I bring to you today a ‘miraculous moment’ that is being shared by a very good friend of mine, Mark Youngblood. Mark and I had a ‘miraculous’ chance meeting over 10 years ago, while visiting one of my best friends, LaRue Eppler. Mark and I had an immediate connection and have become very special friends. I not only have a tremendous appreciation for our friendship, but I also have a deep admiration for how in-tuned and gifted Mark is.
Here is Mark’s Miraculous Moment:
“After starting my company and investing everything I owned in it, it was on the verge of failing and I felt like I was living in hell. I didn’t want to face the fact that the company was failing and I did almost everything I could to deny it. Yet the anxiety I felt every single day, as I watched my bank account dwindle down towards zero, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to make this company work. And the anxiety was taking a huge toll on me.
I remember distinctly the turning point.
One morning I was trying to eat breakfast. I had lost my appetite for the past couple of weeks. And, that morning, I was trying to eat a bowl of instant oatmeal and I just couldn’t swallow it. It tasted like sawdust. I was too anxious.
I didn’t know anything about meditation at the time. But I knew I could close my eyes and visualize this really white hot light that represented how fearful and anxious I felt. I could gradually turn that color to a cooler blue, then to a deeper blue and an even deeper blue. Then eventually turn it to black. I had learned that it could help me feel better.
That particular morning, I got to that deep level where it was black. And, I remembered saying, “I give up. I surrender, I can’t do this anymore.”
I just let go.
And, in that instant, I was flooded with this brilliant flash of white light, brighter than anything I’d ever experienced. And, I was flooded with this profound sense of love and wellbeing that permeated every part of me. It didn’t last but more than an instant, but it was so profound and so transformational in just an instant. I remember my eyes popped open. I felt fantastic. My heart was light. It felt like the worries of the world had been lifted off of me.
I walked outside. The skies were blue, the sun was shining. This beautiful bird was singing. The air smelled fresher than I’d ever experienced. The flowers were more colorful. It was an unbelievably alive experience.
And, I went back inside and ate three bowls of that horrible oatmeal because I was suddenly ravenous. I remember calling my parents and shared how the company was failing and it was time to let it go.
I now needed to get a job. I was concerned I might not be able to keep my house, since I was on my last two weeks of money.
Yet this experience woke me up to my own spiritual journey, to my path.
I was ravenous for spiritual growth. How do I live more authentically? How do I connect with spirit? And, that journey led me through many, many different pathways of personal and spiritual growth experiences.
This has gone on for over 35 years and it continues today, as I continue to grow.
When the company failed, I started looking for a new job and had an offer and started within two weeks. That job led to getting hired by PriceWaterhouse Consulting, and that led to the rest of my career. But, my life has transformed completely from who I was as that young wounded man lashing out at the world and trying to be enough.
Today I am financially prosperous, deeply in love with my beautiful wife and leading a fun, healthy and fulfilling life.”
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What do you take away from Mark’s experience? Have you ever ‘fallen to your knees,’ wondering what you were going to do next?
What I appreciate about Mark’s journey, that we can all benefit from, is he kept resisting the inevitable: that the business he was attempting to build, was simply not working. Yet he kept persisting.
So the question becomes: when is enough, ENOUGH? When do you surrender to the higher good that is gently guiding you to your best life?
Is there something you have been resisting? Is there something you KNOW you should be doing, but aren’t? Would it be to your benefit to allow yourself to surrender, even if its for a few minutes?
Just something to think about!
Surrender…it can be a beautiful thing.
What is one of your Miraculous Moments? Please email me. (And if you are interested in me interviewing you for one of our Miraculous Moments, definitely get in touch with me!)
I hope you are appreciating your miraculous day and life!
Wendy Darling
Miraculous Living Institute
GTD Consulting
www.gothedistanceconsulting.com
760-231-8234
(Mark Youngblood lives in Sarasota, FL with his beautiful wife Rachel. Mark is dedicated to assisting individuals and organizations to fulfill their purpose on the planet. For more about Mark: Inner Mastery, Inc., www.PathwaytoRadiance.com Facebook: Soul Side Community)
