Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Darien in Costa Rica

Darien is the 3 year old son of the man we have hired to run our Coffee Farm in Costa Rica. Oliver, his wife Lizeth, daughter Ashley, age 8, and Darien live in our house on the farm. This wonderful family, maintain our house and have turned a dying coffee farm into a healthy one, and actually got our first coffee harvest. A modest one, but a harvest none the less.

We just spent 2 weeks with them, making repairs, installing a water tower to hold the water being pumped from our creek, and arranging for 5,000 more coffee trees to be planted this year. A new road to access the back half of the farm is in the works, and hopefully it will be completed before the rainy season begins.

My husband, Mark, loves to relax in a hammock in the afternoons, and so, he purchased a beautiful hand made hammock from one of our neighbors. A few days later, while we were purchasing some supplies in town, we got a frantic call from Darien's mom. It seems the children were playing and Darien had fallen out of the hammock and landed on his head. It was a day that the Clinic was closed and she didn't know what to do. We rushed home and found Darien crying with a big lump on his head. As best we could tell, it was not an emergency situation and tried to calm everyone down.

I offered to do a Reconnective Healing® on Darien. They put him in his bed and I began to give him healing energy. He put up his hands and said "don't touch". I told him and his father that this was an energy healing and I would not touch him. Only minutes into the healing, Darien said: "Papi, it feels like hands are touching me". They could clearly see that I was not touching him. Almost immediately Darien calmed down. Then I saw that his eyes began to roll back into his head and his mouth began to move as if speaking, but no words came out. His shoulders, arms and hands began to twitch slightly. Then he rolled onto his side and went to sleep. I gave his approximately 30 min of Healing Energy and quietly left the room.

A few hours later Darien emerged from his room very hungry. He had no more pain, the big lump was gone and all that was left was a very big smile, and a very very relieved Mama & Papi.