RE. Mani / Natabara - Non- astrological

[Guest guest]

Dear Folks,

 

Natabara has written to you about his health. I do so in the same manner.

 

The operation brought great relief and I thought that when the wound had healed

I would feel okay. But this is not what happened. There were and are other

problems, which were hidden by the major consition. Now they are crystallizing

out and have to be treated.

 

I have relatively good days, but also very bad ones. The mental depression and

wish to put an end to my life have gone, but don´t know how to live! I am not in

normal health, feel extremely weak. In about 4 hours I can clean up everything

and finish my backlog: but am unable to work more than 15 minutes a day!!! At

any temperature over 22 deg. Celcius I am totally stymied and for days it has

been above 28, often 34! Today it has rained, it is cool, I can sit and write!

 

Thank you all for your good wishes for a quick recovery. The recovery may not be

quick, but perhaps it is worth suffering, to evoke so much concern and

affection! I suffer, but your feeling affection binds us together, brings out

the best of us and improves the world. Wendy is also a chronic sufferer, as are

many of us on the list. We are all like Jesus, suffer that others may feel and

profit. "Love thy neighbour!" said Jesus. Someone asked, "Who is my neighbour?"

Jesus told him the srory of the Good Samaritan..... but did not answer the

question directly.

 

I have often asked christians who the neighbour was - and almost always the

answer was: "the Samaritan!" We talk of good neighbours - or neighbouihood - in

the sense that the neighbours are polite and helpful - to us! In this sense the

Samaritan is a good neighbour, for he helps the wounded and half-dying

traveller.

But Jesus meant something very different. In the parable, the wounded traveller

was a Jew. For the jews the Samaritans were of a lower class, since they did not

live 100% according to Hebrew tradition, and treated them as 2nd class

citizens.. So the samaritans had no reason to love Jews. Jews went by, each had

an excuse not to help the traveller! But the Samaritan picks up the traveller -

does not KNOW whether he is Samaritan or Jew - brings him to safety and pays for

his nursing.

 

It is the Samaritan who LOVES. The NEIGHBOUR is the TRAVELLER, the PERSON

IN NEED!

 

We have neighbours all over the world today, people in need!

 

I have many more things to say in connection with my health and experiences with

doctors, which might even create a project for me and others. But that will come

later, perhaps within a week.

 

regards to all

Mani

[Guest guest]

Dear Mani,

 

Sorry you are still feeling weak, that can just about drive you crazy;

hope your strength improves rapidly! Do you have any help with your son that

you take care of?

Did you see that we both wrote about good samaritans the same day?

Wanted to amend what I said--I have noticed "no good deed goes unpunished"

unless you do it in secret. Anybody finds out--> Over the

past months I have been doing something to help a charity and they insist on

publishing my name against my wishes and the longer it goes on the more the

punishment happens--even tried to sabotage the name thing and they threatened

to bring me up on charges! (Got 2 months of peace when I was able to hide my

name) But nobody else wants to do the particular job and it needs to be done

and I'm such a stupidhead. Don't know why this happens, but it seems

to be ironclad in my life and in firstborn son's--my father agrees with me.

It's like incoming thunderbolts. Second-born son thinks it's a hoot to do

something nice and give the credit to someone else and watch the person's

face-->pre-emptive credit. If you do good deeds in secret it's perfectly

cool. Anybody else notice this? Might be a chart-specific thing.

Take care and get well soon.