Time Train – a new ongoing story series

Train

I wanted to start a new story that would be an ongoing story of looking back, reflecting and sort of a diary if you will; inspired by my Time Hops and digital memories on Facebook.  I found that when I look at those flash backs, they are are insightful and still relevant in my life today.  I am hoping that these memories can also be useful to you, the reader to inspire you and help you where ever you stand in your life today.  This series will be chock full of photo pics from the actual flash backs as I am a visual person and enjoy seeing a connection to  what I am reading.

I was originally going to begin this series on January 1st and just write about what happened each day over the course of the following 365 days of 2016.  I felt so inspired to get started, so that is what I am doing.  I am ready to start.

The Life Train is constantly moving, never stopping and only pausing long enough to allow new passengers to climb aboard or weary travelers to depart. Sometimes the tracks resemble that of a roller coaster and other times it is a straight path cruising through the countryside, but it never stops.  How we handle the ride speaks of our character of who we are, our resilience and our hearts.

Day (-)17 – I wake up with a blanket of thick fog enveloping the entire town.  I came out with the hopes of seeing the Geminid Meteor showers, which were predicted to be spectacular this year.  Instead, I stood outside in the darkness and just absorbed the stillness, the thick denseness of the fog and enjoyed being the only person to witness this beauty.  Even the dogs were quiet as they milled around; as if the dogs were appreciating the world the same as I was at that very moment.

fog

Feathers and Angels-

On this day, one year ago, I took a picture of the beginnings of my feather collection.  I had begun finding feathers on my morning walks and at the time I thought I was gaining quite the collection (click on the the photo to the right to see what I am talking about).  I also had the Angel that my nephew gave to me next to the feathers that when found are signs from Angels or our loved ones to either send us a message to pay attention or just to say I love you.  Fast forward one year to today and you can see what 1 year of finding feathers nearly every day has brought –many messages from Angels.  In addition, last night I took the middle photo of the same Angel with the Tea Rose that was blooming in my garden on the Spring-like December day – which is unheard of in the Philadelphia area in December as the temperatures usually hover around 35-40 degrees Fahrenheit and it has been in the 70’s.

Some of you may be thinking “So, what is the big deal”?  I am and always have been a skeptical believer in there being messages sent to us all of the time, from unseen forces, in so many different ways.  Feathers are one of those ways.  Also, I believe that there is no such thing as a coincidence.  I feel that everything is put in our path to show us the way and life is like a scavenger hunt and it is our job to find the clues and decipher the messages.  I am not always the best at decoding the messages, but I do recognize them, I collect them and I figure eventually they will all come together and make sense to me.  By me recording my findings, I get to look back at the crazy proof that something weird and special is going on here.  Think about it, in the course of 1 year, how many feathers have you found? Most people that I ask this question may say 1 or 2 or a few, but I have dozens and dozens; half  of my collection was eaten by our Beagle puppy this past summer and some I have lost on the way home and most prized find (A Bald Eagle Feather) could not be brought home legally, so I left it in the Alaskan channel where I found it.  The huge Raven feather that fell from the sky at my feet a few weeks ago is at my office to remind me that Magic is everywhere I go.  Is it a coincidence?  I do not think so, I think there is something more behind this Magic.

When I am receiving messages sometimes they just flow to me and other times they are already in my head and I swear that the person I am giving the message to told me the information previously, only to find out they did not and they cannot figure out how I discovered the information.  Now when it comes to me receiving messages for myself, I am really good at recognizing something is a message, but I am not the best at the decode.  I will gather messages for days and weeks before I get this A-Ha moment when I put all of the puzzle pieces together and get it.  My guides and spirits must be hanging around shaking their heads in frustration over how long it takes me when it comes to myself.  I feel bad that they have to work so hard.  One, it is probably because I am on the go, busy and focused on so many things at the same time that I do not take enough personal time to digest the 411 coming to me.  Two, messages are so vague sometimes; it might be seeing the same word over and over again or the same numbers over and over and I have to figure out what it means and how it relates to me and what is the importance of that message and how it relates to my life or someone in my life.  It is really not perfectly easy.

As an example, I was receiving vague messages over and over again that started with a friend’s friend covering a song by the band Arcade Fire.  I recognized the song immediately, my friends however had never heard of Arcade Fire.  I thought nothing of it.  Over the next 3 weeks, I kept seeing references to Arcade Fire and their song Ready to Start.  I kept hearing the song on the radio, which to some may not seem like a big deal, but the song is nearly 10 years old and I have not heard it on the radio in a good 2 or 3 years.  I notice that I keep hearing the song and recognize that I keep hearing it, but I still did not make a connection.  Meanwhile over these 3 weeks, my mobile phone kept showing on the screen SIM detached hit Restart , which I did over and over again to the point of annoyance AND too at home, my broken microwave decided to start working again after being broken for a month; when I came home to it beeping and displaying READY or START on the screen.  I also had a retro conversation with a friend (who cut all of her hair off and referenced 1995) that it was like hitting a RESET BUTTON, but I think that was meant for me too.  This happened over and over again over the course of a week while all this other stuff was going on.  When suddenly, on my way to work, the song comes on the radio and my mobile phone prompts me to hit the RESTART; I have my A-Ha moment.  Time will tell if I am fully correct and I will let you know when it happens, but I think it was my Mom letting me know that I am ready to start and receive the treasure I have been waiting on for the last 3 1/2 years.  The month previous to all of this, I had made a very large decision to unload a situation that was no longer serving a higher purpose in my life and only causing me grief.  As much as I love and care for some people and find it hard to let some go, I find that I must in order for my own growth.  It does not mean that I no longer love and care for a person, it just means that they will no longer have a hold on my motion.  When we can detach with love we allow something better to show up.  I said it out loud that I was ready as my daughter pulled into the drive way to announce that my Mother had a message for me ” Let this one go so that I can send you THE ONE” and she also said that she is literally pushing me towards this person, but as long as I am attached to the deadwood I hold too much weight and resistance so let him go. HA how is that?  O.K. so I am ready willing and waiting……Where is he?

Here are some of the photos from those bizarre weeks – the time hops from 5 years ago and the microwave photos on a microwave that had not operated in a month in addition to a time hop from my Mother…too coincidental.  The point here is mainly to just pay attention to the possible messages that are coming your way. Collect them and decode them when you are ready.  Relax about it and stop putting pressure on yourself to figure it all out immediately.  What I know for sure is the messages will not stop coming until you get that A-Ha moment and decipher the meaning.  Repeated signs are very common and they help us choose the right train at the right time and keep us moving in the right direction.  The road is not always smooth, but the sign posts along the way are our spiritual guideposts or personal GPS cooperative components in this life.