I was laid off of my job as Project Secretary at an engineering firm in November 2008 after nine and one-half years of employment.  I received a check for my last two weeks services plus three weeks of accrued paid leave time.

Now, I’ve been taught that coincidence is when God chooses to work anonymously.  The next several days brought many coincidences.  I deposited my final check, and smiled as I remembered that I had only two payments left to be made on my automobile.  That was an immediate “raise” in income/outgo ratio of $350.  A wee miracle perhaps?  No more car payments.

Five years ago, at my “home group” in A.A., a newcomer sat down beside me before an early evening meeting and we engaged in conversation.  He was under direction of his employer to attend a Chemical Dependency Program held by a local Kaiser hospital facility.  That program compelled him to attend daily A.A. meetings for the year of its classes. Mark and I became friends as he attended the same meetings I went to each evening.  Upon graduation at Kaiser he moved his A.A. attendance to the part of the city in which he lived and I saw him no more at my home group. Mark and I did engage in an email correspondence simply keeping in touch.

Before leaving my office on the day I was laid off, I sent a general email to all my personal email addresses asking them to stop using my business address due to my end of employment.  The next day, at home I received an email from Mark.  Could he help me to get established with my Unemployment Insurance with the State of California?  It turns out that is his job.  Actually, he is a supervisor in this work.  He quickly cleared my way, answered my questions and shepherded my application through the process.  Another wee miracle perhaps.

A seemingly larger miracle is that there has been no animosity in my heart/mind regarding this lay-off.  I have been able to truthfully reassure my former employer, his superior, and my close co-workers that I am moving through the sudden change without undue emotional trauma.  Upset, of course, but at age 74 I have had many life experiences of sudden shift in the course of my activities, and have learned through much practice that there is a Power that cares for me constantly if I will only open myself to Its guidance.

All of my needs are met, and the big miracle is that I am conscious of the fact.  When fears arise I easily and quickly turn within to my Higher Self and find surcease from anxiety.

I decided many years ago to engage in the final third stage of my Woman adventure, that of being a Crone, with an openness and willingness to taste my life to the fullest until it is time to release this body and enter into that realm of Spirit where there is neither birth nor death, only the I Am!

Thirty-seven years ago I was a drunken, divorced woman, separated from her children, unemployed and unemployable, terrified of each moment of every day, angry at Life Itself.  I was unable to live and also unable to die.  In desperation I followed the instructions of an A.A. member I knew and asked a God I did not trust or love to please help me to be sober and get into A.A.  That gave discipline to a journey of spiritual seeking I had begun as a youth about the same time I first chose to drink alcohol.  My whole life is a series of miracles, when I look through the eyes of Faith instead of Fear!

MSG–California

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