2016-10-31      To all 'coincidences' freaks - you are getting there.... Don't slip! ...  Keep humble!
                        (Thanks to Jorge Ferraz who has this on his facebook)


' According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that
 a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is
that  you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom  is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point that you actually experience the miraculous.'        Deepak Chopra                             facebook.com/thekindnesscentre


                          

Again in 2015

Still 2015! I was asked  now in 2016 to put this on my blog and so here it is - it is part of the story I want to publish titled 'The Joshua Story' which tells about all the 'strange' synchronicity that happened after our little one left this world. To God be the glory!

2015-09-06 Sunday

 

The ‘Mckenzie and the Blackberry’, episode

 

On the 9^th of August I was feeling quite sad and lonely, for various reasons, when I went to Mass at 5 pm, at Our Lady of Lourdes in Westville. I stayed in the back pews. Yes, tears would fall suddenly as I  remembered my little one.

   At the end of the Mass, when coming out, I saw a good looking man coming towards me with a smile on his face and he asked how I was. I then recognized him. It was that extremely well-mannered friend of Andrew who was helping with serving drinks and food to everybody at their place after the accident…

   ‘Are you a Catholic?’, I asked, surprised. ‘Yes.’, he replied.

   After some small chat, we separated and I walked towards the parking lot but suddenly stopped to see if I could retrieve a message that I had received, when at Mass. I thought it was from my daughter, as they were arriving then from that conference Andrew had gone to, in India. The area I was in was quite dark and there was no one around. Suddenly I saw someone near me, asking, ’Do you need anything?’ It was him again. He had left his family in the car, car revving, and had come to see if I needed something.

   ‘You again?’, I asked, surprised. ‘I am just trying to retrieve this message from my daughter, but I am not familiar with this cell phone which I got now from my son’, I said.

   He offered to help and then went back to his car, sitting  there and waiting until I was out and on my way. I could not believe so much courtesy… when I got home and remembered him suddenly appearing in the dark next to me, I felt as if he had been an angel, and I did thank Jesus for the comfort it gave me.

   At home I then tried to look again at the message in the Blackberry and guess what I see? A screen that looked like the page of a diary and read

 

 ‘Conference……

    Date…

    Time…

    Place…

 

I first thought that perhaps Ana Luisa had sent me something by mistake from Andrew’s phone… but what I read did not make much sense. It actually was:

      Conference call     

      Date:               Aug. 9         (that Sunday’s  date)

      Time open:     5:00           

      Time closing: 6:00  (this was the time of the Mass I had been to: 5pm to 6pm)

  And when I rolled down, it read,

       Place: Jerusalem.

 

I was amazed. Why ‘Jerusalem’? If it had anything to do with Andrew’s travelling, they had gone to India not Israel!  I phoned my neighbor and told her that I wanted to show her something, it seemed that I was going cuckoo!  She read it, and neither she nor a friend who was with her, could work out how I got it or what it was about.  Eventually we lost it. But... they are my witnesses and the verdict is:  ‘it was weird’.

   What did it mean to me? It was to me as if that experience I had of being helped ‘by an angel’ was being confirmed in that exact  message which had the date and time of the Mass and the mentioning of that place in Jesus’s life, Jerusalem. What I mean is that on that day that I was feeling so lonely, God kind of ‘sent me’ some consolation through the unexpected assistance, albeit ‘insignificant’, of another Christian. If this makes any sense to the reader, I don’t know.

    But I say, ‘Indeed, Praise God for His amazing grace!’ and in faith I say:

    ‘We are not alone. He is with us! Always!’

    Yes, ‘God is Not Dead’!  

 

NB: To be noted that I never saw Mckenzie again at that church until a year later on Sunday the 16^th of October 2016!

 

Still in 2015!

2015-01-20    I have not written for a long time… I need to say first that sadly, my friend Carol Watkinson who did the beautiful collection of slides for my Talk on ‘Pathways for Peace…’  passed away in October last year. She had cancer. I never heard her complain.  Peace to your soul, dear Friend! I do miss you. Thank you for what you did and for what you tried to do.  

                                                        .....................xxx.....................

 

2015 - I received an unsettling email some days ago, about some Arabs sewing, in cold blood, the eye and mouth of a girl who proclaimed to be a Christian! That is what I read. Is it true?!... It had a shocking photo of her… and ‘the media chose to ignore …’, it says.

   It is up to us to believe it or not, to think about it or to just move on. I chose to stop and share some thoughts - especially after the 'Paris tragedy'.

    What hurts me is to see how these fanatics are apparently 'winning' and making waves, of terror if nothing else, whilst as a friend of mine was saying, 'followers of Christ choose to remain in silence not to upset family or friends and just let them be, or watch TV.... possibly even porno... to pass time'.

Do we, Christians, not believe that there is power in 'prayer' , in going to church, to Mass, if a Catholic, and receiving the Body of Christ present in the Eucharist? Do we try to find out what is happening at Medjugorje where Mary appears constantly with the same message as at Fatima in Portugal:

‘Pray, Pray! For Peace in the world! For the salvation of Souls! Bless those that hurt you! Pray!’ ?

Apparently each year more and more youngsters are going to Medjugorje to pray!

But we prefer, some of us, to shout NO to RELIGION!

   It is too scary! Don't teach it to children! Give them freedom of Choice! Freedom of... Speech!

I honestly feel sorry for them, for us, for the consequences of this way of thinking.

   Religion is, unfortunately,  often USED for political ends, that is true! But for me what it means comes from the Latin word 'religare', meaning to 'reconnect'. Reconnect what? The Created and the Creator! Humanity and God! But that is our choice...yes. So, ARE CHILDREN SUPPOSED TO GROW and NOT BE TAUGHT about GOD,  and then  WHEN ADULTS, DECIDE? IS THAT GOING TO WORK? Did it work for the American psychologist who started the new 'youth education revolution'? His son committed suicide at about 30 years of age... How WILL WE JUSTIFY the Morals we might want to teach them? Why are we so scared to hurt their sensitivity and impose our rules, at least whilst they live with us, their parents ? Do we want to 'make friends' or be 'parents'?

   IS IT NOT FROM THE CRADDLE THAT A CHILD NEEDS TO BE NURTURED AND OR DISCIPLINED TO LEARN TO CURB SELFISHNESS AND OPEN THE HEART TO GOODNESS? TO JESUS, THE SON OF GOD - who died for us on a Cross? Our God is a loving God that allows freedom of choice! It is up to us to choose, yes! And to choose whether to place in our children's hearts the knowledge of the 'Way' - to Freedom, to Love, to Peace'! Jesus' Way!

   Please do read Peter Hitchens's 'The Rage against God'. I mentioned him last year in a talk. In his opinion, 'without God, morals will have no leg to stand on'. This journalist, a Christian converted to communism who lived in Russia and Somalia, shocked with all that he saw there and years later in England, he converted back to being a Christian. The link to the talk, if you are interested, is: http://youtu.be/CUJwPA77c1I

   May God bless us all! Let us pray for the confused, the wrong doers, the proud, the scared! For us , for our families. Let us pray for enlightnement and perseverance, for forgiveness and for loving kindness.   For Peace in the world!  

   Bless you for reading this. Thank you.

My Talk at the Church of S Jose

2014- 03 - 08  

 I am pleased to say that my Talk on the 8th of March at the Church of San José went very well.

There were more than 50 people and many came forward to tell me how much they had enjoyed it.

The title of the talk was ‘Pathways for Peace – The Tale, the Dialogue and …what else?’ There is a video of it which I intend to upload on Youtube. (THIS HAS BEEN DONE)  Why? First, it is in a way some kind of legacy, especially for my grand-children. Second because it brings up issues that I consider food for thought. Third, it is a means of contributing to Peace in the world, especially when considering the ‘peace plan from heaven’ as historian W T Walsh called it: the message given to three little shepherds at Fatima in Portugal, by the ‘Lady made of Light’. This was supported by that powerful ‘miracle of the sun’ seen by more than 70 000 people.

   This talk is based on my intervention presented in Portugal in October 2013, at the ‘Migrant Women Worldwide’ Conference which I have previously spoken about.

   I must confess that at the end of the talk, I forgot (!) to ask if there were any questions, which was a pity indeed. Blame the migraine! Well, I am sure there will be another occasion to do so in the near future.

  Thanks again to Carol Watkinson for the very well done power point presentation.