Our children are so wise. Do we listen?

I have been talking to William, my oldest, about guardian angels. I believe we all have unseen spiritual guides – call them what you will – but I believe in them. William is 6 now and I have been sharing more of my spiritual beliefs with him as he is getting older. To that end, I have begun to openly talk about the guides that I know I have in my life (and believe that we all have). I call mine Arnold. There’s a reason I call him Arnold, but that’s another story.

The other day William and I were debating whether he should do his homework before going to Hollywood Video or after. William, of course, wanted to do it after and I wanted him to do it before. I’m the mom, right? What I say should be the law no matter what, right? Well, I don’t really parent that way. We are equals on this earth. There’s a bigger context to everything. We are spiritual beings having human experiences. The spiritual side of things always takes precedence in my book. To that end, I said to James that I would check in with Arnold and see what he said. That’s when I do my muscle testing. This is a form of kinesiology I do based on the teachings of Dr. David R. Hawkins. I have been studying him for several years now, have read all of his books and practice a form of individual muscle testing he describes in the Appendix of “Power vs. Force.”

I ask, “It serves the Highest Good to do such and such…” It’s really a matter of stopping, going inward and really paying attention to that “still small voice” called intuition. It serves me well. It serves me very well.

In this case, when I took a moment to get out of my ego and motherly righteousness about the whole homework thing, the message that I “got” was that it served the Highest Good to go to the video store first and then come back and do William’s homework.

The thing about the universe is that its reference of context is a whole lot larger than mine. I have learned that to trust the universe is just about the biggest favor anyone could ever do for themselves.

I told William that Arnold sided with him and that we would go to Hollywood Video and then come back and he would do his homework then. We went outside to walk to Hollywood Video and William wanted to take his scooter. It was drizzly and wet, so I said that I thought it was safer if William did not ride his scooter. I turned away to put JJ and Oliver in the double buggy. When I looked back over at William he had put the scooter down.

He said, “Mom, I checked in with Arnold and he told me not to ride my scooter.” Then he said, “Mom, Arnold’s voice is very quiet, like a whisper inside my head. When he talks to me it’s very soft.”

It was beautiful. I felt like he had reconnected with a piece of his birthright in that moment. We are all supported in this earth adventure. We forget that help is there. In that moment William reconnected to his inner compass. Have you?