Amma on New Year's Day, a little story

January 2, 2001

Dear siblings in Amma.

Since solstice seems more like new year's to me and I had celebrated that

event in satisfying ways, I hadn't made any special plans for New Year's eve

or day. We were invited to a little party which we left after awhile because

I had realized that it was important to observe this time with some degree

of consciousness and playing board games and being with alcohol drinking

wasn't going to do it for me. But what to do at the last minute? Couldn't

very well call up a few devotees and organize a satsang at 10:30 pm on New

Year's Eve, though I was wishing that I'd done that. Anyway, we came home

and just sat quietly and then I realized that saying our evening prayers and

doing arati as usual was going to feel the best. So that's what we did

around midnight. This morning we had a very emotional and profound

discussion about Amma in our life, processing some issues that we'd been

needing to address and we come to some wonderful new understandings and

agreements. It really was as if Amma had stepped in and counseled this

humble pair of householders! After archana, which I must admit was very late

today, we decided to take our cabin fevered dog to the dog park, her

favorite thing. We haven't taken her in weeks because of the weather, snow,

snow and more snow. Today was a little warmer, relatively speaking, and it

was beautifully sunny. We had a glorious walk around the park, enjoying all

the other dogs and humans, many also out for the first time in awhile. As we

were driving home and getting back into town, I suddenly noticed that the

car in front of us had AMMA on the bumper sticker. Now, this would not be

unusual if we were in San Ramon or Santa Fe are in the area of a program,

but I've never seen such a sticker here. We never did see who was in the car

since we turned and it went on. Doesn't matter. Because we both felt like

Amma was reminding us that she is indeed with us as we begin this new

millenium.

Om Amriteshvaryai Namah.

Premarupa

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