My mother and Father
having already made the transition or, as we so often refer to it, 'died,' caused me on
that special day known as Mothers’ Day to make an imaginary call to her, in that
dimension we so often refer to as Heaven.
To my surprise, here is how the conversation went:
"Hello, may I speak to Mom?"
"Which Mom Son. Mom who?"
"To whom am I speaking?"
"This is St. Peter!"
"Is this Heaven?"
"Yes Son, may I help you?"
"St. Peter, I wish to speak to Mavis, my Mom"
"I am sorry Son, she is resting. You will have to call back later"
"Okay, I will call back later. Oh, incidentally St. Peter, is it day or night
there?"
"No son, We neither have day nor night here. Remember, we are not in your
dimension."
"But, if there is no day and night how can you possibly tell the time?"
"No son, we can't." He said.
I then asked a few other questions to clarify what I could clearly see was developing into
a dilemma.
"St. Peter, if there is no day nor night and no time, how can I possibly call back
later?"
"Son, that is the message she wanted to have given you. She was certain that you
would have understood"
He then continued to say,
"That is your Mother's day present to you from her, my Son. Because of the great love
you have for her, the memory still lives within you and is transcending and bridging the
dimensions between us. It has, therefore, allowed you to be rewarded with one of the
greatest secrets of your life and your source".
"What could that be St. Peter", I asked curiously. He continued,
"My Son, you have just come into the realization that time and space and day
and night, are only earthly experiences and do not really exist, except on your dimension
and in your mind where, although it seems real, it is but an illusion".
"So, what am I to understand from this realization ?" I pleaded.
Then there was a moment of silence...and he said,
"Everything just is. Live in the ‘now’. Today was yesterdays future,
but today will also be tomorrow’s past.
Your source, the Universal One, requires everything that is past, present and that
to come, my Son.
You come from your source and you shall return to your source.
Therefore, all you will ever possess is the ‘I AM’ which is Divine Love
expressing itself as ‘now’."
"St. Peter, what a realization!"
"Happy Mother's Day Son". He said.
And then there was silence...and mentally I said a prayer of thanks and whispered quietly
in my mind, 'so long St. Peter'.
It then dawned on me that there really was no separation between us except my
limited perception of the illusion that time and space were real. I finally
understood what he meant:
"That love is all that there is and exists only in the now, in the moment, in
the unending present which never ceases to be the ‘now’. Love transcends time
and space. Love is all that there is. Therefore, Mom was still close-by as she was love.
But I too am love, and love is Universal. But the Universe is love and since all is love,
then love is one."
Only at that moment did I really understand what was meant by...
"I am"
"Experiences in life are made up of momentary reactions but love is the only
true reaction, therefore, love is the only true experience"
Many thanks to my friend, Brian
Schaefer of Queensland, Australia, for the above quote he shared with me while we both
meditated at the hill top at Prashanti Nilayam, Puttaparthi, India. 1992.
Make your life a Rose that speaks softly in the language of fragrance. SSSB
