One of the stories I always tell, to show how I found faith in the unknown world of coincidences and miracles, is one I call the ‘Moon Story’ and this is what happened.
One Saturday night, we were going to a birthday party, I was standing at the top of our driveway, waiting for Gary to back up the car. It was a beautiful night, and as I looked up I noticed it was a full moon. I stood there gazing up, and I told the moon how beautiful it was, I told it about my journey of wanting to know the secrets of the universe. As I gazed up, it appeared to flash a purple and blue wave, a moving aura around it, like it was communicating at me.
I jumped into the car and told Gary “I was talking to the moon and it flashed purple and blue at me”
“I think your imagination has got away with you” he laughed.
“Yes I know” I agreed, and we set off to the party, I know it was most likely my imagination, but I really wanted to know if there was something out there!!
The next morning we went to the market, all week I would sew and we would do the markets on the weekend. This was my only income and usually the market money was grocery money, our sales determined our food supply for the week, but we enjoyed the market and the people we would meet. It was a hard job at times, early mornings, packing and unpacking the car, the days of wind or rain or heat.
But this was to be a very unsuccessful day trading, I never sold a thing.
The next morning I was sitting on the lounge and I started to cry, I had put so much effort into this business and yesterday had shattered my confidence in what I was doing. I called out to the Universe “I don’t know what you want me to do in life, but I can’t do this anymore. I won't sew again, I have racks and racks of dresses I have made, and they just sit downstairs, I’ve not sold any, and I don’t have any money”. I poured my heart out in despair, I really felt that I was working and getting nowhere.
At that very moment the telephone rang, it was a man’s voice “Hello” he said “My wife and I are up here on holidays, we have heard about your clothing range. I wonder if we could come and see you, with regard to purchasing some of your stock for our shop”.
“Sure” I replied and gave him the address, I felt pretty down, so I did not take much notice of what had transpired, basically I couldn’t have cared less.
They arrived and I took them downstairs to the showroom, where racks and racks of dresses just sat idle, waiting for a buyer.
I left them alone for a while, so they could have a look and discuss what they would like. When I went back, he told me, they were very impressed with my workmanship, they thought they were coming to a factory not a private home, and liked the professional way I displayed my garments. The next comment I was unprepared for;
“We want to purchase everything you have here” he said. For 30 seconds I was in complete shock, standing there with tear stained eyes, in my slippers early on a Monday morning, having just given up on sewing ever again.
Trying to retain my composure, although my heart was thumping through my chest, I agreed to have everything packed up by late afternoon, and yes I would accept a cheque, this was a biggest sale I had ever made. He handed me his references and business details, again the shock hit me. The name of the shop ‘Mystic Moon’!!.
They left, I jumped up and down excited for quite a considerable amount of time, thanking Father in Heaven for what had happened. I could not believe what had transpired in one hour, from; no sales, to tears and given up, to totally sold out.
Once I calmed myself down, I was talking on the telephone to my girlfriend, telling her what had happened. Sitting on the floor in the hallway, two men arrived at my front door, they were wearing black pants and white shirts, but the thing I noticed first was the name badges they were wearing, with the name ‘Jesus’ written on it. “We are just spreading the word of the Lord” they said, “we would like to talk to you”
“You don’t have to tell me about the Lord” I exclaimed “I have just had a prayer answered in an incredible way, the Lord has just blown me out of the water”.
You know I danced around that house praising the Father of the Universe all day, I knew that too much had happened, for just a mere coincidence. I could feel this most incredible energy in the room all day and a feeling of being surrounded by ‘light’. That was the day I first connected with the ‘light’, the ‘energy’.
That was just one of many things that started to happen, my awareness increased and so did my faith.