Channeling Grace: New-born Into The Arms Of Love
Lit Corner | March 25, 2013 | 11:20 PM
3-23-2013:
My Brothers and Sisters: this week’s message holds a surprising image and sensation that has appeared now and again in my meditations. What can I say? I am a mystic and sometimes love comes in this way, as the nursing mother and child; perhaps to fulfill one of our deepest human longings for the experience of perfect love. How many lives have we had wherein, as infants, we were left outside to die, or raised in the meanest of emotional environments? Even now many babies are born to undernourished mothers and cannot thrive. In this life, I have had a wonderful mother, but when I was born in the 50′s, modern women did not nurse; formula was the new scientifically correct way to feed babies. Of course, I compensated for that when I had my own babies! More recently, one of my favorite memories of my first grandchild was when, at almost three, she looked up from her (by that time occasional) nursing at her mother’s breast and announced to me with a big milky grin: “I’m having my mama’s milk!” As if it was her right and her joy!… Read the rest


























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