My Journey into the Daylight Age

What a wakeup call.

The last week has been a blessing.

I am connecting

The dots again, Eureka!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, God!

Thank you, God, for our many blessings.  The highs and lows were cramazing.  But the challenges that Alison and I have gone thru this past week was a challenge that has been going on all our lives.  It took quite a bit to break thru our hard heads in this matter.  We often ask the question “why is this happening to me?”  Well, the answer was painful but necessary. 

Let me share this past week, one day at a time. 

Saturday was an amazing day.  It started with Alison receiving her weekly acupuncture treatment from Dr. Arnette.  As always, the acupuncture gives Alison relief and Saturday was a happy experience/memory.   We enjoyed grocery shopping and truly enjoyed making meatball soup.  Wow!  Onolicious!

Sunday was a huge crash.  Alison slept most of the day.  I channeled the light and made sure she was resting.  When she was awake her pain was terrible.  But, thank God, for her ability to sleep thru this.  This day was part of the dots we needed to connect.  Alison already recommended the book, “Heaven is For Real”.  I spent the day channeling Johrei and reading the book.  The most important lesson will not happen until Friday morning and reading the book played an important role of awakening our souls.    

Monday was another day of pain, but this time Alison was awake a few more hours.  I asked for help from our church prayer group. And I doubled my efforts in channeling the light and I was praying to take some of the pain from her not knowing the dire consequences from praying in this manner.  Now I understand, I was getting in the way of God’s will.  I know about the lesson with the monarch butterfly struggling to get out of its cocoon.  If I helped it, the butterfly would never fly and fulfill its mission.  The struggle is necessary to force fluids into the wings making it possible for it to fly and do what butterflies do.  Well, me praying to take her pain from her was not right, but it played an important role for our spiritual growth.  A little miracle occurred.   Alison received an hour of relief and during that time she drank some water and she had some broth. She also believed she was perceiving the spiritual world.  She kept touching my hand because all she saw was a bright light shining out of my palm.  She also took in more soup for dinner, but her system could not handle it and it went straight thru her.  And I knew she was getting enough water because her tears were flowing.  (Tears of joy and tears of pain within a few minutes.) 

Tuesday was supposed to be a day of work.  She was barely holding it together and I told her she needed to rest.  The weekend was very hard on her.  So, I sent a message to Pete and told him she was having a flareup and she will see Dr. Yang tomorrow and report her status on Wed.  So, she rested on Tuesday and I went back to my normal way of channeling Johrei.  My overriding prayer was “Please use me as Your instrument in understanding Your love.” At the end of the day, Alison was exhausted.  I was exhausted.  We were both frustrated.  We had no faith in God.  Almost continuous Johrei was not working as advertised and I failed the test.  I would describe this moment as the low point of my entire life. 

Wednesday was another day of pain. She made it to Dr. Yang.  Her pain was so great that she told Dr. Yang to remove her arms and legs.  His theory was that Alison was exhausted.  Her fatigue allowed her to sleep even with all the pain.  An interesting theory but I believe the big picture was about to be revealed to us.  We went from the appointment directly to the Miroku Assn. Center where Alison received Johrei from Rev. Nagase and some very important counsel.  He told me to report to him every hour.  She was feeling better, but God’s will was still around the corner.  She was receiving the light almost continuously and resting/sleeping on and off.  She enjoyed a late salad when she woke up and then she enjoyed a salmon dinner.  Good news!  Her body was accepting the food.  That evening we enjoyed watching a very good movie, “Sleepless in Seattle” and she was coming back to normal, but God’s will was still around the corner. 

Thursday was another day of rest.  She was eating normally, and she was channeling and receiving Johrei.  We are slowly realizing that God will reveal his plan any moment now.

Friday is the day we finally figured out the message from God.  Alison is up and about and bubbly and reading a book when I woke up.  I am now playing catch up with her.  We enjoyed breakfast very early and then God’s will was finally revealed.  The book she was reading was her Mother’s and there was a blue post it on it.  She opened the book and started reading about a young lady who was struggling with her faith.  Her circumstances mirrored Alison’s in many respects.  Even the Heaven like experience that Alison experienced on Monday and then the pain returning was an important lesson.  In the book, the woman’s faith became stronger.  Her faith in God prevented the devil from hurting her.  And so, all the pain and suffering were necessary to make her faith stronger.  Well, Alison’s faith is stronger.  Everything we go thru can be considered a blessing from God.  Now we can see.  God’s love is teaching her how to love her children, her friends, her employees, and herself.   We are not here to take the pain away from those who are suffering.  We are here to offer encouragement, Johrei and prayer so that God’s will be done.       That was supposed to be the last paragraph for this blog, but I have a few more additions for today.  While we were at the Center another member was purifying and Alison was listening to her situation to see if she could help.  Well, the pain in Alison’s arms and legs were slowly returning but the sequence of events that occurred in God’s House came to the rescue.  She could not hear the entire story because she needed to receive Johrei.  But she heard enough to receive the special message from God.  We believe the member received a message from God.  And that message may have been intended for Alison as well.  Wow!  I will not go into the message now.