Make a Miracle
When I went into My Lucky Day, a local resale shop, the other day, right away my eye lit on a marvelous toy truck. This semi had to be a boy’s dream. It was big and realistic, and who wouldn’t want to have that truck to play with or, in my case, for decoration. I, of course, have to watch out about collecting things, like lunch boxes, pottery, wooden bowls, tea cups, teapots, beautiful stones, etc.
While I was idling around in My Lucky Day, a little boy came in with his grandmother. He kept saying, “Nana, I want that truck.
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Hey Lauren ... could I have just 50 cents? :)
Gloria - by sharing Lauren's teaching here on the blog you will probably affect many more lives with beautiful miracles than you can possibly imagine. For me alone, I'm so inspired to help a brother/sister, above and beyond the request, be it monetary or maybe just a favor they need help with. Imagine the elation for all involved!
I'd like to point out the other side of the coin. What if that boy had a lesson to learn, perhaps not to want and ask for everything he saw, or maybe something else?
I've realized that whenever I see something beautiful, I immediately get this sensation that I must get it, it must be mine. Then when day, while I was admiring my neighbour's flowers and again I felt this desire, it suddenly struck me that I didn't need to own those flowers, they were there for me to see and admire, eventhough they were not a possession of mine. Now when I see all the beautiful things I'd like to have, I repeat the words of an Indian guru: "Oh, how many lovely things there are here that I don't need!"
Another thing I'd like to ask is, where is the limit to our generosity. There was a Romanian lady with her children in front of the supermarket where I used to do my shopping, and I always gave her some money. I stopped to talk to her and I realized that she was doing it from necessity. I gave them all I could. But then they probably started thinking that I was rich and started to ask ever more. And I didn't know anymore whether they were trying to cheat me or whether they were sincere. And anyway I didn't have as much as they asked. So I started avoiding that supermarket and went to another one. Maybe that was a lesson for me, to learn to say no! Or something else. I don't know. Anyway, it didn't leave me with a nice feeling.
Now I try to give what I can, and I pray that my left hand doesn't know what my right hand is doing.
Paula
I don't know if everyone knows who Paula and Kirt are. They have both given so generously to Heavenletters that they take my breath away. Paula translates Heavenletters into Italian every single day. In addition, she offered to make two very long translations, one called The Woman Who Would Not Talk to God, and the other, Diane and Molly. These translations are posted on the forum.
Day in and day out, Kirt maintains the Heaven web site, and he answers my computer questions and fulfills every Heaven desire instantly, cheerfully, and unfailingly.
There are many other Heaven angels as well. I mention Paula and Kirt specifically because they posted here.
The point I want to make is that every day Paula and Kirt are creating miracles, and I have the privilege of witnessing the miracles they create and feeling nourished by them and so grateful for them.
Paula, on another note, it's one thing to volunteer a generous act and to have it come spontaneously from your own heart, and another to always be expected to and feel like the bad guy if you don't. On the other hand...
One more thing I want to say. I love the quotation you gave, Paula! So true. All the things we don't need.
Yet God tells us to say Yes. Especially, when it comes to a child, we would give the lesson of love. If I could be a mother all over again, I would say Yes a hundred times more than I did. A yes goes a long way toward a child's happiness.
There used to be a family from India who lived here. I noticed that the father never said no to his child. He didn't spoil the child, not at all.
Here is an example:
One time after a celebration, the little boy wanted to go over to his friend's house to play.
The father said: "Yes, certainly. Please change your clothes first."
The little boy said: "I want to go play now."
The father did not say no! He said: "Yes, yes, you'll play with your friend. First you change your clothes, and then you play."
And, of course, the child did. I never forgot that and how beautiful it was.
Gloria, please don't beat yourself up for "missing an opportunity". It sounds like you're feeling "less than". You are never "less than"! Clearly, the little boy wasn't supposed to get the wonderful truck at that moment. It's true Nana may have simply been saying no out of habit or because she was tired of him asking for "things" all the time, or she was just plain tired. But we don't really know her reasons or if the little boy is impoverished or overindulged. I know that if you are ever in that situation; in the resale shop with a young friend, you will pay attention and do what your heart compells you to do with joy. Far from letting opportunities slip by, you have embraced countless opportunities to shine your light joyfully. I believe hundreds of readers and workshop attendees will back me up on this, Darlin'!
Thanks for sharing the wonderful generosity of your daughter (I wonder who inspired that???)and of Kirt and Paula. I love the reciprocity of LOVE.
XO
Jo
I find the operative question to be, why won't Nana get the truck for the boy? Who knows what dynamics are going on there. It may have been that God was there helping you NOT to make the offer. I know you are always, with your life, asking to be guided to do the right thing. I am pretty sure you can trust that.
Dear Gloria
I agree with Paula and Jo. Do not use judgment not even on yourself.would you judge God, never!! You Give so much of yourself every day. That truck was not meant for the boy. You ,keep on spoiling us readers everyday and your Mansion in Heaven is getting Bigger with each letter.
Love you All Jack
Dear Ones,
I LOVE all your comments.
You are right that there is no place for regrets in our lives.
At the same time, I can't believe the explanation that the little boy was not meant to have the truck. Why shouldn't he have had it? If I had been awake, he would have. If God means it that opportunities to make miracles come our way, and I believe He does mean it, now I will be more awake and look for opportunities. It has to be good to think about what we can do today to help make someone else a little happier, and then do it. In this particular instance, I am sure it would have been better for me AND the little boy.
It says in the Bhagavad Gita: "Unfathomable is the course of an action."
And I suppose that the course of inaction is also unfathomable.
God bless you all.
Dear Gloria. Being awake? I believe you have surrendered to God, If God wanted you to buy the truck for the little boy He would have woken you up,As you were not awake, Your own words, the boy was not to have it. Again your surrender to God to me indicates that you are not t0 take any blame for not being awake. The Boy will get the truck as both you and the boy put their thought to it,as for when? leave it to the universe! love you. Jack