Maybe God is Trying to Tell You Something
Emotions, Happy, Ideas, Spiritual July 21st, 2009
I love the song, “Maybe God is Trying to Tell You Somethin’,'” from the Color Purple soundtrack. It is a very passionate and moving gospel song. Every once in a while, something happens in my life where I can hear a message from God. It’s not always earth shattering, but even when it is a simple message it is still a delightful intermission from my usual mundane thought patterns. Hopefully this story will spark your interest to adjust the dial on your “tuner” in order to hear the messages you may be receiving right now.
I got a cold recently. The worst part was that it made me so tired. So tired, in fact, that I had to take a nap nearly each day. I never take naps so this means my body was really tired. After 5 days I thought it was gone and so I resumed my normal routine.
The following day the cold came back the next day. Arg. That was frustrating. This cycle of feeling better and then relapsing kept happening. Finally after the 3rd time it came back, I sensed there was a message and also some “assistance” from God. The message was “slow down” and the “assistance” was that I was finally able to sleep normally again after about a month of quasi-insomnia.
My insomnia was caused by worrying too much about, well, everything. Work, family, health, etc. I would wake up at 2am and worry for 3 hours while wishing I could go back to sleep. The problem was that a habit had formed and I was getting better and better at worrying, a skill which serves no one well. The kicker was that I really didn’t have anything to be worried about. I was worried about possible problems. Not very productive!
By having this cold and a bonus case of poison ivy too, God effectively removed my ability to worry in the middle of the night. I was too tired at night and too itchy when awake to think of anything else. The worry habit was interrupted which is all I needed to kick the habit!
The situation of repeatedly healing and relapsing is similar to training a dog to do something You must repeat the training over and over again. For a while the dog doesn’t get it. But as the training continues, at last, the dog finally understands the message and then they learn the lesson. Once the lesson is learned it is important to be reminded of the lesson and to practice it.
Each time I felt better, I was like my dogs. I wanted to go back to my normal routine, doing too much and not taking care of myself, but everytime I did God gave me a “correction” to convey his message of “slow down and stop worrying.”
Now you could say “All you had was a cold, there’s no ‘message from God’ there.” Maybe you’re right. But, here’s the thing, I find that when I finally “tune in” and listen to these little messages, which for me are usually “slow down,” and “stop worrying,” my life definitely improves.
I think it is God. I still have many questions and doubts about God, but for me I can’t dismiss the idea of God simply because my senses are not keen enough to perceive God in the way I think he should be perceived. Or maybe we are perceiving God all the time in the form of witnessing the amazing abundance of life on earth, but, like dogs in training, we are missing the obvious. We don’t see how life IS a manifestation of God.
In slowing down I had the opportunity to read a neat book that helped open my imagination up to the possibilities of what God and heaven really are. I recommend checking out “Life After Death” by Deepak Chopra. In the recent past when explaining heaven and God to my son with the explanation that they are “up there” in the sky, I found myself having difficulty imagining where that really is and what that’s really like. In “Life After Death” Chopra paints a picture that is more expansive, vivid, and believable than I have been able to conceive on my own.
So what about you? Have you experienced something recently that may have held a message for you? Please share your story with us. Perhaps telling your story will help someone. Or maybe telling your story will be like a key unlocking a message that you can finally receive. Either way, thank you for reading and for sharing! May you hear the messages the universe is sending you, and may it bring you peace and joy!
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July 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 am
Amen
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
@Analycer –
July 25th, 2009 at 1:13 am
sorry. . i don’t have a dog
July 25th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Just live you life what it is. Don’t care too much about others. You’ll be fine
July 25th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
great Post……..really liked it
July 27th, 2009 at 12:54 am
A friend of mine once asked … “if you could do anything today, what would it be?” and I said gardening.
I distinctly remembered that I love to garden. It was a calming, therapeutic way of stepping away from the big, bad, stressful world.
He asked me when the last time I did that and I said “about 10 years”.
No wonder I’ve been so grumpy to a point of mental instability
So, I’ve gone back to my hobby of gardening at least twice a week, and planting a new seed once every month. I have a very nice garden now 
and people think that I’m almost bareable to be around.
Keep it up. We all need a break to feel refresh to do the same cycle again in the mornings.
July 27th, 2009 at 2:03 am
yea! sure i have a interesting incident to share… god to me is like a best pal.. who listens to my non sense talk all the time… he is kinda my best buddy…. its about a month ago… i woke up and felt terribly bad.. i don’t know why… but i did felt really bad… the hysteria was so strong that i ended up in tears.. i didn’t ate my breakfast… and i was like crying.. since i am not a news and newspaper person… so i didn’t had any idea that.. Michael Jackson is no more…. and it was 12 in the noon when my friend called me and told me that MJ was no more… i felt really upset he was my idol… i am today a dance teacher just because of his inspiration… i think that crying that morning was a motion form god.
July 28th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Thank you for the insight!
July 29th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Wonderful post. Its good to know that there are people around who still value the spiritual side of things…
July 29th, 2009 at 6:11 am
What a cute dog!!!!
BTW, Beautiful post… The dog grabbed my attention first though. But I’m glad it did.
July 29th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
@math tutor – despite the questions that remain about MJ’s questionable behavior with children, it is still very sad. I hope that his children find peace eventually.
July 29th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
@Sharon – That’s so cool! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been gardening this summer too – a vegetable garden. It’s a lot of work, but it is so much fun to watch it grow! And I can’t wait for the veggies that will come. We also started composting and that is fun too knowing that instead of sending our garbage to a landfill that we will be creating rich soil for next year’s garden!
July 30th, 2009 at 3:48 am
inspiring
August 1st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I really appreciate the view expressed by everybody over here. Thanks to all for sharing.
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:22 am
The dog is very useful animal.thanks………
August 4th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
yeah.. I thought we have to believe that God always send a message to us in unexpected way… unfortunately, many people do not realize this…!
August 5th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Very nice and enlightening!
August 6th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
@Lawrence – thanks for saying so!
August 7th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Good food for thought. That pup is an absolute cutie BTW>
August 14th, 2009 at 2:10 am
I also believe that whatever that happens to us, there’s a sign of GOD that he’s touching us some lessons.
-Jandale Trivia Questions
August 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Really nice blog. An interesting article
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:20 am
Nice post.
I think we should all listen to our intuition more often. Your body is always a reflection of what is happening in your mind. If you get a physical symptom (like your cold), your body is generally trying to tell you something. Have you read Louise Hay’s book “You Can Heal Your Life“? It has one section devoted to the likely psychological causes of most illnesses; it makes for an intersting read and in my experience is nearly always correct.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:56 am
hiya!!!!!!!! it is very rightly said that there is always an act of God that govern your actions. This thing is very much confusing in all real terms that everyone thinks that it is he or she who have led the actions take place. But the very reason that one is not able to understand that there is always a force which governs your actions and that it is nature. So get to know more about it and the answers and dilemna are all over. Indeed, a very good article….belive in you and keep your eyes and ears wide open to get the indirect message.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Great post…thank u for sharing to us
….God is good all the time..HE always care to us, give us guidance to walk through the life…:D
regard
-ALFRED-
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:17 am
If I were you I would say yes,
Speak Lord,
Speak to me
Well you can’t sleep at night
And you sure wonder why
Well maybe God is trying to tell you something
You cry all night long
Something has gone wrong
September 6th, 2009 at 9:32 am
interesting blog..very good!
September 7th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Thanks for sharing. Its good to know that there are people around who still value the spiritual side of things…
September 9th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Love the article picture. Cute puppies are my favorite.
September 11th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
nice article, keep sharing such good stuff.
September 15th, 2009 at 3:51 am
We can only find how to just let God determine the outcome of what we do
September 18th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
I love this post! It made me think of other things. I will definitely look for more of your blogs.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
@Lori – thanks for your comment! So glad you liked it and I hope to hear from you again!
September 28th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Good food for thought.
September 29th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
@Swap – that’s the one!
September 29th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
@Akhil – thanks for your contribution!
September 29th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
@Roseanna,
Thanks for the book recommendation! I will look that one up! Thanks again for commenting!
October 6th, 2009 at 3:53 am
I enjoyed this paragraph and I repeatedly read, deep and beautiful …..
Now you could say “All you had was a cold, there’s no ‘message from God’ there.” Maybe you’re right. But, here’s the thing, I find that when I finally “tune in” and listen to these little messages, which for me are usually “slow down,” and “stop worrying,” my life definitely improves.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Gr8!! idea and a great blog. Its good to know that there are people around who still value the spiritual side of things…
October 15th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Waw… great idea and good job.It made me think of other things. I will definitely look for more of your blogs.Thanks!
November 13th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Very inspiring- we all need to slow down and just take time to tallk to God-He is always listening, as we need to do more!
December 13th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
your heart voice is the sound of god.
whatever the result comes that is the best choice!