Lesley MacNay

Nothing happens by chance

In March 1995 I was given a reading by a medium friend of mine and one of the things that she said to me was that I would be going on holiday abroad and that during this holiday I would be helping somebody, I knew I was going away in September so I didn't give it anymore thought, however the holiday passed without anything occurring and I thought it was obviously a mistake and it was not meant to be.

The following year in 1996 we went to Tenerife for a two-week holiday and as I was attending college on a counselling course at the time and I had decided to take some of my work with me because I do get bored; would you believe of sitting in the sun doing nothing. The topic I was covering was alcohol abuse [not a good topic you might think, while on holiday]. On the morning in question we were lying on the beach [the we is my husband and myself] he was listening to his usual holiday music [bat out of hell] and I was looking through my current assignment, when out of the corner of my eye something attracted my attention, which I soon realised was the sun being reflected off a gentleman's wrist watch who was lying opposite me .I raised my head and he looked into my face and smiled and then asked me what I was reading. I explained that I was a student and I was completing a counselling assignment on alcohol abuse, I expected him to just turn away then, but he didn't he started to tell me about his father and how his fathers life had been destroyed by alcohol and how devastating it had been for the whole family. As I listened to his words pictures started to form in my mind and I could feel an electric current generating between us. I asked him where he was from and he informed me that he came from Sweden and he went on to tell me that he had been away from home for a month and that during that month he had moved from one island to another, sleeping under the stars trying to find answers to his questions and make sense of his life but he couldn't.

He became very quiet and then he told me he had lost his wife two years before and that he had loved her very much, but he had now met a new lady who he was very fond of, and whom he thought was fond of him but he was unsure of pursuing the relationship any further. As he was talking I had a very strong image in my mind of a tall elegant woman with long fair hair carrying a bouquet of flowers in her arms and looking extremely happy. I took a chance and I asked if I could describe this image to him, because I did not know how he would respond and he acknowledged that it was acceptable. As I started to describe this person he visibly paled and he went very quiet, I asked him about the flowers and why they were important and he replied that the lady I had described was the person he had been discussing and that he had sent her the flowers on the morning that he had left.

Over the next thirty minutes more and more information came through including the gentleman's' wife, who told him very clearly that he must get on with his life and enjoy the experiences he was receiving and look within himself, for all the answers were there for him to see. He just had to believe and trust himself.

All of a sudden he started to smile and he appeared to be filled with light and he threw his head back and started to laugh,"What kind of woman are you"? He asked,

"Ordinary" I replied a little taken aback, just a mother and grandmother. "No you're not" he replied, I've never met anyone like you before, I've been looking for answers for so long and yet I meet you on a beach a world apart from where I live and in forty minutes I know exactly what I want to do. "That's the way spirit work, they wanted to help you ", I told him.

The energy was so intense it crackled and it was as though time had stood still and then he stood up and came towards me and took my hand and kissed it and thanked me for the kindness I had shown him, at this point my husband raised his head and took off his ear phones, because he had been disturbed by the sun being blocked out by the man, who then raised his hand to shake my husbands hand and said" You have an amazing wife, look after her," I'm going home now because I have found what I was looking for". Well you can imagine the response from my husband," Who's that, what did he say, what's he found that was lost". To which I replied, "Oh never mind dear you get back to your music, I'll tell you later, it's all in a days work.

Lesley MacNay