St. Francis Statue in the Peace Garden at St. Joseph’s Medical Center
20190331 Rehab Week 2
Dear Beloved in God,
God has lined up quite a time for me. Just in case you didn’t think a hemorrhagic stroke was enough, He decided to give me gastrointestinal problems and I became extremely dehydrated, I could not eat, which has affected my energy level and ability to think clearly. All of that is on the mend now.
All of these challenges have drawn my mind back to God more urgently relying upon His strength, submitting to His will in this as in all things.
Thank you for your prayers, cards, and emails and those that have supported me at this time. Carla stands foremost in that legion along with Jerry and Lois and Rick and Judy who have been a great support to Carla trying to manage so many things at once.
In 1933 Master wrote meditation for March 31st, “I will contact God constantly through the peace of all hearts. I will behold Him on the Altar of My Silence. I will merge in the Eternal One through the Bliss of Meditation.” It is through His Omniscience that I feel you living your lives, taking sure and courageous steps towards God-realization. Surely, we are all in His hands, each and every moment of the day.
The consequence of what God has given me has made me focus on one day at a time, one moment at a time, one victory at a time. That is all that we have or will ever have when we focus on Him– we feel time and space spread out into all eternity. I have a body but I am not this body, I have a mind but I am not this mind. I remain in the Eternal Spirit of God, the one sole Reality.
There is a lovely Peace Garden here at the hospital that Carla has taken me to where there is a statue of St. Francis surrounded by living flowers and birdsong. It has been a great strength to me to think on St. Francis, Mother and Swamiji for all the difficulties they went through. It is a secret blessing of suffering that there is a radiance that goes from that one that is attuned to God that helps lifts the worlds burdens.
Know that I hold you in my heart and that in God there is no separation in time nor space, only oneness, only union in God.