Freida’s unexpected arrival into our world has healed so many deep-seeded wounds.
We were not expecting her. Nor did I expect the magnitude of love I would feel for her. Her presence has evoked conflicting emotions: sadness, yet immense joy. I say this because her resemblance to Oscar is eerily uncanny. She has very similar colouring and her mannerisms, sometimes they stop me in my tracks. I feel she is meant to be here and maybe that’s why I had a very unusual visit from a very inquisitive magpie, which has me believing that maybe there was some kind of divine intervention.
So what does a magpie have to do with Freida’s arrival?
About a week prior to me hearing Freida was available for adoption, a magpie appeared on the balustrade on the deck of my home. He looked right at me, and when I approached, he remained. I stood right beside him, looked into his eyes, and he stared back with such intensity. I felt a warm, comforting tingling sensation run through my body. Not one of fear, more one of knowing. I felt he was trying to tell me something. I called him Malcolm and he visited for 3 consecutive days: he would arrive, watch me from the balustrade for up to 4 hours, then disappear. Sometimes he would jump down onto the deck, walk inside and stand just inside the door and watch. Stanley didn’t react, he simply watched with interest.
On the 4th day, he didn’t arrive and I’ve not seen him again.
A few days later I Googled ‘magpie visits’ and I was astounded at what I discovered. Apparently a visiting magpie is deemed to be intensely spiritual. Here’s a excerpt; When a bird acts in an unusual way (for example is particularly friendly or appears to be looking for attention), or it appears repeatedly (at least 3 times in a short-period of time), it is trying to convey a message from the spirit world to you.
Whilst I’m a spiritual person, I’m not religious, yet also a believer in the unusual and unexplained. So this visit from Malcolm was puzzling.
A few days following ‘Malcolm’s departure, I had the call about Freida. Did I want to meet her? Of course we did and she came into my life and has brought so much light to a very dark place. She is perfect in every way.
Is that what Malcolm was trying to tell me? If so, he was so very right.
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stanley & bear 