I wanted to recount an episode from the early years in India, when a woman came to my teacher and asked him if he could heal the relationship between her and her mother. it had been acrimonious for years, her mother was elderly, and this woman was worried that she and her mom would never mend it before her mother passed away.

he asked her to take a handful of sand, and then to think deeply about her mother and their relationship.

the woman complied, scooped up a handful of sand from the floor of an ancient temple, and held it there.

when she opened her hand, all the sand was gone and a small gemstone was there in its place.

he told her -- 'go give this to your mother, and see what happens.'

the lady protested, 'but I'm not even sure my mother would accept anything from me -- it's so bad between us that we barely even talk to one another.'

he grinned, and urged her, 'just try.'

she got home to America a few days later, and called her mom to tell her she'd 'gotten' something for her mom in India.

her mother was completely touched that the daughter had thought about her during her India trip, and happily received the gemstone from her.

their relationship turned into a loving one, and has been strong for years now.

to me, it's a pointed demonstration about how the miraculous energy can undo karmas in an instant; particular exact knots of suffering accrued from who knows when or what lifetime, even, that are still torturing people through their relationships.

in that act of manifesting the small gemstone -- in the woman's hand who was asking for the healing, not in the master's hand! -- he used his connection to the divine to wipe away years of fighting and misunderstanding between mother and daughter, and to let the daughter know, as well, that the miracle capability was (literally) within her grasp...! *grinning*

I think it's important to know that each of us has this capacity, if we're willing to do the work to research and practice the channels it takes to gain such healing abilities -- and that huge unnecessary suffering can be alleviated through god's energy, specifically, being implemented through particular doorways into this creation.

Alx