I was in the middle of a near weekly thought…When did I become aware that all beings, all things, are connected?

I now know that this knowledge is built within us already. This is one of the many “secrets we knew all along.” In order to keep a Secret, I will spare you more of these fantastic details of our existence until a later date.

I knew it all along. We all knew it all along. But when did I realize that it was knowledge within me? I try to pinpoint it. It was after I moved to Portland. But it was before 2017 for sure. But when did all of this all unfold to me? Was it not a specific moment, but slowly unfolded to me over two years of time?

This thought was coursing through my mind violently yet again, as I was finishing up my cleaning work at my gym. Praying and wanting an answer. This was a big part of my life, and I don’t know when, why, or how it happened. I placed the unfolded towels from the gym on top of the dryer, and one of them dropped behind it. When it did, I started to hear air aggressively blowing from the dryer. Did the towels hit the duct or a pipe, I thought? I looked at the back, and nothing had been hit, and the only thing on the floor was that single towel. You mean that vicious loud sound was occurring that entire time, and I just noticed it?

The chills that happen when you are so aware of God’s existence started.

When I brought my awareness to a certain thing in my life, this time, something as mundane as a dryer, I find something that has always been there, that I never noticed before.

When you bring awareness to a certain thing in your life, you start to notice that there is something bigger at play. There is someone listening.

I could have easily thought nothing of this moment. I could have easily thought, oh, I thought the towel hit something on the back of the dryer. I guess not. Never mind, and carried on with my night. But the very thing I was praying about, I was exemplified in real life, just a few seconds later, with this moment.

“God, you are QUICK!” I exclaimed out loud.

This, of course, did not directly answer my question, when was it, that this awareness of connection all began? However, I could feel that this was God telling me, be on the lookout for all these little moments. Don’t look past anything, as every tiny thing that happens to you, by accident or not, may be an opportunity for greater insight. Keep your awareness steady. Don’t be so focused on the how or when, be focused on the fact that it is so. All things are connected, and it is so.

This got me to thinking, how many times does this happen, do we miss opportunities for understanding? If I hadn’t been “on watch,” moving slowly with my work, breathing, and most of all, PRAYING, I would have surely missed this moment of understanding. That would have been just another dropped towel.

All the time, these things have got to be happening. These tiny moments that bring about great understanding, that we just must always be on the lookout for, or we’ll miss them. And, likewise, tiny things that you do in your life that can create a ripple effect in the world, in others, and in yourself. Can every little thing we do, we see, and we come across, be seen as a miracle in some way? I think many things we wouldn’t normally see as a “miracle” are so, if we just keep our awareness focused on finding them.

In The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren tells us to always be praying. In another moment of insight last May, I had that proven as to why; as all things are connected, as all things were made straight from God’s hand out of Love, all things you do in your life should be done through God. Because they literally are. Every step you take, every breath you take, every sight you see, is an infinite amount of love energy. I remind myself of this every day, yet I forget to live every moment through God. If anything, this experience yesterday was yet another reminder why we should always be praying. If we are not, we’ll miss opportunities for miracles that we wouldn’t otherwise have seen. And the more we see these instances of Higher Light…the more we will live with a purpose knowing there are greater things ahead of us.

Yet, what’s a bigger miracle than knowing that you are constantly surrounded by infinite Love? Whether physical things you see or love energy you feel, the miracle is undoubtedly there.