What I seek and what I offer more than anything else is deep comfort. The Buddhist speak of freedom from suffering, but in my idiom freedom from suffering is the same as comfort. I am a refuge, a loving oasis, a place of comfort. I seek the same.
I offer freedom and release from suffering. I give escape from the essential discomfort of life. I am a window that flies from a lack of ease, from the disquieting mark on the forehead of us all. This is what I give, this is what I see.
The comfort I give comes with many faces. I offer myself as a guardian of nature, a healer of misery, a messenger of wonder, an architect of peace, a release from suffering, a fountain of loving kindness.
Finding and giving comfort is not the same as freedom from struggle, conflict or turmoil. Comfort is being at ease in the midst of difficulty, accepting things as they are. It is a refuge from all that might trouble me and others at the base. Comfort is the shore that surrounds a tumultuous sea. I would be that shore. I would be comfort.