The Healing Spirit Sign

As told by Bev

It was a warm sunny day in the White Mountains of Arizona. Tatiacha and I were doing our last minute errands as we were moving to Montana at the end of the week. We were driving past the Wal-Mart Shopping Center and I turned to look at the building that we always thought would be a wonderful metaphysical store. I did a double take, and told Tatiacha to turn around because someone was using our store name - The Healing Spirit. (We had a metaphysical store in Sedona, Arizona- closed in 1992) She could not believe that there was a metaphysical store at that location, much less with that name, but did go back to see. We pulled into the parking lot, and there was the hand made sign. We jumped out of the car ready to confront this person who was using our name.

When we walked into the store, a sense of calm came over us. We felt relaxed as the owner approached us and introduced herself as Ruth. She was grey haired and looked so familiar. We both felt that we already knew her, although we had not met before in this lifetime. Suddenly our self- righteous attitude changed and we asked her about herself and her shop. We shared with her the story of the former Healing Spirit. She shared with us that she had run out of money before she could get an appropriate sign for the store. Tatiacha said that she had been told by Spirit that any store we would have in the future would have a different name. Ruth said that Spirit had recently given her the name Healing Spirit. Well, we could not believe this! Both Tatiacha and I knew Ruth was supposed to have the store signs we had been carrying around for four years. They currently were in one of our storage lockers only a few miles away. That was where we were going when we saw the sign. Now, it was apparent we were seeing a far greater sign, one preordained. Ruth was to carry the energy of the Healing Spirit and she was the new owner of the signs.

Now, as we drove to the storage locker, we reviewed the events of the past hour and were excited by our ability to contribute these gifts to this wonderful woman and her son, Bob, who was working with her. We carefully loaded the big sign. It was plexiglas - made to go in a back lighted frame. Then we put the two wooden signs in the car and headed back to Show Low and the Healing Spirit. Ruth was almost speechless when we drove in with those signs. She could not believe we would just give them to her, but we knew that was the higher plan and we had every intention of doing our part. Bob measured the sign frame that was on the side of the building, and it fit the dimensions of the big glass sign perfectly. Synchronicity is a wonderful thing!

We stopped to see Ruth one more time before we left for Montana and she told us that her husband had said that people would not just give away expensive signs and she had to take them home to convince him that was what happened. We wished them well and turned our attention to our future in Montana.