Dec 20 letter from Michael Moore

[Guest guest]

Dear Ones,

 

Last year around Thanksgiving I shared selections from the first

letter I received on that November's Devi Bhava day from Michael C.

Moore.

 

At that time Michael was in Winnebago County Jail. His first letter

expressed such a strong faith in Amma and clear belief that she was

God, that it lifted me up. It gave me the vision for what Circle of

Love Inside could do. Since then, Michael has been moved to a state

prison in Illinois near the Missouri border. He's actually not too far

from a Hindu Temple, interestingly enough.

 

For some time, copying what he sees the Moslem prisoner do in

memorizing the Koran, Michael has memorized selections from books

about Amma and from Amma's statements. His faith in Amma has

continued. Also, he has become attracted to Krishna. He quoted for

me in one letter that Amma said that few people realize that she is

one with Krishna. (Of course, she has also said that she is one with

all the forms of God we humans appreciate.) Vedic astrology says that

our ishta devata, the way we love to think about God when we are born.

Perhaps Krishna is Michael's ishta devata.

 

On Christmas day I was replying to Michael's letter written December

20, 2005. That's unusual. Up until this one, Michael has never put a

date on his his letters. In the file I write on the top of them

"postmarked" with the date from the envelope. I thought that what he

wrote would inspire you. He has given me written permission to share

his letters. He writes,

 

"Sister, every day I see how God is working in my life. He is molding

me into what he wants, and that is what I pray for. I ask God to lead

me in the direction he wants me to walk, and to give me what I need.

See, I know I need God. That is all I know. Everything else in the

past that I thought I needed, I didn't need. The things that I

thought I needed only got me in trouble all my life until God showed

me, and is still showing me, that he is all I need. I understand

what giving it all up to God means now. It means you stop trying to

take control of your life and let Him control your life. When you

surrender to God life is much easier to go through. I realize that

God has his hand on my life and that he wants to use me in a very good

way. I beleive that God has allowed me to experience the things that

I have because God is going to use me to help those who been through

those same things that Ive been through. ...Those that people think

won't and can't change, God works on. Look at Malcolm X and Paul that

is in the Holy Bible. I end with Amma love. Love always."

 

Due to Michael's faith, there are now about eighty members of the

Circle of Love inside. There are around 40 letter writers and 50

brothers and sisters who are incarcerated. All but one of the letter

writres is an Amma devotee. The one other is a Catholic chaplain who

also does prison visits with me. Ten percent of the inmates are Amma

devotees. Monday, January 2, 2006 I will meet with a group of people

form East Bay Church of Religious Science who want to have a prison

ministry for their church. They can support Circle of Love Inside by

letter writing and Amma devotees can work with them on prison programs

in institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

Jesus said to his disciples, after they failed to heal a boy with

seizures, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say

to this mountain 'Move,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible

for yo