“I pray for the change in perception that will let me see bigger and sweeter realities.”
–Ann Lamott
My favorite thing in the whole world is miracles. I’ve been a student of ‘A Course in Miracles’ for 25 or so years. The TV series I created is set in an ecovillage called Milagro Springs. Milagro, of course, is Spanish for miracle. And I spend my life looking for miracles which, according to my way of thinking, is actually recognizing Truth.
Miracles are natural and normal and happen all the time…once we give up antiquated ways of thinking.
I also love sharing miracles. My new friend Michelle Dobbins, who writes the fabulous blog, Daily Alchemy, devotes Monday to shout-outs or what she calls “Monday raves.” As she says, it’s a time to notice and get excited about the wonderful things in our lives. For more above raves, she suggests Lola Jones. Check out Lola’s fun and fabulous rave movie here.
So it’s Rave Monday (thank you Michelle) and I’d like to take this opportunity to rave about the following two miracles:
The first happened to my friend, Kris. Over the weekend, she lost a favorite necklace. It fell off sometime before, during or after a party. Because there’s snow on the ground, she knew it could be anywhere, buried deep in a bank of snowflakes. At first, she freaked out. It’s her favorite necklace. She frantically began retracing her steps, digging through snow in front of the party, exhausting herself with mental energy—“Oh, no! How will I ever find my necklace in this weather?”
And then suddenly, she got it. That energy, that fear and crazy belief that finding it would be hard could only keep the necklace away. She began to affirm how easy it is to find misplaced items. Within a couple hours, she found a phone that had disappeared a few months ago, a pair of sewing scissors she’d been looking for and one other thing that had mysteriously gone missing.
Her partner went back over to the party and within minutes, called, “Hey, your necklace was right there in a snow drift in front of the house.”
The other miracle happened to yours truly. To set the scene, I have to tell you that my hometown, Lawrence, Kansas, has a really cool, old school downtown with lots of coffee shops, local boutiques and art galleries. We are very proud of our downtown and worked hard to….shall we say…dissuade a big mall from coming in. But the downtown Parking Nazis are rabid. If you park downtown and don’t deposit a quarter or two (hey, what can I say? It’s dirt cheap), you’re going to return to find a yellow envelope under your windshield wiper. Sometimes two or three. It’s as sure as the sun coming up.
I was running late (as usual) to meet my friend, Joyce, for lattes on Saturday. I jetted across the street and remembered, “Ah shucks. I forgot to feed the parking meter.” But I was late and lazy and decided to just make the intention that a wall of protection would surround my car. I do this a lot when I’m driving. Fast forward two and a half hours. Yes, Joyce and I can really talk. I go back to my little car, innocently sitting there with NO TICKETS!!! In fact, the parking meter had 45 minutes to go. So thank you, kind person who fed my parking meter and thank you, universe, for responding (AS ALWAYS) to my last-minute intention. Life is so good!!!!
Pam Grout is the author of E-Squared: 9 Do-it-Yourself Energy Experiments that Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality.
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I love this post and not just because you mentioned me in it. 😉 Love the stories about the miracles. I love watching for this kind of thing in my life. If you look for it and believe it happens. I had a fun little miracle this weekend. I got an e-mail inviting me to submit to volume two of an anthology. I went to Amazon to look up the first edition to inspire me and once I saw the cover I realized I owned the book. I had won it last summer at a writing conference. I grabbed it of my shelf and randomly chose a story to read out of it and then discovered, it was written by an aquaintance of mine. So fun! Now I just have to get my submission ready.
I want to tell you about a miracle – and indeed, all of us who see them every day are the ones on the “lookout for them”! A year or so ago, I went to a place in Cincinnati called Half Price Books. Now, I love, adore bookstores and I always go inside in the intention of finding the perfect book for me at that time in my life. So…. I find a book by an author in England. It speaks to me and I buy it. I have NO IDEA who this lady is who wrote it – i remember reading it and thinking oh, this is pretty cool. A few weeks later, I am talking to my friend on Facebook, a dear friend, and she informs me she is in London having dinner with – THIS AUTHOR I just found. Now, (I say this phrase to myself more and more lately) what are the freaking odds that would happen? Life is … a miracle. True beauty.
Fabulous story. Thanks for sharing!!!
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