{"id":230,"date":"2008-02-28T05:50:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T05:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/02\/the-signs-are-everywhere-1.html"},"modified":"2008-02-28T05:50:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T05:50:16","slug":"the-signs-are-everywhere-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/02\/the-signs-are-everywhere-1.html","title":{"rendered":"The signs are everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look for the signs. They are everywhere. Wherever we look. Wherever we are. Wherever we go. They are sending us messages is a language that every person can understand\u2014for the wonder is that each person on earth receives his or her own set of \u201csigns,\u201d in a language and in a way that each person can comprehend.
\n(NOTE: This blog first appeared in this space for a little over two hours last Thursday. I posted a new blog about press fairness with John McCain soon after the day began, and few readers had a chance to see the material below, which is why I have chosen to “re-run” the blog today.)
\nSigns are posted along the path of life to give us directions, to show us which way we are going, and to indicate the places to which we may go if we choose.
\n\u201cSigns\u201d are just another word for \u201cconversations with God.\u201d They are the ways in which God converses with us, communicating vital information benefiting the Soul as it continues on its journey.
\nThere is not a day that goes by that does not contain signs. There are many days that go by on which we do not see the signs. We move right past them as if they were not even there. So stay awake. There is always a question in your mind about something, and there is always an answer gift-wrapped in the moments of your life.
\nConversations with God <\/em>says that \u201clife informs life about life through the process of life itself.\u201d Traditional religious teaching tells us that God says, \u201cEven before you ask, I will have answered.\u201d Both of these statements are true. God will not put a question in our mind without providing an answer. Indeed, the purpose of the question is to lead us to the answer\u2014that is, to lead us to the wisdom that the answer provides.
\nConversations with God <\/em>says that eternal wisdom lies within us. Some people have interpreted this to mean that we are \u201csmarter than God.\u201d Yet it is God who has placed the wisdom within us, and life is the process through which we remember the wisdom, by being shown it again, in many ways and in many forms.
\nAllow me now to give you an example.
\nFor several weeks now I have been pondering a question about my future direction in life. Then, by \u201csheer coincidence,\u201d I have had a number of people in the past 14 days simply dropping into their conversations with me\u2014totally \u201cout of the blue\u201d\u2014some comment relating to the future endeavors of all human beings, or their own next step (which \u201cjust happens\u201d to speak directly to me), or a very direct, personal observation about what I might wish to do next.
\nI have been astonished that this has been happening with such precision and such regularity. It is almost as if the Universe has heard my question and is using every device possible to scream at me the response. Which is, of course, exactly what is happening.
\nNow the only question is, Will I listen to the response, or not?
\nUsually I do not. Like most people, I often miss these signs\u2014and, when I do \u201ccatch\u201d them, I go the other way anyway, because more often than not the signs I get are sending me in the direction that it would be most challenging for me to go.
\nThere is a reason for this, of course. The \u201csigns\u201d that we receive from life are pointing us toward the experience that would be most beneficial for our soul\u2019s evolution. That is the purpose of the signs to begin with. Indeed, it is the purpose of all of life. So it can be guaranteed that the signs that life sends us will be confrontive, challenging, and always pointing us to the place promising us our next most powerful opportunity for growth.
\nThe world right now is telling us something about ourselves, about the direction in which we are going, and about the directions in which we can go in the future, should we choose to. All we have to do is read those signs and heed them. Unfortunately, as in our personal lives, most of humanity is collectively ignoring the signs that life is giving us.
\nWe are seeing signs of our species\u2019 very endangerment, and we are ignoring them.
\nWe are seeing signs of our environment\u2019s demise, and we are ignoring them.
\nWe are seeing signs of our spiritual decay, and we are ignoring them.
\nWe are seeing signs everywhere we turn, everywhere we look, and we are looking right through them, as if they didn\u2019t exist. They are in the morning headlines. They are on the evening news. They are all over the Internet. And they are in publications and magazines just like the one you are now reading.
\nTHIS is a sign, RIGHT HERE. This is a sign telling us to LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT THE SIGNS.
\nWill we heed this sign?
\nYou, yourself, will answer that question in the days ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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