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| Regretfully, Rosanne pasted and taped her note to the universe so well that I had difficulty removing it from the side of the cabinet. |
In the last year of her life she worried about our dwindling resources and the fact that she herself was not able to contribute more to the upkeep of our household. "I've been thinking positive and praying for God to help us," she would say in earnest. "But it doesn't seem to be working."
"How have you been praying?" I asked at one point, adding "there is a right and a wrong way you know."
I suggested she write out her most sincere wish(es) and keep the notes handy so that she could see and reinforce them in her mind every day, and in the end, simply give it all over to the universe.
"Remember the universe is responding to your energy Rosanne," I emphasized. "So if you feel truly positive and grateful for what you have manifested, you are asking the universe to send you more reasons to feel positive and grateful. At the same time, whether you are praying or releasing thoughts to the universe, you should also express gratefulness for the blessings you already have in life and it is best that you be specific in what you are asking for."Many people get stuck at this stage. It can be hard to feel grateful for something you don’t yet have. It can be particularly hard to feel positive if you are currently suffering through a negative situation in your life, especially for someone like Rosanne who had a long history of health problems and personal setbacks.
Knowing that I now had her fuIl attention, I left her with a final thought to ponder: "Gratitude is actually the beginning and end of the manifestation process. In order to be in alignment with universal energy, it is important that we focus on all that we have to be thankful for. This will lift your energy and help you to manifest good things...Try it, you have nothing to lose sweetheart!"
We did not discuss the subject further. I was always full of ideas that Rosanne would selectively take under advisement. We went on to the imminent bitter end, facing our struggles as we always had -- together.
Skipping ahead to a few weeks after her passing a year or so later, I mustered up the wherewithal to clear out our living room that had become a glorified hospital room. I found a hand-written note taped to the side of a cabinet that had stored all of Rosanne's meds and other health needs. The note, incidentally, had been positioned in such away that only Rosanne could see it from the vantage point of a reclining lift chair that she had literally lived in for the better part of two years. It read as only she could have written it:
"UNIVERSE...We are so ready & We thank you for all your blessings $1,000,000 PLEASE. Our love and thanks."
I suggested she be specific in what she asked for and she was just that, and polite too ("please" and "thank you"). The poor, dear girl had listened...I don't know about the universe though.
As I write this piece, I plan to preserve the fading and tattered note by framing and hanging it in an appropriate location in our home.
It will serve as a living testimonial.
The universe has a way of taking its time...and sometimes fulfills wishes in other ways.
It was almost worth a million dollars for me just to find Rosanne's note!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Concluding note: Equating God with the universe is not a new idea, of course. Pantheism is a basic concept in various Eastern religions and other philosophical systems, and has made inroads in popular Western thought over the past few decades. It has a variety of forms, but they all boil down to the belief that the universe is God, or at least indistinguishable from God. According to this view, God is not a personal being independent of His creation, but rather an impersonal all-encompassing force, made up of all things and all creatures in the natural order. In short, God is everything and everything is God.
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