No matter what you call it:
"Karma"
Jesus said "You reap what you sow."
"The universe"
"God"
"Pay it forward"
"What comes around goes around"
No matter what you call it, it is a principal at work, always, in the universe.
Mark got upset with me for saying Karma instead of giving God the credit... I explained to him that karma is God.
and karma is at work in our lives. It always is but I just wanted to point out some particular instances of karma at work in just the last few days.
Levi's (almost)new truck is having problems. Mark thought he had fixed it but last weekend while Levi was helping a friend move (sowing)it really started acting up.
Mark told him that we would pay to get it fixed (us sowing,Levi reaping) since he couldn't afford it.
Levi took it into the dealership to have it diagnosed. At first they said it was just the fuel injectors that would have to be replaced. I was going to cost us about $500.00.
The dealership called back later and said it wasn't just the injectors, but that the gas tank had water in it, the fuel pump was rusted, the gas tank would have to be pulled and the fuel pump would have to be replaced, the injectors were full of rust and needed to be cleaned. Mark quickly figured it was going to now cost us somewhere between $800. and $1,000.00 - ouch.
The dealership called back and said they had decided to "Good Will" warranty it!!!!!
Good karma at work.
David (the owner of the case company) called last night, bewildered at our decision not to go ahead and buy his business.... the answer is still NO, David.
Later in the day a friend of ours called us and told us that we needed to go to Home Depot and pick up a gift he had ordered for us??????
Mark and Seth went, when they got there they found out that our friend had bought us a new ($600.+)table saw for the new case business.
We were just flabbergasted.. .He simply told us that he felt like he "needed to sow some seed"
Reaping and sowing, reaping and sowing.
Karma at work.
Mother/Father God keeping balance in the universe.
5 comments:
Yes, sowing and reaping does work!
I have seen evidence of it in my life many times.
Enjoy your positive reaping, you deserve it!!
It is so nice to see the universe behave in such an orderly manner and in your favor.
I like it said this way as well:
You get what you give
I have a problem with some people's interpretation of Karma, particularly in some parts of India where they can step over a starving child in the street or abuse someone of the 'Untouchable' caste because they must have done something bad in a former life and Karma is now repaying that to them and who are they to interfere with that now?
I am glad that good things are coming to you! You deserve good things!
You really do deserve all the goodness you can take.
I found this in my inbox this morning and thought of this post - Prayer, or the answer to prayer, is not “interference,” it’s an act in the wonderful web of cause and effect, and everything that follows, in all directions, is other than it would have been without that act. If I accept that the energy, the spiritual power, of prayer is a reality, then prayer matters, is powerful, in ways we don’t understand and can’t predict. It could, if there were enough of it, end wars, as minds are changed. Can it change the weather? How do we know? . . .
So we can say “it is karma,” or “God’s will be done,” or “please, please!” and any of these make sense, because God’s will is another word for the nature of reality, that web of interdependence which is creator and creation. So I just have to accept in amazement that at this unique point of intersection of past and future I can choose to act in a way which will release a power of goodness into all the exchanges of being that flow out from this moment. It may be only a very small “power of goodness”—but how do we know? Can we measure the power of prayer by the worthiness of the one who prays? Since no prayer (no act) is isolated, but all are part of the web of life, who know how powerful even my prayer might be, as it flows in the rivers of the spirit?
All this is a different way of thinking. It carries with it a strange sense of responsibility as well as opportunity. Above all prayer suddenly seems such a natural thing to do, because it simply is part of how things happen.
--excerpt from Gifts in the Ruins by Rosemary Luling Haughton
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