Guest guest Posted October 29, 2001 Report Share Posted October 29, 2001 Dear Harsha and very special friends, I am having a very wonderful time here, close to Kansas City, while staying with Lynette and her very, very, very wonderful family in Missouri where I am doing counselling sessions and am taking care of speaking engagements. On another note though... My mother (84) passed away last night in Holland and I will be leaving from here (Kansas City) with Emmy on Wednesday or Thursday for the funeral and some extra days of familiy visits... thus extending my tour to Europe. In fact a similar thing happened last year when my father died (86). They both died in great peace and happiness, so there is not much grieving. The work that I do (psychological and spiritual counselling) has been having some very wonderful effect on my parents... As you may recall, my Mom came to visit me last year to see what I did and when she left she was prepared, so to say, to meet my dad in "heaven" (they are very spiritual people.) My mother showed me "my face before my mother was born" A wonderful woman, my mom... She showed me that this (human divine life on earth) indeed is the miracle. That I am... I owe to my parents... oh yes! Love, Wim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 29, 2001 Report Share Posted October 29, 2001 Wim & Friends, My grandmother, having survived my grandfather by almost 13 years, lived across the hall from me in a large house my father had bought specifically for the purpose of inviting my mother's parents to come and live with us. When she was 97 and I was 21 or so, she confided in me, that after Carl, her husband of more than 60 years, had died, she'd hoped that she would become better friends with my mother. When she came to realize that that wasn't going to happen, she said to me, "Now I think I just want to go to Heaven and live with Carl". She uttered this incomprehensible ideal with such unquestionable sincerity that I later realized that I'd had my first direct contact with religious life and the personal faith that could give it life. She and Carl were the perfect Victorian couple. I like to think that they were the last perfect Victorian couple. Before they came to live with us, they would come to visit at Christmas time when they would set up "Santa's Workshop", proclaimed by a sign on the door, in the same room across the hall from me that they would eventually come to permanently live in. While my mother and uncle gave proof that they weren't perfect parents, they were flawless grandparents, living as if in a snowy winter scene that you shake up in a crystal ball, parallel to, but not actually touching our world at all. My Grandmother's maiden name was Lillian Viola Bearce, and her husband's name was Carl Fulson Getchell. Can you imagine a couple living together through the 20th century with names like that? yours in the bonds, eric , "Wim Borsboom" <wim@a...> wrote: > Dear Harsha and very special friends, > > I am having a very wonderful time here, close to Kansas City, while > staying with Lynette and her very, very, very wonderful family in > Missouri where I am doing counselling sessions and am taking care of > speaking engagements. > > > On another note though... > My mother (84) passed away last night in Holland and I will be > leaving from here (Kansas City) with Emmy on Wednesday or Thursday > for the funeral and some extra days of familiy visits... thus > extending my tour to Europe. > > In fact a similar thing happened last year when my father died (86). > > They both died in great peace and happiness, so there is not much > grieving. The work that I do (psychological and spiritual > counselling) has been having some very wonderful effect on my > parents... As you may recall, my Mom came to visit me last year to > see what I did and when she left she was prepared, so to say, to meet > my dad in "heaven" (they are very spiritual people.) > > My mother showed me "my face before my mother was born" > A wonderful woman, my mom... > > She showed me that this (human divine life on earth) indeed is the > miracle. > > That I am... I owe to my parents... oh yes! > > Love, Wim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 29, 2001 Report Share Posted October 29, 2001 Blessings to you and your family Wim on your journeys. Love, James , "Wim Borsboom" <wim@a...> wrote: > Dear Harsha and very special friends, > > I am having a very wonderful time here, close to Kansas City, while > staying with Lynette and her very, very, very wonderful family in > Missouri where I am doing counselling sessions and am taking care of > speaking engagements. > > > On another note though... > My mother (84) passed away last night in Holland and I will be > leaving from here (Kansas City) with Emmy on Wednesday or Thursday > for the funeral and some extra days of familiy visits... thus > extending my tour to Europe. > > In fact a similar thing happened last year when my father died (86). > > They both died in great peace and happiness, so there is not much > grieving. The work that I do (psychological and spiritual > counselling) has been having some very wonderful effect on my > parents... As you may recall, my Mom came to visit me last year to > see what I did and when she left she was prepared, so to say, to meet > my dad in "heaven" (they are very spiritual people.) > > My mother showed me "my face before my mother was born" > A wonderful woman, my mom... > > She showed me that this (human divine life on earth) indeed is the > miracle. > > That I am... I owe to my parents... oh yes! > > Love, Wim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 29, 2001 Report Share Posted October 29, 2001 Wim, you wrote: They both died in great peace and happiness, so there is not muchgrieving. The work that I do (psychological and spiritual counselling) has been having some very wonderful effect on my parents... As you may recall, my Mom came to visit me last year to see what I did and when she left she was prepared, so to say, to meet my dad in "heaven" (they are very spiritual people.)My mother showed me "my face before my mother was born"A wonderful woman, my mom... She showed me that this (human divine life on earth) indeed is the miracle.That I am... I owe to my parents... oh yes!Love, WimDear Wim, It sounds like you and your parents have been a true blessing to one another, or as Hafiz said in today's poem: Why ever talk of miraclesWhen you are destined to becomeInfinite love.Our prayers and thoughts go with you and your family. We were at practice, singing Mozart's Requiem earlier, which ends so beautifully with a prayerful request, sent tonight for your parents. Requiam aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2001 Report Share Posted October 30, 2001 Wim my friend, our thoughts are with you. Let me join Eric, James, Gloria and others in sending our love. You and your parents are fortunate in having had this sweet relationship, which is made possible for parents and children by the grace of God. Much love to you and your family Harsha Wim Borsboom [wim] Monday, October 29, 2001 3:36 PM Wim's mother passed away. Dear Harsha and very special friends, I am having a very wonderful time here, close to Kansas City, while staying with Lynette and her very, very, very wonderful family in Missouri where I am doing counselling sessions and am taking care of speaking engagements. On another note though... My mother (84) passed away last night in Holland and I will be leaving from here (Kansas City) with Emmy on Wednesday or Thursday for the funeral and some extra days of familiy visits... thus extending my tour to Europe. In fact a similar thing happened last year when my father died (86). They both died in great peace and happiness, so there is not much grieving. The work that I do (psychological and spiritual counselling) has been having some very wonderful effect on my parents... As you may recall, my Mom came to visit me last year to see what I did and when she left she was prepared, so to say, to meet my dad in "heaven" (they are very spiritual people.) My mother showed me "my face before my mother was born" A wonderful woman, my mom... She showed me that this (human divine life on earth) indeed is the miracle. That I am... I owe to my parents... oh yes! Love, Wim /join All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. Your use of is subject to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 3, 2001 Report Share Posted November 3, 2001 I'm sorry to hear about your loss Wim ! And happy to hear you are not stricken with grief but filled with gratitude towards your parents. That's a gift indeed. Have a good trip to the old world and the old country. Be well ! Love, Amanda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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