I just returned from visiting my dear friend Henry at the hospital. When I was there two days ago, I sensed he would not recover this time, and so we said our goodbyes, making that deep spiritual connection we have shared for almost nine years. I didn't intend to visit him again, but had a thought to add his writings to the Contributed Insights online. In meditation this morning, I had the very clear intuition to visit him today, to discuss the matter with him and seek his approval.

When I first met Henry (then known as Andre') in our A Course In Miracles group, he sat directly across the room from me. More than 15 minutes had elapsed when he began telling how he lost his leg, and I noticed for the first time it was missing. This was a profound miracle for both of us, as I had seen only the whole and complete perfect Son of God in him, and had not even noticed the missing appendage until he called my attention to it.

Over the years we have shared our growth, our insights, and have had many moments of great clarity, as well as some of strife. Underneath it all, however, we always knew that deep love and knowledge we were sharing our unique spiritual expressions as the Sons of God.

When I arrived this morning Henry was fully alert and responsive, and looked better than he did two days ago (he had dialysis since then). Though he cannot talk because of the breathing tube, he is able to communicate with gestures. I asked if he felt he would recover, and he said no, waving goodbye, KNOWING he is dying, and fully at peace with that.

I then reminded him of an insight I had shared in our ACIM group almost two years ago. While reading The Inspirational Writings of Norman Vincent Peale, I realized we shared the same ONE will of God, having no desire but that everyone share the peace and joy and love we had found through our own spiritual explorations. The personality, this particular body identity, was meaningless, and only a vehicle to express and extend that love. It would die, and only the expressions of love would live on. It was then that I discovered the material TRUTH of that philosophy, when I learned that Norman Vincent Peale had established the Guideposts publications. I was awestruck to discover that his creation had just created yet another expression of his love in a new publication, Angels On Earth, and understood how love keeps creating after its own likeness, long after the death of the personality.

Henry remembered that insight, and I then shared my idea, that HIS stories, HIS expressions of love would live on past HIS death through their inclusion as Contributed Insights to the online version of IS. He was thrilled at the idea, and became very animated, making writing signs and pointing to me. I asked whether he wanted to write somethig, and he shook his head, pointing again to me and making writing signs. I asked whether he wanted me to write about HIM and his dying, and he excitedly nodded yes, with tears of joy and love in his eyes. He squeezed my hand, then made a sign that he wanted to sleep, content in his knowing that LOVE GOES ON!!! Henry Lorea died that night.