Things are pretty good these days. I saw on TV that the...Publisher's Clearing House or something is giving people a millions dollars a year for no reason so we should watch our mail to see if we are chosen to be the winners. I was thinking...if I get it what would I do with a million dollars a year. I would have to move to a house or a condo...by myself. I'd have to buy a car, take out my own garbage, and change my own AC filter. So I'd have to hire a bunch of people to do these things and I would have to be careful, because you read about these unscrupulous people taking advantage of little old ladies. I don't think I could handle it. I could just give the money away....like to Swami but I don't think Peterborough Apts. would like that. If they found out I'd be in trouble probably. I don't cook so I'd have to worry about that and the up keep on the house and the car...and insurance. I hope I don't get the money. Living here in subsidized housing for seniors is worth a lot more than that. Oh and would I be able to go to the senior center which is right across the street from here.. I'd have to have my chauffeur take me in my limousine, I don't drive, haven't for 35 years...and then, wait for me. So many problems. I could give most of it to my sister to renovate the family homestead...and it would take a million a year to do that as the house is very old and drafty. I hope I don't win it.
I am so very lucky to live where I live. I guess youall remember how I stumbled into this fantastic place. Swami. He brought me away from the 'Promised Land' and plopped me down here....screaming all the way. I'll admit it! We 'resist' change I guess at least I do. We should surrender to His Will and not complain so much, at least I should.
The other day I was on the elevator and met a new lady, possibly about my age. She said that she had been a nun all her life, Sister something or other. I'd heard that a nun had moved into one of the apartments here....a 'lay' nun. It seems that she had been called by the Lord to spend her life taking care of some children in the family who needed a mother...or something. Anyway she was saying that she'd spent her life knowing that she was married to Jesus and what a wonderful husband He was.
She said that He was always close to her and she felt HIS CONSTANT PRESENCE. I smiled but of course I couldn't say...”Oh yes, He is my husband too and we are very very close but...see, I call His Sathya Sai Baba.” She would have thrown a tizzy and jumped off the elevator at the next floor ...to say nothing of all the gossip that it would have caused around here. I wisely only smiled, blissfully thinking about my divine husband who was, even at that very moment, holding my hand. Aren't we all lucky, aren't we fortunate? I'll just bet that since 'the transition' He has become even more of a divine presence to so many of us. I don't know that that is true for all Sai Graduates but I'll just bet it is. So here we are, married to the Lord and all living exactly where we should be living, happily free to worship Him. This morning He woke me up at one a.m. so I could write this blog. See, there are a few disadvantages to being married to the Lord, aren't there.
Your thoughts are correct! So many people have had their lives go from bad to much worse after winning a lot of money. No thanks to that headache! Also, you don't have to worry about the Publisher's Clearing House, unless you get on their mailing list. Their aim is not seva to give away a million dollars, they aim is to rope in millions of people to spend tens of millions of dollars on stuff they sell. I got on their mailing list and for months I received so many big packets filled with catalogs of stuff to buy. I loyally entered the sweepstakes each time but bought nothing, and they finally gave up on me and stopped the wasteful mailings. Fingers crossed that they continue to NOT bug me with more junk mail!
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