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Just as we would have expected the sun to rise, we thought this baby would be born. But one of the four agreements says, "Don't make assumptions." Well, I'm sorry, but I think you can assume that two weeks prior to one's due date, positive check-ups along the way, and nothing wrong being done, I'm sure it's okay to assume the baby would have been born.
In my best friend's case it didn't happen. Two weeks before the due date, a placental abruption cut off nutrients and oxygen from the life within. The child could not be saved. He looked perfectly normal. A whole baby. With no heartbeat, he was baptized. He lay with his mother. Photos were taken. Eventually, calls were made. You only get two visitors at a time like this, pain and love. At the funeral Saturday, they'll walk in as giants.
"Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality."
"Hallelujah"
by Leonard Cohen
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Eckhart Tolle
"Present Moment Reminders"
from http://headwag.blogspot.com/2010/03/eckhart-tolle-present-moment-reminders.html
Change is absolutely necessary in this world, and the dissolution
of many of the ego-based structures is necessary for humanity to
survive. What's happening isn't 'dreadfully bad.' It needs to
happen; the intelligence behind phenomena is doing it, so it's a
good thing.
~ ~ ~
The challenge that many
people are encountering at this time is actually that which will
push them into a new state of consciousness; that is the
possibility-the promise whenever you encounter a crisis, whether
personal or collective. It's an opening into the new way of
being, the new state of consciousness.
~ ~ ~
Suffering the consequences of unconsciousness is the fire that
ultimately burns up the false ego, but that's the long, slow,
painful way. The short cut is any spiritual teaching that cuts
through the long way, the painful way of waking up.
~ ~ ~
Take responsibility for
your state of consciousness Now. This is what the entire teaching
really is about. What is my state of consciousness in this
moment?
~ ~ ~
It's your state of
consciousness in the present moment that determines what kind of
world you create, because you are humanity. Humanity as an
abstract doesn't exist; humanity is the 'human being.'
~ ~ ~
Is it possible for you to
embrace uncertainty, and not demand that you should know what is
going to happen to you in your life situation? To embrace
uncertainty?
~ ~ ~
What grace to see that
the very thing that looked so heavy in the world of form, the
very thing that seemed to be limiting me on all sides, that very
thing is the doorway into the formless and into who I am beyond
form. What grace to see that ultimately they are one. Form is
emptiness; emptiness is form. They are one.