Glass 1/2 empty vs. glass 1/2 full

[Hypnotista]

Last night I was on my way to meet my dinner companion. I set out with a little time to spare and happily sang along with the radio as Chicago traffic lurched and jerked on its congested way from my River North office to my friend's place up north.

As I pulled onto the main street along my route, I noticed that the tank was at 1/4 full, and a few mins later saw the "get gas soon" light turn on. Usually this means I have a few more gallons to spare and needn't hurry to refuel, so long as I tend to the matter within 5-10 miles.

Not even 1 mile down the road, I pulled through an intersection driving in the far left lane, and felt my car wheezing to a crawl. Thinking the heat had caused it to stall, I was LUCKY , because AT THAT VERY SECOND, there was a rare break in traffic in the right lane, so I was able to very quickly crank the wheel and get into the right lane. Traffic was HEAVY so this break was amazingly fortuitous! As soon as I pulled over, traffic turned into bumper to bumper chaos again! wow!

NOT ONLY THAT...As I eased into the far right, the safest position I hoped for, THERE WAS A PARKING SPOT RIGHT ALONG THE CURB!!!

Even better, I was able to pull into it without parallel parking. Given how rare parking is in CHicago, much less EASY parking like this...I figured it was a miracle, and sent some gratitude skyward. Phew!

It doesn't just stop there.

As I looked to the left, and then the right...

...I realized that my car had stopped at the curb alongside a GAS STATION!!!! . Although I couldn't restart my car to pull in, I had only about 15 ft to walk in order to buy gas,and get going again.

Inside the gas station, I met the sweetest attendant, another miracle since so many Chicago "service" workers are either mean or at best, indifferent. This gas station and the sweet lady must have appeared out of somewhere supernatural. It was really just uncanny.

Not only that, but car issues like that can just kill the evening if you have to wait for AAA to tow you or get gas,, or you have to walk through the heat to a gas station, etc. This whole snafu resolved itself so nicely that I was only 30 mins late for my dinner..which, to add to the pile of happy fortune, was keen for my dinner companion as he was overjoyed to have been able to take a 20 minute power nap while waiting for me.

It was funny; even as I felt the car give way, I decided not to get upset and let the flow carry me through. I really chose to believe that my much ancticipated dinner plans would still be enjoyed...and they were.

Definitely choosing to see the glass as half FULL affected the universal calibration...dialing up the "smooth cycle"

Hope you guys are similarly lucky!!!

[Carmella]

Cool story, Hypno! A fine example of 'perfection at work'.

[7270]

haha. whoa. that is most awesome, hypnotista. your dinner companion went on a 20 min. power nap right in the restaurant?

I had something a little like that happen to me, too. I was supposed to catch a movie with a friend. It was night time, & I was lost. While I was lost, I came upon a building, went in, & one of the receptionists offered me a ride when I just wanted a phone number for a taxi. So while talking to this kind soul, it eased my nervousness with meeting up with my friend. If I didn't get lost and had met that person, I would have been a nervous knot with the friend I was meeting up with. A lot of things that night just seem out of the ordinary, but it worked out smoothly.

[Lightlover]

You see, most of the times the glass is overstreaming.

LL

[Hypnotista]

Stories like these make one wonder if our ranks are populated with (non-denominational, of course ) angels in disguise. I think we know it to be so, eh?

Giant love vibes to you guys, to power up a great week!

[7270]

angels in disguise, hu? It would be kind of neat to see how people react, if everyone were to see someone(s) as an angel in disguise. Actually, I think I'll implement that right now as much as I can when I'm mindful.

Originally Posted by Peaches4Ever

Miracles are happening all around, all the time, we just need to keep an open heart and mind to be able to see and allow the flow.

Thank you for the story Peaches. I've been thinking about something for a while, & that post was of big help.

[Peaches4Ever]

About a year ago, I learned from a friend about an eight year old girl named Milagros who lives in Panama and who had been born a hermaphrodite. She is from a very humble family. Her father earns about $200.00 a month and she has six brothers and sisters. The doctors did not really have any idea how to deal with that and decided to operate to make her a girl. However they botched the operation terribly. Later she was taken to other doctors and hospitals, but none of them were equipped for that type of problem. The poor child was left mutilated, unable to urinate or defecate normally and having to wear tubes and ostomy bags and living with severe pain. My friend told me that despite all that, she was one of the happiest children she had ever met. My friend’’s sister has been advocating for the child and was totally frustrated at not being able to find competent help for this child. She asked me if I knew of any doctors or hospitals here in the USA that might be able to help her, at the very least to alleviate her pain. She said she needed a miracle.

I planned to take her plight to the Rotary Club and see if we could help, but it had to wait because the Club was in the middle of organizing a big a fundraiser to raise money to purchase a van for an orphanage in Honduras that cares for and provides education for HIV positive children who have been abandoned by their families and the state. They needed the van to take the children for their medical treatments. Anyway, there I was at the entrance to the event, checking the RSVP list as the guests arrived, when one gentleman arrived who was not on the list. He explained that he had been invited by the celebrity host and dropped his business card into the fish bowl on the table, like everyone else. As he walked in, something told me to look at his card. So I reached in and fished it out only to find that under his name the card read “International Kids Fund – Raising Money for Children with Special Health Care Needs”. I knew immediately this was the miracle for Milagros.

I went inside to find him and I explained what little I knew about the child and he said it sounded like something that would definitely qualify for help from this foundation. He told me what information we needed to send them and explained that the Board meets every three months to decide on the cases they will be able to help. The next meeting would be coming up in a couple of weeks, so I had to hurry to get the information. He cautioned that they get thousands of requests for help, and can only help a few, those who are most severely in need. So, not to get our hopes up. But, I had no doubt, and I gave thanks for the miracle I knew was unfolding before me.

I was able to get all the records to him on the very morning of the Board Meeting. He explained that copies of all the requests and records would be given to all the board members to take home and study and a decision would be made at the following board meeting-- three months later. On April 14, seven months later, I heard from my friend that Milagros had been chosen.

Yesterday, I met Milagros for the first time--she and her mother arrived in Miami last week, courtesy of the International Kids Fund. She is going to need 3 surgeries to repair all the damage that had been done to her previously. But in the short week that she has been here, the doctors have already been able to relieve her of the ostomy bags and allow her to function more normally. She is soooo happy, running and laughing and saying how this was the happiest day of her life. My heart was overflowing with joy and gratitude for this beautiful child and the beauty of allowing the universe to flow and work through us.

She will be here through December. I will keep you all posted on her progress.

Miracles are happening all around, all the time, we just need to keep an open heart and mind to be able to see and allow the flow.

Be open to the Light,
Peaches