Do you hear what I hear?

As many people around us are propelling themselves towards another  Holiday Season, the holiday music is thick in the air.  All of our favorites are pouring out and today it seemed that everyone was listening to it and it seemed to be following me everywhere we went.  I finally admitted to myself that I had been avoiding the hustle and bustle of the season, averting my eyes in the hopes time would slow down for me to catch up.  But the songs don’t lie and jingle bells are in the air.

Tonight while I was waiting in the parent’s waiting area during my children’s dance class, I overheard something really interesting.   A mother that I didn’t know was helping her child put on her ballet shoes and the Holiday music was blaring out from the other room.  The woman asked her child if she had told the dance teacher that they had just been listening to that very same song in the car and the little girl replied that she had and seemed so excited about it. They both did and I felt an opening in my heart that really made me feel good. I wondered if the woman was as amazed at those messages as I was, for that was what the song was for her and her child, a message from a higher power.

I started thinking about how so many times we might take notice of these little coincidences, hearing the same song all the time throughout your day, or having someone say something to you that you had been thinking about. I wonder how many of us take notice and then just shrug it off. No biggie, just a coincidence.  Never mind that you had just been mulling over a situation and then received an email that revealed new possibilities.  I’ve learned to perk my ears up and really listen when those things happen to me and I discovered that spirit talks to us through things like song lyrics all of the time. Not just song lyrics, but colors and feathers and animals and all sorts of signs occur to us each and every day to remind us that we are not alone.  They show up just when you think you are totally alone in your thoughts, almost as if you had a direct answer just delivered to your doorstep.

I’ve learned to apply these “coincidences” to my life and each time I find it unlocks another piece of my puzzle and when something like that happens to me and my children, I make sure they are awake when they see the signs and that they can hear what I hear each and every day.  As all of this was full in my heart and soul in the space of five minutes a song plays softly in my heart:

Said the night wind to the little lamb
Do you see what I see
Way up in the sky little lamb
Do you see what I see

A star, a star
Dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite

Said the little lamb to the shepard boy
Do you hear what I hear
Ringing through the sky shepard boy
Do you hear what I hear

A song, a song
High above the tree
With a voice as big as the sea
With a voice as big as the sea

Said the shepard boy to the mighty king
Do you know what I know
In your palace wall mighty king
Do you know what I know

A child, a child
Shivers in the cold
Let us bring him silver and gold
Let us bring him silver and gold

Said the king to the people everywhere
Listen to what I say
Pray for peace people everywhere
Listen to what I say

The child, the child
Sleeping in the night
He will bring us goodness and light
He will bring us goodness and light

The child, the child
Sleeping in the night
He will bring us goodness and light

May your children bring you goodness and light through all your days.

Written by Angie Lile

Angie Lile is a mother of twin daughters, wife, filmmaker, business owner and a spiritual activist. God’s Clue is her first children’s book and was inspired by true events that occurred while trying to explain the passing of a beloved family pet.~~

Angie currently volunteers for the grassroots spiritual movement, Humanity’s Team, which was founded by Neale Donald Walsch.

Angie also produces a children’s web-series called ART-Felt Learning, which teaches children about our interconnectedness through interesting art projects.

Of course she hopes to write more of these books as life presents them to her.