SPIRIT’S 7 SIGNALS
Do you ever see a rainbow, hear your dad’s favorite song, meet a stranger wearing your team’s logo, notice a license plate, or feel a symptom that might be a Higher Power Getting Your Attention? Spirit's Seven Signals include: signs, situations, small voice, songs, strangers, symptoms, and synchronicities.
When God Gets Your Attention
Symptoms Got My Attention
I ignored symptoms, as most educators do, focusing on work, children and home. Self-care wasn't a thing at that time. Women, especially, just pushed through, multi-tasked, and juggled obligations. Then I had my surrender event (more on author page).
As a female professor, I traveled solo while attending conferences and directing study abroad programs. Strangers wondered why I wasn't with my family. I shared how I received a second chance at life, and my reasons for living fully, based on my own ‘push off the cliff moment.’
I noticed how they paused to reflect, nod, and even tear up, when I asked, "When Did God Get Your Attention?' Their voices quivered, there were audible sighs, and stories depicted close calls, 11th hour events, and connections with strangers that transcended time, culture, age, gender, beliefs, religious upbringing, geography, social class, and, education.
Conversations were authentic, spontaneous, and confirmed a universal belief that Divine Intervention occurred through an unexplainable Presence, often accompanied by a "gut feeling' to take action, or to surrender to a Higher Power.
We shared hugs, contact information, and gratitude.
Messages Arrive In Perfect Time
God’s Attention gainers show up and seem uniquely designed for us. Spirit reaches us through signs, situations, small voice, songs, strangers, symptoms, or synchronicities.
God, The Universe, A Higher Power, Creator, The Divine, Holy Spirit is always present, even when we are too busy to pray, meditate, or listen. When we feel lonely, fearful, anxious, unsure, hurt, emotionally or physically spent, Spirit weaves through the angst with perfect timing.
Maybe we've given up on religion or attending services, but God never gives up on us. And as the license plate to the right reminded me, It's all: NGDZHND.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: IN GOD'S HAND
SIGNS/SYMBOLS
HOW DOES GOD GET YOUR ATTENTION?
GOD gets my attention through license plates that seem to appear in front of me in a parking lot or when stopped in traffic. They are specific to what's concerning me, and tend to offer uplifting messages. What message is God sending you? Why is it meaningful?
GOD has your attention - NOW WHAT? 7 Categories: 1. pause-ponder-pivot 2. holding pattern 3. wake-up call - act 4. repurpose 5. business-as-usual 6. ‘push off the cliff' 7. surrender Reminder: A range of emotions accompanies Spirit's Signals
