Being used by God/the Universe/ Source

Lynne Thompson
4 min readMay 18, 2023

I am sure that a lot of us feel that we are moved by God/the Universe/Source to do all kinds of things. Like you check on a friend just when she was having a dark night of the soul, or you ask a friend a question that helps them talk about the thing they really needed to talk about.

It could be called intuition, and I know I am pretty intuitive, but lately, I have felt USED by God to do very specific things. Like placed in a particular area at a particular time for a particular use. And I am starting to think if I let myself be guided in this way, I will be used often.

Case in point: About a year ago, my husband, son, and I were on vacation in Florida. I decide to go out shopping for snacks and drinks to have in our condo. I drive to Walmart on a Monday. Felt strongly that I should go right then (it was dinnertime, about 6 PM). I went in one door of the giant Walmart and bought a lot of food (probably more than we needed, but I was strangely *wanting* to buy a lot of stuff. I was almost in a trance as I shopped.)

I pushed the cart out to the parking lot when a very petite woman with dark hair and dark brown clothes approached me and tried to talk to me, but instead handed me the most pathetic piece of paper with a scrawled message on it that I have ever seen. On the paper she explained that she and her husband were trying to…

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Lynne Thompson

I always wrote (first poem at 6 years old). Tech writer by trade. I have a podcast The Storied Human: see my linktree — https://linktr.ee/StoriedHuman