Answering the call
Have you ever followed a seemingly unimportant inner urging and found yourself in a significant experience as a result? It just happened with me again early yesterday evening.
I’m housesitting at a home in Las Campanas (for any of you who is familiar with areas of Santa Fe). Since I know that phone calls will very rarely be for me (the homeowners are the only people I know who have the number and know I’m here), I sometimes answer them and usually don’t. Then I check messages occasionally to see if there’s something important to communicate to the people who live here.
Early yesterday evening the phone rang. I was going to ignore it, but something inside - one of those inner urgings I sometimes have - told me to answer. My rational mind thought maybe it was the homeowners calling to tell me they’d arrived where they were going. It wasn’t.
A woman named Karen was calling for the wife of the couple who lives here. When she heard that her friends had already left, she began chatting a bit anyway. She was very friendly. Then - I don’t recall how it came up - she told me that she’s had cancer and is working on recovery. I could have just listened. I could have ignored it. I could have done a lot of things, I guess. But another of those inner urgings arose.
I encouraged her to stay positive about it and briefly told her about Barbara, my friend who has recently beaten cancer for the second time. I also felt moved to tell her that we had gotten people all over the world to pray for her. Well, she really connected with that, and we ended up having a fairly long conversation about prayer and healing and about how we pray and about leaving the outcome open for whatever is the most spiritually appropriate outcome. I told her about ending prayers with “this or something better for the highest benefit of everyone concerned,” and she loved that. When we finally finished, Karen thanked me and said that our conversation had been important for her.
By following my inner urgings about a phone call from a stranger, I found myself ministering to someone and making a difference. Isn’t it interesting how the calls may come? I pledge myself, once again, to pay attention and to follow my inner guidance, whenever and however it appears. I never know when it might be directing me to something important.
Namaste,
Michael
I’m housesitting at a home in Las Campanas (for any of you who is familiar with areas of Santa Fe). Since I know that phone calls will very rarely be for me (the homeowners are the only people I know who have the number and know I’m here), I sometimes answer them and usually don’t. Then I check messages occasionally to see if there’s something important to communicate to the people who live here.
Early yesterday evening the phone rang. I was going to ignore it, but something inside - one of those inner urgings I sometimes have - told me to answer. My rational mind thought maybe it was the homeowners calling to tell me they’d arrived where they were going. It wasn’t.
A woman named Karen was calling for the wife of the couple who lives here. When she heard that her friends had already left, she began chatting a bit anyway. She was very friendly. Then - I don’t recall how it came up - she told me that she’s had cancer and is working on recovery. I could have just listened. I could have ignored it. I could have done a lot of things, I guess. But another of those inner urgings arose.
I encouraged her to stay positive about it and briefly told her about Barbara, my friend who has recently beaten cancer for the second time. I also felt moved to tell her that we had gotten people all over the world to pray for her. Well, she really connected with that, and we ended up having a fairly long conversation about prayer and healing and about how we pray and about leaving the outcome open for whatever is the most spiritually appropriate outcome. I told her about ending prayers with “this or something better for the highest benefit of everyone concerned,” and she loved that. When we finally finished, Karen thanked me and said that our conversation had been important for her.
By following my inner urgings about a phone call from a stranger, I found myself ministering to someone and making a difference. Isn’t it interesting how the calls may come? I pledge myself, once again, to pay attention and to follow my inner guidance, whenever and however it appears. I never know when it might be directing me to something important.
Namaste,
Michael