Sacred Stories
She was up early again. Grateful she leaned toward being a short sleeper, about 7 hours is perfect for her.
The Osho Zen Tarot card she drew asking about her husband’s coming home from the hospital was: X Change. It has often been said that the only unchanging thing in the world is change itself. Life is continually changing, evolving, dying and being reborn.
She opened an email and read read a daily message sent to her by a friend the previous day:
Time ripens all things. No man’s born wise.
~Miguel de Cervantes
We come to understand time in a different way. Each day we discover that there is an order to life that is only revealed day-to-day. The moments when life forces us to reconsider our schedule are no longer met with anger and frustration. We begin to trust our Higher Power to actually dictate what will happen in our lives. We find ourselves staying close to people who have developed some measure of humility for they seem to have a better sense of timing.
What really caught her eye was author’s name: Cervantes.
Cervantes is the name of the thoracic surgeon who performed her husband’s life-saving open-heart surgery….