The Gift of an Ending Woven With a Beginning...

Such is the nature of life to leave you with the mysterious feeling that a "big story" you have lived and experienced is "To be continued..." by its beautiful ability to weave an ending with a beginning. Shortly after returning home from the Alaskan cruise, which embodied the eventual ending of my relationship with Wilson, I received an invitation from my good friend, Erin, to recite a poem at her wedding in August 2016, the very next month. The poem she had envisioned me reciting was none other than "The Prophet." I was blown away by her invitation and accepted without hesitation, despite the fact that I tend to get really nervous doing public speaking. What's interesting to note is that although Erin knew I have this poem book and love it dearly, she had no idea I had brought it on the cruise and all I have experienced in connection with it. Erin simply had a vision come to her of me reciting part of this poem at her wedding and thought it was a beautiful idea, so she reached out to me about it. I definitely thought it was a good idea as well because I felt that this experience would help me with the process of healing my broken heart in its own mysterious way. It's interesting how a break up with someone you love affects your psyche and spirit. I felt so ugly, rejected, and broken after the cruise due to what went down through that experience. But through the experience of reciting The Prophet at my friend's wedding, using my voice to express a vision of Love that is so damn beautiful, I felt my own inherent beauty and self-worth was redeemed. Reciting this poem became an act of redemption for me, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes type of experience. I now know what redemption truly means. It means you recover and restore the real essence of who you are at your core which is a beautiful spirit. I felt so honored to have the opportunity to give voice to this amazingly beautiful poem at my dear friend's wedding. It felt like a dream I didn't even know I held within my heart was coming true.

Image from animated film, "The Prophet" produced by Salma Hayek (She has also experienced powerful synchronicities in connection with this poem.)

It also felt like synchronicity was leading me to a place of healing and gratitude which it is known to do, at least from my experience. As I have said before, from my observation, the most powerful synchronicities I have experienced have been connected to my heart, the part of myself that can sense something more. When I let my heart guide me, I navigate my life by synchronicity which means I follow my heart as it moves in the world.

Normally, as I said before, I tend to get very anxious about speaking in front of a group of people, but the magic I felt during the experience of using my voice to bring the beautiful vision of Love by Kahlil Gibran to life swept me away to a place inside of myself where anxiety couldn't touch me. The whole experience felt dream-like and it was so beautiful to be feel the ecstatic bliss of dreams coming true through the power of Love. I hold so much gratitude in my heart to Erin and Ted for allowing me to be a part of their love story and helping a dream I didn't know I had come true, right along with their dream of marriage. It's hard to put into words the beauty of the whole experience. All I know is that the experience was a gift that I feel I continue to unwrap, and more and more beauty is revealed...

The portion of the poem I recited at Erin's wedding is the part written on Marriage:

This is me at Erin and Ted's wedding. I am holding and reciting "The Prophet" from my heart.