Auntie M
10/12/2009
11:21:57 PM | Dear Mel,
I went through bankruptcy due to illness 10 years ago and felt profoundly humiliated at the time. More recently, I did not have the proper insurance for hospitalization so again, my inability to pay my medical bills has placed me back in the position of no credit worthiness. Living without money and not being able to work to earn it, is forcing me to have far greater faith in the spiritual realm as the source of my Supply. I am being forced to CHANGE the way I perceive the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American philosopher said in his essay on Compensation, 'Such...is the natural history of calamity. The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth. Evermore is the order of nature to grow, and every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends and home and laws and faith, as the shellfish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth, and slowly forms a new house...But to us, in our lapsed estate, resting, not advancing, resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks...'
Okay, that's enough philosophy. But for me, I am growing and learning so much because of this M experience. I am grateful to individuals like you who have had the courage to go public with your process to help so many others. I believe we are 'canaries in the mine' and that we will be helping so many others who will face this in the future. You give me hope. Thank you. |
