Providence

Providence

By Shelley D. 

Providence

What is providence?  Providence means, the foreseeing care and guidance of God or nature over the creatures of the earth, or a manifestation of divine care or direction, a foresight or prudent management of resources.

Has it occurred in your lifetime? Do you believe things happen for a reason?  I’m beginning to think perhaps this has happened in my own life and maybe I didn’t even realize what was happening till now. Now I can reflect back on my life and the pieces seem to fall together or unfold in front me.

When I was 10 years old, my cat ran away. I found her lying on the side of the road dead one day as I was out riding my bicycle up and down the road I lived on. I was horrified to see my cat, named Tinkerbell, laying on the side of the road with her legs stretching out all in the same direction. I didn’t understand rigamortis back then. I thought to myself that she must have gotten hit by lightening and killed and it made her look that way. I was so sad my cat was gone. This is where I began my first writings. I took a small spiral notepad and wrote out all my sad feelings and confusion. I remember taping a piece of cat hair I found somewhere on a page in that notepad.  It was here that I began journaling my feelings. I drew my tear drops on those pages. I still have that very notepad today. That was over 35 years ago.