A journey

A positive universe. Sounds like an oxymoron.

Back in early 2013 nothing in my universe was positive. My husband of 37 years was hospitalized. He was now blind and couldn't walk. Life was turned upside down. I was juggling a job, a ranch and making a 6 hour round trip to spend time with him weekly. Of course everything that could break - broke. I got stuck in my driveway so many times that winter due to heavy snow that one night coming home I set there and cried for half an hour before trudging up to the house. I had 3 llamas killed by wolves - which according to Fish and Game don't live in Colorado. Sorry I saw them - you didn't. Each step was a chore.

Then one night I had woke up to a very loud voice telling me to go to Sedona. Scared the you know what out of me. Did I hear a voice - lay quietly and listen to house sounds. Nothing. Must have been dreaming. Why in heavens name would I go to some place named Sedona. Anyway where the heck was Sedona?

The next day I posted it to Facebook and had several friends begin to tell me all the "whys" of going to Sedona and where it was located at. Yeah, but I can't get the time away or spend the money. A friend say hey "I'll go with you. And I have a Prius hybrid. Oh, and by the way a neighbor said we can stay in her winter home down there."

So in July off we went for a whirlwind trip. A day down and back and two days to sight see. But I was still trying to figure out why.

The first night down there once again I am awakened by a voice saying to find a piece of jewelry with lapis and amethyst. Not funny. But once again my friend was saying we can hike in the early morning and then shop during the heat of the day. So that was what we did.

While hiking we stopped and were talking with a women who had been advised by her Oracle cards to hike that trail that day. So my question to her - "what the heck are oracle cards?" And so she explains and tells me I should get a deck. That afternoon I bought my first deck.

By the end of the second day no luck on the jewelry thing. I was beginning to think it had to be something that I ate.

The next day we took a different road out of Sedona. We stopped at a small rest area so my friend could walk her dog and there was an Indian market set up at one end. So we looked around and I asked a few of the vendors about lapis/amethyst jewelry. No one had anything. As we are walking back to the car an older Indian gentleman comes running up to me asking if I was the one looking for the lapis/amethyst jewelry. I said I was and he said he had a ring. As we walked back he was telling me how he had just gotten there. Usually he didn't come to this venue until August but something had been telling him to go in July and to take this specific ring. A beautiful handcrafted silver ring with lapis and amethyst. I looked at it and knew it was what I was looking for. But could I afford it. When he told me he would make me a deal since he felt something drew us together I wasn't sure I could even afford a deal for such a beautiful piece. And then he told me what he would take for it. It was lower than my wildest dream.

My husband began his new journey a month and a half later. And thus began my journey in search of a positive universe.