| Rocky
You've
heard it before: a little voice told me, an angel, God or the Virgin Mary
spoke to me. Some believe, some don't. Even those that believe aren't so
sure when some one states that animals, trees or mother earth herself can
talk. You may have read about it or seen it in movies: the great chief
standing there saying, "Eagle spoke to me", or whatever. Well I'm here
to tell you that last evening Raccoon spoke to me. DON'T TURN THE PAGE!
Let me finish and then you judge for yourself.
I
was sitting on the deck when Rocky (a wild raccoon) came up as she has
for the past five summers to check for cat food and to feast on the peanut
M&M's that we hand feed her. The old tomcat hissed and spat but Rocky,
as usual, didn't seem to notice. I've seen it a hundred times, Rocky knew
she could take the cat out if the cat insisted on a fight, so she just
ignored him, no need to prove anything. Before Rocky took my attention
I had been mulling over what a friend of mine had relayed to me earlier.
Recently divorced from an overbearing, abusive husband she was determined
to make it on her own. She was doing fine, except she was having a hard
time with her new male companion who insisted on paying for everything
and always wanted to buy her things, she kept refusing, not wanting him
to 'take care' of her. Some how she needed to make him understand. That's
when Raccoon spoke to me! Secure in her own self knowledge she had no need
to push it with the tomcat, no need to keep proving it to any one else,
no need to beat him up. My friend had fought a battle and won. Now it was
time to move on, secure with herself it was time to let others be themselves
without having to worrying about her old insecurities. The more I thought
of this the more examples came to mind of how often we try to prove to
others that we are, or, that we can, be or do, whatever when the only person
that doesn't believe it is ourselves.
There
are hundreds of different languages, thousands of different ways of 'speaking'.
Sometimes we just need to understand how to listen.
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