Dear fellow travelers,
Thank you for your Wow responses to my last Ponderings. And the Wow is
when I wrote to the MIA POW organization and they responded within hours!!
this was concerning the Vietnam bracelet I have had for 40 years, however, they
stated that Maj Gregg's remains had been identified five years ago. I hope
that knowledge brought some closer for his friends and family. I felt sad , just
by having a bracelet with his name on it, I felt some connection to
him.
It was a miracle that his remains had been located.
Miracles I know happen every moment, I just have to be open to experience
them.
But what if a miracle takes much longer than a moment or even a year or
several years to manifest? Would I give up?
I just wrote a paper for a course I am taking and while I was writing a
statement I already knew, I didn't really get the enormity of it until I wrote
the sentence:
Israel became a nation in 1948.
Wow!!!!!!! What a hugh happening, what a miracle!!!!
The Jews begin Rosh Hashanah tonight, the beginning of their High Holy
days.
And the Jews biblically are considered to be God's chosen people, not
because they are given anything "free" but because they are willing to endure
all that is require of them to keep their biblical covenant with God.
When I want something, I admit, I'm not real good at being patient,
waiting is not my natural tendency.
But the Jews did wait, for approximately 2000 years they held in
their consciousness' that they wanted their land back, their own country. They
had been dispersed over the entire planet for thousands of years and had
suffered unspeakable atrocities. But the "coming home" never left their
vision. After their Yon Kipper services they say from tradition, "Next year
in Jerusalem!"
And, Yes, after the worst of the suffering:
Israel became a nation in 1948.
The Jews could return to Palestine.
How powerful is that. They never gave up- hope and vision!!
How in God's time, not my time, their vision became a reality.
I wonder what would it be, that I would desire so clearly and with such
determination, that I would hold onto a vision thru a hundred generations,
suffer unspeakable tragedies and still see the vision as a probability?
Imagine beginning a vision now in 2012 and having it manifest in 4012
???
I cant honestly wrap my mind around that concept!
Ah yes, miracles still happen. In every moment,
and then some do take longer. some much longer!
What do you vision?
How long are you willing to wait?
Are you willing to give up something for it to happen? What?
Just Pondering on miracles,
Linda Patton, RScP, ENTC
