your work and invite you to go to my website. Also, perhaps, attend the workshop I’m going to be conducting in Santa Cruz next June. Please know that our synnergy means that the critical mass is soon to bring about an essential paradigm shift on the planet.
Let’s keep anchoring the light.
Billie Ruth Hopkins Furuichi