Recognizing messages from Spirit
by Shannon Maxey
As we awaken to our lives the
answers to our questions become more easily recognized. Being aware of my psychic and
mediumistic abilities has not automatically opened my eyes to all the answers I
receive to my questions on a daily basis.
Spirit uses a myriad of ways to communicate with us. Recently I was struggling with a
question. I was reviewing my
life and thinking about how this one young man that physically attacked me had
been an incredible teacher for me.
Without the experience of the attack I would not have come to understand
true forgiveness. I kept wondering
about this one English teacher of mine in high school who had some very harsh
words for me at a particularly difficult time in my life. What was she trying to teach me? The next day I
received or I should say finally heard my answer.
I had a 9 o’clock
appointment that morning in Fort Worth and the night before my guides told me I
would need to go the back way and avoid the highway. One of the ladies I had
the appointment with even called me that morning and suggested I take the back
route to avoid heavy traffic on the highway. As I pulled out of my drive I started to go toward the highway. I turned the car around yielding to the compelling feeling to go the back way as my friend
and guides suggested.
On the way to my appointment I was stopped at a long light at
a busy intersection in Arlington when I saw a dog wandering on the other side
of the road. I asked my angels and
guides to take care of this dog until I could come back and try to help
him. I thought, “If
he’d just stay on that side of the road and not try to cross the street
he should be OK until I come back.”
Just as I was turning left onto the busy street the dog began to cross
the street right in front of me. I put on my hazard lights and stopped in the
street. I didn’t want to honk my horn, I didn’t want the dog
running into a moving car. After a
few very tense moments the dog continued across the street completely stopping
traffic in the other direction and then turned and moved back in front of my
car. I decided to honk my horn to try to scare the dog off the road. He looked so startled and confused by
the noise but then shook it off and walked off the road to safety. “How weird was that,”
I thought. The whole incident just
seemed too bizarre to me and I began to wonder what it was about.
I began to consider what it looked like from the dog’s
perspective. While I was in
my car all I could think about was the dog’s safety. My intention was to get the dog out of
the dangerous road he was about to cross.
But looking at me in my car from the dogs point of view I must have
looked angry and foreboding, this large metal thing making an obnoxious noise.
It occurred to me some of the
people in my life I had seen as angry and foreboding may have had the same
appearance I did in my car that day.
My English teacher wasn’t trying to teach me something she was
redirecting me, changing my current course. I am grateful now for her
redirection and relieved by my new awareness of that experience.
As I look back I can see many
times I was redirected and subsequently guided through valuable
experiences. Spirit communicates
with us in many different ways and you don’t have to be a psychic medium
to hear, see or feel the messages.
You do however need to look, consider, and be grateful for the
message.
