THE GREATEST MIRACLE

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THE GREATEST MIRACLE

Baba said, "Wonderful is the story. How were you blessed? I would like to know

everything in detail from you, so tell Me all about it" in Sri Sai Satcharitra

ch. XVIII, XIX.

Have you slowed down to realise how blessed you are that you can feed yourself?

Are you thankful that you can see?

Can you walk?

My beloved grandson. David Harris De Betty, was helpless from a forceps’ injury

at birth. A brain operation at John Hopkins when he was two years old,

excruciating pain, and crushing disappointments could not defeat him.

Inability to skip or to play hide-and-seek during childhood, or later to accept

five scholarships, or to write a nuclear physics theory, or to move his feet

and head on the bed while he reclined flat on his back without a pillow in

order to breathe, were insuperable obstacles which seemed only to empower him.

When David was five years old, he would sit on the lawn and clock his cousin Boo

while his fleet playmate practiced running around the house. Later, when his

ten-second cousin competed in contests, David also raced – though vicariously –

as he yelled: "Go, Boo, Go!"

Imagine having constant continuous double vision. Think of not being able to

brush away a biting mosquito from your face, or to turn a page."

When David was a little boy, he asked eagerly, "Mother, if I am healed, do you

think it would be all right for me to play football?"

But there was never the first complaint about anything. He cheered his husky,

athletic friends from the sidelines, encased in a brace, unable even to clap

his hands.

David prayed for these buddies, for relatives, for strangers, for everyone. We

heard him whisper: "Thank Thee, Holy Father, for giving us so much of your

time."

After twenty-seven years of indescribable perseverance, David’s Triumph was

revealed in his prayers. More than once he prayed these words: "Holy Father, if

we thanked Thee every breath throughout eternity, we could never thank Thee

enough."

That August day David said to his mother, sitting on the side of his bed, "Do

you remember, when I am a little boy, Mother, you said to me, "David, if you

are ever kidnapped, do not be afraid because the worst thing that can happen is

death – and what would be more wonderful than to be with Jesus?"

A few days later, David said, "Mother, if I should go to heaven with this

sickness, please don’t go into a depression."

The next night in the Palm Beach Hospital his parents beside his bed. His mother

prayed and then said, "Goodnight, angel, go to sleep in Jesus’s arms."

David whispered, "Goodnight, dear." He went to sleep and to heaven – cerebral thrombosis.

I know that such inexplicable peace and joy and miracles.

If David could will himself to live happily, anyone CAN.

(Written by: Ms. Harris Lowery)

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Appreciate other people and you will be helping them to improve. Appreciation is

the true alchemy of life!

Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya.....

Dadaji, Tell me what is God?

Dada said: "God is Truth. And God is Good, Absolute Good. And God is Beauty. And

God is Holiness. The human soul has somehow lost Him: and He may not be found

again until, in His infinite grace, He comes down and touches the human soul.

For it is true, too true, that behind man’s search for God is God’s search for

man. God seeks man. God seeks every one of His children who have turned away

from Him. And God will not rest until we all have returned to Him. Therein lies

our deepest hope.

What is it that stands between man and God?

Veils have fallen on man: and he remains sunk in ignorance and apathy: he is

unable to see God. Man, under the influence of his gross physical environment,

is blind to the Beauty of God and runs after vanities of the world. Man is a

victim to the one great veil – that is appetite or desire: the flesh is a very

serious veil. Desires dominate man and he turns his face away from the Light.

Man may turn to Him again and behold the Beauty of God. This may be achieved by

God’s mercy and grace. Beholding Him by His grace, we may see Him as Light. Not

until the seeker travels to the Realm of Light, may he become truly a ‘man’.

Most of us are no better than animals – excommunicated from the City of Light.

Man, tied to a life of the senses, is no better than a brute-beast. Man’s

destiny is to be a divine bird – to grow wings and fly from this world of

darkness to the radiant world of Light

What may I do, to grow wings and fly to the realm of radiance and light?

Realise, first, that you live in a state of banishment from the Beloved. Then

know that you must die to ‘selfhood’ in order to live in the Beloved.

(Sadhu Vaswani)