TALES FROM THE BOBBI LAMA

For the last year and a half, my late husband has sent electric and electronic signs with lights, the thermostat, my computer, etc. and, at first, I get all upset that something else is broken again, and I’ll have to fix or replace it. After the service guy comes, or the Geek Squad gives it the once over and finds nothing wrong, then I feel better and realize it could have been Jack. I’ve gradually started to come to that possible conclusion sooner recently since I have had a huge amout of those “problems” constantly happening. In fact, two days ago, my wifi went out right as I was starting my scheduled thirty-minute phone call with the publisher of my new book about my late husband. It came back on exactly when the call ended. Then I went to get on Facebook to share my new book’s final front cover, and I couldn’t get on Facebook. The error message was that there was no such person. I was shut down…I didn’t exist, and on the very day I wanted to let our friends know there was going to be a book about him.

Thinking it was too coincidental, I remembered the old Max Planck quote, as well as Wayne Dyer’s, “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” It’s also the old glass-half-full addage. So I reminded myself maybe things weren’t just all breaking down and unexplainably coming back on, but maybe there was more to it.

Needless to say, I began to think these strange events might be Jack’s energy messin’ with me. And sure enough, without doing anything about it, my Facebook account came back on yesterday, and the wifi worked strong and consistently ever since. Once I thought it might be him just trying to get my attention to say he was with me, I was fine…even happy. He actually had to do those exact things if he was to send me a message because those two pieces of electronic equipment had my total focus. And, once I “changed the way I was looking at things,” it was an instantaneous perceptual shift that reframed the whole thing. That’s when I saw it all as a gift.