Whales – Such Amazing Beings
A blessing that I will cherish always was our family’s encounter with a whale while vacationing in Canada a number of summers ago. We were taken out on a boat where our boating guide would teach our boys to fish and then we’d go see if we could spot any whales. The ride was so good for me – the fresh air in my face, enjoying just looking at all the beautiful trees surrounding the bay, and spying a Bald Eagle atop a tall tree. When we stopped for the boys to try their hand at fishing, I sat in the front of the boat, closed my eyes and found myself with a mermaid in an underwater adventure in my mind’s eye. What fun I had! I’ve never been much of a swimmer, but in my meditation I was swimming and twirling like a mermaid. When the fishing was done and the Rock Cod and Chinook salmon were thrown back into the water, we headed off to see if we could find some whales. As we were cruising along I sent from my heart a lot of love to the whales and told them how I would be so honored to have them show themselves to us. After a bit, I sensed that we would indeed see some whales. Oh, I was so excited then! I continued sending them love as we cruised here and there looking. Our guide would get on the radio to see if other boats had spotted any. It started to seem like we weren’t going to see any. I just couldn’t believe it, as I had such a strong sense that we would. So I asked the angels and guides what was going on! The reply was that we would indeed see whales and that we needed to go towards the left. Oh boy, how was I supposed to tell our boating guide that we needed to go to the left? That my angels and guides told me? I asked them if I had to be the one to tell him and luckily they said that they’d handle it. Phew! In a couple of minutes, our guide heard on his radio that someone had spotted some whales and he turned the boat to the left! (Thank you, my dear invisible friends!) We sped along and I felt my heart soar as we got closer and closer to the whales. When we spotted them, there were a couple of boats of onlookers between the whales and us. We could see the whales come up just a bit to show the tops of their backs and spray out water. (All the while, I was sending more and more love to them and thanking them for the honor of seeing them.) Soon they started swimming in the direction of our boat. One whale in particular swam closer and closer to us. When he was right in front of our boat, he jumped up and breached out of the water. Seeing the whale so close and totally out of the water, we could see how huge he was! For a second, I got a little nervous with this massive creature jumping next to our small boat (with our children on it!) My husband must have been feeling a little uneasy as well, because he leaned over to me and asked me to find out what this whale was doing. I tuned in to the whale, and with a gasp told my husband, “He’s honoring us back!” I could hear our boating guide exclaiming that in all the time he’s done these excursions, he’s never seen a whale breach! Next, the whale was on his side and rolled over a bit to wave his fin at us, and I could look right into his huge amazing eye. It was incredible to be looking into each other’s eyes. He did this a couple of times. All the while I was sending him love and thanks. Periodically, my husband would ask me, “What’s he doing now?” and I would tune in. I sensed that our whale and the others in his pod would soon be heading off, and shortly they swam away. Oh, what an amazing experience! My heart was overflowing. Thank you, God! Thank you, angels and guides! And thank you, my dear beautiful whale friend!
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