Living and Loving
Her mom had passed away.
She was spending the night with her sister when she heard a scratching sound on the window.
As she saw the three Goldfinches at her window, she knew it was a visit from her mother.
She was in her nephew’s room on the second floor of her sister’s home.
Her sister did not feed the birds.
Her mother had a passion for feeding the Goldfinches in her yard.
She always had a sock feeder hanging outside her window….
Sacred Stories
She was at the post office feeling so depressed having sold her late husband’s small sailboat.
She looked across the room at a rack of greeting cards.
A familiar image….
A familiar message…. every memory a blessing.
“The pain of her death was exquisite.
I cried for weeks, but felt an incredible joy and comfort
that was an equal part of the grief.
I was so grateful that I had spent time with her
— only with her, fully present and joyful.” (p.163)
The Dharma of Dogs: Our Best Friends as Spiritual Teachers, by Tami Simon
Sacred Stories
She had been thinking about her friend. The last message from her friend had come in on March 22. That message was about her friend’s husband having been hospitalized in ICU.
One month later, she received a message asking about a session for her friend’s daughter.
She wrote back, asking about her friend’s husband. “How are you and Ed doing?”
The friend said, “I think I need a session, too.” They agreed to meet the following morning.
Her friend showed her she had sent a text message with the news that her husband had passed.
She grabbed her phone.
Although it showed up in her friend’s phone as having been sent, they were both shocked to see that the message about him having passed was not in her string of text messages!
(Note – Interference with technology is a commonly shared ‘happening’ by loved ones who have passed.)
Grateful to know beyond a doubt, my friend AND her husband are both doing well….
She arrived at retreat with the deep awareness of letting go of worry and control. She would have no email, text, or phone access while on retreat for the next seven days. Her daughter and son-in-love were leaving dock the following day. They would be working their way to the Gulf of Mexico, then on to the Carribean, living on the 35-foot sailboat named after his late mother for the next year and a half.
During introductions, one of the women at the retreat shared that she and her partner had left California and had for the past ten months been living aboard a sailboat! They were currently in the sea of Cortez. Wow….
A few days into the retreat, the woman who was living on the sailboat was given this message from Jesus: “Humans have been sailing on the seas since time immemorial. The way to keep your self safe is to focus inside where the waters are always calm. You will be safe. Enjoy. Really look into the sunset. Really smell the salt air. Really be with this adventure. All will be well. And all manner of things will be well.”
She fully recognized the message from Jesus was for her too.
Home from the retreat, a text message to her daughter included the synchronicity about having been with a retreat attendee who was also currently sailing for life, along with the message that had come from Jesus.
“I have been coloring this week,” her daughter quickly sent a text message back, along with this photo:
