Eleanor Roosevelt

A quilt square by a former First Lady stitched with respect.           

Excerpts from a 3-page letter to the future President.

“Abraham Lincoln asked for and was given divine guidance. My husband, JFK, and Jimmy Carter were others who had much more spirituality in their presidency.  Not religion, spirituality!

 

But now, even more, is called for, not necessarily requiring a minister, guru, rabbi, or priest but by a person of integrity who is unafraid to be humble before knowledge they don’t have and unafraid to take the time needed to gain answers that are not political in nature.  

Eleanor speculates with the future president about his sense of the extraordinary power that will soon be his. She suggests that, while “like most presidents,” he may feel ready to claim the governing powers, he may fail to realize that an invisible world is only a breath away, awaiting the opportunity to be asked to help.

In elaborating further on governing powers, she writes:

“Much of these pages revolve around changes you might need to make.  If you, indeed, do study the articles on America’s governance, you might be struck, as have I been, by the lack of feminine voices in its history.  For example, how differently might the Constitution and the Articles of Incorporation, etc., have been pronounced if the input of a female participant had been included? 

 

Eleanor thanks the future president for listening to her voice with assurance that

“Perhaps, like most presidents, you felt the governing powers were yours but failed to realize that an invisible world was a breath away, awaiting being asked to help. The world needed immediate answers, and there was time to ask only advisors.

 

Why don’t you ask?

 

Alright, since you didn’t ask, we are attempting to come through anyway.  Now, from lands you have only known in your imagination and surely, in your mind, are reserved for the time of your death.  Yet what you do now has an impact on your life here. 

We, here, stand ready to assist.

 Please remember:  presidents can pray. They can use the power of prayer for all their constituents.  Listing them, sometimes by name, or visualizing the groups of people who need to be served. Your prayerful intentions will touch hearts silently, invisibly.”