dear friends and Sanga,
just wanted to quickly share with you the night (early morning) we had.
some reference:
for the passed 3 weeks or so, Israel has been waiting for the attack promised by Hezbollah in Lebanon to retaliate us killing their commander and chief.
all of Israel has been on edge waiting for this attack. every day for the passed 3 weeks has been super tense with the whole country waiting and waiting for this promised attack that will surely come.
our defense systems are on high alert and all army personal vacation was put on hold to make sure absolutely EVERYONE is ready for this attack.
last night (early morning), Israel's intelligence picked up the chatter about this attack starting up in Lebanon and not too long after that, the order to attack them came. our military decided not to let them start this attack and try and defend but instead, take off now and destroy these missile launchers where ever they are before they fire on us...
Hezbollah had the plan to fire about 2000 missiles and rockets into Israel and targeting the city of Tel Aviv and many points of interest in Israel.
but, since we knew they were about to do this, we struck first, destroying their ability to make this attack as powerful as they wanted.
only 300+ missiles and rockets were fired upon us at around 4:30 AM and our entire air defense systems and crews worked overtime and destroyed most of them.
only a few managed to slip through and hit us. the rest were shot down.
here for your viewing pleasure is a clip shot from Ayelet's home up north where her mom still lives. Ayelet's mom spent the night and morning in her bomb shelter....
this is the life in the north of Israel if you live just a few hundreds of feet from the 10 kilometer evacuation line (the first 10 kilometers from the Lebanon border have been evacuated since Oct 7th) and are being fired upon...
what you see here are the missiles arriving from Lebanon on the right side of the screen and our Iron Dome trying to catch them mid flight from the left side of the screen.
now. stop for a moment in your own life, where ever it is you are while reading this, look up at the sky and imagine these missiles over your head, being fired at you and your home... your loved ones... your city, your country....
you.
how do you feel?
what feelings arise?
after all, you are reading this in a prayer wheel maker's blog....
we are all practicing... we are all practitioners practicing...
this practice is getting intense here.... :-)
but, you are safe where you are.
you are not being attacked....
did you ever stop to think how would YOU feel if this happened to you this morning?
what crazy times to be alive...
for now, it seems that this specific attack on us is over, but the note given on all news media platform is: "this is not over. it is only over for now. stay close to safe spaces and bomb shelters until told otherwise"
so, we will spend the day in the studio crafting prayer wheels, because who knows when this life will end? how much time do we still have on the ever ticking clock?
not me... that is for sure!
so, what better thing to do with my time in this body till death?
craft prayer wheels for the benefit of ALL beings!
we will keep posting here if there is any news to give you all :-)
we love you all so much!
stay tuned :-)
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