Tag: timing

  • Dream! Divine Timing

    She received this text message from a friend early that morning, “I’d like to share a dream I had last night. Please let me know if you are available today or tomorrow for a call.” She replied saying she was awake and available but heard nothing back from her friend.

    That afternoon while driving from her doctor appointment to a farm market in search of local honey, she received a phone call from the homeowner of their seasonal rental for many years. Since she had not grabbed her headset when she left the house, she did not answer, but dialed as she got back into her car with the coveted honey. They were just a few days short of one year since Hurricane Ian swept devastation through their beloved Florida community. It was a nice long catch-up call.

    Knowing she’d been gone a long time, she sent her husband a quick text message letting him know she was going on to the grocery store.

    A beep-beep came from the car pulling in right behind her, and out jumped the friend who had written about the dream! They sat on a bench just inside the store and took all the time they needed to look deeply at the symbolism in the dream before joyfully going on to their separate shopping chores.

    Coming around the corner of an aisle and seeing one another it flooded into her awareness how divine the timing had been for them to pull into the parking lot at the exact same time. “If I had not had that long conversation I would have been here and gone before you arrived.”

    Looking at her phone later she noted that she had been on the phone conversation for 26 minutes!

    Their meeting was obviously not simply about the “dream” but also about Divine Timing….

    Nevertheless, do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. ~ 2 Peter 3:8

  • Appointment

    Sacred Stories

    The cardiologist her husband had seen while in the hospital was moving to a different practice in another city. She had been trying to get her husband established with this doctor.

    She had called previously, but they were not able yet to make an appointment.

    She just had the urge this morning so she called the number she had been given a couple of weeks prior.

    “We just got a message today that we can begin scheduling for him,” came the reply.

    They made an appointment….

    “I did not catch your name,” she said as she thanked the receptionist who had just made the appointment.

    “My name is Iris,” she replied.

    “Iris is such a beautiful name and it has special meaning to me,” she told the woman.

    (See previous Sacred Story: Dental Floss)

  • Elephant Totem

    Sacred Stories

    She had experienced elephant as totem when she was first starting work as a clinical therapist.

    Many years later, elephant energy popped into her mind one evening.

    The next day a teacher/colleague (who was giving up formal office space) posted this on her Facebook wall: “Thought of you when I unpacked this. And if elephants are still significant for you — and it would bless you — would like to gift this to you.”



    She wrote back, “So interesting! I was appreciating the elephant symbol in my life just yesterday, and thinking back to my first baby steps into the work we/I do. I am humbled and grateful to accept this gift.”

    The elephant totem or elephant medicine will bring strength, power, courage, memory, good luck, happiness, bliss, and positivity in your new undertakings. … The elephant medicine will bring you good luck, health, and positivity.

    ~ WorldBirds.org

    Sacred stories are evidence of our connections!

  • 1:30 pm

    Sacred Stories

    She used her “walking meditation” time to enjoy a bike ride. Summer was gone now, and winter was closer day-by-day.

    Today was beautiful, and she was debating taking a longer ride — soooo welcome after seven long days of sitting meditation. She could use the time set aside for lunch/rest to log another five miles.

    Observing the practice of noble silence throughout the retreat, she had her phone with her but the ringer was shut off. Something nudged her to check her phone, and she saw a text message from the Zoom host. The message had been sent at 12:52 pm.

    “I have some things to attend to this afternoon. Okay to make you the host starting at 1:30?”

    She immediately sent a text message back: “I am out on my bike right now, and it may be a couple of minutes after 1:30 before I get there, but I’m heading back right now.”

    That nudge to check her phone came at the exact point where she could get back.

    She logged on to Zoom as host at 1:30 pm….

  • Birthday Photos

    Sacred Stories

    The daughter of her mom’s friend sent some old photos. In one of the photos were her mom, her dad, and her sister, along with the woman who sent the photos and that woman’s brother.



    The second photo was a more recent photo of her mom’s friend, who had transitioned April 1 just last year.

    She immediately recognized the timing as a direct message from their parents in spirit.

    The daughter of her mom’s friend had no idea the day of the sending and receiving of the photos was her dad’s birthday….

  • Surprise!

    Sacred Stories

    He traveled to spend the holiday and meet the family of the woman he had started dating. He knew a good friend of his brother had married a woman from that town.

    Driving around, he saw the restaurant where that couple had met and where the guy had proposed to his wife.

    Driving back by the restaurant again later, he took a photo and sent it to the guy, saying he was in that town for the holiday.


    He got a text right back from the guy telling him to look closely at the photo, “I am in that photo! I was walking across the parking lot at that exact moment!”

    The timing of events of our lives are not random. We witness sacred connections….

  • Timing is Everything

    Sacred Stories

    Lou was a young pastor just finishing up his first year in his first church. That September, he said to one of his church leaders, “Hey, David, do you think I could take off the Sunday after Thanksgiving?”

    “Sure,” he said, “just make sure you get someone to do the service. Are you and your wife going to go away to a football game?”

    “No, I will have to leave town that weekend. My Grandmother is going to die then.”

    “What? How can you possibly know that?” David demanded.

    “Well, she is dying, and when her son, my Uncle, visited her this week, she said her goodbyes to him. He wasn’t ready for that, and made her promise to be with him this Thanksgiving. So she will stay for that, then go.”

    About ten weeks later, Lou got the call that his grandmother had died—the day after Thanksgiving. He was able to go to her funeral.

    If we listen to the people we love, they will tell us what their plans are!

    These are sacred stories. Pay attention to happenings in your life. Do you have a story to share? Send email to debra@scs-matters.com.