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Firefly Dreaming is a year old and I thought it might be fun to look back at some of our first year posts that exemplify our firefly dreaming spirit and mission.
Original post with comments can be found here: Do You Believe in Miracles by Kathleen
Bluebluelady just left my home she came with another woman janG she met in the tubes at kos who lives in our area. You never know what strange events will draw you together with people but believe me when I tell you now I consider these women my sisters, fellow travelers in this wonderful world we live in. It was the first time we had laid eyes on each other but it was as if we had known each other many life times.
It was to be a brain storming session to combine our efforts to stop the nightmare that started when Bank of Assholes raided bluebluelady's bank account taking all her money causing checks to bounce just another assault of bad upon bad events that had taken place which if she didn't get turned around fast she would lose her home of 20 years.
This was a chain reaction of events that got her to my door today that could only be called a miracle.
For the rest of the story take a West Side Story jump with me below the fold........
It all started with bluebluelady's offer of $5, as much as she dare spare to help with one of SaraR's quilts over at kos, her small effort to help someone else.
This is when the Bank of Assholes came in and took her money and SaraR finds out about bluebluelady's situation.
SaraR writes (link below) an essay with a plea for help for bluebluelady on kos. People respond wonderfully but as things go with a lot of essays being posted it is gone pretty quickly down the tube but a firefly took notice.
This firefly (Ria) steps in and writes another essay (link below) which gets a lot more attention with a lot of people joining in to help. Now Ria doesn't just leave it there she (being the firefly she is) flies around to other sites to alert people to come and help. In this effort she realizes that bluebluelady lives in the same area as me so Ria alerts me.
I make contact with bluebluelady and realize she has a great petsitting business set up and she needs new clients, I offer to help her get new clients.
I put ads in our papers, shoot out an email, posting on facebook to everyone I know in the area who has pets and about her situation trying to drum up new business for her.
One of the people I wrote I had gone to Bolivia with and known fairly well but had not seen in a long time. I did not realize they had used bluebluelady's service and knew her but had no idea she was in trouble.
This brings me to the point of her standing at my door this morning. She had an email from this client making her an offer for a part time job that would fit in perfectly with her pet sitting business. This client (the person I emailed) needs help with her mother, who has Alzheimers, to help her stay in her home. They are paying a service to come in and care for her at the tune of $30 an hour for very limited care. Bluebluelady actually knows the elderly mother and has taken care of her little dog before.
She had just gotten the email before she came so she copied it, she read it to us through her tears. Goosebumps the size of mountains as it hits all of us this miracle of life.
What is amazing to me is how this series of event started and only in a few days it came around to what happened today. The connection through the tubes to today is another testimony of how we are one in the web of life, a web that reaches all around this small beautiful world.
Bluebluelady shared with us the impact these events had on her. Each donation, each caring word sent to her, the efforts made by strangers took her from feeling like crawling up in a ball pulling the covers over her head to an energized fighter to take back her life! Her voice broke as she talked about one donation from Puerto Rico, she knew this person didn't have much to spare but reached out anyway, she knew that if this person had faith enough to give that all was not lost, it got her up and fighting.
It seems in my life so much of the time I am too busy to notice the miracles around me but it is when I slow down and put myself in a place of gratitude that I notice the sprout of growth coming up through the earth, I turn and see my pups looking up at me with pure love, I feel the breeze, the sunlight. It is no wonder that we slip from this place of peace into anger and despair with all that is happening in the world but I remind myself I need to come up for air and see the miracles. Once I see one I see them all around and life is good.
It is today, a day of wondering, I am reminded that yes miracles big and small are happening all around us all I have to do, is open my eyes with a grateful heart to see it and be a part of it.
So to you bluebluelady I say thank you for unintentionally reminding us why we are here and I leave you with this gift.......
