Message In a Bottle?
I read recently that the Holy Spirit can infuse a desire in someone, causing them to be tempted by an arrival of Grace. Are desires implanted to prime us to connect with what comes, and thereby moving us along in a directed way through life?
Later I was walking through our hall at home, and with summer giving way to the early decay and mustiness of autumn, I wondered if some scent might brighten things up, but did not intend to take it further.
Our wedding anniversary was due on 1st September. I wanted to bring something to my wife, and I thought flowers would be preferred. As they were being bundled together in our local florist, I mooched around and stumbled across a scent and diffuser pack. The product logo was TG. I told one of the shop assistants I had to get this because it had my initials for Tony Good. She said it is meant for you, in a good shop assistant way, and I said it was clearly meant as a gift for my wife from me.
The day arrived, and the scent sat around the place but eventually found its seat in the hall where I had thought I would like some scent some days before.
What is more, the logo TG stood for True Grace.
Only later did I put it all together. I had found a desire to have a scent in the hall, serendipitously found a scent with my initials, bought it for someone else, and it went into the hall, and it was called True Grace. On another level, I had been given an idea and seen it come to life.
I cannot imagine how having this scent in our hall moves the universe along in a better way, unless this was more a lesson for me. As I walk past the bottle and scent I will be reminded of the idea of spirit-induced desire preparing me for Grace, and prompt me to contemplate the idea further.
My loving intentions for my wife had pushed this sequence along. Is it that grace follows love? When we bestow love, it is received in return in some way. To my surprise, I have found, when doing something selflessly for another, even my dog, something positive rebounds to me. Karma?
It could be just a coincidence, some of you might be thinking. I agree, but this kind of thing happens so often, and for me, they come as lessons. There are too many coincidences of this kind for them to be random and not constructed. Though, I hold on to the possibility that an unforeseen non-spiritual explanation may exist. Spiritual doubt will accompany me to the end of the journey.
I had thought that I always got what I had wanted, but maybe it was the other way around. Have I been manipulated to desire what would come to me in the future?
Is this how it works?
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Thank you for sharing. I love these observations. I also think that at least sometimes desire in infused into me from spirit or the oneness behind the veil or whatever you want to call it.
I once read a story in the book Absence from Felicity by Ken Wapnick about Helen Schucman, the scribe of A Course in Miracles. Helen was worried that Ken would get wet outside in the rain and would catch a cold. Ken was somewhere else, not present with her,,and she could not tell him directly.. So,,she asked Jesus to make sure that Ken dressed properly for the rain and put his gaiters over his shoes. Jesus assured her he would take care of it.
Ken recalled later that he left his appartment, but suddenly felt a strong urge to go back and put his gaiters on. This was unusual for him to feel that way.
Apparently,, Jesus had put this feeling of urge into Ken’s mind or gut.
This story was an eye-opening aha moment for me. I thought, “Oh, THIS is how it works!” And I can very much relate to your observations in your lovely story.
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Thank you, Karin, for this true story. I suspect these influences are more common than are recognised. I certainly have had quite a few, and those around me have too. It usually facilitates an intent based on love in my experience. If God IS love, then maybe God is active through us at these times, and “love will find a way.” I honestly don’t know how it works.
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I have found the same as a translator of literature. I once translated a poem about ladybirds, and later in the day, with my wife in the car, a ladybird landed on the dashboard. I once made a mistake when translating a poem (I put “eternal sleep” instead of “big sleep” because that’s what it said in the original) and at a restaurant the following week, there was a poster of the 1946 film based on Raymond Chandler’s book The Big Sleep in the basement, when I went to the toilet. On the train returning home, a girl was reading the same book and I realized I had to change it to “big sleep”, the author of the poem was referencing the book and film (they are called “eternal sleep” in Spanish, there is a difference). I think when our wishes are good, have a pure intention and align with God’s will, then they can become reality. There are lots of winks like this. But for me they are coincidences, things that “happen together” (that is what the word means). In a way, everything is coincidence, but we misunderstand the word to mean something that happens by chance, chaotically. I have described coincidence as the language of the Spirit. We only begin to notice coincidences, to give them importance, when our spiritual eyes are opened, though I find noticing them can be a brief experience, you catch a glimpse, but then the flow of life sweeps you along and afterwards you forget.
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Yes, I think I understand what you mean. Like forgetting dreams or ideas, hence I keep a notebook with me. I see it as being in perception and memory like walking through a pine woods and seeing something vaguely appearing through the gaps, walking on and trying to see it again around the trees, but it is not found, going back, and it is gone.
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Elusive!
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