Consciousness Known by Rhonda O'Brien

I was at a crosswalk and heard a lot of honking. I looked up and saw a car going the wrong way on a major, six lane road. Watching the interaction I was thinking of how nice it would be if life honked at you to warn you that you were headed in the wrong direction. Then I started thinking of a recent reading that I had done in which my client had told me that she just wanted to know if she was headed in the wrong direction or not.

Immediately my head started spinning with memories of times when I had, in fact, been warned that I had been heading the wrong direction. Spirit has a way of communcating to us in a wonderful magnitude of ways; here is a list of just a few instances in which I can see that spirit was trying to warn me or someone else about the direction that I/we had been headed:

1. We were camping in Glacier National Park and as we were checking out this campsite I had an ominous feeling and even mentioned to my campmates that something felt rather like the movie "Deliverance." Then a man on a three wheeler told us to be careful about bears visiting our campsite. Then I had this feeling that we would be visited by bears. What happened that night? A momma and baby cub bear came to visit our camp site.

2. A friend of mine was traveling to Steamboat, CO for the weekend. The day that he left he hit a duck with his car, then at work his colleagues were talking about moose and hitting moose with your car. That night he hit a moose with his car. In retrospect, of course, I can see how hitting a duck and talking about hitting a moose foreshadowed his accident that night and were, in fact, signs of what was to come.

3. I was preparing for a date with a guy and I burned my hand on the stove. I remember thinking that this burn was a sign. When the relationship didn't work out the way that I wanted it to I could see how that was spirit trying to tell me about the nature of this relationship: yes, the burn/way the relationship ended hurt, but now there is barely a scar (just a small reminder of the pain).

4. I was speeding and heard, "slow down." Thankfully, I immediately slowed down because 20 seconds later I passed a cop.

I can think of so many other instances (big and small) in which life/spirit was trying to warn me about going in the wrong direction or at least trying to redirect my path. I feel so much more comforted by the world when I know that I am divinely protected by my loving guides.