I had no idea what to expect that evening. Actually, I was tired from a long work week and really just went along with my husband, whose curiosity about the Dark Room surpassed any inquisitiveness that I might have had. But once ensconced in the security of the Dark Room, listening to Rev. Pat guide us into mediation, I left my qualms behind and felt myself glide into a sublime state of relaxation. Rev. Pat talked of a healing place in which each of us could be healed with the help of our individual spiritual guides.

I remember being between wakefulness and sleep. I just floated along with fleeting thoughts of nothing in particular. It was while I was in this state that I suddenly felt an intense prickly sensation throughout the entire left side of my head. I snapped to attention: “I'm having a stroke!” I said to myself. I flexed my fingers to determine if I was paralyzed, and was relieved that my hand, and my feet too, moved quite freely. The tingling was prolonged; I felt frightened. My heart rate was elevated and though I was aware of that, I didn't know if this was due to my fear or was related to the sensations permeating my brain.

Finally, the tingling stopped. Rev. Pat led us back from our guided mediation to the conscious moment. She asked each person to tell about their experiences during the meditation. When it was my turn, I told of the strange feelings I had and of my fear that I might be having a stroke. Rev. Pat explained that we can be healed of things of which we were not aware or of things we didn't ask for.

Indeed, I had experienced a healing, but I didn't know it while I was in the Dark Room. You see, I lost my hearing in my left ear 13 years ago. Even if speech was as loud as a jet plane, it all sounded like a roar to me, as I had no speech sound discrimination in that ear at all. But when I went home that night, in talking with my husband, I realized something was dramatically different about my hearing. When he spoke to me on my left side, I COULD HEAR!

What is incredible to me is that while I was in the Dark Room with Rev. Pat, I never thought of my hearing loss. I had been told by doctors that the auditory nerve had been “destroyed” and that I would never regain my hearing. So, on that Friday night, I didn't ask for a miracle, and yet I was granted one.

Do our spirit guides know what we need more that we ourselves may consciously think we need? In my case, the answer is a definitive “Yes”. I received two miracles on that special night: a restoration of my hearing but even more importantly, a renewal in my belief that I am a worthy being who is loved by my spirit guides and Higher Power. I believe in miracles. Do you?

Submitted by Judith A. Trafton, May 10, 2009 Venice, Florida