Beloved people,

You have struggled so hard and for so long to maintain integrity and righteousness in your professions, your relationships, your diverse faiths. The Enemy is at the gate of your hearts. Its names are many: despondancy, regret over life choices, frustration, anger, rage, indignation, doubt, fear, hopelessness, helplessness, loneliness, depression.
They blind the heart to make beauty drab and ugly. They sour the disposition so that nothing is sweet.
They rob you of joy, of childlike wonderment and trust. They trample your inheritance of happiness. They remove hope and make your mind and body ill.
Like Jacob wrestling the Angel all night, you fight this enemy until you are worn and weary. It seems the harder you fight, the more powerful they become.
Beloved people, there is a way to fight and win. Forgiveness, acceptance, relinquishing the need to control, remaining responsible yet detached, allowing love to really heal you. These are the building blocks of an impenetrable fortress that no enemy can enter.
Forgive yourself. For not being the person you thought you would become, for the things you have done and not done, for the choices you have made in your life, for the frailty and mortality of your body. For the times you have disappointed yourself.
Forgive all who have loved you and whom you have loved. Forgive them for not being what you had hoped for or expected. For disappointing you and seeming faithless or untrustworthy.
There are some who would throw away a bag of precious sapphires because they wanted diamonds. Better the sapphires in one's possession than the diamonds unobtained. Forgive the ones who have betrayed you. The ones you thought were friends or collegues. The ones who have abandoned you, or relinquished their own integrity. Forgive these blind and erring children of God, and release them in your heart that they might perhaps find peace and paradise in due time. Drop anger away from you and release this needless heavy load. This release frees you to find the peace you long for.
Acceptance is a key to peace. Accept this current chaos in your life and in the world at large. All things must pass, and surely will. Light is coming and will overcome the darkness. Accept that people in this world do what they do. You can stand in the gap and defend the weak as the Wise before you have done, detached from any anger, attentive to need, and with no rancor in your soul.
This is the seeming impossible prescription for powerful healing in your life. It is the same prescription for all who would undertake to be the catalists of change in loving service. The One you serve, serves you. Washes your feet with the healing power of divine unconditional love. Love is always here. Forgiveness, Acceptance, and release are the keys to opening the floodgates to water the garden of your heart, that you might have peace, childlike joy, lightness of spirit, and true happiness that no one and no circumstance can rob you of. If you want it, you can have it. If you ask, you will receive the strength to accomplish it.
I truly bid you Peace,

your brother, the Elder