Everything is in perfect alignment with Divine timing.
Everything happens exactly as it should.
Sometimes
I have to repeat this over and over and over again and I still have a hard time
believing it. But, most of the time, I believe it and accept it. Even when it
hurts.
I often
pray a prayer my mom taught me: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean
not on your own understanding.
It makes
sense, right? That the human brain could not possibly fathom the web of
experiences and happenings of Life, or figure out the interconnectedness of all
events and beings… It’s really just all a matter of perception, anyway, isn’t
it?
With
that being said, I also believe that there are no coincidences. What was it
that I saw recently (probably on Facebook)? “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining
anonymous.” (Presumably, it was Albert Einstein who said that, but I haven’t
checked-in with Senorita Snopes about that one yet.) When I run into Coincidence,
it’s a sign to me that my life is on track…or maybe way off-track; either way,
it’s a sure sign that I need to take note of it, because it is a Sign, indeed.
A sign
came slithering my way just last night, as a matter of fact. You see, my husband and I have been
searching for a house…for, like, 3 years or something crazy like that. Last
night, we finally moved forward on a bid. It was right after we'd sent the
email to the realtor outlining specifics, in fact, that I'd gone out to get
JoJo (our cat), as he'd been outside for a good portion of the evening, doing
Feline-knows-what. It was dark, so I had a flashlight in tow, and luckily, I
had turned it on before I reached the main floor; otherwise, I may not have
seen the skinny, black-and-brown, 18-inch-long snake at the foot of the steps.
I halted. It lie still. I didn’t
freak-out or anything, since I’ve done a bit of educating myself about snakes
(and how most of them in Texas are not venomous yet get killed due to fear and
ignorance all of the time by kill-happy-hickoids – no judgment there, just
observation).
Red touch yellow, kill a fellow; red touch black, won’t kill Jack. "But what about black touch brown?” I wondered.
I looked up to see JoJo quickly approaching. Whether venomous or not, I did not want my kitty using this creature as a plaything, and anticipation made my heart skitter briefly until I was able to snatch-up JoJo...at which time, the snake glided its way behind a bush.
Red touch yellow, kill a fellow; red touch black, won’t kill Jack. "But what about black touch brown?” I wondered.
I looked up to see JoJo quickly approaching. Whether venomous or not, I did not want my kitty using this creature as a plaything, and anticipation made my heart skitter briefly until I was able to snatch-up JoJo...at which time, the snake glided its way behind a bush.
I couldn’t help but wonder the odds
of my walking downstairs to get JoJo at that perfect moment in Time to come
face-to-face with a snake. So, I decided to look it up on my iTotem app just in
case the Universe was attempting to relay a message (which it always is; we
just have to open our hearts and listen). Snake: Wisdom, Healing, Initiation. “It…signals
a transition in your life. New opportunities and/or changes. …accept the power
of the fire.”
I like to use several sources when
something unique happens to me, so I also got out my Animal Speak book (Ted Andrews):
“…It sheds its skin and outgrows the old. This death and rebirth cycle is part
of what snake represents… is often symbolized by the ouroborus, the ancient
image of a snake swallowing its own tail…the symbol of eternity… enabling the individual
to see the world from an entirely new perspective… Anytime a snake shows up as
a totem, you can expect death and rebirth to occur in some area of your life…What
new opportunities are surfacing that you need to strike out for and take
advantage of?...When snake comes into your life, you can look for a rebirth
into new powers of creativity and wisdom.”
as well as my
Animal Spirit Guides book (Steven D. Farmer, PH.D.): “You’re about to go
through some significant personal changes, so intense and dramatic that an old
self will metaphorically die as a new self emerges… You’re about to resolve a
long-standing issue, one that has required a great deal of your attention…Call
on snake when…you are anxious about what lies ahead.”
I took a lot of this interpretation
to fit the situation of our moving forward in our first home-buying process,
which has been causing a lot of angst in us, but there really is so much more
to the snake that applies to my life. I’ll save that for another post, another
day, I suppose.
I do try to use the signs in Nature
to guide me in my endeavors in life, and I hope I am appropriately interpreting
them so that I can be the best that I can be in all that I Am and in all that I
Am to Become.
Namaste.
P.S. No lie: I just finished typing
and I glanced down at the bedside clock and it read 11:11. If that doesn’t ring
a bell, then you must not be my Facebook “friend”, and I say, hold tight; I’m
sure a post will emerge regarding that phenomenon at some point. <3
