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Yes, Precious, It DOES Matter

Last updated on: November 5, 2014 at 3:00 am by Terry Drew Karanen

Yes, Precious, It DOES Matter 2014-11-02T05:31:49-07:00 Terry Drew Karanen

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There WILL be a spiritual component to this writing … I promise … but you need a little “set-up” for it.

So … I’m off to my “day job” as a flight attendant, going through the “Known Crew Member (KCM)” security check at BWI last Monday morning at 4:35am for my 5:00am sign-in.

I hand my passport to the TSA agent, scan my KCM badge, then hold my airline ID badge for her to compare my ID, passport and the photo of me on the monitor.

She looks at my passport.

She looks at my badge.

She waits for the photo to come up on the screen.

Her eyebrows raise, ever so slightly.

She looks at my passport again, then at my ID and the back at the screen.

Then, she looks up at me.

Her left eyebrow raises in a more pronounced manner.

She looks back at the passport, issued in 2006.

She looks back at me.

THEN she says it:

“WOW! You sure have aged!”

I’m barely standing up straight, managing on 4.5 hours of sleep, a two-hour drive to the airport in the middle of the night and it’s now 4:36am.

I am NOT in the mood.

My response?

I honestly didn’t have one – don’t ask me to be witty before coffee. I did manage my best flight attendant fake smile (you know, the one that looks nice and really means something else?), accompanied by a slight raise of MY left eyebrow.

I stopped short of saying something about one of the worst hair weaves in the greater Baltimore/Washington DC area and that “someone” likes the McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts just down the corridor a little more than is prudent. I’ve learned to NEVER push a TSA agent, particularly one that obviously takes great pride reveling in perhaps the only part of her life in which she feels she has complete and utter control.

(sigh)

So what is the spiritual side of all this? This amazing light being with bad hair and a penchant toward hypertensive heart disease was scheduled at exactly the right time and on the precise day that I would come up to her desk for her to be able to deliver a message from Spirit that I did not want to hear: “Terry, We believe you are a “bit” more concerned about turning 60 next year than you might want to admit. Jus’ sayin’. Thanks, The Universe.”

Like a lot of people, I’ve been known occasionally to believe denial of the facts will encourage the manifestation of what we imagine to be eternal truth. The Truth is, however, denial doesn’t do anything for us, except perhaps make us uncomfortable because we’re lying to ourselves and everyone around us. What we can deny is the necessity of our situation and then turn to knowing the Truth.

We forget that the “facts” are not the Truth. It isn’t turning 60, or having a few pounds after we gave birth to our third child, or finding hair growing in places we didn’t know hair would grow, or not fitting into our favorite skinny jeans. It’s what meaning we assign to those facts that change our attitude and our experience in life.

What facts have you been denying in your life? Would you be willing to admit what you don’t want to think about? Admitting the facts doesn’t mean we forget the Truth. It’s the first step to our healing. In the words of my friend, Arleen, “You’ve suffered long enough. Are you willing to try something else?”

So, are you? Willing to try something else? And, FYI? My birthday is May 23. I expect cards for my 60th birthday next year. LOTS of cards. Jus’ sayin’….

In Spirit, Truth and Playfulness,

Terry

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