When Elena (my youngest daughter) was about 3 years old there was an especially hot summer. It was one of those summers where you have all the windows wide open or you feel suffocated and slow cooked.
In Lidia’s apartment the window ledges are quite low and she was understandably cautious about leaving Elena alone with the windows open. She was just about big enough and adventurous enough to climb but still without the awareness to realise the possible danger of a fall onto concrete from a second floor window.
During those hot days Lidia had all the windows open and only closed them in Elena’s room during the night. This particular night she forgot. Elena slept with Lidia and Arinze, as on many nights, but woke early, impatient and restless. Half sleeping, Lidia suggested she go to her room to play so she and Arinze could sleep a little longer.
A few minutes later Elena returned saying
‘Mummy, I can’t play because there’s a man standing in the window and he won’t let me’.
Lidia was up in a flash, suddenly awake. The open window immediately in her mind, and the man in the window even more so. She asked Elena to show her and so she took her to her room and pointed to the empty, open window saying
‘There he is, Mummy’.
There was nothing in the window – at least it was empty for Lidia’s eyes.
No matter how many times I recount this (true) story my body reacts with a tingle, a shiver.
Miracle? Guardian angel? Mirage? Vivid imagination of Daughter? Or Mother?
I don’t need to understand what it was, no desire to explain it. All I see is beauty in this and the intense comfort that something, real or imaginary, is looking after my daughter.
I like to think that a man (in fact, I prefer to think it’s a woman) protects me and looks over me too, even though my eyes are blind to her.
[...] Peatey presents Elena’s guardian angel posted at Quantum Learning – nonviolent [...]
This kind of story reminds adults they cut themselves off from levels and degrees of senses as they adopt conditioning growing up. What is it about the innocence of children? They have unwavering faith and trust in things that adults disbelieve. Fear, doubt and resistance are obstacles that block expanding sensory abilities. Recognizing why you hold yourself back is the first step to lifting the veils from your senses. Children have no reason to lie. Nobody has ever taught them how. It is adults who slowly come to discern their life is built on a foundation of self-deception that invites revelation and life-transforming disillusionment.
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Ian’s reply:
I think children connect more to the source and oneness of life. They haven’t yet learned the man-made beliefs and prejudices that keep us from seeing the universe more deeply.