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Let Them Fall at Your Feet...

Michele Emery Henshaw
Jan 27
3 min read

Are you open to the signs and messages you seek?

I recently bought this book from my local charity shop. Actually, it quite literally fell at my feet. As the shop volunteer was restocking the bookshelf, it flew out of her hands and landed right on the toe of my boot.

The title spoke directly to me, as you can imagine: ‘Best Loved Hymns, Poems and Readings.’ Right up my alley. It’s as if this little book was sent to greet me in that very moment.

You see, I’ve been asking for signs and messages a lot lately but I’m always concerned that I’m missing them. As a seasoned independent, a stoic survivor, I can be so seriously focused on fixing things myself that I can become blinkered when it comes to recognising help when it shows up. It’s an old habit, one I had to develop as a child because there was often no-one around to help. I had to work things out for myself, by myself. Clearly I still have work to do when it comes to believing help will show up when I ask for it and try to manifest it.

So, the day this book arrived in my life, I was conscious not to focus on the irritation of a toe stub, but to consider for a moment that this could be a message.

Now, the thing about signs and messages, in my humble but long lived experience, is this: believe, don’t believe, the choice is entirely yours my love. Here’s what I can say with conviction though, as an intuitive and a lifelong student of the mind. When you choose to believe, they show up! Whether frequencies align, energy connects or whether it’s some sort of alchemy or magic, it happens.

So anyway, back to the book. I handed over my money and began my walk home, clutching my new find. As the sun appeared, the spring birdsong stopped me in my tracks, offering me a moment to linger. I opened the book and randomly arrived on page 47. Mmm, “I wonder what will happen if I repeat that?” I thought. I flicked the pages a couple of times as though shuffling a deck of cards, closed my eyes and…. page 47!! Really?

On page 47 was one of my favourite pieces of writing of all time by Dylan Thomas: ‘Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.’ Whoa. One of my favourite lines from that piece is “Old age should burn and rave at close of day.” Well, I definitely haven’t been doing much raving lately. Was that the message?

In numerology and spiritual circles, the number 47 is a sign that you’re on the right life path, fulfilling your mission. I needed that reassurance. I’ve been seriously questioning it. The number 4 is the number of solid foundations. After decades working on building them, is this a sign that I can finally enjoy the fruits of my hard labour, that my home is built and I can finally move in? Number 7 indicates a calling to reconnect to our spiritual practice and symbolises a connection to the divine. I hear you universe. I drifted but I’m home.

47 also happens to be the number of the house where I finally found some peace and security after escaping my traumatic childhood alone with my violent schizophrenic mother. Wow. The insecurity etched in by that experience has been rising to the surface again recently. This nudge to recall the peace of mind and heart I found there reminded me that I didn’t find it in a building, but in my own mind and heart and in the love and support that surrounded me. I’ve been isolating myself of late. I often hibernate when I have healing to do. I’m reminded that connection is crucial. We are not meant to journey alone.

I’ve also been feeling the need to move myself; move town or even country, but I’m also reminded that I don’t need to be ‘there’ to heal and grow. I need to be here, inside myself, with myself.

So, are these the signs and messages I’ve been needing and asking for, or just coincidences? Did I call them in or were they sent?

Does it matter? It is as I choose it to be. I choose to believe. Will you?

Big love,

Michele

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Big love, Michele x

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