ENCOUNTER WITH GOD
Lord, there were so many times that my eyes looked to the skies for answers. I watched the
sorrows of the world and wondered where
is Your justice, where
is Your goodness, where is Your infinite love? Also,
I wondered: What are You? Where do You
live?
However, that day had arrived. It came, and we found each other.
It was a particularly cold autumn night. I made
my visits at the hospital, observing
the image of each patient for which I, as a physician, was responsible.
So I was surprised by the mother of one of my patients, who desperately was shouting my name.
Her son, who was seven at the time, had the continuous
crisis of convulsions. His frail body affected by cancer, struggled on the stretcher.
After stabilizing him and considering my forty
years in the area of oncology, I knew that death would soon come to the frail boy.
Still, there occurred something unusual
(perhaps because I remembered my
grandson, healthy and happy) the tears
began to flow from my eyes incessantly,
and even trying very hard, I could not contain
them.
I held the hand of that child, and with the support of the mother who now shared
her tears with me, I felt his
pulse becoming weaker
and weaker, until it stopped completely.
I immediately started
thinking about words of comfort to
relieve the heart of the mother
who just lost her son. But the big tears
running down my face did not allow me to
comfort anyone.
And how surprised I was when that lady, wiping her own tears, hugged me, and said, “Do
not cry, doctor. God wanted my
son to not suffer anymore.”
“God always acts in our favor,”
continued the lady. “It is us, being selfish, that we often times are not able to see His mercy in
everything around us, even when we suffer.”
Puzzled, I could not go along with the reasoning of that wise woman. How can we find mercy in suffering?
And she, as if reading my thoughts said, “God is like a parent who treats a sick child, allowing the taking of medicine,
although bitter, but it will bring
relief and cure for the sick body. God allows
us to take the bitter medicine of
suffering so that finally we heal
our spirit of all evil, perhaps, which
may still exist.”
In that simple answer that lady gave me, I found You.
At the table, he
was not only the son of the
woman so resigned. All the pains of the world, were there represented, which I also cried for.
Where I saw injustice and pain, she saw opportunity
and regeneration. While I lost a patient to death,
she gave up the life of a child. I saw the end; she a beginning.
God is revealed in all things. Let down
our guard, our pride, our materialism, our
selfishness to perceive it. In the green of the forests,
in the singing of the birds, in suffering, in
laughing and within us ... There He is!
Think about it!
(Website www.amorpazycaridad.com
in issue dated 8/27/2014, author not listed, and translated into English by Yvonne
Limoges)
LIFE
LESSONS
Written
by Yvonne C. Limoges
My 11 month old baby girl caught a cold and
since I worked, my mother took her to the doctor. The doctor told my mother
that if she was not better tomorrow, he wanted to see her right away.
She was not better, so my mother took her
to the doctor again. I received a call from the doctor and he said, “Meet your
mother with your baby at the hospital, there is something wrong.”
I left work and when I saw my daughter’s
eyes, they were rolling back in her head. The nurses took her and told me to
leave. I said, “I will not, do what you
must do.” And, they did.
After many tests, the diagnosis was
Juvenile Diabetes - Type I. Her body stopped making insulin and she would need shots
for the rest of her life. There was, and still is no cure.
As a Spiritist, I wondered what she had
done in a past life. Immediately, my spirit guide, in that soft voice I was
used to, said to me, “How do you know she
did not ask for this?” Somehow this made me feel better.
One of the days my baby was in the hospital,
a new baby was brought into the same room. I looked closely and noticed she had
her eyes closed and was rubbing what looked like a small piece of fur all over
her face. Then, her mother came into the room and calmly said to me, “She
enjoys the feel of that fur, it comforts her. She is blind and deaf.” My heart
sank at the thought of what type of life awaited that baby and mother.
As a mother at age 25 and being only human,
how very sad I was when I first heard my daughter’s medical diagnosis, but oh how
different I felt now, upon seeing this poor baby next to mine, who I felt would
have a much more difficult life.
TRIALS
AND TESTS
Written by Yvonne C. Limoges
God is all love and there is a just cause for all suffering.
Throughout these many years, we have heard
from the spirits themselves from the afterlife, why they have suffered because
of their actions when they were here in the material world. We have also have been
grateful to those spirits that, with God’s permission, have provided us
information as to some of the causes of why we ourselves are suffering, or have
suffered, certain personal trials and tests in our own life.
Remember, God does not punish us; we have freewill
and all our choices have consequences.
We reap what we sow (it is the natural law
of cause and effect) and due to poor choices in this life and from past lives, we
end up having to make amends. In
addition, we accept tests (each according to our strengths) in order to motivate
our spirits to progress further.
We must try hard to accept our lot in life without
complaining or murmuring because we know their Divine purpose – soul evolution,
which involves removing all our imperfections.
And, we should undergo the trials and tests
of life with as much acceptance and calm resignation as possible, no matter how long they last, if this
particular existence is to be as beneficial as possible to us.
We chose prior to incarnating into this material life, what we would undergo
and wanted to overcome towards our own upward advancement.
God’s Divine Light and the good spirits
love and guide us.
So have faith and pray for courage and
strength!
REVIEW:
NEW TV SHOW
Written by Alysia Pape
On FOX TV on Ch.
13 Wednesday night at 9 PM there is a new show called The Red Band Society.
The show centers
on a small boy in a coma named Charlie (who is the show’s narrator) and also the
lives of five teenagers living in the hospital with him. One teenager has an
enlarged heart and needs a heart transplant, two have cancer, one has cystic
fibrosis, and another has an eating disorder.
Charlie tells
us he can hear everything and tells us to “deal with it.” So far, whenever the teens
go unconscious, flat line or go into
surgery and are under anesthesia,
they appear at the same place where Charlie “is.” In this place, Charlie can
talk to them, ask them to do things for him when they return to the material world,
and sometimes he helps them get through what they are going through.
The young
patients go to school in the hospital, have to deal with different nurses and
doctors, but most important of all (to them) is not dealing with their condition, while dealing with their condition.
This sounds odd, but that is what it seems to me they do.
They all have
ways they use their conditions to abuse the hospital rules, but their
conditions manage to get in the way at inconvenient times. The teens see the
hospital as a kind of a prison setting that they want to escape from, except
for the heart patient.
They all have
negative ways of looking at what they have, at times in denial and with anger.
Yet, other
times they all get together and help each other by accepting their conditions
through laughter, individually or in a group. In the first show, they had a
party for a teen that was going to have surgery done that could end up in
losing one of his legs.
Sometimes,
with the help of Charlie and their talks with him, who the teens call “coma boy,”
they come to realize he makes some very good points. Sometimes they do listen to the
nurses that care, other times one teen will help or support another through one
of their many issues, be it emotional, social, or medical.
In the second
show, “coma boy” Charlie said, “Sometimes
you don't need to walk in a person’s shoes to know how they feel, sometimes the
best thing you can do is sit beside them.”
Being a soul
with a lot of medical issues myself, and experiencing tons of doctor visits,
blood tests, and a few hospital visits of my own, I can relate to the show on
many levels, especially what Charlie said above.
I am glad that
was said on TV, in that way, and in a kid’s words, so that almost anyone could
understand what it means. Think about it. Practice it one day, if someone does
actually want to open up to you. You don't have to say anything all you have to
do is listen.
Most people give
some sort of unwanted advice, reminders of what the doctors have said over and
over, say what they thought I should do, or worse gave me the same lecture I
have had over 100 times. Even though I know their heart was in the right place,
they still were not sure what to do or not do, to help.
I really hope
the show continues, because to me it provides a lot of really good advice for
the sick and education for people that are not sick.
I also wish
they can sustain the show for years, as there are numerous topics I believe they
can cover. They use realistic feelings which can be sad or depressing, but it
is also uplifting and funny as well, and provides the healing idea of hope
(Note: The spirits of these kids -
during coma, under anesthesia and unconsciousness - are meeting in what we would
call the “spirit world.” How wonderful that current media culture is teaching
this important concept! – Y.L.)
MANY
LOVE US IN THE SPIRIT WORLD
Comments and Translation
by Yvonne C. Limoges
First I will
summarize - at a mediumship session, a spirit communicates and reveals she was
a young woman in her last three lives, and each time, in three different ways her
life was saved by a man (the same soul) now a man named Ortiz in a present life.
Also, in each of those same three life times, this woman died in others ways while
still very young. Her spirit communicated to Amalia Domingo Soler the following:
“The immense gratitude of my soul could not have any other
demonstration upon the Earth but to love him [Ortiz]…I have never abandoned him
upon understanding my true situation in the spirit world.”
“I murmured [from the spirit world] loving words in the ears of his
sweet companion, so that she could love him as I would have loved him upon the
earth. I lamented with him regarding his unfortunate father, I veiled the
dreams of his small daughter, and I gave vigor to his weak body so that this
flower could shine as within a lush garden in his melancholy existence...”
“The least one can do for his generous soul... is to love him, protect
him, inspire him and never abandon him, neither in his hours of pain, or
seconds of joy.”
“I go with him to the house of the beggar and have him love those in
need, I provide him forgetfulness of offenses and compassion for criminals, and
continually ask God to illuminate me to [help] make him be happy.”
“Maria”
Then,
Amalia Domingo Soler (famous author and poet from Spain) commented on what the
spirit of Maria stated above:
“…Are there those in space [the spirit world]
who love us? Undoubtedly someone loves us. But material sight fails to see the
greatness of the infinite, and only sees human misery, the thinking soul feels
a cold death before the horrible picture of a solitary home, where groans don’t
find an echo, where body ailments are not understood or pitied…”
“Let’s try to do good deeds as our friend Ortiz did in his previous
lives, so in space, we can have those who with our tears, cry, and with our
smiles, smile. And over the centuries we have a family who loves us and then… then…We
will live! Meanwhile, work on our progress to be loved in the world we inhabit
and in infinity.”
Amalia Domingo Soler
*******
Therefore, you can believe that just as with
this man Ortiz, we have had many past lives and among them we have done many
kindnesses (even possibly saved a life)
to so many people. So, we can assume
there are many spirits in the spirit world who are grateful, and have wonderful
memories of us and love us very much! Reach out with heartfelt thoughts and
feelings to these when you pray, during times of loneliness, and you will see
that you will feel much better afterwards.
God is everywhere and sends Love to all;
but there also are many spirits (although we cannot see them) who remember us,
wish us well, care what happens to us and watch over us with their great love
and devotion. - Yvonne C. Limoges
(Excerpts taken
from - Chapter IX, Memories of a Friend, from the book in Spanish La Luz de Espiritu [The Light of the Spirit] a collection of writings by Amalia Domingo
Soler. Printed and distributed freely in Spain by the Spiritist Center “La Luz
del Camino” in Alicante, Spain.)
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