Remember the movie Forest Gump line: Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.
I experienced the box of chocolates syndrome when I heard that my mother was in the hospital after suffering a minor stroke. This morning, she has also tested positive for COVID. My mother is very vulnerable: She is 97-years-old!
Doing my best not to give in to panic at the news, I sat down this morning and read my daily readings.
Science of Mind excerpt for today from Rev. Steph St. Amand:
I feel into the goodness that oozes of Spirit. I open all my senses to the glory of the Divine. I trust that Infinite Grace pours Itself into all of me —my full self, steeping in divinity. I look at all the ways Spirit fills my cup with a grateful heart and a ready mind. I speak my good into its actualized potential and know that the same Mind Ernest Holmes used demonstrates for me in Its likeness, always with a radiant and sacred “yes.”
I know at the very depths of me that it is done unto me as I believe. I allow my breath to lead and guide me, to move me and mold me. I let my breath be taken by gratitude and awe, good nature and sweet kindness.
As I read through the passage, I felt myself begin to loosen up and relax, remembering Spirit is in control.
As I began my day, I read a Facebook post, totally unrelated to my mother’s situation, which talked about the infamous line from Forrest Gump: Life is like a box of chocolates! The writer, Andrea, my very talented step-daughter, continued her observation about life and chocolates:
Oh, we strut around thinking we know, safe and secure in our predictable routines, and then POW: Life dishes out something we didn’t see coming.
Although this was a public post, I felt she was talking to me.
Of course, we face things we do not see coming every day in our lives. Some are minor, but some also test our faith and resolve. Today was one of those days for me.
I feel confident that all is well. My mother is vaccinated, so I suspect she will make it through this. But if I am wrong and she does not, I trust her time on earth has been fulfilled!
Last-minute note: The hospital has discharged my mother, telling us she is doing well.