Several years ago I was traveling, with my three kids and the dog, from my home in Tennessee to visit my mother in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Toys, clothes, snacks and dog food were all packed in our blue station wagon and the REAL restlessness had finally set in as we were quickly approaching Grandma's house. I was driving the last leg, up a 9 mile dirt road which was more of a rutted path, really, than a road. It twisted and turned back on itself repeatedly. The going was laborious. The children, of course, were oblivious as they sang loudly "Over the river and through the woods..."
I was near the very top, the last hairpin turn, when suddenly I felt, quite strongly, that something was wrong. I slowed and pulled the car over to the right just as far as I was able on that narrow road and at that moment another car slid wildly around that blind corner, spewing pebbles and dirt into the air and onto our car. Had I not pulled over in anticipation, he would have plowed into us.
What was it that warned me of impending danger? What was that "something" that caused me to pull the car off the road? A gut feeling? An inner knowing? A sixth sense? That still, small voice? Intuition?
Yes, yes, yes and yes!
It is my belief that we make choices everyday based on our inner knowing or intuition. Some of us are much better than others at heeding it. Though I'm a big believer in intuition, I cannot say that I've always been particularly smart about paying attention to it. I have often found myself trying to REASON away those urgings or arguing with that small voice.
I ALWAYS regret it!
How about you?
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