Although I had something else in mind to share today, it is appropriate for me to tell you my condensed version of 9-1-1. I call this day 9-1-1- (nine-one-one). My kids wonder why I don’t call it 9/11 (nine-eleven) like every one else. I just don’t! 9-1-1 is all I saw splashed across every screen and monitor for about a month as CNN looped this event.
That morning, I took the subway train up to the upper east side of Manhattan from Canarsie, Brooklyn to take my youngest two children to their charter school, Ella Baker. I then got back on the train going back to downtown Manhattan. The train arrived at The World Financial Center where I worked at Merrill Lynch. Before I could get off the train, people poured onto the train covered in a white powder looking and acting real crazy. They said don’t get off the train!!! The World Trade Center has been attacked!!!
I stayed on the train. The train went into downtown Brooklyn and didn’t go any further. It was actually the last train running before the subway system shut down!
I took a cab to check in with my mom. We went on the roof of her building where we could seen the smoke billowing from the Twin Towers. Bits of paper, and who knows what else, were floating across the sky. That smell! was in the air. The smell is not something I can describe. It was actually the smell of death!
There was no cell phone service. I used my mom’s land line to reach out to my husband and to check on my older two children who were not able to contact me on my Blackberry. I could not reach Ella Baker where I had dropped my youngest children off just hours ago.
I went and got my car, picked up my sister, and we drove back downtown Brooklyn on our way to Manhattan to get my children. No car traffic was being allowed beyond a certain point so I parked my car. The only way into Manhattan was to walk across the bridge. By the time we had gotten across the bridge into China Town, walking through dust, ash, and who knows what, a few trains had started running again. We got on a very crowded, unsettling train and went uptown and got my kids who were among the last ones to get picked up that day. I could not make phone contact. They were safe!
This event was a change maker for me.
Long story short, I was spirit-led to relocate here to Huntsville, North Carolina with my four children. Two were in High School. Two were in elementary school. I was relatively recently separated from my second husband and was now a single parent. Two weeks before moving I came to North Carolina with my spiritual family/friends for a week in November to spy out the land, and look around.
I found a beautiful townhouse and signed the lease in a nice rental sub-division. I found schools and enrolled my children. I chose the Real Estate Brokerage office I hung my license at once I passed North Carolina’s State exam three months later in February 2002.
I went back home to Brooklyn, New York, packed up my kids, and we moved to North Carolina two weeks later that December in 2001.
I was not relocating because I was running away from, or afraid, of anything. I was running into my new life!
I listened to the call of my spirit, and, thankfully, followed the call. All the pieces lined up beautifully orchestrated. And, here we are 21 years later.
When I give you the long version, or the sequel, I can go into more detail about the events leading up to the move itself, and my life after having moved here.
I have had some challenges, but nothing I could not overcome, trusting and believing in myself, and my inner being, which is where God lives, inside of me. I am, have been, and expect that I will continue to be Blessed Beyond Measure, in all areas of my life.
We are all Blessed Beyond Measure.
I give thanks and praise constantly. I am grateful, and very appreciative. And, the Blessings keep flowing into my life.
I do my best to listen to the call of my soul. And, I do my best to take the aligned action I am called to take.
So yes, 9-1-1 has been a Change Maker for me.
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