Within us all is an built guide... a direction finder if you will... our internal compass that gives us direction... a quiet little voice that gives us information about what to do, where to go, gives us hints and lets us know when we have gone awry. It is the still small voice of intuition.
How many times have you thought after an event - I knew I shouldn't have done that! or - Boy am I glad I paid attention that time! Intuition has played quite a large part in my life, sometimes my intuition isn't a still small voice, it is just a feeling in my gut that seems to indicate yes or no. Take for example last weekend. My husband and I had gone exploring around the Byron Bay area and decided on the way home to look for the entrance to some beach houses we had wandered by on a walk down Lennox Beach.
So we took a dirt track for miles that was seemingly going nowhere, but given the choice to turn back I felt really strongly to go on. When we reached the end of the track, the bush had been set on fire, and was blazing away quite nicely. I called the fire brigade, and my husband started throwing sand on the fire. Just as we were starting to put out the fire, a ute arrived with a group of young people. We all managed to get the fire under control.
My still small voice within has made itself known at various points in my life... My first husband seemingly disappeared - I was washing up one day and my little voice said, 'if you go to Canberra you will find him now'. So I called up my father and told him what I had heard, he said pack your bags... so we jumped in the car and went to Canberra. I never thought another thing about the message I had received until we arrived in Canberra. Dad said to me 'well which way now?' For a moment, panic overcame me and I thought 'oh no... what have I done'. I didn't let the panic take hold though and just let the first thought that came into my mind have a voice - 'turn left here'. So we turned left drove to the end of the street and his car was parked directly out the front of a unit block right in front of us. I knocked on one door and asked if the person knew where the owner of the car lived and she gave me directions to his unit. You should have seen my husband's face, when I knocked on his door.
Ever since then I have listened to my intuition. It has been really helpful, from saving me time to making me money to leading me to help people.
How many times have you not listened to your intuition - what was the outcome?
How many times have you listened to your intuition - what was the outcome?
'And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.' Kings 19:12
