Episode 010 Allow for Miracles and Serendipity

Allow for Miracles – Serendipity Stories Miracle comes from the Latin word miraculum (mirroraculoom), meaning to wonder or marvel. I believe in miracles. Today I’ve got some stories to tell you…yes, stories about unlikely happenings happening. In the mornings I say an abundance prayer. I learned it from my friend Tony and it goes something like this: “Thank you for the joyful abundance in my life and in the life of my family and friends. Thank you for the abundance that will come into my life today. And thank you for the abundance that I can bring to others today.” Every time I say the part about “thank you for the abundance that will come into our lives today,” I get excited. I’m like a kid waiting for his birthday, waiting to see what abundance and wonderful things will show up as the day progresses. It’s an exciting way to live – always waiting for the next generous miracle to show up. Stories are our lives in language. Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. I’m Lori Lee, and I’m excited for our future together of telling stories, evaluating our own stories, and lifting ourselves and others to greater places because of our control over our stories. This podcast is about empowerment and giving you, the listener, ideas to work with in making your stories work for you. Power serves you best when you know how to use it. Last week was our second leadership episode where we talked about how to use the archetypes of the hero’s journey as a strategy tool for getting your team headed onto their next adventure of accomplishment. This week I’m going to share some stories, that as far as I’m concerned, show us that the universe has our back. You’ve heard the word Serendipity? The word comes from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip. It is the phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for. In the story the three princes regularly discovered pleasant things that they weren’t searching for. I once had an acquaintance suggest that another way to think of serendipity is that it is the phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things in a way not before envisioned. In other words, things work out as they should, but more often than not, not as you thought they would. There is a space of allowing there. Miracles go beyond serendipity. We often beg for miracles, search for miracles, or manifest miracles by our faith. Christ said before he did any miracle, “Be it unto you according to your faith.” I find that fascinating. So, according to this, I might draw the conclusion that first one must believe before miracles occur. Do you believe God can do miracles? Do you believe you can create miracles because you believe strongly in a course of action? That belief in God, in ourselves, in the power of Universal law and power being willing to bend for our good, despite  our current limited understanding, seems to be crucial toward the manifestation of the miracle. But often, with things of a serendipitous nature, it simply appears that the Universe is looking out for us with little thought from ourselves. In 2004 I started a project collecting serendipity stories. Everyone has them if they pay attention, but there are many who do NOT pay attention. I figured if I collected serendipity stories, and shared them, that we would all become more aware of how there are forces in the universe, angels, God,  that truly have our back. These moments of magic are not distributed according to religion or region, color or culture, gender or gentry. They are across-the-board human experiences and they are crazy cool. I want to share a few because I believe in miracles and I believe in serendipity, and I still believe that if we share these stories we will all become more aware of the wonderful miracles that go on around all of us every day. And, if we start realizing how many magical coincidences, serendipitous experiences, and downright miracles are...