Signposts
by Miracle Chasers on 02/09/11
Most of us couldn't get through life without signs. Stop signs, Street signs and Exit signs all keep us safe and get us where we want to go. I wonder what would have happened if Paul Revere didn't get the sign from the church tower: "One if by land, two if by sea." There are more subtle signs than tearing apart a daisy to determine if your crush of the month returns the sentiment. Facial expressions, body language and the little voice inside your head are all signs and we are wise to pay attention to them.
Miracles are signs.
At a book party in Denver a few weeks ago, I met a woman who relayed a wonderful story about her first cousin and how she and her mom wrote a chapter story to keep this cousin entertained after she was bed ridden from an injury. The story flowed from them and it wasn't until all ten chapters were completed that they realized that in writing the story, they had been inspired by the cousin's daughter who had died tragically a few years earlier in a traffic accident. The woman worried no one else would consider it a miracle, though they did. I told her what I had learned from Soren Kierkegaard about miracles as a sign: "...only for one who knows that is a sign, and in the strictest sense only for one who knows what it signifies." So the woman and I continued our conversation about miracles and signs and I shared with her a story from the previous evening at The Tattered Cover bookstore: a hospice nurse frequently asked her patients to send her a sign once they had "crossed over." One gentleman who she had grown especially fond of promised her he would send a sign if he could. As she walked along a sunny sidewalk the day after he died, she looked down just as she was about to step on a dragonfly. She moved back, the dragonfly flew away, and she saw something etched into the concrete. A closer look revealed the gentleman's name! He was a cement contractor and countless years before had signed the last block as he laid the sidewalk.
One of our readers concluded that "...there is the likelihood that signposts of the divine do indeed work in all of our lives, lighting the way for our highest possible good." Thank you to all of our friends and readers who have shared signposts of the divine with us. Katie
