2009 was a difficult year for many people who lost their jobs, homes, and savings, and grew fearful and lost hope in their country’s ability to restore itself.

Two years ago I caught the flu and lost much of my memory’s ability to walk, talk and function.

In the nursing home, I had a nurses aide pushing my wheelchair, a therapist teaching me how to use my body and mind with physical exercises, and worked three times a week with a speech therapist who kept telling me how good I was doing. The one part of my brain that improved was my intuitive skills – like a seed planted in the soil, my psychic ability increased ten fold.

The hope they gave me was the greatest gift of all. I didn’t know what I didn’t know, only what others told me - that I would get well.

My intuition filled me with thoughts that the United States would get well. All that was needed was a new type of thinking, to get out of the rut of the despair.

Albert Einstein once wrote, "The single most important decision any of us will ever have to make is whether or not to believe that the universe is friendly. And if we decide that the universe is a friendly place, then we will use our technology, our science, our natural resources and our thoughts to create tools and models for understanding that..,"  because power, safety and abundance will come through understanding and the choices which we make daily..."

My healing was slow, but little by little, parts of me began to remember what to do when my feet shuffle instead of walking correctly, and my memory is better than it ever was.

Be patient my dear friends. Know that the United States is learning to use all the parts it was given in the right way. Hope and intuitive skills are developing as never before. 2010 is a new year to self discover all that you and I can become.

Thanks to all the people, friends, and relatives who said prayers and visited me in the hospital and nursing home the first six months, when I didn’t know who they were.

Blessings and love,

Ruth Berger