Thu 12 Nov, 2009
As a psychic medium I often turn to my Higher Guides for help in crisis situations, but what about those “non-crisis” situations that also require some extra help?
I was recently doing a project at home and needed some electrical equipment that I use once a year. Last year, a month after installing a new carpet and renovating a downstairs room that had not been touched in 40 years, a pipe burst and flooded the entire area. Everything had to be moved quickly out of the spreading flood waters and things just got jumbled. When I went to search this year for the wires and plugs I needed they were nowhere to be found. I searched high and low, upstairs and downstairs, and even in a storage unit. Nothing. Not a wire or plug box. I systematically checked every room in the house, the basement, the closets, even the attic. Still not a trace. I searched through piles and boxes of “stuff,” but it was as if the equipment had just vanished. Sometimes I just want to get a dumpster and clean out my house. Then I think, “Gee I really might need this or that someday,” and the clutter goes on. I have an ADD mind and my house seems to be ADD as well. Disorganization everywhere.
After checking the storage unit twice I began to wonder if, in the heat of the moment of cleaning up after the flood last year, I had inadvertently thrown the equipment out. Frustrated, I asked my Spirit Guides for help. I saw an image of a box under a bed in my mind. I quickly set off on a house-wide “under the box spring search”. Nothing. I remembered this same image coming to me many times over the years, when my friends would ask me to find something they had lost. “A shoebox under the bed” was the image that I was always shown. Each time there was never a shoebox under the bed. So why was I given this image?
Desperate to get the project moving, I asked my Spirit Guides, why every time I had needed their help it had come, but this time I was at a dead end. Perhaps they do not watch every moment of our lives I thought? Maybe certain mundane things like losing an object fall under their radar of importance? Then I thought, OK, there must be a good reason why they cannot give me help here. Maybe there was something wrong with the electrical equipment? So I got online, found a company that sells the same, and ordered a new set. That afternoon I went up to our local hardware store and on the way back decided to make a third and final attempt to search my storage unit. Now I was annoyed. The task of finding these things had been dropped squarely into my lap and I do not like unfinished business.
I stormed into my storage facility, where all of my books are kept until they are shipped out, and in an “Arnold Schwarzenegger-does-the-Terminator fashion,” started to move every last item looking for a box containing my plugs and wires. I moved one large object to see a white garbage bag lying on the floor below. Had I been cleaning up and forgot to throw out the garbage? Looking inside the bag, it took my brain a few moments to realize what I was seeing, the wires and plug boxes were all neatly packed inside. No shoebox, no box at all. Why we had inadvertently packed the equipment in a garbage bag instead of a box last year was a mystery. The idea of finally finding the lost parcel was a great relief. It actually took the bite out of knowing I would now have a double set of equipment, thanks to a no-return policy of the company where I had just ordered a new set that afternoon… that had already been shipped.
As I carried the white bag home I felt something come over me, an energetic message of some sort. It was the kind of thing I feel when my Spirit Guides help me to accomplish something. I asked them why they did not show me a white garbage bag to look for instead of showing me a box? That’s when I got that “moment of truth” feeling. I knew the lesson here. Our Spirit Guides do a lot for us, but we need to do just as much for ourselves. If they solved every problem for us in life, we would not live or learn. I needed to find the bag myself. Had I looked more carefully, I would have found it earlier and avoided having to pay for a new set. Instead I was relying on them to just point me to the object. I was slacking, and they were not about to point.
When you ask for help in solving some problem in life, make sure you can’t solve it yourself first. Sometimes we treat our Guides like hired help. Our expectations tend to be a little high and sometimes a little too demanding. We all have wonderful Spirit Guides and Angels watching out for us, but I think they have better things to do than running a lost and found department. We all need to realize just how much we are capable of doing for ourselves… and we need to do those things ourselves. Turn those high expectations back on yourselves.
So I now have two sets of plugs, which I probably will find some use for eventually, and a lesson well learned. Maybe another part of that lesson was that I should start looking a little more closely at everything going on around me. Sometimes we tend to miss the little things happening around us. Life is too short as it is, we should take in as much of the show as possible. Now I can get back to that household project and back on my life’s path… that is at least until I misplace the next thing I need to make the journey. More lessons, ugh. Another day another lesson, but I am always thankful to have another day.
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ExitZeroBen says:
Great lesson here, Craig. Did you ever figure out what the shoebox under your bed was meant to represent?
Craig McManus says:
I kind of see the shoebox under the bed as a symbol of the unknown or yet to be discovered. We just do not get all the answers given to us. Life is one long class. No cheating allowed!