Spiritual Hugs

Photo by Amy Taylor

Today I was having a bad morning, not so much physically but emotionally.  Plus, it had been two days since I had published my last blog and I was blocked.  I kept adding words to my post, "Bewitched" but I would've been better off throwing the dictionary in a blender and pouring it on the page...I was at a loss.  The thoughts just weren't melding together.  Then it came.  An email from my good friend, Amy.  I have known her for over 27 years and we have been through life's ups and downs.  True friends know when they are needed--even though she knew nothing of my suffering--and in this email was this beautiful picture showing a cactus leaf about to emerge in the afternoon sun.  Amy, being the photographer that she is, quickly captured the shot.  She proceeded to say,   "...But then I got to thinking….these are the little signs from the universe that life is good and ever changing and that there are new and beautiful discoveries everyday.    God does work in mysterious, sometimes subtle, but always in beautiful ways."  I couldn't help it...I lost it.  I knew this was my Spiritual Hug from my Heavenly Father--that's what I call them, reminders from God that He is here, that He loves us, and He knows us.  There are two scriptures that I absolutely love because they talk about His personal knowledge of each and every one of us.  In Matt 10: 29-31 it says we are more valuable than sparrows and that the "very hairs of our head are numbered".  In Moses 1:35 many worlds have come and gone and are "innumerable are they unto man; but all things are numbered unto (God), for they are mine and I know them."

The email helped me because it reminded me of God's love for me.  He knows that I'm going through a rough time and he sent me a message of hope through a good friend.  As I said a prayer of thanks the words for my previous blog fell into place and wrote itself as if the letters had been placed under a spell and finally broken, I could now decipher the words.  I also felt a calmness come over me knowing I cannot stress over that which is out of my control, "God works in mysterious ways"...I need to let Him take over on this one. 

I challenge you to look out for Spiritual Hugs in your life.  Once you become aware of them, no matter how big or small, it will always fill your heart to be reminded of Heavenly Father's personal knowledge of YOU!