Articles from March 2012

This morning I heard the birds chirping as I walked down the driveway taking out the trash.

They seemed to be singing louder than usual, almost like they were somehow trying to catch my attention.  I guess on some level they did, because they along with the incredible warm breeze I felt, were reminding me how wonderful the weather is, and how God and the Universe have been truly been taking care of me.

In my world the weather is a big thing.  I have a seasonal business that is dependent on warm weather.  We usually don’t work January through March.  If we are lucky, we may get a little work in during he last week of March.  Once again, that is if we are lucky.  This year,  I have had unusually high, and unexpected expenses during the winter.  I began to wonder if I would make it to spring without having to borrow money.  But I had an interesting thing going on.  Everywhere I went, I kept noticing people telling me the same thing.  They would say “your business will be starting early this year because we are going to have an early spring.”  I would try to inform them that it would have to be more than an early spring.  People would have to have in their minds that it was truly spring right away with some really good weather, in order for them to start thinking about having work done early.

One day in late February, when hearing such a comment about my business starting early this year, I got this feeling I get when I need to pay attention.  I took it as a sign.  I told myself I will plan on starting early and this will be what carries me through financially.  As soon as I thought this, I began to hear the inner sound.  To some this may sound strange, but the inner sound is just the Om vibration, also known as the sound of silence one hears during deep meditation.  If I hear it when I am not meditating, I see it as a sign that I should pay attention.

Well, as I said I took this as a sign and kept thinking about how I will start early this season. I made it a point to hurry to get done with my winter activities and often reminded myself that I don’t have much time left before my busy season.  Then another interesting thing happened.  We got record warm temperatures for this March, going as high as 80 degrees.  Of course, this put people in the mindset of spring quite early and we were busier than usual this time of year.  The signs of an early start came true and any money concerns were gone.  As I thought about all of this.  I found myself thinking about how many times I have gotten signs and help from the Universe.  There have been many.  So many, that my next thought was that I should never waste time worrying about anything.  I should just remain centered and watch how miraculously everything comes together.

Sincerely,

Craig

Yesterday I opened up my second book, Wise Words, for my message for the day.  Wise Words is based on sayings I learned from my teacher, Mr. Ambrister, and often reminds me of my times and lessons with him.  The Page I opened to was titled “It’s Gonna B

e Easy!” It is something he would say to me often, particularly when the situation looked difficult or even impossible.  I thought about how things are easy once we get centered. The key is to get centered and then the difficult problem becomes easy.

After reading and reflecting on this, I went about my day.  The next morning, this morning, I was thinking about my message for the day.  What will it be?  Then I thought about yesterday’s message. I thought, “nothing became easy.  Although life is good, I did not see things being especially easy or easier than usual showing up in my life yesterday.  Maybe I was supposed to be comforted about something, and know that it will be easily handled.”  Then I realized that I did have a major concern hanging over my head. “Maybe that will become easy” I thought.   I decided to open up another book.  Prior to opening, I wondered if things being easy was still my message. I even wondered if maybe that was a primary message for the rest of my life, that whatever is going on can be easily handled, no matter what it is any given time.  I knew by opening my new manuscript I would not get a page telling me it’s gonna be easy, but I thought if I do open up to those words, I will know beyond a doubt that is the case for all situations in my life.  It would be too coincidental.  It would be a definite sign.

The page I opened up to talked about transcending karma.  It explained about how we can transcend karma simply by getting the lesson.  I said to myself “what is my lesson at hand? What if my lesson is that my whole life is going to be easy, and I must walk in a way that makes it so?   I guess I could not get things being easy off my mind.  I opened up to another page in my manuscript for more clarification.

The page talked about how we are in the place of our highest good right now and things are working out in ways in which we can’t see at the moment.  Then came the shocker.  On this page in the manuscript was a story Itold about a difficult situation I overcame.  One that started out looking impossible and became easy.  I even mentioned how Mr. Ambrister would say, “it’s gonna be easy.”  I was shocked, I forgot I included the story and the mentioning of the saying in the manuscript for my new book, but as I was reading it I had no doubt that this was my message and lesson at hand.  It was now time for me to move into and realize that my whole life is gonna be easy and things are always working out in ways that I can’t see at the moment.

Yesterday my sister Traci invited me to lunch at a restaurant that she had been meaning to try for some time.  She said it was called Bario.  I never heard of it before, but I knew that it was going to be somewhat upscale because it was located in downtown Birmingham. That area is filled with really nice upscale shops and restaurants.

On my way to meet her, I realized that this was the same place I had passed a week or so ago as I was leaving the movie theater.  As I was walking pass the place, it caught my attention.  I found myself thinking “that place really looks upscale for a Mexican restaurant.”  I was looking in the window and could see the decor.  Then I said. “Didn’t that used to be the Blue Martini?”  The Blue Martini was this cool looking upscale bar that closed some time ago.  My next thought was “Well it makes sense.  The Blue Martini had a certain style, so why not put something else there with a little chic style to it?”  It was my first time seeing a chic looking Mexican bar and Restaurant, but I thought the idea was pretty cool.  As I kept walking I said to myself “I have to try that place sometime.  Maybe I’ll take the wife there one day.”  Then I kept walking to my Truck and left.

As I was headed to meet Traci for lunch, I thought about how this was beyond coincidence that I was saying that I had to try this place, just one week ago.  Imagine how many bars and restaurants are in the Detroit Metro Area? What are the odds of that, my sister asking her to meet her there just one week later? Then I got this really cool mystical feeling.  I was reminded of a saying that goes like this.  “The great sages are careful what the talk about because they know everything they say comes true.”  In my life I have noticed this to be the case more and more over the years.  I can think I need something and it will literally just show up out of the blue.  I can think I need to talk to someone and have not seen them in years, and then walk right up to them.  One of my favorites is when I needed an extra hour in my morning one day. After my wife’s clock went off, I said “I really need it to be six o clock instead of seven.  Man If that happened it would be a miracle.”  To my surprise, when I looked at the clock it was six not seven.  I wrote about this in a post titled Miracle Yes Or No.  My point is this. We create our own worlds by our thoughts, words, and environments we place ourselves in.  So  be careful what you watch, listen to, think about, and by all means, what you say. It very well just may come show up.  By the way a friend of mine read this and pointed out that I did not mention how the food was.  It was incredibly good.

Sincerely,

Craig Kimbrough