{"id":1598,"date":"2023-05-16T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2023-05-16T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T01:00:45","slug":"i-need-a-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"I Need a Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dearest Readers,<\/div>\n

Last week, a client of mine said, “I need a sign!” They were feeling stuck in a pattern and looking for a way out.<\/p>\n

Being a person who looks for signs and spiritual messages when things are tough, I could relate. I’m also someone who’s received<\/em> signs and spiritual messages without looking and I wrote about this in the last Healing Journey Letter.<\/a><\/p>\n

At the very beginning of my own healing journey, it was suggested that I “look for the coincidences” as evidence that a Higher Power was at work in my life. Nearly 25 years later, I’m still taking this suggestion.<\/p>\n

One of my most faithful sign-bringers is Woodpecker and I’ve written several times about how this comical bird’s coincidental materialization reassures me that I Am Known<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On a retreat I was leading last month, I shared with the group that I’d had yet another woodpecker encounter\u00a0 the week before and one of the women spoke up, pointing to the window excitedly and proclaiming, “There was a woodpecker right out there this morning!”<\/p>\n

Since then, I have literally been bombarded by woodpeckers. (Okay, not literally<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

For many mornings in the last few weeks, I’ve been waking up to the bird’s percussive hammering. I leave the house and hear the rat-a-tat-tat echoing in the neighbourhood. I arrive home and the rhythmic patter is again sounding somewhere in the nearby trees. On several occasions, the bird has been close enough to see, making its way around a nearby trunk or flying from one tree to another in our yard.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, not one but two<\/em> woodpeckers were pecking at the trees right outside the kitchen window<\/em>. I felt like my “sign” had become a Times Square billboard.<\/p>\n

I watched in awe as the pair jabbed at rotten bark and darker crevices. I marveled at the precision of their work and the singular markings on their feathers.<\/p>\n

My heart felt happy and my day got better.<\/p>\n

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After I wrote the above sentence yesterday, I saved the Letter and went to work.<\/p>\n

On the way home from work, I stopped and got gas.<\/p>\n

Later, after an evening walk, I noticed the fuel door was still open and the gas cap was missing. Ooops! I had forgotten to close the fuel door and I’d driven away with the cap on top of the car.<\/p>\n

I got in the car and drove slowly back to the gas station, looking for the gas cap on the road.<\/p>\n

I spotted it, pulled over, got out, picked it up.<\/p>\n

A man, mowing his lawn, saw me and shrugged, puzzled by my action.<\/p>\n

“It’s my gas cap!” I shouted above the mower.<\/p>\n

He couldn’t hear, turned the mower off and walked over. I repeated what I’d said.<\/p>\n

“That’s funny. The same thing happened to my wife this afternoon.”<\/p>\n

“What?!”<\/p>\n

“Yeah. She left the fuel door open, gas cap dangling. Some guy flashed his lights to indicate for her to stop.”<\/p>\n

“That just happened to your wife today<\/em>?” I asked.<\/p>\n

“Yup.”<\/p>\n

Okay, seriously. What are the chances that my gas cap falls off the car in front of the house of a guy who just happens to be outside when I come by and whose wife had the exact same thing happen to her on<\/em> that day<\/em>?<\/p>\n

In a world that sometimes seems to have gone completely mad, when the cauldron of human hatred and fear seems ever closer to boiling over, I look for the coincidences to land me back in the joyful notion that We Are Known<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From the fires of love,<\/p>\n

Celia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers, Last week, a client of mine said, “I need a sign!” They were feeling stuck in a pattern and looking for a way out. Being a person who looks for signs and spiritual messages when things are tough, I could relate. I’m also someone who’s received signs and spiritual messages without looking and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,265,53,4,137,120,56],"tags":[939,394,1062,1063,828,940,1061,1013],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-deep-listening","category-higher-guidance","category-inspiration","category-life-support","category-spiritual-messages","category-woodpeckers","tag-coincidence","tag-consciousness","tag-guidance","tag-i-am-known","tag-nature","tag-serendipity","tag-spiritual-messages","tag-synchronicity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}