She had been very active... working in the world for about 33 years, in all kinds of fields, beginning with teaching English to quite a number of Swiss adults at the age of 12.
Then beginning her musical career, singing professionally with the Zurcher Staatsoper at the age of 16... when she had reached the height of five foot ten...
She sang in operettas and grand opera, being chosen as one of only four from about 200 professional diva refugees from all over Europe auditioning - being the only one whose voice was powerful enough to sing in Wagner's operas...!
Then at 17, office training in her father's Rolex Watch Company, in London, followed by secretarial positions with a medical insurance company and the Bell Telephone Company, back in Zurich, Switzerland, translating for them as well, because of her languages...
Then between South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, over a period of 16 years, she held secretarial positions in diamond mining, medical instruments, consular and legal fields, as well as in the recording industry; then hotel management through marriage... at the age of 34... having eached the height of six foot one...
She also sang professionally in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, in musical comedy, nightclubs, on radio, and in operettas and grand opera. . .
Grazia, now living on the romantic island of Antigua, in the Caribbean, with her newly Opened... tall dark and movie star handsome French/Canadian husband, Jacques Parent, sincerely believing that she was surrendered enough to the POWER OF THE ONE ALMIGHTY GOD... ached at the fact that he was not "Spiritual enough" for her, and wrote to BAPAK, in her sorrow...
BAPAK replied:
"...This is to inform you that everything you write about in your letter is the life experience of someone living in this world.
Therefore you should take it as a warning to awaken the Inner-Feeling, so that it approaches closer to THE POWER OF ALMIGHTY GOD, which envelops the self both Inwardly and outwardly, so that it increases your acceptance and sincere submission in carrying out your devotion to HIM.
If possible, that is what you should do.
This is needed so that you may Receive ALMIGHTY GOD's GRACE, and be kept from a way of life that is beset with all kinds of difficulties and hardships, and so that you may be brought close to a way of life that brings safety and happiness...", ... and gave her her second SUBUD name, Laura...
Her first SUBUD name Grazia, meaning "Big Grace of God"... Was Given to her by her Heavenly Father Himself... on her very first night of the forthcoming Group Latihan... at the Johannbesburg SUBUD Center... while she was sitting in her bathtub... cleansing herself... body and hair... in preparation for the Holy Event...
And He also Told her... That Out Of Respect For Him... She Should Always Cleanse Herself... Body And Hair... Before Worshipping Him... In The Latihan of SUBUD...
Grazia... now Laura... was shocked to be told that her surrender had not been deep enough, and begged her HEAVENLY FATHER to Show her how to be more submissive, more patiently surrendered...
And by the time she arrived in America, in Miami, on January 13, 1971, she had already had 2 husbands, and was now estranged from her third one, Jacques... newly named Mark... having run away from him against GOD's WILL, not just once... but three times... with unhappy consequences for her...
And Laura cried out to her HEAVENLY FATHER for help, and HE, in HIS INFINITE LOVING MERCY for HIS disobedient... recalcitrant daughter, Now Began Laura's Serious Training... to awaken her Inner Feeling... with Inner Guidance... to surrender herself in Latihan Kejiwaan... every single morning... in what she came to call... her "Latihan Shower"...
(Open Letter of January 3, 1987... To All SUBUD Brothers and Sisters Throughout The SUBUD World - To be Continued... Insha Allah... God Willing... with Part IV - on 11/29/10...)
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