{"id":110656,"date":"2021-09-08T09:57:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110656"},"modified":"2021-09-08T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:57:28","slug":"the-calling-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110656-the-calling-inside","title":{"rendered":"The Calling Inside"},"content":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \n

Jay Winston.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s see…..I believe it was the Spring of 1977, and I had decided to move from New York to LA to be closer to MSIA, and in particular, to J-R.\u00a0 I had this calling inside to be closer somehow, and so I said my goodbyes to my family, friends, etc., expecting to live in LA.<\/p>\n

My car was so filled that I could not see out of my rear view mirror. I decided to drive long hours to get there as soon as I could, and so I found myself driving all night one night in the Southwest somewhere and saw the sun rise. I suddenly became so sleepy that I opened the window on the driver’s side so that I wouldn’t fall asleep.\u00a0 I even began gently slapping my face in order to stay awake! There were no hotels\/motels in sight, just a long stretch of road in front of me, and it seemed as if it went on forever.<\/p>\n

For some reason, it did not occur to me to pull over and sleep, and so I continued on.\u00a0 There was a ravine on the driver’s side of the road, as I remember, that had a deep drop that would have serious consequences if a car were to accidentally stray off the road.<\/p>\n

And so I feel asleep, traveling at a high speed.\u00a0 I awoke to a loud voice telling me to get up (it was a loud shout).\u00a0 It was not a millisecond too soon as I awoke to find myself heading for the precipitous embankment, and so I instinctively turned the wheel to avoid catastrophe without a split second to spare! \u00a0With a beating heart that almost jumped out of my chest, I pulled over realizing that I was spared because of that voice that awakened me in the moment that it was needed. Thank you J-R!!!!!<\/p>\n

In those days I seemed to travel thinking that if I kept on going without stopping I would get there faster, so stopping to ask directions was something I did when I was low on gas. So I finally arrived in LA with all of the freeways suddenly appearing out of nowhere requiring me to make a decision to either turn this way or that (I cannot understand why I was like that in those years as I look back….it was in the days before cell phones, roadmaps were the way to go).<\/p>\n

Anyway, as I get deeper and deeper into LA, and not knowing where I was going, taking this freeway and that, I finally decided to exit.\u00a0 There was a gas station a block off the freeway, and it was then that I asked directions.\u00a0 I found myself a block away from Prana! The chances of that happening must be infinitesimally small.<\/p>\n

Love, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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