Q525

What is the secret of getting the Grace of the Lord?



Try to win the Grace by reforming your habits, reducing your desires, and refining your higher nature.  One step makes the next one easier, that is the unique quality of the spiritual journey.  At each step, your strength and confidence increase and you get bigger and bigger instalments of Grace.

(SSS Vol 5, pg 197)

God Loves You

Man : GOD, can i ask you  a question?

GOD: Sure....

Man: Promise you won't get mad....

GOD: I promise...

Man : Why did you let so much stuff happen to me today?

GOD: What do you mean?

Man: Well, I woke up late....

GOD: Yes

Man: My car took forever to start....

GOD: Okay...

Man: At lunch, they made my sandwich wrong, I had to wait...

GOD: Hummmmm.....

Man: On, the way home, my phone went dead, just as I picked up a call.

GOD: All right....

Man: And on top of it all, when I got home - I just want to soak my feet in my new foot massager & relax. But, it wouldn't work!!!! Nothing went right today! Why did you do that?

GOD: Let me see, the death Angel was at your bed this morning & I had to send one of my Angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that....

Man: (humbled): Oh!

GOD: I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road.

Man: (Ashamed)

GOD: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick & I didn't want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn't afford to miss work.

Man: (Embarrassed): Okay...

GOD: Your phone went dead because the person that was calling you was going to give false witness about what you said on that call. I didn't even let you talk to them so you would be covered.

Man: (Soflty): I see GOD.

GOD: Oh, and that foot massager, it had a shortage that was going to throw out all the power in your house tonight. I didn't think you wanted to be in dark.

Man: I' m sorry GOD.

GOD: Don't be sorry, just learn to trust me..... in all things, the good and the bad.

Man: I will trust you.

GOD: And don't doubt that My plan for your day is always better than your plan.

Man: I won't GOD. And let me just tell you GOD, Thank you for everything today.

GOD: You're welcome, child. it was just another day being your God and I Love looking after my children.....

GOD LOVES YOU......

- Author Unknown -

My Timely Grace

Impermanent

Divinity is permanent while human life is impermanent.  We see around us many creatures that are born, grow up, live for some time and perish.  This way, we are aware of the sequence of birth, growth, decay and death.  Nevertheless, we delude ourselves and live considering ourselves immortal beings.  This is a sign of ignorance and spiritual bankruptcy.

(Summer Showers, 1979, pg 144)

God

Thou who pervadest all the worlds below,
Yet sitst above,
Master of all who work and rule and know,
Servant of Love!

Thou who disdainest not the worm to be
Nor even the clod,
Therefore we know by that humility
That thou art God.

~ Sri Aurobindo ~

GEM 806

A noble being displays the good qualities, however much he might be subjected to trials and tribulations.

(From : Garland of 1008 Gems, Bhagawan Shri Sathya Sai Baba's Sayings)

Relief

There are only two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

I feel such immediate relief when I finally set down a heavy load of groceries or a cumbersome object.  I breathe easier, my muscles relax, and my steps become lighter when I free myself of the burden I was carrying.

And I feel relief when I forgive also, because I free my mind and heart of burdens I may have been carrying for days, weeks, months - even years.  Through forgiveness, I let go of the past and make a conscious effort to step forward into a time of new opportunities and new growth.

And is it any wonder that my act of forgiveness causes me to walk lighter, to breathe easier, and to be more relaxed?  By forgiving myself and others, I stand straighter and I move with confidence into a bright new future.

As I forgive, I release the burdens of the past.

(From : 'Daily Word' magazine by Silent Unity, a world wide prayer ministry) 

To Lead

Human Being

It is by accumulation the benefit of many good deeds in many earlier lives of yours that you are now born as a human being.  Because you are not aware of the great good treasures that you have thus accumulated as a result of which you have the reward of your present life, you are not assigning the necessary value to human life.  If you are only aware of the extent of the goodness of your previous births that has brought to the stage of your present life, you will never waste this present life.

(Summer Showers, 1973, pg 47)

Sai Darshan, Part 2 - 59

I call you my true devotee,
Only when you devote each and every moment
With your heart and soul to Me.
I always say, "Time is God".
Every minute wasted
Is a minute taken away from Me.
I want you to
Eat with Me.
Work with Me.
Play with Me.
And sleep with Me.
Time waits for none.
It continues to move on
And establishes its victory over all.
Let Me become the hands of your clock,
And move with you at all times.
Then even when time runs out on you,
You will not have any regrets,
Of time you could have used to be with Me.
So do whatever it takes to be with Me.
And end this bondage with time
Into a timeless one with Me.


From : 'Sai Darshan' - Part II
(Divine Messages received and recorded by Mrs Seema M Dewan)