Intuition and Kindness

I stood in line at a McDonalds with my children, who were six and 13 at the time. The man in front of me pulsed with negativity.

"Bad man alert," my brain screamed.

I wanted to dash but my son loved his burger and toy and I seldom took him for fast food. I told myself to stay calm and figure out why I wanted to leave. When I floated to my "knowing" zone I could see the bad man on the previous day. He had a knife. He stabbed a man in the leg. Both of them did awful things. Both were at fault. But today the man looked calm and I knew he wouldn't hurt us. I tried to think of other things, the joy on my son's face as he devoured his burger. It didn't work.

"Come on, kids, we have to leave."

I grabbed my son's hand, moved quickly and tried not to look at his sad and bewildered face. My daughter was old enough to know that something had to be wrong for me to act so rashly. In the car I sat and shook, then told both of them what I had seen. I got their meals from the drive through window.

My abilities are similar to everyone else's....the talent to understand what people are REALLY saying, the knowledge that someone has pain and needs kindness, and the capacity to know who wields goodness and who should be avoided. In this New Year, avoid negative people when your inner voice speaks. Trust your intuition. Embrace those you love.