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These last few days in the hospital have been wonderful, because of the beautiful young people I have met. Every nurse, tech, doctor — they have all been incredibly interesting. There’s the young woman who just read a novel for the first time in her life, and she loved it. Having been a life-long reader, I made some recommendations to her and she was very excited to try one author in particular. And the young father who became a nurse because his wife was one, and when he heard the stories of her days, he wanted to make a difference in that way, also. They live on a hill which was secluded and has become developed. He has a dream of living somewhere like Eureka Springs. Then there’s the sweetest young woman whose daughter has autoimmune problems. We spent a long time discussing the deterioration of America’s food supply chain. A 20-year-old assistant who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 15. She had many tips for my year-old grandson who has just been told the same. The exotically-beautiful nurse, who left teaching to become a nurse, was particularly inspiring to me. The ambulance drivers, in their 20s, who lament the fact they must live with their parents, because after car payments and insurance, there is not enough money left over to think of purchasing a home. I have received insights into their lives, hopes, their desire to dream of more. I’m going to sleep thinking of my sweet little abode, my incredible friends, my children, and all the beauty I see all around. Namaste …
“The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it? Then you are haunted in your work by vicious sculptors and hideous forms. Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually. The result is that you are liable to follow those lower patterns, limit your life-work, and adopt into your experience the angular outline and deformity of matter models.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 248:12-24
“Today’s idea takes another step toward quick salvation, and a giant stride it is indeed! So great the distance is that it encompasses, it sets you down just short of Heaven, with the goal in sight and obstacles behind. Your foot has reached the lawns that welcome you to Heaven’s gate; the quiet place of peace, where you await with certainty the final step of God. How far are we progressing now from earth! How close are we approaching to our goal! How short the journey still to be pursued!”
A Course in Miracles W-194.1:1-6
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