The Room
Below
“Sometimes
accidents happen without warning, but sometimes the universe gives us
a nudge, a little sign. We don't have to become paranoid, we don't
have to think every event means something, but we can trust ourselves
to recognize a sign when we see one.”
Melody
Beattie (Journey to the Heart)
Do you ever feel
restless? Like something is coming, but it's not quite here yet, and
you can't see exactly what it is? It's an uncomfortable gut-feeling that something is there, just out of reach. Sometimes our intuitive
mind will begin sending signals ahead of time. For me, these often
come in the form of dreams. They're not prescient dreams; they don't
tell me an exact scenario, but they will show me a little scene and
the message is, “this is how it looks in here.” Some years ago,
for example, I dreamed I was standing before a wide window looking
out at an ocean. Way in the distance, I saw a storm front coming,
black clouds, lightening flashing, and that front stretched as far as
I could see from one side of the horizon to the other. A woman stood
beside me, someone I seemed to know very well, but not a person I
could name. She said to me, “A storm is coming. It will be a bad
one, but don't worry; there is a room down below where you'll be
safe. The window in that room will never break.”
In the year and a half
following that dream, I had neurosurgery to repair a completely
ruptured cervical disc, my husband of twenty years left for a
thirty-year-old, my older son graduated high school and went to
college out-of-state, and my father died. You may say I had no
warning, that the dream was just a fluke, but it doesn't seem so to
me. Not only did I have warning, but I was told I would be safe,
because “a room down below” with a shatter-proof window would
protect me. I drew a picture of that room with the window, of the
dark front coming and the lightening flashing. I was not surprised
when the storm hit.
Hindsight shows us that
we have warning signs all along the way if we are tuned-in. If we are
awake and listening, we can grow to understand their meaning ahead of
time. Not every event has special meaning, but the ones that resonate with
us, that stick in our awareness, those we should pay attention to.
Consciousness is everything.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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