Dying to Be Me, The Gift of Cancer

Rev. Patrick begins this month with the story of Anita Moorjani and her book Dying to Be Me. In it, she tells of her four-year experience with cancer, how she tried to heal it, how her body eventually gave up, and how she passed through a very lucid near-death experience. In her near death, she felt a profound awareness, a state of unconditional love. And she was able to learn why she got cancer, and how it was a transforming gift in her life. We can learn to see that all of life is perfect. There is a perfection to our experiences. It doesn't matter where we are on the consciousness continuum---it only matters that we are on the continuum, that we are awake enough to acknowledge that we are Spirit incarnate. Life is perfect as it is, because this dimension, this form, allows us to experience maximum results. Two things are necessary to grow in consciousness: An intense desire, the drive to know God. The discipline to act with constant and universal forgiveness and gentleness without exception.