Someone Is Watching Over You

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I received this beautiful video in my e-mail of an extraordinary relationship. It is a powerful reminder that we are all being taken care of. Something or someone is always watching over us, “not a leaf falls without its knowing” is a phrase I came across somewhere to describe the power of Grace in our lives. We call that higher power: Christ, Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Shiva, All That Is etc. Whatever our spiritual path whether you came upon it by birth or by choice, what is common to all, is the power of Grace. Grace doesn’t ask us to believe, it is there for us anyway. When we make Grace our ally, we experience its power more magically because we are more aware of it and attract more expressions of it in our lives.

No matter how much we feel separate and afraid, Grace comes to our protection in some form. I remember two instances in my life when Grace was there for me. Once when I was a young teenager, I was waiting for my older brother who was supposed to pick me up after my evening class. He had forgotten and it was getting late and I was at a school in the middle of nowhere and no one was around. I was beginning to panic and was so relieved to see my brother’s car drive up. When I went to the car, it wasn’t my brother; it was a young couple driving a car just like my brother’s. They saw me all alone in the dark and stopped. They offered to drive me all the way home, twenty miles away!

Another time was when I went to India for the first time. I took my three-year-old daughter with me. It was just the two of us traveling. After my husband left us at the departure gate in the airport, it dawned on me, “ What are you doing?” I was going to one of the strangest countries by western standards, alone with my baby. There was no turning back now. While we were on board the airplane, we went walking around and I met a friendly, older couple who was going to visit family in Mumbai. They helped me with my baby while I went through customs at each of the different ports. When we got to Mumbai, there was a general strike and there were no taxis to take me to the hotel I was going to. I hitched a ride from their relatives. We said our good-byes, and I knew that we were returning to Canada on different dates. It turned out that I had to postpone my date of departure from India and I was ever so surprised to see them on the same flight as mine on my return home. Again they took care of my baby and me on our journey home.

Even though I see the power of Grace in action in my life, I sometimes still doubt myself and feel afraid seeing how bad things happen to good people. This is the mystery of life, and we live with it with courage and wisdom.