common to many and needed great persistence and diligence to heal. It
would not be until I returned home that I would begin to understand
the depth of healing that had occurred for me at the workshop.
Throughout the weekend, Dr. Hew Len gave us tools for
transformation, tools that totally defy intellectualism. Not expecting
results, I dutifully but skeptically held my pencil, said “Dewdrop,” and
tapped the three words that I had written on a sheet of paper, words that
for me represented problems—“computer,”“son,” and “husband.”
Again, I wouldn’t know the power of these words until I got home.
When I got home, my husband and son greeted me. Both grinning,
they said,“Guess what we got while you were out.”“A new
computer?” I guessed.We had been having computer problems, which
defied hours upon hours (no lie) of technical support from in-home
technicians to the point that I was seriously wondering if we had a
computer nasty, be it jinni or ghost. More importantly, we had been
having many family meltdowns in the past few weeks over our fickle
computers. I didn’t care about computers. I just wanted harmony.
I was a little surprised when both spouse and son said yes, they had
bought a new computer.They had agreed just the previous night to wait
another six months to get one with the new 64-bit processor.They then
said,“Guess what kind.” I went down the list: Dell, Hewlett-Packard,
Sony, Gateway, Compac, and so on. I named every kind of computer you
could think of.“No. No. No,” they said to each guess.“I give up!” I cried.
Now, my husband of 30 years is a man of very strong ideas. He
has an iron will, which when focused and conscious is nothing less than
fantastic determination.When he’s not so conscious, this determination,
however, can feel more like stubbornness and nothing can move him. He
had been a staunch PC advocate, and nothing, I mean nothing, would
have changed his mind. So when they both shouted at me,“Apple!”
you could have scraped me off the floor.You see, originally I had wanted
an Apple, but Apples were not allowed in our home any more than pork
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