As I shared the coins, I was amazed to see how the coins and the message seemed to touch people sometimes without me saying a word. This unspoken significance of the coin became especially clear to me when I placed a coin on each of the side rails of my mother’s bed as she struggled with Alzheimer’s disease.
Once the beautiful, confident matriarch of our family, she was now a fragile, frightened, child-like shell of the person she once was, unable to remember anyone. When Mommy looked at the coin hanging on the side rail of her bed, she smiled and said “There’s my angel.” A calmness came over her. The little coin with the angel and the message You are never alone had done what words could not do…it touched something deep inside of her.
When Mommy died, I shared the coins with our family at her funeral. I believed this was the purpose of my dream and the coins with the angel and the message You are never alone.
I could now put this dream to rest…
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
The coin becomes a reality...
As the days went by, I couldn't put the coin and the message out of my mind. Somehow I knew that I must share the coin and the message with others.
But where do I begin? Then it came to me...start with the angel. I asked a friend to draw a free flowing angel.
I then set out to find someone here in Vermont who could inscribe the angel and the message You are never alone on a wooden coin. It was important to be able to feel the angel and the words as I had in the dream. I was directed to a man up north who could burn the angel and the message into the wooden coins. This man thought I was crazy...he just rolled his eyes when I told him that these coins would go around the world. He did craft 100 coins…
Once I had the coins, I shared them with family and friends and sometimes with people I didn’t know. Each time the person receiving the coin seemed to understand the message You are never alone.
What would you think if someone offered you a wooden coin with the message You are never alone?
But where do I begin? Then it came to me...start with the angel. I asked a friend to draw a free flowing angel.
I then set out to find someone here in Vermont who could inscribe the angel and the message You are never alone on a wooden coin. It was important to be able to feel the angel and the words as I had in the dream. I was directed to a man up north who could burn the angel and the message into the wooden coins. This man thought I was crazy...he just rolled his eyes when I told him that these coins would go around the world. He did craft 100 coins…
Once I had the coins, I shared them with family and friends and sometimes with people I didn’t know. Each time the person receiving the coin seemed to understand the message You are never alone.
What would you think if someone offered you a wooden coin with the message You are never alone?
Sunday, January 10, 2010
One night I had a dream...
One night I had a dream...
In this dream, I was holding a wooden coin. Engraved on the coin was an angel and the message You are never alone...I could feel the angel and the words. I remember feeling calm and safe as I held the coin.
When I awoke, I looked for the coin... I looked under my pillow, under the covers and even on the floor. When I couldn’t find it, I realized that I had been dreaming.
I was a little perplexed by the dream...
What could it mean? Why a wooden coin? Why an angel? And what about the message...You are never alone? I pondered these questions for quite a while…
Then one morning I came upon these words in a meditation book I have had for years:
“Our dreams beckon us to new heights. All that we may need is the courage to move toward them taking the necessary steps to realize those dreams. Trusting that we will be shown the necessary steps, one step at a time."
It continued..."Our dreams, when they are for the good of ourselves and others are invitations from God to spread our wings, and attempt new heights…They are not happenstance… Our dreams reflect the contributions we are called upon to make in this life.”
As I thought about the coin and the message You are never alone, I realized that there were times that I have felt alone. I then thought about how calm and safe I felt as I held the coin in my hand.
Could is be that this coin with its message You are never alone could do the same for others?
In this dream, I was holding a wooden coin. Engraved on the coin was an angel and the message You are never alone...I could feel the angel and the words. I remember feeling calm and safe as I held the coin.
When I awoke, I looked for the coin... I looked under my pillow, under the covers and even on the floor. When I couldn’t find it, I realized that I had been dreaming.
I was a little perplexed by the dream...
What could it mean? Why a wooden coin? Why an angel? And what about the message...You are never alone? I pondered these questions for quite a while…
Then one morning I came upon these words in a meditation book I have had for years:
“Our dreams beckon us to new heights. All that we may need is the courage to move toward them taking the necessary steps to realize those dreams. Trusting that we will be shown the necessary steps, one step at a time."
It continued..."Our dreams, when they are for the good of ourselves and others are invitations from God to spread our wings, and attempt new heights…They are not happenstance… Our dreams reflect the contributions we are called upon to make in this life.”
As I thought about the coin and the message You are never alone, I realized that there were times that I have felt alone. I then thought about how calm and safe I felt as I held the coin in my hand.
Could is be that this coin with its message You are never alone could do the same for others?
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