… While Thunder Rumbled

SAT., AUG. 11, 2001, 8:00 AM
FARM, STUDY

Yes, it was an early morning storm, and just as you wrote Our title for today the power went off. Will it come back on soon, or will this small storm, still rumbling, have some lasting effect. What did it symbolize? I’ll tell you, now won’t I!?

Life goes on, for you, in a rather quiet, “regular” way. You now have only two “expected” weekly happenings – the Bible Study group on Thursday mornings and worship service on Sundays. In like fashion, you have had rather normal summer weather, but dry… and now a thunderstorm with some rain… that waters the thirsty land.

Lightening can be destructive, but, once again, you, on this Farm, were spared. Your “walk in the woods,” now more than 8 months ago, could have been the end of your earth life, but you “emerged” with injured feet… which should remind you of this “near death experience” AND of My help, aiding your own capacities to adapt.

The storm has passed, rather quickly, with only some life-abetting rain, while you continue your quiet life, with feet that “remind you” of the “storm” that was yours to experience.

Your heart has its “times” of irregular beating (but not now), and this, of course, is a possible portent of a real “storm” in this vital organ of yours. It has been a “good heart,” allowing and empowering you to much good in this life. You realize, and I’ve told you, that you are “privileged” to have a build-up of small losses rather than a more sudden death in the midst of full functioning. So, continue to exercise your body… and heart… with the needed work here (even the walk for the morning paper is good for you).

You also are not suddenly blind, but you realize that your capacities to see are ebbing. Thus, thinking positively, it could be better to die at a “relatively young” age (though you’re now over the average age of death for men in your culture… and No, I’m really not interested in “statistics” of this sort!) than to live longer as a blind old man.

The cancer in your prostate is another factor. It is bothersome as it affects your urination, but need not be treated. You see, your body is still functioning “rather normally,” but the “losses” are accumulating. Treating any one of them, in some “daring medical way” could well “shift the balance” and cause more trouble in some other part of your body.

And then there’s your mind. It, too, is “shorting out” more frequently, with losses in memory and in “thought processes.” The mind is a function of the brain, but it also is influenced by your spirit, which has no “anatomical home.” As long as your spirit is in contact with Me you shall receive Teachings. But there are certain functions of your brain that are necessary for My words to be expressed “on paper.” You could lose such capacities before your cancer spreads or your hearts fails… OR you may be able to “write” Teachings for the rest of this life.

The thunder rumbled, occasionally ominously, and you were reminded of these “losses” of yours. But now the thunder is no more, and you are writing on, “as of old.” You will have more of these “personal thunderstorms” as your life continues. Note them, but don’t give them much attention. Re-read Teachings. Ponder My words to you. Exercise your body, but give little attention to the “news of the day.” You should be slipping more and more out of “the mainstream” and more and more into the life of the spirit, that goes on, when body parts fail.