Will You Be Remembered?

WED., JULY 12, 2000, 9:00 AM
OFFICE, PULLIAM

After a “standing room only” Memorial Service, for a woman that you really didn’t know, with wonderful eulogies, you wondered, “Will I be remembered?” This woman was a year younger than you, and she had cancer for longer than you have been affected. She lived in this community longer than your residence here, and she certainly touched the lives of many people. You don’t truly expect to be remembered in such an “applauding” way.

Of course one of the “advantages” of dying “early” (up through the mid-to late-70’s) is that who you were and what you did will be remembered by more folks. In this culture, of which you are a part, there are many, many stimuli, in great variety, and the “new ones” do crowd out the older ones.

Your Mother and Dad lived long lives… they moved from their “home place”… they never were “active” in Honolulu… and, hence, when they died many of their friends had preceded them in death, and there was little remembrance of the active years of their lives.

Betty lived long in this community, and she was active, active… in both the University and Carbondale “scenes.” Your answer to the titular question, as of now, is that you will not be remembered to the extent that she was. You are already being “forgotten” or “never known.”

You already have given up the “chores” that you did for your Church, and you don’t plan to take on any others. This that you’re doing now, in this small office, writing with this pen on this paper, shall be your most important legacy, for this is a tangible record of My… Holy Spirit’s… reaction to the events of your life. I assure you that your life, spiritual, shall continue after one or more portions of this body fail. You shall be more aware of life, in the spirit realm best for you, and of all the experiences that your spirit has had since its “creation,” out of Me, outside of time.

While it would be “ego-stroking” to be remembered in ways comparable to Betty you need not “try” for such recognition. You have touched the lives of some students, over the years, and some of them will “remember.” Most of what you wrote… and published… as a health education professional has been “pushed aside” by the writings of this next generation. Perhaps there will be some “re-discovery” of these books and articles, but this is unlikely.

These pages (even when too much caffeine makes your writing less legible) shall be your major contribution – to those health educators and others, who have some wonder about what I, Holy Spirit, have to say about life, at the end of one century and the commencement of another. ( 9:42 / 9:46 )

It is not important that you know how these volumes will be known and regarded. (I know, but you needn’t). It should be pleasing to you that they could be discovered and valued, but this is not your motivation for continuing to come to Me… and to write. You will continue in this relationship for as long as it is possible. When “this time” comes there shall be no reason for you to continue in this body, as Bob Russell.

You can assume that John Patrick, who knows these (along with Lenore) better than any other person, will “inherit” these originals and the computer-generated copies, and will accept My guidance on the “best future” for this legacy.

So, if you don’t live “too long” in some handicapped condition you’ll be remembered in several ways. You have My blessing to seek little… to no… medical treatment and to continue this herbal and vitamin supplementation. Live life fully, even vigorously. Prolong it by being active rather than “retreating” to “patient status”. Be faithful in this unique, special task… including the orderly keeping of these Teachings.