My darling sister pointed me to The Secret in late July and my life has changed dramatically in two months. The world seems remade and every day is full of possibility and magic. My heart is ever expanding and I’m excited to see what happens as I continue down the path of a life centered in love and gratitude.

I live in a city apartment but have become fascinated with gardening so I’ve been teaching myself flower varieties as a way to satisfy my curiosity. The last section of a book I study each morning is dedicated to “black” flowers. Since no flower is truly black, these blooms are all rich shades of the darkest reds, browns, and purples. The dahlias are my very favorite and a flower I rarely see in the gardens and florists here in Boston or in my native state of Georgia.

I so badly wanted to see a real live dahlia just as beautiful as the ones in the pages of my book so I decided to try manifesting one. I wrote down my gratitude for seeing a living burgundy brown hued dahlia and tried to stay in the mindset that the Universe had already gotten to work to bring one to me. When my mind strayed into wondering whether it would happen, I would affirm that I was already in receiving mode and that the dahlia was on its way.

A few days went by and I traveled to upstate New York to visit a friend for the weekend. He took me to a farmer’s market in downtown Troy and as we were walking through the stalls, I saw a produce vendor who had bouquets of freshly cut flowers wrapped in craft paper. Immediately in my gut, I knew my dahlia was here. I looked across the arrangements and sure enough, there was an entire bouquet of “Black Satin” dahlias. They were the color of wine and chocolate and there were only two bundles left. It took my breath away how everything had come together so perfectly for me to have the only bouquet of dahlias I have ever seen in my life, much less one in a rare dark variety just as I had “ordered” in my gratitude list. I happily paid $10 for this priceless and affirming gift from the Universe.

Thank you and all love to my fellow travelers and teachers on our road to Awakening.