August 25, 2007

I remember the message I received a while back telling me I need to remain flexible and able to turn on a dime. One would say, this is good advice. I would say, this is one of the most important messages I have received to be able to stay on track through these ever changing times.

Today we honor my granddaughter, Dylan’s first birthday. In a few hours, 24 of our friends and family will arrive to join us in celebrating this little girl’s very big day! We have plans to play in the green grass and barbecue yet the weather man tells us we may expect severe thunder storms. This would certainly put a damper on our plans. So we prepare. We understand that we may have to move the party inside. This we accept and will adapt if need be.

Last Sunday we were playing miniature golf with Grant when he said, “Mom, can we go back to home schooling?” After listening to his concerns stating that he did not feel that his current school was a good environment for him to learn we decided it was time to check out other schools. Monday I began my research of the schools in our area and Tuesday he was tested and placed in the one opening, by chance, that was available in this new school.

Because I was very involved with his old school, I had to bring this chapter of our lives to a close and open up to the new. Being open and able to turn on a dime, we made this big decision and acted on it. Grant loves his new school and has already made many new friends, adapted to going from a “new age” school with a new age philosophy to an old traditional, very structured environment. Instead of Mom and Dad taking him to school every morning and picking him up every afternoon, he now rides a school bus with his new friends to his new school.

The week has come and gone and I look back and marvel at the “change” our family went through and I am amazed at how easy it was and how we managed to flow with this big change in our son’s life.

I recall three years ago, today, when I woke up and received the message, “Why don’t you check out Prescott as a possible place to relocate?” We had no plans to relocate! We loved our home and our life in San Diego. But we listened and we made a trip to Prescott to check it out. It was a feeling of coming home and we both new that it was our Divine Guidance that was guiding us to make this change. Upon our trip home, we had our new home in escrow.

It happened so fast we had not the time to even think about it. For nine months we managed to make both mortgage payments until we decided it was time to make this move to Prescott. In this time, many things happened that were a confirmation to us that it was indeed time to relocate. And in the last week when we were packing and preparing for the movers, a young man was attacked on our front porch. As the neighbors all watched from their windows, not one went out to assist this young man who was attempting to fight for his life, while the 30 plus high school students who surrounded this boy watched their classmate stab him with the shaft of a broken golf club.

My daughter and son-in-law were down from Orange County helping us with our big move. They too watched out the window as this was happening two feet from our front door. Darin, my son-in-law, did not think of the potential danger, opened the door and went out to help. The people scattered, running and hiding in the bushes, jumping the fences into the neighbors yards to hide. Darin sat with this young man, talking to him and reassuring him until the ambulance arrived. Still, the neighbors watched from behind the windows of their homes.

This young man did recover from his injuries and we did disclose this incident to our prospective tenants. And two years later, we look back and thank God we listened to our still small voice within and made this move to our new home. Now we have decided to sell our San Diego home and amazingly, the day after we received the message that it was time to sell, our tenants called us to inquire if we would be interested in selling our home to them in a couple of months. Are we surprised? We are not!

When we remain centered and in the flow, amazing things happen! It is as if we are living in a scripted movie, with each scene playing out as it was written. And today we will celebrate our joy with our new friends we have made in the short time we have been here. New friends who do not seem to be “new”, but rather old friends we have longed for and missed in this time we have been apart. It will be a joyous reunion, a time of celebration as we remember to remain flexible and able to turn on a dime!

In Love and Light,
Kerry and her Angels

Copyright © 2007 Kerry Sue Hettleman