Saturday, July 19, 2014

[GMW #3043] Memories And Thanking God



[GMW #3043] Memories And Thanking God
Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3437 ~

My brother-in-law in Strasbourg who is in his seventies has lost a good part of his memory, except how he passed the test necessary to give him his job as an engineer in the French railroads, how he met my sister, and war stories how the Germans attacked their village at the border in the North of France, how the family had to move out and became refugees. When they returned at war's end they found the house completely destroyed. His father, forty-five years old, an artisan, died three weeks later on a mattress in the cellar. They didn't have a single bed left.

He ends these memories thanking God for having given him a good family, a good job and children who are doing well.

His memories struck my mind: my main memories are the same: war memories, how I got my job at the United Nations and how I met my life companion. And my same thanks go to God.

What are yours?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume  II Chapter 13 Of Speaking
Speaking and listening are very precious, sacred, cosmic acts. Speaking is giving cosmic energy and time. Listening is receiving cosmic messages and enlightements.

UN News: UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service, UN Wire Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

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You do not need to know precisely what is happening,
or exactly where it is all going.

What you need is to recognize
the possibilities and challenges
offered by the present moment, and to
embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.

~ Thomas Merton

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