3/28/12
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WILL READ TODAY!
My Story of Synchronicity, Miracles, and Life
My morning started off a little rocky. Abigail, my daughter, failed to mention until the very last minute that she needed a calculator for her standardized testing today. I became very irritated with her for waiting until the last minute. It didn’t take much before my annoyance started to get the best of me and I found myself being snippy and unkind towards her. As I felt my bad mood boiling inside of me, a calm voice within told me to get myself in check. This voice reminded me that it wasn’t worth starting the day off badly or sending her into testing with hurt feelings. I had a knowing within that I should get it together because you just never know…. However, I am also human, and sometimes I like to tell that spiritual self inside to just stuff it. I decided I didn’t want to hear what it had to say at that moment.
We found a calculator, but the batteries just happened to be almost dead. I decided to run into the store and get some and that Abbie would just have to face the natural consequences of her actions- being late to school and perhaps having a lunch detention or something. As I headed back to the car after paying, that voice inside of me piped up again. “You need to apologize and make things right.” It insisted. “Don’t go your separate ways today being mad. You know what can happen if you do…” This time I listened.
I got back in the car and apologized to my daughter for being upset with her, but I also explained WHY. I told her that it is important for her to plan more in advance so that we can avoid these types of situations. I let her know that she would most likely be late (unless we had all green lights and I could maybe speed a little). I also told her that she was going to have to tell the truth about WHY she was late (and not put the blame on me for not getting her batteries sooner or something). We made our peace, said our “I love you’s” and turned up the radio to find a happy song.
A few minutes down the road, a black SUV decided that it wanted to occupy the same space as my car. The laws of physics tell us that this is just not possible! Without a turn signal, (not that it would have done any good), this vehicle started pushing itself into my lane. Of course, I freaked out! My first thought was, “Oh my God! My kids!” He was plowing his way in on the side where my 11 year old Peanut sat next to me in the front and my Pumpkin Head of six months babbled and played with his toys in his car seat. I slammed on the brakes! I didn’t even bother with the horn. I felt the car begin to lose control. I felt myself losing control. We swerved back and forth, pulled in and out of the lane… Fortunately, in the hustle of heavy highway traffic flying down the road in a hurry to their destinations, somehow enough room was made for me to do what I needed to do, and the road opened up for me to drive into the turn lane between medians. I could feel that the car was going to flip and I knew what would happen then. Everything was very surreal. Abigail was frightened and THAT SAME CALM VOICE inside of me instructed me on how to stop the car safely, and, miraculously, I did. We sat there in shock and silence as the rest of the world drank their coffee, talked on their cell phones, mentally planned their days, and pressed their accelerators to make it where they needed to be on time. Though I know they had seen what had almost happened, (as I’m sure many had to act quickly to avoid being a part of the accident), no one came back. We were left in our silence.
Abbie cried and I hugged her telling her it was okay. I was able to do what I needed to do to avoid the accident. We thanked God, our angels, and that voice inside for intervening. As I pulled away, I thought to myself, “This is like that Carrie Underwood song where she loses control of the car, her life flashes before her eyes, and her baby is in the backseat oblivious to it all…”
I dropped Abigail off at school and began the journey home. I was so upset at that stupid so-and-so driver for nearly killing me and my family! How could he or she not be paying attention? That driver was in such a hurry to get wherever they were going, they put our lives at risk! Then, that (darned) calm voice within came again… “Are you sure you’re not being hypocritical? Were you not yourself in a hurry to get your own daughter to school? Just because it wasn’t your fault this time, it could have just as easily been…” Then the epiphanies came. What if??? What if I had lost my children in that accident? How would I have survived each day after??? What IF I had lost them and Abigail and I hadn’t made up yet and were still angry? What if I had died and had left Abigail behind with only the memories of me being upset with her? How would that have affected her the rest of her life? Maybe she would have to seek out a medium like me to get that closure, and that’s never a guaranteed thing… What if the three of us were gone and I would have left behind my parents and brothers and their families without saying “I love you” one last time? What if I hadn’t only the night before gotten the courage to let someone special in my life know just how much he means to me… What if??? I’m glad I listened to that beautiful, wise voice within. If things had gone differently, I would not have had to look back at my life from the Other Side filled with regret and still longing to express myself to those I love.
There are so many lessons for all of us from this one hour of my day. This typical morning brings some very powerful truths about love, life, and God.
1) DON’T WAIT to tell the people in your life how much they mean to you. Don’t take for granted that they already know. I can’t tell you how many times I am doing a reading for someone who KNOWS their loved one loved them, and the loved one on the other side is saying “Of course I love you and still do”, but that client didn’t hear it before their passing. She needed it just one more time…
2) Remember each word you say could be your last. Every action you take could be your last. If not your last, those moments could be the last your children, parents, friends, spouse, or other special person in your life could ever spend with you. How will you spend each of those moments? Holding grudges and letting the negativity within spill out of us at another person isn’t worth it. Do NOT put yourself in the situation where you have to look back and say, “If I had only…” The next minute is never guaranteed. It is not a right. It is not even reliable. Live in this moment; and in THIS MOMENT, I encourage you to contact the person that you have hurt, or who has hurt you, and make things right.
3) SLOW DOWN! How often does being in a hurry get us into trouble? Hurrying through work causes us to make mistakes that we often have to go back and correct anyway, thereby wasting more time than we saved. It makes us miss out on the good stuff that’s happening right NOW. It could also be more serious as in this morning’s incident. Are the consequences of causing a fatal car crash and having to live with the guilt of 3 people’s lives on your conscience really worse than the ramifications of being a few minutes late to school or to work? Is loss through death and a lifetime of sadness for many really preferable over a reprimand of some sort? Think about it.
4) This is also a lesson in forgiveness and finding the opportunity and beautiful message in everything that life brings our way. It’s a lesson on perspective. My first inclination was to come home, get on Facebook, and tell that bleepedy-bleep-bleep to watch where he was blank-ing going, and how could people be so stupid??!! However, I realized that I really owe that person a very big THANK YOU. (HUH??!!) Thank you for reminding me of the value of love, life, and my family. Thank you for teaching me that I should always speak in love that lifts up others. Thank you for allowing me to have such a miraculous experience where my Higher Power stepped in to save my stupid butt when I couldn’t think clearly! Thank you for giving me this story to share with others, because I know it will change people’s days and maybe even their lives… Thank you, my friend! May you be blessed and may you always be safe.
5) Finally, and this one’s a toughie because it requires a good hard look at the things we don’t like about ourselves, but we must be willing to see the hypocrisy in our own lives. As Mathew 5:7 says, “You hypocrite! First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” It could have easily been me who nearly killed a lady and her two kids today. I was also in a hurry. How often do we blame other people for doing the very same things that we do?
As all good stories do, this one has a very cool ending. Remember my thoughts I had while getting back on the road about that Carrie Underwood song? For those of you who listen to the radio, you know that “Jesus Take the Wheel” was popular a few years back, but it doesn’t get a whole lot of air time these days. As I was driving down the road having all of these epiphanies and knowing that I had to come home and share this story with you, that song came on the radio. I fought back tears, gave thanks once again for being alive and being loved, and promised I would pass along this message to all of those who would read it…
Below is the song. May you all be blessed and be safe.
Love,
GeminiRose, Psychic Medium
www.geminirose.net
