| My brother Norm has been living with a brain | | | | one side, pointing to the calligraphed poster next to it |
| aneurysm for years -- and I mean LIVING! Nine years | | | | that read: GET THY SELF TOGETHER. I smiled to |
| ago he was wracked with an excruciating headache. | | | | myself and thought, "Is that you God?" The next |
| The doctors discovered that it was from a leaking | | | | day as I was writing about it in my journal it |
| aneurysm, and rushed him into surgery. After a | | | | happened again! It excited me and made me want to |
| 7-hour brain surgery, they determined that his | | | | stick around, to live, play and explore in this magical |
| aneurysm was inoperable. When he realized that he | | | | energy field of life. |
| could die any day, he chose to LIVE every day -- he | | | | Another time, several years ago, I was having |
| followed his bliss, buying a sailboat and sailing to the | | | | another "dark night of the soul", feeling deep despair |
| Caribbean where he is having wonderful adventures | | | | and praying for guidance. As I was crying and |
| in paradise. He stopped thinking about the aneurysm | | | | journaling about it, a card that was displayed on the |
| and lived as if it was gone. A few weeks ago he had | | | | bookshelf beside me fell to the floor. I picked it up |
| an MRI, which showed that the aneurysm has | | | | and it had a beautiful flower on the cover with the |
| completely calcified and there is no longer a threat of | | | | words, "You are so loved." |
| it rupturing! He considers this a personal miracle. | | | | I love how, when we're open to it, just the right |
| What I see is that he had a powerful intention to live | | | | words, experiences, and people that we need fall into |
| as if he were whole and healed. The seed of | | | | our life. It is a wonderful synchronicity that my |
| intention that is well tended and nourished can flower | | | | brother has recently shared his healing miracle with |
| into coincidences, synchronicities and miracles that | | | | me; it inspires me to let go of thoughts of the |
| heal the body, boggle the mind, and lift the spirit. I've | | | | cancer I recently experienced (knowing that I have |
| created an acronym for the word miracle: | | | | made all the healthy life changes I could) and continue |
| My Intention Radiates Apparently Coincidental | | | | to focus on seeing myself whole, healed, and |
| Luminous Events | | | | connected to the miraculous forces of the Universe. |
| When these "coincidental" luminous events happen to | | | | That's the image and feeling I want to cultivate, |
| me and the people in my life, it reminds me that | | | | nourish and nurture -- that's the intention I want to |
| there's more going on than meets the eye, there is | | | | radiate out into the Universe. |
| an unseen energy that responds to our deepest and | | | | I believe that the deepest intention of our soul is to |
| most focused desires. Einstein said, "Coincidences are | | | | be vibrantly present, whole and alive. I have |
| God's way of remaining anonymous." For me, they | | | | experienced that seeming adversities such as |
| are God's way of saying, "You are not alone." | | | | aneurysms, depression and cancer can be valuable |
| Prayer is another form of intention that reveals our | | | | and necessary stimulants in bringing about that |
| interconnectedness with the powerful forces of the | | | | intention, resulting in the miracle of our full |
| Universe. In my early twenties I was feeling deeply | | | | participation and appreciation of life and living our |
| depressed and asked for a sign from God that life | | | | wildest dreams. |
| was worth living. Just then there was a sound of | | | | Do you have an intention that is bringing forth |
| movement in the room. I looked in the direction of | | | | miracles in your life? Is there adversity in your life |
| the sound and saw that a tall, thin candle in a | | | | that is serving as "miracle grow" to help you flower |
| wrought iron candle holder on the wall had fallen to | | | | into more vibrant aliveness and living your dream? |