The spirit of a man came to share this heart warming story with a request that I reach out to his beloved Mother, to thank her for her kindness toward him throughout his childhood. My sense was that he often found himself in need of her forgiveness for incidents like the one recounted here.
He portrays his Mother as being a very stiff woman in the eyes of many, fastidious in her characterization of a life in impeccable order, where he knew himself to be so much less than perfection. And yet, with all of his anxiety and fears, his impulsivity, which lead to endless disasters, in her behaviour toward him she was nothing less than love itself.
Clearly, the troubles that plagued him as a child continued into his adulthood in such a way that his life was shortened by it. Sharing this story with me, is his way of asking me to reach out to find his Mother, in hopes that he would have one more opportunity to express his deep appreciation of who she was for him, always. If this story sounds familiar to you, would you share it for me? I don’t know who his Mother was, so I, in turn, am reaching out to the Universe through On Spirits’ Wings, to find her on his behalf.
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I am about to tell you something of great importance
Would you like to listen?
You would need to have patience
I can share if you’d like me to
Yes, spirit. I feel honoured to listen.
If you take the time to listen
I will tell you…
Once there was a child
Once there was a child of nine who set his house on fire
He didn’t mean to
But that’s what happened
He watched in horror
As the flames began to
Drip
Drip
Drip
Over the stairwell
Falling to the floor below
It wasn’t his intention
But there you are
And once the blaze had started
Once the blaze had started
He wondered what he might do
To stop the flow of fire
Through his beautiful house
The house where everything was perfectly placed
With care
And precision
Perfect
Design
And as he wondered
In the shock of it all
He became frozen in fear
And couldn’t find a way
To move himself from it
And so the fire crept along the floor below him
Sitting as he was
On the landing there
The flames made their way
Along the edge of the hallway carpet and…
Fizzled out
Leaving a black burned trail
That illuminated the fires pathway
He fainted then
Fainted away with relief
Fainted away as he always did
When things so fearful as this
Happened to him
And that’s where his Mother came across him
Lying on the floor in his pajamas
Matches in his hand
Ribbon dangling through the railing
He’d only wanted to imagine a lantern
A crown of light
Illuminating the hallway
He thought he’d be able to blow it out
But then it dripped ~
Drip
Drip
Down to the carpet below
No burned down house
No death
No destruction
Loving Mother
Forgiveness
Fear mounting
Then subsiding
All is well
All is well
~
Can you hear me still?
I wanted to thank my Mother
Her forgiveness was deeply felt
Amen
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Amen
This mans story filled my heart. What a beautiful women, his Mother, to make such a difference in his life, that he would reach out from beyond to connect to her! Mmmm.