Connections – The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Connections – The Gift
That Keeps On Giving

I'm content
with the connections
I have with Spirit
in other ways
I told someone recently.
A few Sunday's ago I went shopping
and couldn't find all I wanted at WalMart.
Later that afternoon I felt compelled
to finish the grocery shopping.
My wife, Laura, said she needed fresh ginger
for the superfood soup
she wanted to make us for supper.

So I followed my intuition
and went all the way out to Publix
past Earth Fare
where I could have gotten all of it.
I felt Publix was the place.
I headed for the produce section,
I knew I could be in and out quickly,
I only needed 3 items.
As I started scanning
the produce section,
my heart leaps alive with joy
and a profound sense of love.
There stands a lady
with strawberry blond hair,
same build, similar height,
and with this beautiful sweater on
that would be just like what Jane E.
(the wife I lost suddenly years ago)
would wear.

I looked at her
I never saw her face.
Just felt a feeling of love swell in me
as truth shivers
washed over my whole body.
I mentally thanked Jane E.
for reminding me
she's always with me
wherever I am.
I got the fresh ginger
and turned to leave
the produce section.
As I did this gal rose up.
As though Jane E. was saying
take another look and feel
the same emotions again!
Like she totally understands
my incessant skepticism,
even after all the spiritual nudges
that I have experienced
these last 8+ years.
I only saw her from the back,
but I was again overcome
by the very same
intense rush of feelings.
It is a gift these moments,
these spiritual synchronicities,
we experience now and then.

The feelings washed over me
two or three more times
as I continued shopping
and my mind kept going back
to analyze "what just happened?"
The same feelings came back
when I shared it with Laura
a few days later.
And as I sat here writing this.

So truth shiver is an apt name
for the experience.
It also reinforces
the knowledge in me
that Spirit has
an infinite number of ways
to get our “attention.”
Whether we are awake
at the moment enough
to notice it or not
is on us.

I’m glad I wasn’t blinded
with self-absorption
about getting in and out
of the grocery store so fast.
If I were, I would have missed
this wondrous connection.

I share this most recent occurrence
of the gifts that Spirit
keeps on giving with you.
Know you are loved
whether the ones you love
are on this plane or not,
love never dies.

Spirit is sending us
messages all the time.
May you always be awake,
aware, and grateful
when these messages arrive.

All My Love Always, Keith