I have a tendency to deny that miracles performed through me are really miracles. My ego finds ways to discredit, minimize or forget the miraculous encounters I have been guided to with others.
But I just had an experience that demonstrates these words of Jesus: “When you perform a miracle, I will arrange both time and space to adjust to it.” T-2.V.A.11
It began, just a few days before I left Hawaii for Mexico, with a request from my friend Christiane in Belgium. Her friend Anne was in crisis in Hawaii. Christiane had had a sign that I was to connect with Anne and forwarded Anne’s email.
The email was very clear. Anne’s life was coming apart and she was urgently calling out for help. She said she needed a miracle right now to get her out of a closed Buddhist retreat center where she was marooned with no car, and to give her someone she could talk to about the Course.
We were having an ACIM meeting at the Center that night, but she was in another town and we had no car to get her.
Then a series of completely improbable events unfolded. The timing was perfect, as if an invisible hand were guiding each step. And whoosh, Anne was picked up and brought to the meeting, seemly by random acts of strangers.
Anne experienced a great meeting, got to hug David Hoffmeister who “coincidentally” was passing through that night, and got to talk with me and Jutta for a couple hours afterwards.
But then two days later I got a distressed voicemail message from Anne saying she had been thrown out of the Buddhist center, then the message cut off. I tried to call her back, but there was no answer and no way to reach her.
The following day as I stepped up to the airline counter in Hilo to check in my bag, I heard someone say “Andy” behind me. It was Anne! She as on her way back to Belgium. We were on the same plane to Los Angeles and were able to talk for five hours!
It was a miracle for both of us. Spirit was flowing through me the whole time. At one point I paused, thinking she must be exhausted. After a few moments she looked over at me and said, “You can continue talking to me if you like.” Yes, what I was saying was exactly what she wanted and needed to hear!
This adventure was ultimately a gift to myself. It’s impossible to deny the miracle when time and space are adjusted for you.
August 10, 2014 – update email from Christiane:
Andy, a merry hello!
Anne, the Belgian friend you saw in Hawaii, she was staying at the Buddhist center, and was so depressed … she is quite relaxed !!! Happy, happy, active, I had her on the phone; now she keeps ACIM as her bedtime reading!
Kisses my friend and bro,
Christiane
Beautiful Andy!!!
So much Joy Andy. Love you big time 🙂
nice one Andy:) ..you add so much down there in Chapala!
Have never met but we are One. Thanks for sharing