Amazing what occurs in life
First I want to tell you more about this lovely woman who lives in town and is from Turkeye. Her name is Sule (Shu-lay.) It is Sule who takes care of the Sufi House I told you about yesterday. Sule is incredibly hospitable. If you want to feel really loved and appreciated, all you have to do is to be with Sule.
I first met Sule several years ago at the Raj restaurant where she was hostess at the time. Somehow Heavenletters™ came up. She was interested, and now she has been reading Heavenletters for a long time.
I got to know Sule's good disposition soon after we had met. Sule was backing up her car at the crowded Farmer's Market when her car hit my daughter's parked car! Sule was so gracious and good-natured. She took care of the body work as if we were doing a favor for her.
And so this is Sule whom I discover manages the nearby Sufi House.
Is it really true that there are no accidents and no coincidences? Oh, the threads of life. There is more.
As you know, Santhan and I will be giving a Godwriting™ workshop in Istanbul, Turkeye. It so happens that Sule will be visiting in Istanbul at the very time that Santhan and I will be there!!! What are the odds of that?
Furthermore, Sule and Effendi invited us to stay at the Sufi House in Itstanbul for as long as we would like! They will even pick us up at the airport! How did this happen?!
A short time ago I never knew Sufi Houses existed. I didn't know there was one in Fairfield, let alone one a couple of blocks away from where I live. I didn't know the word Effendi. I didn't know that Sule would be in Istanbul when Santhan and I would be, and I never dreamed that we would be invited to stay at the Sufi House there. And it was only a few months ago that I had a hint that I would ever set foot on the magical land of Turkeye in the first place. Is this not like a fairy tale? Am I riding on a magic carpet?
It's interesting, too, because Sule and I had had a conversation earlier in the week. Sule expressed her experience that she has only to know what she wants, and then it happens. Her point is that you have to know. You have to desire. Then it can come true. And, in her case, it does come true.
My experience seems to be, if not the opposite, different. I am delighted beyond measure to be able to go to faraway lands, yet I had never had it in my mind to go to Turkeye. I had never had it in my mind to go to Argentina either! In fact, I never ever thought I would visit Iowa let alone live there. So it seems that, in my life, things I have no idea about come true.
In fact, as you know, for the first forty years of my life, I didn't have thoughts about God or anything spiritual. I didn't know I was a spiritual being. But then, suddenly, I was hooked!
I don't recall that I desired Godwriting and Heavenletters, but, now, in support of Sule's view, I do remember that there were days, perhaps weeks when I would literally pound my pillow and say to myself: "I want to know God, and I want to know I know God."
And it wasn't long after that that Godwriting started, and my life began. In that case, I knew what I wanted, and it did come to pass.
What is your experience? Do your dreams come true before you have them like most of mine do, or do your dreams come true after you consciously desire them?
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Gloria,
Like you most of the "life-changing" or pivotal moments and events in my life, I would never have dreamed.
I do remember an event very clearly though, in 1990,that did prove to me, manifestation of our thoughts can happen.
I was working in Credit Management, which involved approving and in many cases not approving credit. These jobs were all in the manufacturing industry. My work had become so negative. One day I was driving to my job, and telling the universe, I just need six months off to be able to figure out what to do with my life! I was so adamant. Well, that was in May. By the middle of June I had begun to suffer sciatica, and foot drop. One morning I blacked out in the shower, and discovered a bulge in my lower spine. My doctor at the time, told me I had ruptured a disc in my spine, and would probably need surgery. At the time I had recently discovered Unity Church. Everyone was holding me in the light, visualizing my spine all healed and well. I knew in my heart that I would need surgery. My angels were surely looking out for me. Rather than sending me to an orthopaedic surgeon, I was sent to a neuro surgeon. I thank God often for that. I would be paralyzed today had it been otherwise. The inside of the disc had all settled on my nerve root and hardened.It required very delicate surgery to ensure success. My healing was fine. I remember some pain, but not so much.
I was off for exactly six months!
All of my bills were paid, as I had disability coverage with my job.
I never did go back to that work. I began volunteering at one of the jails doing stress management workshops with the maximum security inmates. (not really sure how that happened)
But for the most part, things have seemed to just happen.
The lesson in what you wrote, is to focus more on what I do want, and imagine it happening - now. I think just not with the severe process that I experienced in 1990.
Sule made a very important point (for me). You need to know what you want. That is why I haven't changed jobs! I am still struggling with what it is I should look for!
My dream isn't focused enough.
As I get ready to sign off - I hear a calm voice say to me, "be still and know that I am God."
In love & light,
Lynda
My experience has been more like yours, Gloria, and Lynda’s, rather than like Sule’s. I always knew deep inside that a loving God existed and this always made complete sense.
Throughout my life, though, I never knew where I was headed or what I was destined to do in any specific way. I just knew I would recognize it when I saw it, that I had some role that would be important, and what I would be doing would be to help overcome some of the suffering that is so prevalent in the world. Along the way, I have been treated to some wonderful experiences that, like you Gloria, I would describe as dreams come true that I never remember having dreamed. And I have made a number of decisions that should have been fatal (seen in retrospect) but from which I was somehow, seemingly miraculously, saved. My life experience has been that someone has watching out for me, but I could have predicted none of what has happened.
I have learned what I feel are some insights that I think fit well with what Gloria, Sule and Lynda are saying. I have concluded that life does indeed give us what we desire and what we know we want. There is an important issue,though,that we need to get by, first. Life cannot give us what we believe, at some level, that we cannot get. In practice, this would mean that the more specific our desires are, the more our beliefs must be out of the way for them to manifest. I suspect Sule has few blocking beliefs and this means her specific desires can easily manifest.
With me, however, my desires have been usually vague and unfocussed. My desires arrive for me, but their specific form is almost always a surprise. It is often only in retrospect that I realize that they have actually matched my desires.
Senora, you would be a perfect sufi mystic. Sufi's really love and appreciate life and they love God. This part you have naturally covered. The mystic part could be about your experiences and accomplishments with computers. ☺
Ah, Senor, I am a computer mystic!