Instantly and without effort I could remember everything I had ever known. I seemed to understand the earth and all about it. The whole scheme of life was plain as day. Everything on earth has its purpose. It all fits into a pattern which will, in the end, work out for justice and good.
People worry because of their incomplete viewpoints.
They don't realize that trouble is nature's way of teaching lessons that won't be learned otherwise. If we'd only learn from other peoples' troubles, we could avoid most of our own. But already I was leaving this beautiful land and slipping back into my body - still enough in heaven to have no inhibitions, and yet far enough back into my body to have terrible thoughts. But all my protesting did no good. As I moved farther back into my body, there was a painful, prickly feeling all over, similar to a foot waking up.