Greetings of love and gratitude from Judy Carman

Chimpanzees Receive the Gift of Freedom. After years of incarceration, cruel experiments, and intense suffering, chimpanzees under the control of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will finally be set free. The director of NIH announced in November that all the NIH chimpanzees will be given new lives in sanctuaries. Thousands of people have worked for their freedom for so many years.  Some have worked on teams, others on their own.  Together, they stayed the course and refused to give up on their vision of empty cages for these beloved brothers and sisters of ours.  Meanwhile millions of animals, such as rabbits, mice, dogs, rats, and others still languish in labs around the world; billions of others suffer in farms, zoos, aquariums, fish nets, and other forms of torture.  Let this victory for the chimps shine like a Christmas Star for us and for all the animals.  Every single year as humanity passes through this holiday time, we draw closer to becoming beings of love as we were always meant to be.
 
Prayers for Following this Star of Freedom and Love for All:  This week let us give thanks for all the activists who have worked so hard for so long to bring freedom to the NIH chimpanzees.  And let us give thanks for the reminder they have given us that this same freedom is possible for all animals as long as we don’t lose our vision.  We are an ever-growing force of love with one clear goal—to bring humanity into the new consciousness of nonviolence and reverence for all life.  Sometimes, it is difficult to believe that we can really do this, but there is nothing more powerful than love.  Because of what you all have done so far, along with the generations before us, that love for all beings is shining more brightly than ever.  We know that love really does live in all hearts waiting to be awakened, and we see signs of that awakening everywhere. This week, please hold in your hearts a vision of a brilliant star guiding us all forward with courage, joy, and absolute faith that every single little thing we do matters.  Every single thing you do brings the animals closer to freedom.  And so it is.    

As always, with tears of gratitude, I send my thanks to each of you, dear Prayer Circle members, for joining this circle of compassion and shining the Light of Truth for all to see, so that one day soon, all beings will live in peace together.

May compassion and love reign over all the earth for all beings everywhere. 
Thank you all for your devotion to truth, love, liberation and peace for all beings.
With Love, peace, and gratitude from Judy Carman, and greetings from Will, Madeleine, Tara and the Circle of Compassion team

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