I’ve always wondered if spiritual teachers were born that way, or if they’d had a profound spiritual experience that rocketed them into the realm of true believers. I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself a spiritual teacher, but for me, it was a moment. A single, extraordinary moment in time when I went from someone who strongly believed in the possibility of receiving divine guidance to knowing that I was a receiver of it. Let do my best to share this incredible moment with you.
After my profound Reiki experience, I came home and started writing a blog post that very day. I knew that I had been given the guidance I had been seeking for so long and wasn’t going to waste it. I have had a mantra since the start of my spiritual journey – you can’t ask for spiritual guidance and then ignore it when you get it.
This is the start of the post I wrote that day:
#1 – Truth be told, I had the idea to start this blog well over a year ago. I was very newly introduced into the world of spirituality and had no idea where to start. At the time…
I knew this to be my next step, and so now, in addition to actually writing, I needed to take the steps to get a blog set up, come up with a blog title, website, etc. I was really struggling to come up with exactly the “right” name and it was holding me back from getting started.
A week or so later I was still pondering. And then spirit spoke to me again. Very, very clearly. I was texting with my sister-in-law who I consider to be a spiritual teacher and friend. We had both just tried Reiki for the first time and we were comparing notes. She was feeling inspired after her session to get back into her spiritual practice and mentioned getting out her Oracle decks. Inspired myself, I thought to myself “I should pull a card”.
So I grabbed my deck, said my little prayer and started shuffling. When I was done shuffling, a card was kind of sticking out of the side. I remember learning at one point that if a card pops out of the deck, you should honor it as a part of your reading. I must say that I don’t always heed that knowledge, but in this moment, I plucked out that card, flipped it over and was awestruck.
The card said “Truth Be Told”!!! Which, if you’ve been paying attention, are the first three words of that post I started writing when it was made clear to me that I needed to start this blog. More than that, the picture on the card was an Owl – my totem animal! And if all of that wasn’t profound enough, the meaning of the card was all about communication, transparency and speaking my truth – a message I needed to give me the confidence and final nudge to get this thing going. Not only did I have an incredible spiritual experience, I also now had a title for my blog!
So there it is. The full story of how this blog came to be. I am so excited to see what transpires because it could not have been made more clear to me that writing this blog is exactly what I should be doing right now. Now I need to figure out what the heck to write about next now that this story is over. Maybe spirit will give me some guidance. Stay tuned! 🙂