Last Bus out of Town

Twice in the last 2 days, I've had experiences where I felt "I caught the last bus out of town before the calamity."  I guess we need these things to help us be sure that Life is intervening on our behalf.  And for me it makes me amazingly grateful. 

Today, I had to take my "Droid" phone into AT&T to have it looked at.  It's been a year and things have slowly started going wrong, screens popping up unbidden, not responding to commands the first time, etc.  But last night the volume adjustment screen kept engaging and wouldn't disappear so I could not see what I wanted to see.  At first it was annoying.  Then it got so consistent that I couldn't do things on the phone properly.  So today I decided I needed to go to the store where I bought it.  They concluded I would have to take it to the repair office further away, though they thought it only needed a cleaning.  As the afternoon progressed, I decided that there might not be enough time to go there today.  I kept feeling like I needed to do it today, but I didn't want to push things too close with an appointment in the late afternoon.  Suddenly, I decided I might have enough time & I just needed to try.  If things were too busy I could come back later.

I walked into the repair office and was told that there was only one person before me.  It would be about 10-15 minutes, which was wonderful considering the hour & a half that it had always been before.  He told me it couldn't be repaired.  I'd need a new one, looked up the warranty and determined that today was the last day the warranty would provide me with a free new phone.  I came in less than two hours before the office closed and my warranty would expire.  Had I put it off, the same exchange would have been $185 with the insurance.  I slid right under the line.

So many times the guidance is there.  It just gets drowned out by the logical demands of life or the fears that cause us to wait for a better opportunity.  Personally, I decided to try to pay closer attention to the guidance.  Catching the "last bus" out of town certainly reeks of Divine Intervention, but catching a little earlier one expresses being in Harmony with the Divine - paying attention so I don't have to be saved at the last minute.

There is so much more going on here than we are usually paying attention to.  It's time to keep looking for it!