Friday, September 12, 2008

I'm new at this, be paitent please.

I am trying to figure this blog thing out. I am totally new at it. But in this first entry I want to share something a little spiritual. Do you ever have a nagging feeling that you need to do something? Or you can't stop thinking about someone and think that you should call them? I have had two in the past week and both times I have ignored them. Niether of them were huge, but it still bothered me that I could not follow through with my feeling. My brother had a birthday at the beginning of the week. I thought about him all day long and kept telling ymself to call him. I am very good about calling people on their birthdays and rarely forget. As it happens, this was the one time I did forget. Not a big deal right? Probably not. But I talked to my mom later this week and found out that when he got home at the end of the day, he was very sad and he expressed to his wife that no one had wished him a Happy Birthday all day!! How sad to know that I could have made his birthday a little sunnier had I followed through with my thoughts that I was having all day long. The second situation also included a birthday. I have a cousin in Arizona who I haven't seen for many years and just recently found her email and started talking to her again. Well her birthday was this week as well. I thought about her all that day as well. I didn't really have the feeling that I needed to call her, but maybe email her or something to let her know I remebered her birthday. Did I? Of course not. Well the followoing afternoon my mom called to let me know that her dad had died late the night before. How sad I was. Had I emailed her and let her know that I was thinking of her made her day just a little better maybe! The conclusion to my story is, if you ever get the feeling you should do something it's most likley the spirit telling you to, you should really follow through. Niether of this situation caused any traumatic results because I didn't follow through, but it sure would have helped, even just a little bit, brighten someon elses day!!

2 comments:

The Tylkas said...

blogging is great. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Andria Halbert said...

I too have had feelings that I should do something and haven't. i have also had some pretty cool things happen when I have followed the promptings. The funniest thing that happened was when I was a young mom and one day I opened up a kitchen cupboard and noticed that the lid to the caramel sauce wasn't quite on tightly. I thought to myself that I should probably tighten it up, but being a typical procrastinator, I just shut the cupboard door. Some time later when I opened that same door, I noticed that brown sticky goo was oozing all over the cupboard shelves emanating from the tipped-over bottle of caramel. Life is fast-paced and it is easy to ignore nagging promptings. May we all heed these messages so that we don't encounter more serious consequences than a bottle of caramel sauce!