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Angels Around
Sacred Stories
Her granddaughter had recently told her when you see three or more of the same number, or four or more sequential ones, angels are nearby. For example, if you glance at a digital clock and see the time is 11:11 or notice an address of 4567 Whatever Street. That’s what her granddaughter was talking about.
She shared that with a friend, saying, “I am surmising that angels tend to be around us more than we’re ever aware of, but this numbers tip made me feel good.”
The very next morning, the friend snapped a shot of the Echo Show with 11:11 on the screen, and the friend sent it to her by text.
She read the text and saw the photo her friend sent, while she was baking and listening to a piece of inspirational music the friend had introduced her to the previous day.
She glanced at the clock on the stove at exactly 1:11….
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For He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you in all your ways. ~ Psalm 91:11
Of course, it would be Chapter 91, verse 11.
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Kaleidoscope
Sacred Stories
She works as a home-health nurse. Visiting with her patient, he was telling her how he and his wife had purchased a kaleidoscope at the local art fair. He would come home from a stressful day at work and turn on relaxation music, kick back in the recliner, and look through the lens of that kaleidoscope. It was sooooooo relaxing.
He described to her the colored sparkle tubes that would be viewed in myriad patterns of light and color.
She had never seen or even heard of a kaleidoscope, but her very next patient had one!
“When you look into a kaleidoscope, you see something beautiful. … It represents the initiative we all must take to sustain beauty in our lives and land in the right place, as life continues to change and we are continuously challenged.”
That sums up her current life to a “K” for kaleidoscope.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” ~ Jeremiah 29:11
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Lily
Sacred Stories
Lily passed from injuries sustained in the auto accident that had taken her father a few days earlier, in June of 2021.
That summer, a single coral-colored lily “volunteered” in the yard of her family home.
Lily flower meanings include beauty, purity, fertility, transformation, rebirth, and devotion.
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Cervantes
Sacred Stories
She was up early again. Grateful she leaned toward being a short sleeper, about 7 hours is perfect for her.
The Osho Zen Tarot card she drew asking about her husband’s coming home from the hospital was: X Change. It has often been said that the only unchanging thing in the world is change itself. Life is continually changing, evolving, dying and being reborn.
She opened an email and read read a daily message sent to her by a friend the previous day:
Time ripens all things. No man’s born wise.
~Miguel de Cervantes
We come to understand time in a different way. Each day we discover that there is an order to life that is only revealed day-to-day. The moments when life forces us to reconsider our schedule are no longer met with anger and frustration. We begin to trust our Higher Power to actually dictate what will happen in our lives. We find ourselves staying close to people who have developed some measure of humility for they seem to have a better sense of timing.
What really caught her eye was author’s name: Cervantes.
Cervantes is the name of the thoracic surgeon who performed her husband’s life-saving open-heart surgery….
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PICC Line
Sacred Stories
Christopher, the OR nurse finished checking the patient’s PICC line.
A peripherally inserted central catheter, also called a PICC line, is a long, thin tube that’s inserted through a vein.
As he headed out the door, Christopher paused, turned, and shared an experience.
“I am not a religious person, ” he began. “But one day I was trying to get a PICC line in a patient. It was not going well.”
“Suddenly I had a palpable feeling of arms reaching around behind my back.”
“It was as though I was watching someone else’s hands as that PICC line went right in….”
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Gift Tag
Sacred Stories
She found this gift tag stuck to a dirty, torn box that had fallen behind the basement freezer who knows when.
The gift tag came right off.Her Credit Union laminated it for her.
Her post on Facebook reminded us:
“Be aware of the little things”
“I see you, Gram.”