The Gifts Finer Points

There is this wonderful woman named Marie, she is the grandmother to a darling little fella named Alex, in one of my craft sing along workshops. When I first met her it was at a chinese new year celebration and I was doing the reading thing.

 During her reading I kept getting the overwhelming urge to discuss her health and so after asking permission [ never go into the darker things unless they want and allow me too], I began reading her body. I told her to do me a favor even if only to humor me and go as soon as she could make an appointment and have a mammogram.

I said it was most likely nothing [this was so she would not be frightened unecessarily] but even if it was, I felt that if she went now we were going in time to catch it early and all would be well. I would not let her leave until she promised me she would do it.

She did and true to her word she went. only I would not hear about it until almost two years later, when I ran into her again at my craft sing along with her grandson.

She sat in the back watching the kids have fun and even sang along to some of the tunes. When the workshop was over she came up to me smiling and said you may not remember me but you did a reading for me a while back. I said I remembered her face but not the when.

She went on to say where and to tell me what I had said to her at the reading, then she said because of you making me promise to go, I went to get the mammogram and they found a lump, but because I had gone early enough I am standing here in front of you cancer free and I just want to thank you.  I hugged her and we both began to cry. To me that moment was more priceless than any thing she could have given me. 

Since then she has become one of my regulars, who stops by and sees me at the farmers market where I hawk my craft wares and on occassions do readings. She is still cancer free and man can she bake!

I thought before I sat down to write this that I would be able to do it without crying nope but then they are good tears so it's all good!