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Catalpa Tree Magic
Sacred Stories
During break time on the last day of their meditation retreat, out for a bike ride, she stopped to take photos of some gorgeous blossoms on the side of the road.
June afternoon dharma talks under the catalpa tree… blossoms drifing down on them. Fabulous fragrance. She knew the photos would be precious to her meditation teachers, and a friend who always attended the retreats too.She had ridden this same route the day before but had not noticed the blossoms. How could she have missed them? They were so beautiful and there so many of them!
Sharing the photos with her sister they realized it was soooo significant for her to have seen the blossoms on Father’s Day. Their dad owned and operated a bait and tackle shop, and he always gathered the worms that fed on the catalpa trees!
She shared this story with another meditation group a couple of days later. Several in the group had connections with catalpa trees, and one woman shared an amazing story. She had been told to choose a tree, put her forehead against that tree, and imagine connecting to the lead fairy of that specific tree species. Artists, they were to be able then to draw or paint the image. She chose a catalpa tree.Her fairy image was an Aboriginal-like child with wings where the ears would be!
In the middle of the fairy’s forehead was a spout, out of which light and love and wisdom and blessing poured down upon anyone who was looking up at the tree.
After sharing her drawing, she learned that the noun ‘catalpa’ derives from the Creek katáłpa, a compound word that translates literally as “winged head.”
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Words – Come from the Heart
Sacred Stories
The words had been displayed in their beautiful open space (they called it the lighted room) in the center of the office suite. Moving out of that space, the words knew where they needed to go.
These words were to be mailed to a friend in Florida…. But the friend lives in a very tiny space. Where would these big words fit? “Well, even a tiny house has a ceiling,” was the suggestion.
These words are significant and she had brought them to the jam session asking everyone to learn “Come from the Heart” by Kathy Mattea.
Here are the lyrics:
You got to sing like you don’t need the money
Love like you’ll never get hurt
You got to dance like nobody’s watchin’
It’s gotta come from the heart
If you want it to workOf course, these words come from the heart!
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Satellites!
Sacred Stories
He is not very religious. He grew up Roman Catholic, and even went to Catholic School, but by college he says he was done with the Vatican.
Every evening he goes out to look for satellites and when he sees one, he prays gratitude to God who gave us the intelligence to put huge pieces of junk in orbit.
She always thought this was crazy.
Since they had moved from Southwest Michigan to Detroit, he had not seen a satellite, although he would watch every night.
She passed away….
She was Seventh Day Adventist. She was taught to believe once you die you go to sleep until the second coming of Christ. If you lived a good life, you wake up with Him. If not, then you would stay asleep.
Three weeks after she passed, he went out looked up into the sky. He prayed and asked her that if her “dirt nap” theory was wrong, and that she was actually looking down on him from heaven, to please allow him to see a satellite.
At that moment, he saw one… then two, three, four, five….
He saw a total of 17 satellites in consecutive order, spaced about 4-6 inches apart to the naked eye. It took all of about five minutes.
It was so incredible! He called one of her best friends and he called her brother, telling them what he was witnessing.
He says, “Just way too cool!!! She knew that would be what I was looking for.”
She made sure he had no choice not to know!
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Closed Captioning
Sacred Stories
The heart has its reasons
which reason knows nothing of…
We know the truth
not only by the reason,
but by the heart.
~ Blaise PascalThe student was on a sailboat in a very remote location on the coast of the Baja Peninsula in Mexico.
The teacher—who is deaf—was in Michigan.
A typist was keying in the student’s comments to the teacher, using ZOOM, when a weak internet connection resulted in dropped audio and a frozen image, rendering the communication impossible.
The typist unmuted her mic and said to the student, “Stop. You need to go back. I did not catch any of that.”
Meanwhile, the ZOOM host had her fingers on the keyboard. Complete sentences were appearing in the closed captioning box between the host and the teacher.
The host unmuted her mic and told the typist, “It is OK. The teacher got it. I sent it to her via closed captioning.”
“What do you mean the teacher got it? She can’t have it. We could not hear any of that last part,” the typist replied.
Before the host could say another word, the teacher began to clearly respond to the student with appropriate detail!
It was obvious to the host that the student’s comments were only unintelligible to their ears.
Fortunately, the connection of a loving, open heart transcends human hearing….
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Messenger
Sacred Stories
A woman was sharing the origin of the grief journey group that had gathered for the first time via ZOOM. This group had been meeting for about twenty years.
The group had been started to support a man, with a young son, following the transition of his wife. He had attended a more formal grief group, but he found he was not comfortable sharing some of the experiences he was having.
His wife had discovered she had advanced ovarian cancer during the cesarean birth of her son. In her final days, he and his wife had discussed the possibility of her communicating with him from the Afterlife. She had settled on a Red-tailed hawk as a way he would know it was a visit from her.
Ten days after his wife left this earthly plane, he and his 6-year-old son were at home when this red-tail hawk flew up to their backyard fence and just sat there looking into their house.
At the same time the woman was sharing the story of the wife’s “hawk visit” with the group, the husband was writing to the woman via Facebook Messenger about something else. Never previously had this woman received a message from him via Messenger.Those who love us, obviously really do continue to communicate with us from the Afterlife…. Long after life.
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Dance Studio
Sacred Stories
For 85 years, the Baker School of Dance had held a themed annual recital.
May 3, 2020’s scheduled recital theme was “All You Need is Love.”
Due to COVID-19, the recital was cancelled. The dance studio sits empty.
In the window of the empty studio is listed the names of all the students, along with the rainbow of hope, and the title of the 2020 Recital theme.
Then…out of nowhere, a real rainbow appeared!
The photo went out along with this message:
We dancers have to move and are resilient and adaptive.We can get through this together.
Congratulations to all our dancers
and to everyone who loves to move.Every storm in life is followed by a rainbow.
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Aaron
Sacred Stories
She was hosting a ZOOM workshop, listening to one of the teacher’s closing instructions.
The face of the teacher was “spotlighted.” The teacher’s face was the large image, filling her entire screen.
Her mic was off, and she was recording the audio using “voice memo” on her iPhone.
If you listen closely to the audio link below, at about 2 minutes 50 seconds you will hear her start to softly laugh/cry.
She felt as though the teacher was gazing right into her soul through the screen as the teacher said, “I know you get this,” before continuing on with the instructions.
At about 3 minutes 30 seconds into the audio, she was moved to tears. You can hear her breathing and you can identify that she is crying.
It is obvious the teacher stops speaking just briefly—allowing her emotions to settle before continuing.
Amazingly, this teacher is a channeled being called Aaron.
And, Barbara Brodsky, the channel who brings Aaron through, is completely deaf….
