I see you. I honor you. I acknowledge you !
We are in Sedona. Day 6 and the much awaited flee market shows up. We are all excited. That’s what we have been waiting for.
We stop by after our lunch and we start going through stuff put up by various vendors. There are many shamanic goodies which lure the spirit.
Paul’s attention is drawn to a vendor. A native american lady who has display of her goodies. A necklace with turtle catches Paul’s attention. We ask the price. It feels a little over our budget. We move on.
In moving back and forth between different vendors, I am pulled back to her again. Her stall is empty with no people. I feel pulled to ask her if she can offer her neckpiece for a certain amount. She agrees.
I call Paul back to this place. While we are completing the transaction, I send out loud a blessing for her stall. “May you get more clients who may love your work and may you be blessed with more customers amd abundance”.
She is touched and says she really needs the blessing.
A voice in me tells me to give her a hug. She comes out and I move to the other side of the table.
We hold each other in loving embrace while I whisper into her ears, “I see you. I honor you. I acknowledge you.”
Her eyes tear up. My heart swells up as she says, “So you see me, haan”?
I see her. She sees me and in that moment unspoken love, acknowledgement and honor is exchanged.
While we are still standing at the edge of her stall, we observe customers one after another starting to gather up.
She becomes busy in attending them as we quietly move away.
As we prepare to wind up our trip here in US, it brings re-enforcement that we as humans need just that.. someone to see our essence. Someone to acknowledge how we feel. And someone to honor our unique being.
And what better way in doing so, by being ME. When I said those words I was not being this or that. I was being ME. Expressing what I felt in that moment. Be it negotiating that price, be it offering a blessing or be it giving her a hug or whispering those words in her ears.
And as I reminiscence that moment in sedona, it brings a certain warmth to my heart. The smile and teary eyes will always continue to be a part of me.
The quest in her spirit which so needed to hear :-
I see you. I honor you. I acknowledge you.
Aho !!