Blessings and Opportunities

Ten thousand years ago, while planning this current lifetime, I made an entry into my karmic daybook for August 1, 2008: 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time--meet a tree. Following the suggestions of my Evolving Consciousness instructor, I am now offering my heartfelt thanks to:

• the beautiful, loving and forgiving young woman who loaned me her car
• the 1994 Toyota Corolla, with its standard transmission
• my own series of, let's call them 'lapses,' leading to my inability to apply the brake in a timely manner
• the tree to whom I so abruptly introduced myself
• the overly-enthusiastic airbag that caught me by surprise (what an understatement!)
• the crash and my injuries, that opened up the opportunity to fulfill my karma and receive a series of wonderful life blessings!

I don't know who reads this blog, but no one need worry--I am fine. Glad to be home in Edmonton, resting and healing, but fine. I still feel overwhelmed when I remember the love, kindness, and magical healing ministrations of 'strangers' who dropped their plans to spend time with me immediately following my collision. I was held and nurtured by these very skillful angels, who simply took the pain away. I am especially grateful to Karen, her husband Ken, and their little boy Coco, as well as the young man who Reiki'ed my feet. In the hospital, later that day, the doctor informed me that the following day I would feel as though I had been 'trampled by a bull,' but there was very little pain, and no need to fill the prescription for Percocet that I had been given.

What in the Cosmos was going on, on August first? When I arrived at the house where I would be staying for two nights, there was a note on the table from the landlady, saying that she had been in a car accident that day, and had gone to the emergency room! Thousands of miles away, my son-in-law also bumped a tree with his vehicle! And yesterday evening my dear husband Ken--the best driver in the world--rear-ended another vehicle while driving his truck home from work!

The day after I arrived home, two of my daughters had startling news to share, and I realized that every one of my four children is in the midst of a major life transition just now. My entire immediate family is being shaken up in the Divine Cosmic Dice Tumbler. My oldest daughter, Rose, has terrific news that I feel I can report here: she has accepted her First Real Career Job, as co-facilitator of a group program for twenty-five abusive men (you couldn't pay me a million dollars to do it, but she's thrilled)!

What has Steiner got to say about all of this?

Can I expand my soul
That it unites itself
With cosmic Word received as seed?
I sense that I must find the strength
to fashion worthily my soul
as fitting raiment for the spirit.

May we indeed be strong enough and worthy enough to meet these events and carry them forward in our lives as blessings and opportunities.