I’m listening to “How Enlightenment Changes the Brain.” Dr. Andrew Newberg talks about the 5 elements of a big Enlightenment experience:

• Sense of intensity
• Unity
• Clarity
• Surrender
• Permanent large scale change in awareness, behavior, or belief system

I’m realizing that I’ve had a couple of these Enlightenment experiences. The first one was a few weeks after my 2nd husband asked for a divorce as my mother died. This transformation came in an instant out of nowhere as I walked out of a grocery store in March 2017, about a week or two after my mother’s passing. I was not even thinking about anything in particular. A deep knowing came that my life was about to get amazing with this new powerful angel on my side. From that point, I had an abiding awareness that I am not alone… that I am fully supported by angels… my mother’s love intensified and I knew my life was about to get amazing. I started going through my life with a grateful expectancy.

I released any need to control outcomes because I had a deep awareness that everything was being taken care of.

The next Enlightenment experience came June 29, 2017. I was staying with a friend in Utah. I had no home of my own, no functioning car, the divorce was finalized 23 days earlier. Earlier that morning I’d had an incredible dream and woke up realizing that while I appeared to have nothing I had everything … that God had me in that moment, and He’d always had me, and He would have me in every moment going forward. Ever since that morning, I see my life, events, and circumstances in a completely different way than I did prior to that day. I have a trust and peace that follows me. Not to say I don’t have my moments but I always go back to that moment and it clicks me into a “keep calm and see what happens” place. It’s a place of complete trust (surrender) and it gave me clarity and definitely had an intensity I can never deny or forget. It changed the way I do relationships, the way I see everything.

The next day I met Dave.