Picture: Magnificent sunrise over Lake Cahuilla
Having arrived here at Lake Cahuilla near La Quinta, southern California, our North American Pilgrimage continues. I received a text from a family whose little one was being taken to the hospital emergency room; life can throw you some real curveballs. There are few things in life that can make us feel so helpless as a very sick child. “Oh Lord, You must see to it that this be taken care of for this child, family, and for the highest good of all.” They returned later that night from the hosptial, our little one was on the road to recovery.
One of the “defaults” I now have is that in the face of difficulty my mind immediately turns to God. “Oh Lord, You are the creator of this universe, You are of unlimited intelligence and unparalleled power, change this situation, make it right, in accordance with the highest principles of wisdom, light and love.”
How many times in life do we have a sinking feeling in our stomach, in which we think that one too many things have gone wrong? That through our own doing or simply the way life has arranged circumstances we are in trouble–that we feel alone, unable to reach out for help?
This sense of isolation is one of the great sufferings we experience in our separation from God. Each one of us has an “Achilles heel,” that place of weakness that can bring us down like no other. However, there is but one panacea for all troubles, that is to surrender to the one, infinite Lord.
Faith in God brings about solutions to the most vexing exigencies in unexpected ways. Today, I listened to a woman describe an incident when her husband had a diabetic blackout while he was driving. He was unconscious as they were careening down the road, no sign of the car slowing. She reached over and turned the keys to off and pulled them out. I protested, saying, “This is impossible to do on modern cars, they require you to bring the car to a stop, put it in park, then you can turn the engine off. She agreed, “Yes, that is right, but God did it!” And so He did. And so He did. She was then able to steer the car over and repeatedly run it into the curb to bring it to a safe stop.
Lahiri Mahasaya said, although man’s ingenuity for getting himself into trouble seems unending, fortunately Divine succor is more than equally inventive for his rescue. In baseball good batters can make contact with a curveball and turn it into a home run. No doubt curveballs in life present challenges, however it need not spell defeat. Only that you fully concentrate on using all of your resources to rise above a situation and demonstrate the power of divine will and grace on earth. To manifest God-consciousness is the reason you are here. Remain devoted to your infinite Beloved, and your Heavenly Father, Divine Mother, will make all things possible.
Stay tuned, our pilgirmage in God continues!