The Universe always finds the Way to show you what needs your focused attention. Ignore the signs at your own peril, however subtle or obvious.

Two days in my new apartment, it’s late evening, I’m in the shower and suddenly the lights go out, the heated water turns freezing cold and I cannot see a single thing in the darkened bathroom. Life experience tells me not to panic, everything has a cause and effect, I grab what I think is a towel and step out into the corridor, pitch black, unfamiliar with my new surroundings, I try and find my way into the living room so I can look outside to see if the street lamps are off and all the other houses are in the dark. No, they are all still lit up. I walk towards the front door and open it to see if the open corridor is still light, yes, the lights are all on. And then I realise I am standing, lit up by the corridor light, in an open doorway, dripping water onto the floor and holding a small flannel over the nether regions while being hit by a cold blast of icy air from the high open top window.

A smell of burning reaches my nostrils and the dark black smoke pouring from it helps me to locate the electric box. A dilemma occurs between checking the electric box to see what has happened which requires the light of the open door to see – and closing the door because I am not wearing a stitch of clothing and need both hands to stand tiptoe on a chair to open and look into the electric unit.

Dignity won!

Does anyone know the Albanian words for ‘Help, I need an electrician at midnight to come out and fix my burnt out electricity box because I have no light, no heating, its freezing, I want a shower and I don’t know if the place is going to burn down or if it can all just wait until the morning”.

A little voice inside me asks me to find Peace in the situation. That is the last thing on my mind but I always trust my inner voice, so I climb into bed and fall asleep.

I awake the next morning, the phones are dead, the apartment is about 8 degrees above freezing, at least the sun is shining through the open windows. The smell of burnt plastic is still strong in the air. I get dressed. No internet, no heating, no electricity – but I make myself a cup of tea on the small gas stove I carry for emergencies – thank you Boy Scouts – always be prepared!

I knock on my immediate neighbour’s door hoping he is awake and explain to the old Albanian Gentleman using exaggerated English hand gestures and sign language how my electric consumer unit has burnt out and I have no electricity for heating and lighting and can I plug my internet box into his wall socket so I can least find someone to call. Somehow he understands me.

I connect my dead phone to the dead internet on the neighbour’s live electric and they splutter into life from their previous flat lined status. I call the taxi driver who brought me to the apartment the day before – he speaks English.

He asks me – ‘you want me taxi to come pick you up ?’
I said – ‘No, I want you to find me an electrician and drive him over to me – its an emergency !’
‘No problem Sir, give me ten minutes’.
It’s eight o’clock in the morning – where is he going to find an electrician at that time?

Ten minutes later he arrives with an electrician. “This is my cousin’s son, fifteen years electrician” – he says.
Of course! – in these small towns, everyone knows everyone.

So, the entire electric consumer unit is toast. The cousin’s son, called Leonidas, rebuilds and rewires the whole thing.
‘You are lucky man’ he says – ‘this is fire in the whole building. I too am also Fireman’.
Hmmm – ‘burnt alive while in the shower’, interesting addition to my Soul Akashic Records – I thought.
I ask him how it happened – he replies ‘This – is – ALBANIA !!!’

‘How much do I owe you?’, I ask Leonidas the Electric Fireman.
‘No problem’ – he replies, ‘I send bill to apartment owner’, he is my Uncle’s cousin’.
Of course! – in these small towns everyone knows everyone.

So, what was the lesson? what do the signs show?

Running too much energy through a circuit that does not have the capability to handle it, eventually leads to failure of the system through burn out. High frequency energies are hot stuff and not for everyone. Live to see another day and know that the Universe will give you all you need, and not always what you want. Don’t be in such a hurry to do everything at once for those that play with fire, get burnt.

After all, of course, in this Universe, the One knows Every One and especially – knows All about YOU..

Loving Blessings
Paul Dobree-Carey