Message #3413

[Katze]

Lessons are often presented to us in the most unusual ways. Take today, for example, I was doing errands. As I was backing out of a parking space, my mind was elsewhere - not really in the past, not in the future, but it definitely wasn't in "the now" .

And as I was backing out of the parking space, CRASH ! Out of nowhere, there is this vehicle sitting behind me. Strange thing is, I had just finished thanking the Angels for a favor I had asked of them, they must have been pre- occupied too, as they didn't warn me, or prevent what happened. The person in the vehicle was just there, didn't try to move out of the way, didn't honk their horn to warn me to stop, they just sat there and watched as it happened. This certainly brought me to " the NOW ! " in no uncertain terms, one could say.

Strange this discussion and all my questions about being in the now, well ~ I certainly got an answer, not quite what I was expecting, but then, are lessons ever really what we expect ? or do they happen when we expect them to happen ? most often not.... it is the unexpected happenings, that when we think back on them, turn out to be a message or lesson of some kind. Mine was " pay attention, be mindful and practice the presence ". Next time, I will just listen to Steve & Amor & Alfred


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