The Enlightened Mom

For the last several months I’ve felt a need to set everything down in my life. I was being called to just let go and let God take over. However, my ego had other ideas. With the holidays coming, I saw other businesses, healers and teachers gearing up with holiday promotions. I battled an inner struggle to gear up too, selling my products like everyone else was doing. My guidance said, “No, Terri. It is not necessary. What is right for everyone else is not right for you.” However, my ego said, “You have to survive, Terri! You must compete in this rush-rush world!” It was like an ugly little monster grabbing me by the neck and at times literally driving me nuts, pushing me to step into the madness. Until this morning.

As I sat in meditation today, I had a vision and felt the archangel Michael lift me up in his wings and put me down on the bed. I felt him kiss me on my head as he said, “Rest Terri. We’ll take care of everything.” That’s when I knew it was time to listen.

I cringed yesterday as I sat in a hospital recovery room with Erly. She is in her late 60’s and has lived with me for almost 20 years. I cringed because I saw the nurses pull a tube from Erly’s leg and then work tirelessly for almost 30 minutes trying to get her bleeding to stop. I’m a little bit of a wuss when it comes to hospitals, and the idea of watching the nurse remove a tube that looked to be at least two feet long from Erly’s groin was not my idea of fun. And let’s not even talk about the idea of blood! The only reason I saw this was because I had accidentally moved my hand from my face! I am indeed a wuss!

For the last week-and-a-half Erly has been in the hospital three times. She’s been struggling with her heart. I was on my way home after three weeks of being on the road when I received a call from the paramedics. They said Erly had blacked out at work.

Have you seen the hysterical You Tube video from the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show that went viral this week? It’s called, “I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy”? If you haven’t, I invite you to watch it. You will have a great laugh! I’ll share the link in a moment. But first, I have some insights from it that I’d like to tell you about.

The You Tube video is a compilation of videos submitted by parents at the request of Jimmy Kimmel. He invited parents on his Halloween night show to tell their kids the next day that they had eaten all of the kids’ candy. He asked that they get the reactions on video and then submit them back to the show. Well, you can only imagine the wails and tears that were shed when all of the little ones thought that their candy was gone. It was as if each had lost his or her best friend. Except, for one little boy.