Touching Magic

What if I told you, I’ve been living by this magic in the past few weeks (and at other times throughout my life) and the effect has been life transforming and life giving? Would you be curious how it works? Would you wonder if you can tap into this magic too?

The answer is yes.

I am certainly not special in being able to touch, breathe and be a part of this magic.

We are all given this gift, from the very moment our Heart takes its first beat.

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But what’s been so fascinating to me is that it seems we have completely forgotten this.

By we, I mean, us as humans. Convinced we are “only human,” we forget our Divine birthright. Which is: to be connected to and one with God Himself, the very life source of everything you see and everything you don’t.

How have I experienced this magic concretely? And not just in fanciful terms, but in tangible terms. Terms that you can see, experience and live.

Let’s start with this first example. A few weeks ago, I was beginning to stress out about finding a hotel to stay in for an upcoming trip to Paris. Typically, when I have a trip to Paris, I will reach out to several hotels and do multiple follow ups in order to “secure” a hotel collaboration. To be perfectly honest, the whole process is often stressful for me.

It feels a bit like flirting (something I never enjoyed), and hoping “the boy” (the hotel in this case) will pick me. Do they like me enough? Is my work good enough? etc etc

I needed a hotel stay from Tuesday through Friday, meaning for 4 days and 3 nights, which was particularly difficult as, for context, most hotels will agree to a 2 night stay but 3 is a stretch and even more so at the end of May, with Rolland Garros taking place in Paris that very same week.

I felt a pit in my stomach even thinking about pitching to the hotels, and yet, I thought to myself, the trip was less than two weeks away, I was really cutting it close, I really “should” pitch to them. A Voice inside me said: “No, don’t do it.” Very confused by this Voice, I thought to myself: “But I really should.” But it was just a thought, and that Voice, that Voice that came from deep inside me said “No” again, louder this time. Almost a “No, don’t do it, and don’t ask me why.” Frustrated, but not knowing what else to do, I decided to listen to it. Take a deep breath, I can give it a few days.

There was something inside me that whispered, “God will figure this out for you, you do not need to worry.” I didn’t really know what to make of all this, so I decided to set it aside for a few days, maybe even a week and then to revisit it. This was a Friday.

So that’s what I did, I set that thought aside, and then honestly, I completely forgot about it. My partner Iggy and I were preparing for a 3-day trip in Provence and so my focus went to this trip. We left for the trip Monday morning and in the car, on the way to one of our destinations, I checked my messages and saw that I had received a message on Sunday night from a hotel I had previously worked with in Paris. They wanted to collaborate with me again. They loved my work the first time around and wanted to make this a long term and ongoing collaboration.

I had tears in my eyes as I read the message.

God, You did this. How did you do this? How could you be so magic and wonderful?

I asked for this, I asked for help and You did this. I realized something so profound inside me, He was listening. He was always listening. He always is. I realized a Truth that I had not realized before. God is always creating opportunities for us to experience his magic. The space for that magic is always always there.

But, we humans have a petulant knack for meddling. We take things into our own hands, often controlling or contriving. We feel more “secure” this way. But when we do this, knowingly or not, these actions somehow “block” God’s magic. Something SO beautiful that was waiting for us, that God was handing us with all his Love, gets blocked and we never receive it.

Does this mean that the thing we did ourselves was bad? No, not necessarily. But to put it very simply, it is not that magic thing which God had planned for us with so much love and delight. What a shame to miss out on this experience. What a shame to live so far away from those connected experiences every day.

So how has my life changed most recently from this experience and others like it? I feel I’ve suddenly been woken up. I can finally finally hear God’s Word again. I am flowing again. The Voice that has always sung inside me, is calling out louder for me to hear.

And by God’s grace, I am able to hear it. I am able to follow it. And it is magic.

It allows magic in and all around. And You, dear reader, You have this same magic inside you as well. It touches every aspect of your life and every atom of your being. Can you hear that Voice? Is it loud and clear? Is it sometimes foggy? But still, you know it is in there.

I bet as you are reading this, your Heart knows exactly of what I speak. Your Heart longs to beat as one with the Divine. To finally be free of all the rest. Of the “should dos” and “shouldn’t dos” of the “this is right” and “this is wrong” of the judgements and of the calculations. To be free of all of it. To stop thinking so much and to start connecting to that inner Voice that guides you to who and what you were always meant to be.

It is through that connection that we finally start to breathe again and delight & abundance in every graceful form dances all around us. Will you take up in this dance? After years of being asleep, I am finally awake. After being deaf, I can finally hear. And after so much breathlessness, I can finally breathe.

I am.

I am.

I am.