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 At Your Behest

 

 

Letters to Ascended Master

St. Padre Pio,

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

3: 40 P.M.                                                                                      

Dear Padre,

         

          I was sitting on the front deck waiting for Penny to come home from work this afternoon (I had just prepared a vegetarian pizza for the oven when she pulled into the yard) reading the new spiritual musing I had just written when the thought came to me—and very strongly, I might add, which led me to suspect that it was you who inspired it—to write you a series of letters.

          Since I’ve always wanted to write a book of letters, I relished the idea of writing to an Ascended Master, especially since we’ve already established a relationship with my novel Healing With Padre Pio.

True, our relationship is couched in fiction, which I had to do for a variety of reasons; but that doesn’t negate the reality of our experience. For me, you were very real when my spiritual sensitive channeled you; but this is different, because letter writing opens a window on one’s soul in a much deeper way.

Letter writing doesn’t give one the latitude of fiction, but it is so much more intimate and personal, which is what I want this book of letters to be; something like your letters to your Spiritual Directors (Secrets Of A Soul), which I loved because you were so revealing, so vulnerable, and so on fire with the Holy Flame of God, but I would like my letters to be more in the spirit of someone who has found his own way back home to God and would like to share his journey with an Ascended Master who now serves life from the Other Side.

          I have no set agenda with this project, other than the fact that writing you will fuel the Holy Flame of God in my life—because it’s to the nature of the creative spirit to set one’s soul ablaze with inspiration; so I don’t know where this is going to take me. It may not go anywhere, but the thought alone is enough to fill my heart with new wonder, because I know from our last project how you worked your miracles in my life. As with all of my books, I know that this book of letters will also find its own way; and I know that it will attract its own material just as all my books do, and I look forward to the surprises.

            I should mention in this, my first letter to you, whom I consider to be more than a mere Catholic Saint (mere!), but an Ascended Spiritual Master, that my letters will be addressed to a Christian Saint who has transcended his Roman Catholic religion and speaks with a consciousness of all knowing and all seeing, as you revealed to me in one of my healing sessions. Which means that I am free to speak my mind about the spiritual life with you, regardless of your earthly religion, and mine—which happened to be Roman Catholicism also before I went on my quest for my true self.

          I’m on a new spiritual path now, which I’ve been on for the past thirty-some years, and which I may reveal down the road; but for now, suffice to say that I have always taken my wisdom where I find it, and in you Padre I have found a vein of pure spiritual gold!

So, with your blessing (I know that you’ve already given me the nod), I’m going to embark upon this project—if not for personal growth, for the rich literary experience that it will give me, and my readers. You did say to me at the end of my spiritual healing sessions, “Our work is not yet done, my son.” So, I’m rolling up my sleeves…

I remain your humble—I wrote the word “student,” but no sooner did I write it and I felt you snatch the word away and replace it with the word “companion.” “Spiritual companion,” you insist. I’m comfortable with that, despite what some of my readers may think. Until the next time,

In Spirit,

Your fellow companion, 

Orest

Next Sunday,  October 30/11, Letter No. 2: A Man Of Hope