A friend dropped by to visit this week and mentioned an acquaintance that is going through a rough time.  It seems this person is starting over. She has a roof over her head but very little else. My friend did not know much about the situation other than this person’s co-workers and friends want to help in whichever way they can.   The person they want to help is someone who has always been kind and giving, a pleasure to be around.

The challenge is this person is embarrassed by her situation and is resisting the help that is being offered to her. The help she has been asking God/the Universe/Source for.  I know she has been asking because of the number of people who are lined up WAITING to help in some way.

This story really got me thinking in two directions.

First, I wanted to help. Not because I felt sorry for this person, but because I have been there. I’ve been there emotionally and physically.  In my case, people I had briefly met or had just heard of me came to offer assistance. One gave me an affordable place to live, others donated old (to them) furniture, and the ones that brought groceries to my door because THEY FELT INSPIRED to do so, brought me to tears. It brings emotion to me to this day many years later.

It was overwhelming and beautiful to be a part of, I was at a place where no resistance existed anymore.  God/the Universe/Source was responding to my pleas for help.  It wasn’t a lottery win or a big fat cheque in the mail. It was exactly what I needed.

I needed the things they were bringing, but what I needed more and didn’t realize was the restored faith in human kindness/service. I was lost and alone. I needed to know God was listening.

I vowed from that day forward, when I felt the call, I would answer.  I feel called to help this woman in some way.  She has inspired me to write this article, so it may be as simple as someone leaving a copy of it on her desk.  I don’t know who she is, but I trust.  When she reads it, I want her to know, it was a message from God in response to her prayers.

Secondly, what she can not possibly know is that her story was a message from God to me.  It is actually one of several that came over a 24 hour period.  God wanted to be sure I got the message.  I had kept asking for signs (after sign), I just wasn’t necessarily being receptive to them.

You see, I’ve been lost myself lately. Lots of changes going on and, I’ve been asking God to show me where my areas of resistance are and show me how to let them go.  Show me where all these changes are leading.

Her story was a clear reminder that all that I have asked for is right around me.

People/situations are lined up waiting for me to be receptive to receiving. Receptive to receiving is the KEY to getting what you have asked for and more. It means letting go of all the subconscious and conscious barriers we put up – not good enough; don’t deserve it; no one is listening; etc..

The answers we ask for come in many many ways. A song on the radio, a random conversation with a stranger, a passage from a book or movie, direct offers of help, there are more ways than we can conceive of.  Rarely  do they show up in the specific limited form we ask them to show up in.

So, what whisperings have you been ignoring lately?

To the stranger who inspired this article – Thank You!

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