Offerings

Greetings Fellow Soul Traveler!

Welcome to the Linn Academy website. I’m so glad that you are here. Every month an oracle card is chosen which becomes the theme for the month. This month the card pulled is “Offerings,” from the Native Spirit Deck. 

As I delved into the deeper energy of this card, it made me want to share something that just happened that underlines the energy of “Offerings”.

Yesterday, my husband David and I went grocery shopping at Safeway. (We live in the country of a very small town, of which Safeway is the seeming center of the Universe. I’m not kidding! When we were looking for real estate/land here, a number of years ago, many of the listings started by stating how many minutes it was to Safeway.)

As we walked into Safeway, I was in a really bad mood because my car had electrical problems . . . and it was going take a two-and-a-half hour drive to get it to a dealership to get fixed.

 David took the cart to get organic vegetables and I went to the other side of the store to get yogurt. After grabbing a large carton of yogurt, I then decided we also needed kefir and a couple cartons of cottage cheese and suddenly I had a huge armful of items that I needed to trek across the store to put in our cart.

 My bad mood deepened, I berated myself, “I can’t carry all of these things without dropping something. Why didn’t I get my own cart? What was I thinking!” (Have you noticed that when you are in a bad mood, everything seems like an effort?)

 I stood there, staring at the dairy section, with my arms over-full, feeling really cranky and really wishing I had a cart. At that moment, I felt something lightly bump my leg. I turned around . . . and there was an empty cart behind me. I looked down the aisle in both directions – there was no one – just a lone, empty cart. I waited to see if someone came to claim the cart, but no one came. I was in wonderment.

 I’ve experienced lots of magic in my life, but usually only when I was in a higher vibration, not in a grumbling mood.

I kept staring at the cart in astonishment, as I piled my groceries into it. Then, seemingly out of thin air, an elderly gentleman with immensely kind eyes, came up to me and said, “This way you can make sure that you get exactly what you want.” And then he walked on.  (The last time I was at Safeway I had inadvertently gotten flavored kefir, which I didn’t want.)

For me, this was a remarkable moment. I’ve always believed that for miracles to abound one needs to be in “a higher frequency” but this experience led me to know that offerings from spirit are always around us, even when we are disgruntled or frustrated. 

When we got back to my car, amazingly, there were no electrical problems at all- somehow my car had mysteriously fixed herself.

Here’s my take away, if you believe that miracles will happen only if you are in a high vibe, that becomes your reality. But if you believe that, no matter what is occurring around you, miracles – small and large- can unfold, that becomes your reality. I have just shifted my reality. I believe! 

Believe that in this vibrant flowing Universe, Spirit is always present, no matter what your state or mood. And so it will be!

Love,  Denise