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Inspiration from Spirit:

Some minds sleep for many life-times, but it is always their destiny to return home to the womb of the Creative Source and finally be awakened to their Light.

It may seem strange to begin a book about love with an anecdote featuring a sunflower and a decision that could have been a crazy risk.

Actually, there were two signs in that twenty-four hour period indicating that my partner and I had turned some indefinable corner and were ready to recommit to a relationship.

The sunflower was the second sign, occurring as it did the morning after we spent the night together. How I had ended up staying the night also hinged on a sign.

It wasn’t the fact he had told me he was ready to spend the rest of his life with me, although he had. I had listened to his words wearing my invisible raincoat because I was too afraid to let them penetrate. I had heard words like that before.

It was the tone of voice with which he spoke to my dog.

Although we had remained close friends since our most recent separation, I drew the line at spending the night together. I was too fragile, too broken to survive the kick-back a temporary fling would offer. We’d tried it and I’d already paid the price.

So, after a very pleasant meal at his home, I casually called my dog to join me at the car. Sally is a rescue-dog who often accompanies me on outings. Being in her older years, she was in no hurry to move and I found myself there without her.

Then I heard a voice. ‘Come on, Darling,’ he said to Sally. ‘Mum’s waiting for you.’

He spoke softly and kindly, not for my ears, because I was some distance away. His voice floated over me as I stood with my hand on the door-handle.

I can’t tell you what happened next because there are no words to describe it. Some shift in energy, some kind of recognition stirred in me. He was no lover of dogs and the man I had committed to and lost would never have called Sally, ‘Darling.’

I turned to face him, searching for the words to fit my confusion. The best I could manage was to point out the obvious.

‘You just called Sally, Darling,’ I said incredulously.

‘That’s right,’ he smiled. ‘You’re my first Darling and she’s my Darling as well. Do you have a problem with that?’

I let that sink into me for a while. No, I decided, I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t have a problem at all.

‘It’s okay,’ I replied. ‘Leave her where she is. I’ve decided I can stay.’

Obviously, it would be irresponsible to advocate staying in a broken relationship based on the way your partner talks to your dog or because you saw a sunflower growing across the street.

What I am saying is that our inner guidance offers us signposts or signals if we are open to recognising them.

These are our wake-up calls, the subtle reminders that something significant is occurring. Our inner guidance whispers, ‘Slow down. Take notice.’

Sometimes these signals present as events of synchronicity. We might think, ‘What were the chances of that?’ Excuse the pun, but chances are it was not chance.

Once you begin to consciously tune into your life, taking the time to be aware of how you feel about people, places and events, you will realise that your inner guidance speaks with you, often.

You will become aware that you have a relationship with Divinity, (with the Source, the universe, your higher self, God, the Divine Spirit or whatever name you want to give it), and with a range of spiritual beings who are helping you experience the lessons you came to earth to learn.

These are our loved ones, guides, angels and teachers who, with the speed of thought, draw close to support us. It helps if we ask for their assistance but whether we know it or not they send us healing energy, love and practical help.

In order to communicate with us they use many different channels, including our intuition, our dreams, meditation, prayer, and even our sense of ‘knowing’ what feels right. All this information contributes to our inner guidance; it gently leads us towards healthy, positive decisions and gives us courage when we fall or feel we have failed.

It is important to remember that our spiritual guides encourage us; they do not control us or enforce their will. We are responsible for the decisions we make and the paths we choose. That’s what free will is all about. However, we are never unloved and we are never alone.

The hard part is that while our spiritual friends see and hear us, our perspective is limited by our immediate environment.

If you find this hard to imagine, picture yourself sitting at the edge of a pond. You can see into the pond and observe small fish swimming below the surface. It is easy for you to watch them as they interact and forage for food. However, the fish cannot turn their heads upwards to see you. Unless you cast your shadow over their pond or put your hand into the water, you simply do not exist in their dimension.

Like these fish that cannot see us, most of us cannot routinely see into the spiritual world. Events we cannot explain may seem like miracles; usually, however, it is our spiritual guidance at work.

Think about this carefully. Many of the signposts you will encounter during your life are markers you set while you were still in the spirit world. You will recognise these markers by an inner awareness, a knowing that something has just ‘woken up’ inside you, as I did when I saw the sunflower across the street and heard the tone of my partner’s voice.

Much earlier in my life, I had recognised my first husband the moment our eyes met. It was the acknowledgement of a karmic contract even though thirty years ago I did not know what karma was. In just a glance between us on a crowded plane, I felt an exclamation mark in my energy field. In that brief contact, two contracted souls recognised each other. It was different from sexual attraction and neither one of us was looking for a relationship; yet, within two months I told my mother I’d met the father of my children.

Perhaps you can now reflect on similar incidents. Have you felt you have lived particular moments before? Have you ever looked into someone’s eyes and recognised them immediately? Have you chosen to love someone for reasons even you could not fathom? Have you just known you had to make a certain decision because you were compelled to do it?

If so, you may already be following the invisible signposts you anchored on your timeline before you entered this life or the subtle messages of your spiritual friends.

With so much guidance available, you may wonder why relationships are so confusing.

Well, as the saying goes, ‘This is your life.’ And guess what?

You chose it.