Note from Suzanne: Is Sanaya real? As real as we are. As real as All That Is. Yesterday’s message that I received in meditation was about fairy tales. The message had been preceded by words about symbols and mythology, but I had not gone deep enough for the words to flow well, and they did not feel right to me. I ended up only including the final paragraph they gave me about fairy tales. Yesterday afternoon I was reading a book I discovered in our RV’s cabinet the night before. It had been there for 5 months and I had forgotten that I brought it on the summer tour. Imagine my delight five hours after posting Sanaya’s message to find a page in the book’s introduction that began with a discussion of symbols, moved on to mythology, and ended with fairy tales. I gasped aloud. Was this a coincidence? Hardly.
I am heading to The Omega Institute later this month to lead a workshop with Dr. Eben Alexander and Dr. Gary Schwartz about synchronicity. I know from repeatedly having occurrences such as the symbol-mythology-fairy tale event that synchronicity is not “just a coincidence.” It is evidence that the physical and non-physical worlds are interconnected. Synchronicities are “God winks” – signs that we are not alone.
Each day when I post Sanaya’s messages, I choose a photo from Google images to accompany the words. Yesterday I began with a search for a picture of Little Red Riding Hood, but Sanaya clearly prompted me to search for “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” This seemed appropriate, since they had spoken of Grimm in their message. As you can see if you scroll down to yesterday’s message, I chose a book cover of Grimm’s Fairy Tales for the photo. Last night I decided to read my new book in bed for a few more minutes before going to sleep. By this time I had progressed to chapter three, and there on page 28 I read the line, “Think of the stories of the Brothers Grimm …” When was the last time I heard or read anything about Grimm prior to that morning’s message from Sanaya? I can’t even remember.
God, I love this life, even with all of its challenges. The magic that happens when we discover that there is a greater reality can at times seem like a fairy tale, but that greater reality is very, very real.
Sanaya, you are real. I know this beyond any doubt, and I am so very grateful for your constant presence and guidance in our lives.
“God winks”, yes that’s a perfect description for these gentle, magical moments that appear almost out of nowhere over and over again. It’s a kind of cumulative effect for me…these messages through synchronicity. Like two nights ago, I was up later than normal when my stepdaughter and stepson both posted, within minutes of each other, the results of one of those cute Facebook tests, “Who is your guardian angel?”. Turns out, I’m the guardian angel for both of them. Well, that in itself was a very comforting thought for me, and it warmed my heart, especially since we live in different states and don’t see each other often enough, and especially since their Dad, my husband, passed away a year ago. But even more special, the picture that came up on their test results was my Facebook photo of my husband and I at our wedding, so it looked like WE came up as their guardian angels. My first thought, and theirs too, was that this was more than a coincidence, as they both quickly tagged me with the test results. After several back and forth comments among the three of us, each with our own levels of belief and skepticism, about the amazing and “magical” feelings we all shared that their Dad had a hand in this….that HE was sending them a message, that HE was always with them and watching over them.
After we signed off, the thought came to me, as it sometimes does, to take some photos looking for orbs. Being a bit of an orb enthusiast, and with much joy, I found many big bright orbs in the photos I took. They have become a sweet validation of my husband’s energy around me, especially when they appear at significant times like this.
The synchronicities weren’t quite over though. I headed for bed, and was saying my prayers and goodnights to my husband, thanking him for sending such a clear and loving message to the kids, and to me. But my mind kept going back to our Fb discussion, so I couldn’t rest until I shared the orbs story with my step kids. As I opened up Facebook and found the original post from my stepdaughter, I saw Suzanne’s blog post just before it, about her upcoming workshop, “The Preponderance of Evidence”, proof from our loved ones. Interesting, I thought. And then I realized the post that was just after, concerned the one year anniversary of Robin William’s death. Robin Williams has a very significant meaning for my husband and I, as I believe one of his movies has been a mode of communication between us. These two seemingly unrelated posts were in line in the newsfeed just before and just after the conversation thread with my step kids. Neither one of these posts was there earlier, I would have noticed them. But here they were now, like two quotation marks surrounding our conversation. It just seemed way beyond coincidence. I went back to bed happy.
But I was about to get even happier, as I turned on the TV and found myself at the beginning of a movie I’d never heard of called, “The Water is Wide”. The title is the same name as a song that’s very very special to my husband and I, for many reasons, but mainly because I carry an image in my mind now, about my husband and I on opposite shores of a wide river, searching for ways to feel ‘together’ now, until we can be reunited again. So this title naturally caught my attention and I settled in to watch it, a poignant story about growing and going beyond our boundaries, and crossing the wide water to something better.
But there was more to come, while doing my usual channel surfing during commercials, one of my husband’s least favorite of my habits, but one he knew I would do, I discovered that the channel just before, was playing “Armageddon”, one of my husband’s most favorite movies. Bruce Willis plays “Harry”, coincidentally the same name as my husband, who saves the world, dying in the process, but living on.
And then the final gift of the night, the exclamation point, came to me when the very next movie that came on after The Water is Wide, was a movie I’d seen many years ago, called “Always”. Richard Dreyfus as Pete and Holly Hunter as Dorinda play firefighter pilots in love. When he’s killed in a crash, he comes back as her Guardian Angel. Well, this movie about life after death was definitely right up my alley, especially because my husband told me in my Reading that “he’s my angel now”. Many scenes felt so familiar to my own experiences now, but my favorite scene, was when Pete was trying to get Dorinda to “know” he was there in the room, as he kept saying, “I’m right here, I’m right here”. I heard those exact words too….from my husband, in my reading with Suzanne, and I continue to hear them all the time, all the time.
So this night was what I considered a triple header of synchronicities and validations: messages through facebook, orbs in photos, and the appearance and timing of significant movie favorites, titles, and themes. For me, it’s the little things, happening over and over again, that add up to a great big hug from the other side. And I couldn’t be more grateful for all of it, for every piece of this cosmic puzzle.
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Awesomely beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I do believe every word, moment, and meaning.