I send you Mother’s love and soul blessings.

My experience with my own mother at her burial was deeply profound and moving and she created a little miracle of her own.

We were a small group and one of our friends, Ross, had a serious stroke four years ago and has not spoken or sung a complete sentence since then.

I was inspired by my Mother to sing a Maori song Mum loved, “Pokarekare Ana” the words of which are below, as the coffin was being lowered into the ground.

To our immense surprise and the tears of his wife Louise, Ross blossomed into song and sang THE COMPLETE SONG word perfect from beginning to end. Both the music and the emotions triggered a miraculous healing.

It was beautiful.

Mum is a Catholic so we all jokingly said we should apply to the Pope immediately for sainthood.

So today if you sing and chant please sing and chant more.

You don’t know who you will be healing.

And if you don’t normally sing or chant please do in the privacy of your own space.

You will be healing your own heart and soul.

Love and soul blessings

Altair and Mother

Maori

Pōkarekare ana, ngā wai o Rotorua
Whiti atu koe hine, marino ana e.

E hine e, hoki mai ra
Ka mate ahau i te aroha e.

English

The waves are breaking, against the shores of Rotorua,
My heart is aching, for your return my love.

Oh my beloved girl, come back to me
I could die of love for you.

Here is Hayley Westenra singing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GXua6gD4Hc

The painting is of Our Mother holding Matariki (“eyes of God”) which we know as the Pleiades. Traditionally, it is a time for remembering the dead, and celebrating new life.