Insahllah
Good Day!
I am up at Inshallah doing some cleaning and organizing before the Journey which begins Monday. We are fulling enrolled and...there is always tent-space on the deck when the weather is good, haha.
It is so easy to feel the peace here, and practice it. I concluded my one-day fast and went to town for Mexican food, my Lessons in tow. I was intent on reading a Lesson over lunch. An older woman was at a nearby table and she was intent on starting up a conversation with me. I gazed longingly at the Lesson and asked God and Guru what was my Highest Choice. Loving Them in her or concentrating on my Master's words. Perhaps a no-brainer to you, AND the direction was to provide what warmth and love I could to this sweet and perhaps lonely woman.
She then began to tell me of the remarkable Native American healer-man to whom she was married for 35 years. She lost him in 2004. She was 27 when he saw her bicycling along and said to himself, "I want her!" He was in his seventies! She studied the intricacies and requirements of the Native way to matrimony for 8 long years and finally they were married on the land. He was only allowed to do this amazing ceremony once...and she was the one for him! She spoke of the deep marriage vows, the final one being waiting in the Valley of Dark on the other side for the other one to come. They would then walk together into the Great Spirit.
When I took out my coin purse to pay the bill, somehow she noticed the photo of Sri Yukteswar on the front. She exclaimed, "Oh, that is a very great soul!" I looked at her, somewhat startled. She went on. "Once when I was doing a home-clearing in Oceanside there was a large picture like that on the wall. He came to me and I had a tremendous spiritual experience!"
Is it any wonder I decided to engage in conversation with this woman....
As I left she said, "I'm so glad I saw that picture today. I really needed it."
I came back to resume my duties here. I began my affirmation as I sang the little tune I have created to accompany the words for the Affirmation for General Healing. Now...this is fact. Taj began singing along. I mean it. He cocked his head up like you see in those pictures of wolves and the moon, and sweetly howled along. If I paused, he paused. When I resumed, he resumed.
Truth be told, he had done this before when I was singing in the bathtub. Yet I was never positive it was really intentional. Well, today I have confirmation. I have never seen or heard him do this with any other song or chant. I find it incredible and deeply endearing. He apparently knows the power of affirmation too!
May your day be sweet, serene, and filled with the Presence and Peace of the ONE. For what more can we ask?!!
Loving you always, k
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