Living and Loving
His baby sister died when she was only three days old. When her birthday rolled around, his mother made a cake, put one candle on it, lit the candle, and the family sang happy birthday.
When they finished singing, the candle went out.
Sometimes we are able to let our hearts help our heads understand that amazing things are just natural when you recognize the true nature of life.
She went on retreat hoping to find some peace around the passing of her dad. At the end of the week, she shared these amazing confirmations with the others.
“When I got to my room, my room mate had already chosen her bed. The one that was left for me had the photo of the St. Louis arch. My dad’s name was Louis.”
“Checking in at the community room, the wind chime on the porch was a simple settling tank—a common item in my childhood as my dad was a welder!”
“Out for a walk, I came upon a simple garden stone with just the word WISH: my dad’s nickname!”
When she arrived home, she learned that while she was on retreat, her 27 year-old son posted a picture from 22 years prior on his Facebook page: a vacation with Grandpa, to Grandpa’s hometown in Pennsylvania.
“It was as if my son heard the calling, too, and he responded to it. The the universe conspires to make things happen.”
It was rainy, cold, and dark—exactly how she felt—when she saw the deflated helium balloon on the ground in the park. Her heart was filled with grief and disdain as she grabbed the trash and tossed it into the back seat of her car. She had made the long (out-of-state) trip back to the town where her husband had died one year earlier. What had she hoped to gain?
Feeling totally alone, she drove toward home. She was startled by a noise in the back seat and, looking in the rear view mirror, near terrified as she saw a shadowy image behind her. Then she realized what it was; the balloon had been inflated by the warmth of the car heater.
An 8 year-old boy was walking with his grandparents at the zoo when he said, “I feel like a tree is going to fall.”
Seconds later, they all heard a huge crashing sound—like an explosion. They heard someone exclaim, “A very big tree fell in the woods!”
We are all born with intuitive capability. As adults, we often get to remember the gift.
She was not a stranger to illness or death, but this was different—it was family. She was sitting at the bedside of her mother-in-law, who had been at home with hospice care for the past five months. Something had changed drastically in those wee hours of the morning.
She called hospice, and the nurse arrived as quickly as possible. The nurse’s words, “You are probably looking at hours, not days,” confirmed what she intuitively knew.
The support, kindness, and information the nurse brought was all vital, but it came with a surprising additional blessing of love and support: the nurse’s name printed on her name tag was the same as her daughter’s, including the last initial!
Late that night, the call to her daughter about the passing of her grandmother included sharing of the coincidence. Through shared tears of loss and love, the granddaughter whispered lovingly to her mom, “See, I was there with you!”
She had driven out-of-state to attend the seminar.
Settling into their seats, waiting for the seminar to begin, she told her companion, “Last night I had a dream that we got here and there were people here we knew. In the dream, I thought it was actual people we knew, but when I woke up I realized it was that, in reality, we know everyone at the soul level.”
The woman seated directly in front of her turned around and said, “I had the same dream!”
“Where are you from?” they both asked. They were from the same state, about thirty minutes away from one another. They soon discovered they knew several people in common.
The seminar began.
After the break, returning to their seats, seeing faces more clearly, her companion realized they had previously met!
From Patricia Cota-Robles’ website, the words about the seminar seem significant, too:
We are in the midst of a monumental Awakening that is taking place within the heart and mind of every man, woman, and child on Earth. This is true whether a person is consciously aware of it or not.
It is easier to ignore things that only happen once or twice, but when you have a pattern of meaningful coincidences, you can appreciate the way all of life comes together.
They had not been in contact for nearly 15 years when an email message came in expressing gratitude and suggesting a get-together. (See blog post What People Remember)
The time stamp of the email message was 11:11 pm.
(To fully appreciate the timing of the message, see this previous Sacred Stories posting.)