Saving Fortunes
There's a Chinese food restaurant that isn't far from my house that is a neighborhood favorite, and I have their food about every couple of months. They always include a fortune cookie, and I can't help myself -- I always look at my fortune. I keep a fortune if it seems to be meaningful, but they often end up in the trash or washed while in a forgotten pocket. I have kept three in the last two years while I have been writing PRESENCE, and I looked at them today for the first time in a long time. Today was also the day I received the first printed copy of PRESENCE.
Focus on your long-term goal. Your wish will be granted next year.
Welcome the change coming soon into your life.
Only one who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
I experience the Divine in my everyday life and in everyday ways. Often that comes as messages in all kinds of forms. I don't think every little thing is chocked full of meaning, but I wonder why I kept only these three, and why they didn't make it into the laundry or the trash. Could this be God's way of saying "pay attention" these are important. Or was it because I wished them to be true? Or because they gave me hope and direction? Or because they would magically come true if I kept them? These are like the daily questions I ask myself. Do you think there is a divine connection in something like this?
Certainly, I have been compelled as I've written my book, therefore I have indeed focused on my long-term goal. And today my wish was granted, as PRESENCE is now published and printed.
The last two fortunes are yet to happen. I am more in shock than anything else I can describe, but certainly I need to open myself to welcome the change coming soon into my life. And the final fortune says that attempting the absurd is the way to achieve the impossible. Have I already done that in the writing of this book, or is this also yet to come? Will there be more absurd to attempt?
What messages might you want to keep that you come across? They could be in a Chinese fortune cookie, or maybe just something you see repeatedly in a book or on a sign. They could be in what people say to you. Keep them, they might just come true. They might be like the messages people received that are written about in Bible stories. If that happened so often in those days, could it be happening to you? Now? Like this?
