TOUCHED BY THE EXTRAORDINARY™ NEWSLETTER FOR THE NEW YEAR 2012...

TOUCHED BY THE EXTRAORDINARY™ NEWSLETTER FOR THE NEW YEAR 2012

PART FIVE
INVITING MIRACLES INTO 2012:
TRUE STORIES FOR HEALING, PEACE AND HOPE

THE MIRACLE OF THE CUCKOO CLOCK

"When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities."

~William James

Clocks are powerful ways that our loved ones use to communicate their presence. Such clocks are often described in stories as miraculously breaking into their melodious chimes at the most meaningful times, such as when one mentions a deceased loved one who had some sort of relationship with the clock.

In Touched by the Extraordinary (Book One), Fiona Havlish shares her personal story of deeply missing her husband, Don, who died in The World Trade Center and of the chiming of the grandfather's clock that had belonged to Don who had cared for it. She noted that the clock had not been touched or wound in more than eight months. However, according to Fiona, on September 21, eleven days after 9/11, with the house filled with family and friends, the clock began chiming at 10:00 a.m.(the time she believed Don had died) and continued chiming ten times each hour for the next seven days. The miracle of the chiming of Don's clock brought her great comfort, as she felt this was his way of letting her know he was there, in the house, with her and his family.

Last year, in our Holiday Newsletter, a similar story dealt with the dining room clock (which had not worked in quite awhile) that began chiming at the very moment when the name of the family member who owned the clock was mentioned and toasted. Immediately, everyone there knew her spirit was present. There was no doubt about it!

This year, I share with you a story that came to me in response to last year's clock story. The story is of a woman, Diane,* whose son had purchased a Cuckoo clock when he and his wife were in Germany. When her son died (by suicide), Diane had asked for the Cuckoo clock as a touchstone for remembering him.

Diane deeply grieved her son. She experienced the feelings appropriate of such grief, feelings which included sadness, devastation and anger. She also found it difficult to forgive her son for taking his life. It took many years for her to be able to overcome her grief enough to feel she could go on with her life.

Initially Diane hung the clock and, for while, it actually ran on time. And then it died. When she investigated the cost of having the clock repaired, she felt that the estimates were much too high. She decided to use her clock as a lovely decorative piece for her living room wall.

On August 30th, 2010, at 8:30 p.m., Diane and dear friends were in her living room, relaxing, talking about things like Heaven and Hell, God, God's Forgiveness and God's Love. Diane said that, finally, after fifteen years, she believed that God had forgiven her son. It was at that very moment that the clock (that had not chimed in years) began chiming. Out of the clock popped tiny little dancers, as though the clock had never been broken! Diane, overwhelmed with surprise, wonder and awe, broke into tears of joy. Those present declared that they would never forget what they had experienced that evening.

What makes this story even more miraculous is that August 30th has great significance for Diane. It is the anniversary of the day her son died. When we are able to love ourselves and our loved ones enough that we can practice forgiveness (of both ourselves and others), we actually shift ourselves energetically to a higher vibrational level, enabling miracles to occur. This is the power of both forgiveness and love.

"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist."

~David Ben Gurion

With Warmth and Love,

Look for Part Six tomorrow...

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"Sometimes a scientist – often a very great scientist – realizes
that miracles pervade everything. Einstein was such a person. As he put it,
'There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle;
the other is as though everything is a miracle. I choose the latter.' "

~Larry Dossey, MD, The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things

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