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Think About It - Stories of love,
inspiration and truth
HOW DOES GOD SPEAK TO YOU
It had been several nights since I have had much sleep and the night before Summers Saturday Open Session was the topper. I was wide awake all night, from the time I went to bed until it was time to get up and get ready for the our Saturday open session. Bob was concerned with my lack of sleep and offered to drive me to the open session and to pick me up afterwards but I knew I would be fine so off I went.
It was, as always, an amazing open session, however, what has taken place since then is even more amazing. The subject of this month's min-lecture series kept running through my head, "God is Speaking, Are You Listening?"
I thought about how God had spoken to me through a gentleman who gifted me with a lap desk at the open session. Someone that I did not know but who had watched me on stage next to Summer during the sessions and decided that I needed a lap desk. I was speechless, what a wonderful expression of God. I don't know if it will be something that I use at the open sessions or not but I do know that there is a definite reason for it. God spoke to me through this very beautiful, thoughtful and generous gentleman. A woman came up to me before the session began and simply said that she wanted me to know how much she enjoyed me. Here was another person that I don't know but took the time to say what she said to me, bringing such sunshine into my life at that moment. God speaks.
A volunteer whose friend attended the open session for the first time and had his name drawn and was so touched by it all that the volunteer, knowing how much a private session would mean to him, gifted him with a private session. God speaking.
From the open session I went to Summers for the small gathering she has in her home after the open sessions. God was speaking to me from every person there. A gentleman sitting with Emmy, Summer's oldest daughter, intent in conversation as if suggesting to her some wonderful life lessons. As I looked around at everyone there, some in the kitchen, some in the dining room, some outside on the patio, everyone involved with everyone else. It was beautiful. And Summer and Karl, never still a moment, cooking, pouring champagne, engaging in conversation and play with everyone... God speaking all over the place and very joyously and loudly I might add.
The highlight of the party... when the monsoon that Summer & Karl arranged for our entertainment arrived blowing everything in sight all over the place, the rain blowing in huge waves across the yard and sometimes into the patio bringing screams of laughter from all of us sitting there, some of the ladies running out into the storm and playing, getting wet and wind blown and laughing every minute. God playing.
Finally, it was time for me to go. Off I went again to spend the rest of the evening with Bob at home. My lack of sleep finally started to catch up with me and 9:30 found me in bed and literally dead to this world. I didn't move, at least I don't think so, until 5:00am the next morning, Sunday, the day of Summer's Teleforum, I had awakened with all of these thoughts racing around my head and then...
I MISSED THE TELEFORUM! With all of these thoughts playing in my head I MISSED THE TELEFORUM! I was devastated. I was so bummed. I NEVER miss anything that is Language of the Heart. Here came guilt, remorse, shame and all the rest. The inevitable (for me anyway) happened. I started to try to figure out why this happened. During this time of guilt, remorse and the rest I received an email from a friend in which she said, "It was great seeing you today, you are pure light", truly God speaking and so perfectly timed, as always with God. No sleep for so long, why wasn't I suppose to be there helping out with the Teleforum, was it this, was it that, why this, why that, and on and on it went. Oh, I came up with a lot of things that made sense to me and may even be valid but then... I talked to Summer. We talked and talked and finally she said, "Well, sometimes I think it's just the simple things. My first thought was... you're exhausted and need the rest, you've been through some pretty stressful stuff lately and you just need the rest." For someone whose website is "The Simplicity of Spirituality" I can sure make it complicated sometimes. She was so totally right, I was exhausted and simply needed the rest, pretty simple don't ya think. God speaks once again.
Sometimes we get so tangled up in trying to figure things out for ourselves that we forget to slow down and tune into God. Dr. Peebles has been telling us for years. SLOW DOWN, IN THE SLOWING DOWN YOU SPEED UP THE PROCESS.
In the slowing down and "Listening" to God the process IS speeded up. I slow down and I listen to God all the time, listen to Him speaking to me from everywhere, from everything, but there are still times when I forget, refer to the above.
The other thing that Dr. Peebles has told us for years, and that I keep proving to be true over and over again is, "The learning never ends."
God speaks to us in so many ways, through people, through nature, our pets and yes, even inanimate objects, and we have Lorina's little lawn elf Henry (who is helping me to learn more about channeling inanimate objects) to prove it. God is ALWAYS speaking to us, all we have to do is to remember to slow down, tune in and listen.
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God's Perfect Timing and
"The Secret"