Skill or magic, you decide (19 Mar 2009)

It works! I pro­jected for a park­ing place in front of the store and it was there. Or, I pro­jected that I get a phone call from a friend and she called. This is an excit­ing expe­ri­ence for a num­ber of Silva grads after they fin­ish the pro­gram and real­ize that they can make things hap­pen by projecting.

What have you pro­jected and it hap­pened so fast you squealed with delight?

I have many times, but this is one expe­ri­ence accord­ing to my son that I missed an opportunity.

Set­tling back on the faded red, plush seat as the com­muter plane took off, I sud­denly felt too com­fort­able. It took me a moment to real­ize why. The snug, beige slacks I had pur­chased two weeks ear­lier had just ripped from waist to crotch. Of course, I had planned to lose five pounds before I made the trip to present a work­shop in South Texas.  I noted that most of the pas­sen­gers were busi­ness­man. Only two other females were on board; the stew­ardess and a woman sit­ting up front.    “Surely I have a safety pin,” I thought as I began explor­ing the con­tents of my purse. No pin.

After the cap­tain turned off the seat belt sign, the stew­ardess came up the isle with refresh­ments and peanuts. I clutched her arm to get her undi­vided atten­tion, told her my predica­ment, and asked if she had a pin or a sug­ges­tion. She put her hand up to her mouth to sti­fle her giggle.

As the plane began its descent, the cap­tain announced there would be a fifteen-minute lay­over. This was my des­ti­na­tion. My exit must have been a sight to behold. I had a brief­case and purse to han­dle as I clutched my slacks together at the back waist­band. If only I had not packed the match­ing sweater in my checked bag. Hur­ry­ing down the aisle, my mouth so dry I could spit cot­ton, I kept my eyes down. I headed for the ter­mi­nal and never turned around. Head­ing directly for the ladies room with one thought in mind.

Surely there is a woman around to help or ‘at that time’ there were ladies per­sonal items with two pins avail­able in a vent­ing machine.    “Oh, no!” I cried out in dis­may as I saw that the box on the wall had been pried open. It was empty. Start­ing to be become a bit hys­ter­i­cal, I began singing, “What have I ever done to deserve all of this…? Lord help me Jesus…”I swear I heard
snickering.

Now what?’ I asked as I tried to think this through. A pin would solve this prob­lem. That’s when I closed my eyes, crossed my fin­gers even my legs and began repeat­ing, “All I need is a pin…just one pin. Make it an inch long while you’re at it.” I repeated it with inten­sity for at least five min­utes while mak­ing a men­tal pic­ture of it. I finally had the courage to open my eyes and look around.
“It can’t be, it can’t be,” I squealed with delight as I dis­cov­ered the shiny object at my feet. At first, I was reluc­tant to bend over to pick it up, think­ing I may be hal­lu­ci­nat­ing. It truly was a pin. A big, face-saving kind of pin. I would swear on a stack of King James Bibles that the pin had not been there a moment ear­lier.
Ecsta­tic with delight I pinned myself together and took small steps as I headed to pick up my bag.

When I returned home, I told my hus­band and 16-year-old son about my dilemma. My son began shak­ing his head with a mis­chie­vous grin when I fin­ished telling them my expe­ri­ence.    “Mom, if you had given it just a lit­tle more thought before you made your plea. I really would have been impressed.” Puz­zled by his remark I asked, “And just what would you have done?” “Why, I cer­tainly wouldn’t have missed such a good oppor­tu­nity. I would have asked for a solid gold me.”

If you are a per­son that is always right …con­sider this:

Whether you think you can or think you can’t. Either way you are right.

Believe and Receive,

Helene

19 Mar 2009

P.S. Has a sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tion hap­pened to you? I’d love to hear what you expe­ri­enced, just share it in a comment.

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Feather says

Met with Med­i­cine Woman, explained my con­cerns about a spot on my back that had been removed and now returned, larger and darker than before. Accept­ing her sug­ges­tion for aloe vera plant use, I walked to my car. As I got closer a smile appeared. On the door han­dle, which has a small ledge under­neath where the fin­gers fit to lift the latch, there sat a small red rose hip.
My smile widened as grate­ful­ness filled my Being, I gave thanks as I looked around, nowhere in sight was there a rose bush, only a con­crete wall with tufts of long grass wav­ing in the breeze.
I have been given the “med­i­cine” for my health issue con­cern, and a gift of remem­ber­ing, The Creator’s gifts of heal­ing.
Light­ning Feather Woman, Native American

Claudia says

Con­grat­u­la­tions on finally hav­ing a blog. This story about need­ing per­sonal items reminded me of how SPEC hap­pened in my life just this past week.
I live in an area of town where a lot of shop clerks either don’t speak Eng­lish or else aren’t flu­ent in it. So what’s a girl to do when she runs out of deoder­ant and there’s no super­mar­ket around? Surely ethic stores would have deoder­ant on the shelves. Same for con­ve­nience stores. But the two I went to didn’t have any botles at all. Mak­ing mat­ters worse the per­son I asked(who then had to ask another clerk if there was any available)directed me to an aisle where there were toi­letries but not what I was look­ing for. God love her, at least she tried.
While com­ing out of a 7–11 I spot a dol­lar store. Fig­ur­ing that maybe, just maybe they would have a bot­tle or two even if it was a man’s scent I went in. The place was tiny. Most of the space was taken up by shelves. Only one per­son could shop at a time. The clerk spoke no eng­lish. But I try my luck any­way and ask if he sells deoder­ant. He looks around for a few min­utes, comes back and says no. I ask God why there isn’t any deoder­ant when a per­son needs it, turn the cor­ner to look at the shelves the clerk just fin­ished look­ing through. So even though the clerk is yelling that he just looked on those shelves I scan them what they have. After all, it IS a shop and I may want some­thing else some­day. Wouldn’t hurt to look around.
What do you know but I see six dif­fer­ent brands on the very top shelf. Both mens and wom­ans brands. So I reach up, take the one at the end, say thank you to God and bring the bot­tle over to the clerk. Maybe at that point most peo­ple would yell at the guy about how he doesn’t know his stock or what­ever but I told him he’s a life-saver.
Which wasn’t entirely true but the item was around when I needed it. On the top shelf, true, but it was there. In six dif­fer­ent choices! And all for only $1.

John Bontrager says

You have sold mil­lion of copies and many use your meth­ods. Which one will win when more then one are going after the same thing? Sec­ondly, recently I watched the balls being drawn for the loto and picked all four before they popped up on the screen but have had no luck in doing this at any other time or when buy­ing tick­ets. Do you have any sug­ges­tions? Thank You

Mystery says

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right.” Henry Ford (1863–1947)

Gail Smith says

Small mir­a­cles — I was tired and the day was hot and long. We’d just come from church the chil­dren and I. I was stretched for money and a friend had just given me one hun­dred dol­lars to tide me over. I never put money in my wal­let but I did it on this day. I had stopped by the gro­cery store and when we exited the car I picked up my pock­et­book and a cou­ple of bags and went straight upstairs. The fol­low­ing morn­ing, I noticed I did not hear my cell phones alarm. I thought, maybe the bat­tery was low. As the morn­ing pro­gressed I was prompted in thought to look for the cell phone and when I could not find it I also looked for my wal­let because those two items were together when I last used them. Nei­ther were in the house. I went down­stairs back to the car and looked in the car. I sent my daugh­ter to look in the car as well. My car was parked next to my Van which is in dis­re­pair at the moment. Any­way I came back upstairs and said Lord, I give this to you, I imag­ined its return in my mind and uttered, whether or not you want me to have the money that was in the wal­let and the cell phone. Please send me the ID. At that point I stopped look­ing for the wal­let and there was a strange peace over me. I sat down and started watch­ing a TV pro­gram with my daugh­ter, full well know­ing that I had a life­time of credit cards, ID, etc. con­tained in those two belong­ings that could take years to replace. About ten min­utes later the bell rang and I ran down­stairs to open the door, It was just my daugh­ters boyfriend. I came back up and told her. A cou­ple min­utes later, the door rang again and said to her “would you hurry up your friend is wait­ing”. Then we heard a knock on the door. It was the land­lord who returned the wal­let and cell phone to my daugh­ter and said he noticed it on top of the van this morn­ing and thought it belonged to one of us. The mir­a­cle is that we returned home from church Sun­day after­noon at 2:30 and remained home until Mon­day Morn­ing 11:55 when the land­lord returned the wal­let. Which means the wal­let and black­berry cell phone was out­side all night in a busy urban dis­trict on top of a car and no one noticed. All of the con­tents was in tact not one dime missing.

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