The crash of a glass breaking on the floor is easy to recognize. Even from downstairs I knew exactly what happened before going up. I had given my son a small bowl of cashews in a tiny glass bowl. It was something that I had done many times and he had not dropped one yet.
I was lucky enough to get upstairs in time to see his face. His eyes were huge and he said “I am so sorry, I did not mean to do that”.
I laughed and said “of course you didn’t baby, just hold still”.
I cleaned up the broken glass, or so I thought. The next day I was walking barefoot through the house and must have stepped on a small shard of glass. It started as a “pinch” and as the day progressed it got more and more sharp. He was over for dinner and while it was cooking I asked if he would see if he could get the glass out. He looked and looked and couldn’t see it. He used a light and a needle and opened the site up a bit, however he still couldn’t see it.
After dinner, I asked him to just take the needle and open up the whole area, I knew it was there. He agreed and started by looking, however he couldn’t see it. I knew my body and I trusted it. I also trusted that he could find it even if he couldn’t see it yet. Eventually, he just started slowly pulling the needle through the wound site. All of the sudden there was resistance to the flow of the needle. The next round of the needle through my skin he caught the same resistance and then suddenly flow of the needle again and he said “I got it”.
“I could feel it before I ever saw it” he said. “I knew it was there even without seeing it”. The next morning I was watching the sunrise and got thinking about how much my piece of glass was like spirituality. Sometimes, you can feel something even if you can not see it. Sometimes, you can sense something even if you can not see it. Sometimes, you can know something even if you can not see it.
If you find yourself in a situation where you “know” something, you “sense” something or you “feel” something but you can’t “see” it take a deep breath, relax your energy and trust that it is there even if you can’t “see” it yet.
