Hard Work, Synchronicity, Miracle

Bank Holiday Monday

Wet start, but it turned into a sparkling sunny day. Did some weeding over the allotment in the afternoon, and planted up some iceberg lettuce seedlings donated by another plotholder. Sowed some radish and spring onion seeds. In the evening Vic and I went over David’s and met his new bird – a Senegal parrot – and I cemented the introduction by hand-feeding him/her apple for a while. The bird is still young enough not to have moving from one perch to the next fully figured, and his/her clumsy attempts can be entertaining. Colouring-wise, he/she is green on top with a yellow/orange belly and looks like a cross between David’s previous birds, Connie the maroon-bellied conure and Billie the sun conure, but with a shorter tail. Photo may follow in due course.

Tuesday 6th May

Glorious day! Fantastic summer weather. Brian had the day off and picked me up around 10 am. We put in a couple of hours over the allotment, getting the top netting on the fruit cage and preparing the ground where I sowed some more seeds: carrots, parsnips, swede and beetroot. After lunch we put in another couple of hours weeding despite the heat.

In the evening Vic and I went over David’s where I put in another hour’s hard work cutting the knee-high grass in his back garden while the boys chopped down the trees in the front to create enough space on the drive for him to park his car off-road.

Wednesday 7th May

Synchronicity: In my ‘Quiet Time’ I’m following the UCB publication, ‘The Word for Today’, and the Foundation for Inner Peace publication, ‘A Course in Miracles’. Today’s Word for Today carried the story of an eagle egg hatched under a hen along with her other eggs, and how the eagle grew up thinking it was a chicken, engaging in chicken behaviour along with his ‘siblings’, until the day an eagle flew over the chicken yard and the eagle who thought he was a chicken looked up and realised he wanted to be like that eagle – he spread his wings and discovered the power to fly, to soar above the mountain peaks, to be his true self, the creature he was made to be.

Then I turned to Lesson 128 in 'A Course in Miracles' which spoke of soaring beyond the petty scope and little ways of the world we see, about the things which bar our awareness of our true self, of rising far above the world:W-pI.128.6. Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. 2 It will be grateful to be free a while. 3 It knows where it belongs. 4 But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. 5 Let it rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love. (from A Course in Miracles, Foundation for Inner Peace)

Went back to the Ridgewood today for Doctor’s ward round. The ‘Section’ has now been lifted and I’m classed as a voluntary patient on leave. Medication has been reduced – hooray!

Back home I moved the surviving herbs from the aearogarden into the outdoor herb garden, sanitised the aerogarden and replanted it with the salad greens kit.

In the evening Vic drove me over the allotment so I could do some watering – it’s been another gorgeous summery day – and then we spent an hour over Dave’s where I finished cutting the grass in the back garden, and he and Dave finished chopping down the trees in the front.

Went on to Cell group. Folks were very emotional tonight in response to the miracle – Micky had become blind on 24th April due to a haemorrhage at the back of his ‘good’ eye (he’d previously been unable to see with one eye, but had had 20/20 vision in the other). The church had responded with prayer and fasting, and this week Micky’s daughter had driven down to lay her hands on him and pray over him. He’d felt a bit strange afterwards and rested for a while – when he got up, the healing had begun and gradually through today his sight has recovered to the point he can now recognise faces! The specialist had seen him today and conceded that ‘Nature’ had done what he had been unable to do, and begun to disperse the blood clot that had blocked Micky’s sight.