amma story of sorts

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Namaste!

 

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>This native New Mexican transplanted to Wisconsin knows just what you mean!

>Real winter has some very special spiritual blessings.

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Yes it does. While it is cold and I still am not use to it after 9 years

I would hate to move away from the change of season and the blessing

they bring. I just need to get over seeing sun and thinking "shorts!" *L*

 

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>Amma blesses us all through the children. Many times when I see a baby or

>small child with Amma, I try to imagine what it would have been like to meet

>Amma like that. Then I realize I am meeting Amma like that by taking it into

>my heart!

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I do the same thing. I think how would my life be different if I had met

her as a child. Would I have made the same choices? Maybe some pain

would have been avoided but I also have to think it was the path I

needed to go on. Amma has been in my life the entire time ,. this I knwo

for sure. She just was there for me in ways I could understand at the

time. Just took me a few years to get to hug her and tell her how much I

love her face to face.

 

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>I can certainly identify with your story. I think it might be more common

>among Westerners and more foreign to our Indian brothers and sisters. Seems

>like mothering is much more valued and supported in India. Amma has

>commented on that and is urging Indians to keep those values. That's another

>way I'm inspired at the programs, to see how loving some parents are to

>their children and imagine having that kind of parenting.

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Yes I agree. I am often asked when I will put the children back in

school and return to work like a normal woman or have even been asked

how I can trust my marriage will last and not put forth the effort to

put a cushion for myself when it all falls apart. These are the times I

must run to Mother and cry for her support because I begin to believe I

am wrong in what I am doing or my choices are not sensible. And this

causes discord in our house because I feel off balance. My biggest

lesson has been to have faith and to trust. something I can be very bad

at at times.

 

I am happy I have found others who share similar worries though and we

can share our fears and hopes and daily battles with society. It can be

hard being the fish swiming upstream.

 

 

Amma's words at the UN about the Universal Motherhood (I think that was

the title of the article/speech) really hit home with me and helped me

see yes I am doing the right thing. I have to print it out to read the

next time I have another "storm" pass threw to throw me off balance again.

 

Shelly