ANOTHER FINE LINE WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
|| This summary written on 30th October 2023
I really enjoyed re-reading today’s session. Like so many of these spirit-inspired writing sessions, I cannot recall sitting for it, and I most certainly don’t remember transcribing the words.
I recall a tutor at the Arthur Findlay College once telling us that, until we acknowledge the presence of the spirit world around us, we are not going to appreciate their communications. If we ask the spirit world to talk to us, and when they do it falls on deaf ears, they will eventually seek alternative ways.
There’s a bit of a joke amongst people with this though that we have to move beyond. The lady that says to her friends that her late husband sent a sign in the form of a robin in her garden, is often not taken seriously. She’s dismissed as being overly sentimental or unrealistic and the evidence is immediately shunned aside by those around her.
Was the robin a sign, a communication from the other side? Who really knows? Perhaps it was just a common bird that happened to choose her garden at that moment. On the other hand, if she had her husband in her mind at that moment and asked for a sign he was with her, then it is fair to accept the robin as a personal sign from him. Even if it wasn’t, does it matter? No. It brought her momentary comfort in the belief. On the other hand, if the robin was a sign sent by her husband, and she acknowledges it as so, the doors of communication possibilities are well and truly open to her to receive many more such communications.
This form of mediumship, which is what it is, is subtle though. Not everything odd that happens is necessarily a sign from the other side. We have to be sensible about it.
Let me do a live experiment with you now. I am sat at my desk in this sanctuary preparing this edition. I’m writing these words on my computer screen. Let me pause for a moment or two as I now request that someone from my spirit team sends me an immediate sign they are there with me. I will end this paragraph and pause.
It took three minutes to happen. The sign came in the form of a leaf that fell from the tree outside in the garden and stuck to the office window, some thirty feet apart. Now, I believe that was their way of saying, “we are here”. To you though, was it just another leaf from the tree that is shedding leaves by the hundred at this time of year?
It’s a fine line! The more we ask, the more they will answer. But we have to be prepared to accept their signs whilst staying somewhat grounded in our acceptance of assumptions.
Additional Thoughts
The story in this session about the feather near the bird avery was prompted by the communicator who knew I knew the example. It came to mind during the session and I knew it had to be included as a sentence.