Sometimes I buy into superstitious things: avoid stepping on cracks, don’t walk under ladders, black cats in general and the killer? Break a mirror:
I’m refusing the entire idea of 7 years bad luck. Nope. When that happened, the A/C went out.
Oh no.
I called for repairs and prayed a lot. For this moment, I could get it cooler for just shy what I had of emergency funds. But I had just enough and the house is cooling off.
The guys who got the A/C kicking took the box of broken mirror pieces I picked up but could not lift.
I went outside and what did I see? A monarch butterfly moving with the breeze. That happens so rarely now but it was big and beautiful and it made me smile.
When I came back inside, James Taylor was singing “You’ve Got a Friend” on the radio. (If you didn’t know, I’m JT’s biggest fan.)
I heard it differently this time. JT wasn’t singing about his being a friend. The song reminds me of someone who once sent me a card that only read “winter, spring, summer or fall”- the next line is “all you’ve got to do is call”. He didn’t put that and he didn’t show up. I was going to a funeral & didn’t need another gut punch.
So the song reminds me of my love of JT. However, on the wings of the monarch and under a cooling house, I heard the song as if God were singing it. I heartedly recommend doing that.
My friend. Yes. That’s why I haven’t ditched the whole religion. Because he has come to me, I believe. Plain and simple.
And today God sang to me.
Revvin' it Up 