My mom believes the reason I was born with white blonde hair, was because around the time I was conceived, Pope John Paul II visited Costa Rica and she attended a prayer circle which followed his advise to pray the rosary every day for miracles. The family agrees that because his hair was white blonde, mine was too. My mom has tanned skin and is a burnet. My Dad has a lot of freckles and although now his hair is grey, when he was born he was a red-headed. My brother has dark brown hair. Just for the record, I do not know what my real hair colour is anymore, but the lady at the beauty salon can never replicate the colour of my mother'sprayers. (no matter how many miracles the bottle of hair dye bottle proclaims... :)
I am almost sure my reflection seems pointless to anyone but me.
Why? - the reader asked
Because prayer is how we talk to God and meditating is listening to God. And the rosary is both, a contemplative prayer meditation, of surrender, hope and faith in the Christ-consciousness. - I replied
So what does that mean for me? Well, it means everything, since this Advent period I need more than ever to remember that the Miracle is coming to change the evening news, to cease the will of our leaders to go to war, awaken humans to care for earth, of terrorists to remember we are brothers or anything else you want to change to make a better world for the bears, the pigeons and the whales. A Miracle!
ACIM says "A miracle is a correction. It does not create, nor really change at all. It merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false"
So I choose to believe the reason I was born with white blonde hair was because of the Pope and the rosary prayer circle.
If I would have something more to say today, I would write it... i but I will reframe and read again the message in the image in the beginning of this post, with a rosary at hand and be inspired
inspiration (n.)
c. 1300, "immediate influence of God or a god," especially that under which the holy books were written, from Old French inspiracion "inhaling, breathing in; inspiration" (13c.), from Late Latin inspirationem (nominative inspiratio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin inspirare"blow into, breathe upon," figuratively "inspire, excite, inflame," from in- "in" (from PIE root *en "in") + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit (n.)). ,
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. [Genesis ii.7]
The sense evolution seems to be from "breathe into" to "infuse animation or influence," thus "affect, rouse, guide or control," especially by divine influence. Inspire (v.) in Middle English also was used to mean "breath or put life or spirit into the human body; impart reason to a human soul." Literal sense "act of inhaling" attested in English from 1560s. Meaning "one who inspires others" is attested by 1867.
Con amor,
Paola
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