My Spirit Guide - A Squirrel

Alright, I did say that I would tell you this story. Let me set up the day. I'm fairly sure that it was a sunny Friday because I was in a hurry to get home. At the time we lived in a semi-detached house situated at the end of a court in Burlington. I was driving a van and on Fridays I'd get emergency calls from one of two stores in Burlington that needed something for the weekend. This delivery would add 20 - 30 minutes to my drive home. Most times it would take longer because there would be some form of chatting with the staff at the store. So, this particular Friday, I had one of those deliveries and I was in a hurry to get home. We weren't going out, nothing special on television, I really don't know what the hurry was except it was "Friday" and I wanted to be home. Cars couldn't drive fast enough for me. The music on the radio was fun Friday stuff egging me on .... I turned off the main road, almost home, turned again onto the court. Sigh .... made it.... BRAKE!!!!!!! Tires squealed. There's a squirrel in my way! Right in my path!!!! (There was lots of room to go around it) Heart pounding, beads of sweat forming on my forehead. Everything goes quiet....I don't even remember the music playing. This squirrel looks at me, shows me it's little front buck teeth then scolds me as only a squirrel can. I'm serious, you've all heard it before if you've lived anywhere near squirrels. I know it was saying things like what are you doing, this is a nice quiet place, slow down you fool. I could feel my heart beat slowing down, the shoulders lowered to a more normal position, the grip on the steering wheel lessened. Then that squirrel started laughing, yes it did, you weren't there. I'm telling you it laughed at me. Think about it, there he was all of 6 ounces of furry bone and teeth and he managed to stop a van which outweighed him by a ton or two. Really, how much power did this little rodent have..... This scene only lasted moments. It takes much longer to describe it. My brain was doing that slow motion thing ... detailing every item. All through this encounter I was aware of something special. Focused on that squirrel a peace filled and surrounded me. I was in and surrounded by what I call the Divine. I have issues with the God that was introduced to me but the Divine, I'd been there before and didn't know it. Thanks to that squirrel, I was made aware of it again in a way that I couldn't forget it. My ultimate goal is to one day soon learn how to live each moment in that peace. Thanks little squirrel wherever you are for the gift you gave me that day.
PS: I now live in a new development with no trees, which means no squirrels.........hmmmm