Mysterious Ways

I sat today alone in a conference room at work that is too large for one person. The length of the table at which I sat was littered with piles of charts and paperwork waiting patiently for me to give them my seal of corporate approval. I was looking very intently at a business email I was typing up, engrossed in communicating coherently with the receiver of the email. Then, without hearing a word, I looked back and to my right at a woman who was standing outside the conference room in the space between the door of the neighboring office and the conference room door. This woman asked the man in the next room if he was talking with me over the computer. He seemed (from the mumblings I heard coming from his office) to have no idea what she was talking about (I am working in one of the company's Florida locations, which means I am relatively unknown here), and without missing a beat, she began talking to me in a Spanish accent as if she'd known me for years:

"You are filled with creativity. You have so many wonderful ideas, and your aura is very powerful. You are like a genius or something. You are very shy and quiet and unfriendly. Not that you are nasty or mean or anything, but you live and keep yourself in a box, but your box is filled with amazing ideas and creativity. You are a genius. I can sense your energy is very creative, very amazing...."

She continued on in this vein, and I found myself completely absorbed in what she was saying. I was (and still am) quite literally bursting with awe and love and excitement for this woman and for the chance to hear her speak even if only for a couple of moments. Not because she was heaping this praise on me (she was not telling me these things to boost my ego; she also seemed to sense, quite accurately, what I would consider to be my faults - read that: my attachment to being quiet and staying distanced from the masses) but because she was expressing her intuition about me without fear of me potentially rejecting her and her message by applying such a label as "psychic mumbo jumbo" to her message for me or by patronizing her with my words, tones, and actions and/or air of superiority that so many of us defend ourselves with when confronted by someone expressing some aspect of enlightenment that for its beauty and power and energy frightens that darkness in which we most often abide. She felt a deep truth come to her about me, and she expressed it without regard for all the possible "outcomes" of her expression.

I do agree with her that there is an "aura" of creativity about me just as I experienced intuitively the very powerful, creative consciousness of this woman who chose quite deliberately to express herself to me. Such people are an inspiration to me. I feel emboldened by the perpetually renewed sense of purpose and gratitude I experience in every moment. Yet, connecting with "another" soul, as that woman allowed me to do today, that has already been where I am and that has done the work, and continues to do the work, to transcend all self- and worldly-inflicted boundaries seems to speed the evolution of my soul light years ahead of where it was in the moment before that connection.

Then, I consider that my soul called this woman to me today at that exact time. And her soul, that already knew (and knows) me because it is really "our soul," brought her lovingly along to fulfill its and our creative purpose for each other. I am just so thankful and blessed to have had the presence of mind to have been there to receive that gift she and I gave to each other. I know in the past I would have blown off such talk - dismissing her intuitions out of fear for my own lost instinct for truth - or I simply would not have listened, being so involved in the worldly pursuit of the perfect business email communication as I was at the time.

I am a new being now, even different from the being who began typing this sentence. I do not want to define this experience or ask what it means or draw some conclusion about this woman or our short, but powerful and soul-challenging conversation. Rather, my only intention here is to declare the perfection of this Life as embodied in the microcosm of this one encounter. I am not here to explain what that perfection is as it must be experienced by each individual lest any attempt to summarize the perfection of the process through the use of limiting language come across to the reader as meaningless as words are anyway. I just know that all is perfection, and there is no moment, no person, no relationship, no circumstance, no anything that is not included in that perfection.

However, I will offer this: we can all experience this perfection of God/Life anytime we choose. In order to do this, there must be a letting go - through whatever method of meditation, prayer, or other technique of quieting the mind - of our deep-rooted desire to remain in our cozy, but painful, hypnotic state. We must confront, without fear or judgment, the preconceived, conditioned ideas we normally bring into each moment. We must see clearly that all such ideas have led us into a dull existence with their comfortable, but limiting, definitions of what that moment means. And we must decide, without hesitation, that, in order to break free of the spell these ideas have cast over us since birth, our only intention in each moment is to enter the moment empty of these ideas or any conclusions about that moment (which spring from the ground of these ideas) in order to receive what our souls (God) give us in that moment. Trust the process, and you will find an experience of perfection - an experience of God - in everything.

Thank you anonymous, but known, gentle woman for the reminder of our Oneness. Thank You, God, for the infinite experiences of You that we are given in each moment of Now.