With my personal health, professional, financial, emotional and married life in shambles...there was no balance in my life. Everything seem to be precariously near the edge of the abyss.
Sometimes when you look in the abyss...the abyss looks back at you.
Let me tell you about Marie.
Marie was a nursing assistant who was part of my team at a long term health-care center in Summer of 1993. As a nurse on their Skilled Care Unit we had our share of "extreme moments".
In one crisis moment...during a patient's aortic aneurysm...I noticed that whereas several staff members were falling apart Marie was the small calm Center of the Universe. Later, after I had wrote an accommodation to be placed in her employee file; we spoke about her amazing ability to focus and remain calm during the emergency.
Marie introduced me to Zen Buddhism.
After our many talks, she and I moved on professionally. Lost contact. To be honest...I didn't give it much more thought. Until the time when my center begin to crumble.
And I thought about Marie. Quiet...self-assured...unflappable Marie.
It is now 2012 and I have been on this Path for nearly 5 years.
It has changed my Life.
Christians talk a great deal about being reborn.
January 2008 was the beginning of my New Life.
Marie, wherever you are now...sending you love and light.
