Life is funny.
It changes.
Life changes the rules
and it changes you.
Despite our best
efforts to keep it the same,
life changes. Most times without much warning,
life changes.
life changes. Most times without much warning,
life changes.
Sometimes we are
excited, sometimes we are apprehensive, sometimes we are downright scared and
still life changes.
My life is changing.
In the past couple of
years my marriage has ended, I have struggled with deep emotional wounds,
searched for a spiritual understanding of my pain, found my answer, resigned
from my job, wrote a book, am living my Divine life purpose, and I am now
selling my house and moving south!
Yes, my life is
changing.
Through my experiences
I have learned to trust and allow the Divine Universe to guide me.
‘Show me, guide me’ is
my prayer.
Most days this works,
but some days my mind begins to race and my questions can become overwhelming.
The other day was just
one of those days. Feeling restless and
distracted, I went outside to get the mail. It was a beautiful day and with the warm sun
shining on my face I took a moment to stop and breathe in the scent of my
neighbors freshly mowed lawn. Looking at
my lawn I noticed it littered with sticks that had blown on my yard from a storm
the previous evening.
Aimlessly I walked
picking up small sticks and pulling up the clover leaf that has somehow quickly
taken root over much of my grass. As my
hand reached out to pick up yet another stick, the stick suddenly moved and
glided gracefully into a nearby flower garden.
Startled I realized my
‘stick’ was not a stick at all, but a snake, a long, slender, greenish brown
snake!
‘Wow that was odd!’ I
thought. I have lived here for the past eighteen
years and I have spent a great deal of time working in my yard and flower
gardens and not once have I ever seen a snake lying in the middle of my front
lawn or anywhere else for that matter!
Having a connection
with animals and being familiar with animal totems the thought did cross my mind
of whether the snake could have a message for me. However I am careful not to think every
animal I see has a message for me so I quickly decided it was just a random
encounter.
The rest of the day
passed uneventfully. My quick trip to
the mailbox turned into an hour of yard clean up and weeding. As usual my time
spent outside, connecting with nature, calmed my worries and brightened my
mood.
But my questions for
my future are many and the next day the ugly head of worry started to once
again rear up. I pushed my worries back
down and focused on my task at hand. I
was busy and I had a radio show to prepare for.
Today I was a guest on a radio show and I was asked to pull animal totems
cards for listeners and share the messages from the animals with them.
I pulled out one of my
decks of animal totem cards and started shuffling. No sooner had I started to shuffle, than a
card popped out of the deck and fell to the floor. Reaching down to grab it I was once again startled. The card that popped out was the snake card!
Used to how the Divine
Universe works, but still surprised at the cleverness in which the messages
come through, I chuckled and picked the card up.
“Well I guess the
snake yesterday was meant for me!” I declared gratefully, knowing the Universe frequently
gives us guidance through signs and messages; we just have to pay attention to
receive them!
Intrigued and ready to
learn more, I pulled out my book on animal totems and researched the symbolism
of the snake. Not surprisingly the two
main characteristics of a snake are its’ ability to shed its’ skin and how it
glides on its belly for movement.
The symbolism of the
shedding of the skin is to with grace and ease allow what no longer serves us to fall away. To realize that life is forward moving and
more than we can imagine is provided to us when we are no longer holding on to
the past.
When we release
control and trust that all is well and
all is happening in accordance with Divine timing and our soul plan, we can
glide through life and handle all of life’s changes gracefully.
