Vol. 34 No. 1 - I AM the Witness

Vol. 34 No. 1 - I AM the Witness - January 6, 1991

I AM the Witness

Dear Mother:

I am writing because my story demonstrates the exacting science of karma and reincarnation as the mercy of God.

When my daughter was two years, 10 months old, she had an interesting past life memory while attending a family reunion with many relatives whom she had never seen before. She remembered being the person of her own great-great grandmother whose name was Gertrude.

First my daughter saw a picture of Gertrude at age 20 on the wall at my parents’ home and with a puzzled look said, “Is that me?” The next day while playing peek-a-boo with her great-great uncle (Gertrude’s son), she suddenly stopped her playing and out of the blue said, “Am I your mother?”

That evening while watching slides, there was projected on the screen a picture of myself at age five standing next to my great-great grandmother, Gertrude, who was seated beside me. My daughter began to shout, “Mama, that’s me! that’s me!” I replied, “No dear, that’s a picture of me when I was a little girl.” My daughter responded emphatically, “No, the one sitting down!”

The next day my daughter saw my cousin who is believed to be a reembodiment of Gertrude’s husband and she asked him, “Are you my daddy?” (She used the term daddy to mean husband as she knows well her own father in this life.)

After returning home some days after the family reunion, my daughter looked up from her coloring and said, “Mama, my name is Gertie, call me Gertie,” then resumed her coloring. (Gertrude was indeed called Gertie in that life.)

All this has happened over five years ago and my daughter has since forgotten these memories, but this has given me insight into her mission in this life.

“Gertrude” was a conservative Protestant, well-versed in the Bible who taught Sunday School for over 40 years. Gertrude’s daughter joined the Theosophical Society in the 1930s. This was a great shock and embarrassment to Gertrude and she could never accept these “strange Eastern teachings” but vowed that when she got to heaven she would ask Jesus for the Truth!

Jesus, in his great mercy, has allowed my daughter to reembody into a family situation where she can learn that Truth.

I remember a teaching you gave, Mother, that some souls require a “crack” in the shell of dogma and orthodoxy that has calcified around them in order to free their consciousness to accept broader truth in their next embodiment, and that the Masters have said that some of our worst critics now in embodiment will be knocking at the door of the Inner Retreat in their next embodiment.

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