The Force Is Always Speaking To You

But requires listening and action to know it.

One day, I prepared for my daily walk on an unseasonably cold October morning.

—I used to run. Got tired of it, started jogging. Then one day, when another person passed me while I was jogging and they were walking, I gave up jogging too.—

Now I walk.

It's my favorite time to open my ears and hear—both sets of ears—the ones on my head and those that hear that still, small voice within.

As I was getting ready that morning, I heard that inner voice tell me to wear my gloves. I hesitated.

Later, I realized I hesitated because I was going through a doubt phase.

I was questioning whether the force many people call God, the Divine, or Spirit was what I thought It was.

I recognize that I'm a spiritual novice when it comes to understanding that force, but most of the time, I trust that just because I don't understand and can't live in the absolute at all times, it doesn't mean it isn't True.

I once explained it to myself this way: Scientists are aware they can't grasp the infinitude of what we call the universe. They can't see to the end or the depth of it, but they know it exists.

Still, they plan missions to Mars and send space probes. They take these baby steps because they trust in the bigger but unknowable infinite.

In the same way, I trust the absolute and then take daily steps to be a better person.

But on that day, I hesitated because I thought no one cared anyway. I doubted that there was an infinite, intelligent, loving force running the universe.

But I listened anyway and put on my gloves.

I've run, jogged, and walked around the same loop of my neighborhood for many years, about the same time each day.

On this particular morning, as I walked down the street with my gloved hands in my pockets, a man I had never seen before walked out of his house to the end of his driveway and asked me:

"Do you have your gloves on?"

I lifted my hand from my pocket, waved it high in the air, and joyfully responded, "Yes!"

He smiled at me and went back inside. I continued my walk, returning to my faith that an intelligent, loving force is watching over every detail.

I had obeyed that voice, and somehow, it was noticed.

A month later, I went for a walk on an unseasonably warm November day. I was thinking about "glove day" since I didn't need them that day, wondering why I had never seen that man again.

And then I looked up, and there he was, running by.

He simply said, "Beautiful day!"

In my book Living In Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception, I share another similar incident from March 1999.

I remember the date because of what happened next.

At that time, I lived in downtown Los Angeles. It was predawn as I walked to my office to teach my course, The Shift. As I walked, doubt crept in. I questioned whether I would teach well that day. I wondered if anyone truly cared.

As I passed one of the hotels, a taxi driver jumped out of his cab, where he was waiting for hotel guests. He stepped right in front of me and said, "God loves you!"

He smiled warmly and stepped back into his taxi.

I loved every minute of teaching The Shift that day. What made it perfect was that Del came all the way from Ohio to take the course and to declare he was the man for me.

These might seem like extraordinary stories, but they're not.

They happen all the time to each of us. We only have to notice.

For this constant provision and care from the intelligent force we call Love, I am profoundly grateful.

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