Prayer

Surgery Day-Sept. 28, 1998

9:50 a.m.

These thousand thoughts that assail the mind and torment the soul - let them not enter, O Lord, for the temple must be kept open and clean for Thee alone to descend. And what need have we of fear and apprehension, of sadness and travail, who have been touched by Thee and have fallen at Thy Feet. Let me not, Lord, have thoughts for myself, but be concentrated in Thee and offer my prayers for Mary Helen.

9:55 a.m.

When I was a young boy I served as an acolyte in the 5:00 a.m. mass at the local Catholic church. When a youth I prostrated myself before the icons of the Virgin in the Orthodox church. These spontaneous obeisance’s must have been vestigial reactions from former lives for I know now Mother that all has led me to Thee and Sri Aurobindo and I bow down in humility and gratitude for Thy awakening touch. Please heal my beloved and take her into Thee. I accept, O Lord, Thy Will.