My family and I went to Portland to see the outstanding Cirque du Soleil. It was an amazing show!
We were on our way back from Portland, driving in the fast lane, when suddenly all of the traffic STOPPED! I braked fast, swerving almost into the next lane, and then off onto the east shoulder. In my rearview-mirror I see the motorcyclist behind me brake, swerve, and then the man and the motorcycle flipped. His motorcycle rolled out from under him while he flew up and flipped in the air before rolling in the gravel on the side of the freeway.
I had pulled over immediately and was the first to reach the injured man. I introduced myself and learned his name was Terry. I am a reiki master so I immediately began doing reiki for him and asking the spirits that be to help me help him.
It wasn’t until later that I wondered about the cars in front of me. Two of them stopped, and a young student named Emma waited with me. A young man in a white pickup truck helped me get Terry’s phone charged up enough to call his wife, Cindy, to let her know he was going to the Salem Hospital.
Yet, there were a dozen other cars that didn’t stop, didn’t help, didn’t wait to find out if this man was okay. Then, while I was doing reiki on him, the paramedics came with the state police. I learned there were three cars behind us which piled up, causing a lot of car damage, and another gentleman got hurt.
What was it that caused these cars to stop suddenly in the fast lane? None of us knows. What we do know is that a rather large group of people gathered there on the side of the road to help. There was myself, a nurse, people who brought towels, someone had a sleeping bag in the car. We all gathered together to help this man, Terry, feel whatever comfort we could until he was taken to the hospital.
Blessings to you Terry and to you Cindy (his wife).
I learned on Tuesday that Terry went home from the hospital with NO serious injuries! That is a miracle. Thanks to the spirit world for that one.
It is a beautiful thing to watch people gather out of love to help a fellow human being.
I have a vision!! Again!! Of people gathering together to create chosen families/communities. I see us gathering together to create these communities to team up and help each other in multitudes of ways. We might garden, cook, and clean together. We might do plumbing, repair fences or roofs, and fix cars together. I see us gathering to increase the love in this world, to make mundane tasks fun again. I see us gathering to create the village that raises our children. I see the beauty of this vision. See it with me!