This morning I was part of a musical cadre which celebrated the life of a 96-year-old mother of eight. For 27 years, she was the organist at the St. Elizabeth Catholic Church where I am currently employed to play. I never met her, but I feel I know her now. The sweet voices of her daughters’, the eulogy from her sons, the guitar sounds they brought with them — it was beautiful. The service ended with a recording of Nita Reuter herself singing a beautiful song which she had written and recorded years ago. The love for this woman was so great, joy was shining through their tears. Their voices occasionally faltered, but they were singing for her and, I feel, she was singing through them. Oneness was palpable, right there in front of our eyes.
“We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 248:26–28
“In you is all of Heaven. Every leaf that falls is given life in you. Each bird that ever sang will sing again in you. And every flower that ever bloomed has saved its perfume and its loveliness for you. What aim can supersede the Will of God and of His Son, that Heaven be restored to him for whom it was created as his only home? Nothing before and nothing after it. No other place; no other state nor time. Nothing beyond nor nearer. Nothing else. In any form. This can you bring to all the world, and all the thoughts that entered it and were mistaken for a little while. How better could your own mistakes be brought to truth than by your willingness to bring the light of Heaven with you, as you walk beyond the world of darkness into light?”
A Course in Miracles T-25.IV.5:1-12
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