Are there coincidences or are all coincidences signs; synchronicity...
Who knows... maybe I'm more alert and awake... maybe it's just because I believe... i don't know...
The other day I had a deep conversation with Steve, about signs, what I've learned and seen and continue to... he told me that my signs reminded him of a book, "A Severe Mercy" ... He sent me a link to the book on Amazon.com...
This is a brief synopsis from the review on Amazon.com:
After her death Sheldon embarks on an intense experience of grief, "to find the meaning of it, taste the whole of it ... to learn from sorrow whatever it had to teach." Through painstaking reveries, he comes to discover the meaning of "a mercy as severe as death, a severity as merciful as love." He learns that her death "had these results: It brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealously of God. It saved her faith from assault. ...And it saved our love from perishing."
When looked into it, I read the review (which is all too familiar) and the cover of the book stopped me: Ii thought I'd stayed up too late, or was crazy, but the man on the cover resembled C... the couple resembled me and C... I've been reassured by friends that I was not crazy... they see it too...
Today I saw my dear friend Kristin... she bought me a print from an artist. The artist is Brian Andreas... the print is called "More Fair"
She found it at a gallery in Galveston a week before it was destroyed by Ike... the print says:
"They left me with your shadow,
saying things like: Life is not fair
& I believed them for a long time.
But today, I remembered the way you laughed
& the heat of your hand in mine...
& I knew that life is more fair than we can ever imagine...
if we are there to live it."
The song, the book, the gift... they're all gifts.... gifts of knowledge that we are all connected... that we are all connected by God, by love... that's all we need... that's all we came with, and that's all we leave with...
thank you to my beautiful friends.
I'm in Dallas for tomorrow's Sorta CD release show... I'm glad, but nervous... then I go to Austin.. then back to Dallas for several days of appointments.. and such...
Busy. busy...
2 comments:
Thats outstanding Ryann! You have shown me things I think I had lost touch with. A side of myself which is less rational and more faithful. Last night I woke up and couldn't sleep. I just stared at the fan slowly turning and then remembered an episode of Northern Exposure I had once seen. Just now I found the quote.
"In dreams begin responsibilities, so wrote the poet. So it is perhaps. Could it be we take our dreams too lightly, those images from places unknown? Could they in fact be angels in flight, our souls aloft? You know, recent experiences have made yours truly take another pass through the metaphysical thickets. As unlikely as it may sound in this rational age, I emerged on the side of those that cannot help but put their faith in that which cannot be easily explained. Be open to your dreams people. Embrace that distant shore. Cause our mortal journey is over all too soon. "Those cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples. The great globe itself. Yea all which you inherit shall dissolve and like this insubstantial pageant faded. Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with asleep."
Signs, dreams and synchronicity are all things that make life richer and more full of meaning. I feel so blessed I was with you when you found those hearts. It was truly amazing! You are truly amazing! Now when I see things like that, I know, I believe...
that makes me smile! and just made my day!
thank you!
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