More Whispers: July 3, 2010

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.” ~Stephen R. Covey

I write a lot about whispers here in my blog. I've just always had them, and because they've been such a big part of my life, (my little gift from the universe), I'm always fascinated when others have them. I especially enjoy it when someone describes an event or a happening that's so obviously a spiritual whisper, and yet the person talking about it can't accept that it's a message (a whisper) from God's own universe.

I have a friend here in DuBois. He said he's experienced some (these are his words) "really strange shit". He talked with me about what happened, but he refuses to think of them as whispers, and he refuses to let me use his name.

He told me of one incident that happened when he was in the shower. He was certain he heard someone call his name. He said it was as clear as anything and very loud. Since he regularly locks both the front and back doors, he thought maybe someone had broken in. He said he jumped out of the shower, grabbed the baseball bat he keeps behind his bedroom door, and ran naked through the house peeking in each room. Nothing was there, of course, and he told me he felt pretty ridiculous as he stepped back into the bathroom to finish his shower.

Another time, he was outside mowing the lawn. He said he kept having the feeling that someone was watching him as he passed back and forth across the isolated back yard with the mower. He thought he heard someone call his name that time, too. He described it as "weird shit" and told me the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.

I wish I could find some easy way to convince people that there's nothing evil about God and the universe speaking to us. We're taught from childhood that God is invisible, he's to be feared, and to believe in anything outside of the sanctity of the church and their teachings has to be the work of the devil and avoided at all costs. That's just not true at all -- it couldn't be further from the truth.

Some, like this friend of mine, would rather believe that the whispers are ghosts ... I tried to explain to him that having spiritual whispers is a good thing. All of us have whispers -- whether or not you think of them as such. Most people tend to think of the voice you hear from down inside as your conscience, or in the case of a warning we suddenly feel, as our intuition. Most often, that is the whisper I'm speaking about and it comes from our spirit guides. They are, by agreement, assigned to us even before our birth. Some of us even have more than one.

Maybe, had my friend accepted that this was his spirit guide trying to contact him, he might have been warned of a pending accident that his mother really did have. Or maybe, his spirit guide was just trying to tell him it was time for him to become more spiritually aware ...

Everyone has a spirit guide (or two, or even more!). They've been with us from the beginning and they whisper things to us all the time. It's important that we learn to distinguish their whispers from our own mind's congested thoughts. The more we listen, the more we'll learn to hear.