Whether it be my neuro speciality or just one of my quirks, I can get quite particular about how I'd like to do my spiritual practices. In my ideal world I wake up and open A Course in Miracles, or any other book I'm drawn to at that moment and read a quote that will guide me on that particular day. I would then meditate briefly on it, breathe mindfully and then move mindfully with yoga or qigong and THEN start the day.
Does this ever happen? Those of you with a child and pet, or anyone or anything to look after will probably understand, that this kind of undertaking is pretty near impossible.
So I cut corners.
Today is St Nicholas's day in Hungary, so job #1 this morning on waking was wrapping tiny bits to go in Christopher's and Daniel's boots.
Meditation had to be merged with my Bluey walk (Bluey our dog, not the world famous one, although our dog is making his way up there with his tail wagging social skills) So I listened to my Course meditation for the day while juggling admiring autumn leaves and the light of the sun peeping over Hambledon Hill, with the odd not so graceful extracting of Bluey made substances from wet blades of grass!
Today's meditation was centered around expressing gratitude for the gifts you've received from God throughout the day. I was lit up by the task and started listing all the wonderful people and circumstances in my life, perhaps a poem to follow from that later...
I carried on my daily circuit around the winding streets of our village, thinking of more and more things to give thanks for, when I arrived at Daniel's car. Not technically his car, it's a hire car he's using while his van is being fixed.
I felt an unstoppable urge to trace I love you on his front window and reverse it so he could read it from inside.
My fingers glided through the morning mist revealing a backwards U and a heart and as I looked at it to see if it was visible, my heart skipped a beat. Literally underneath it was a mirror image of what I had written. I tried to capture an image of it, I could not believe my eyes. A tiny message from above to say the love you send out returns to you. Or 'giving and receiving are one in truth' as the Course puts it.
This was undoubtedly the best present anyone has snuck into my boots on St Nicholas's day.
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