The Virginia Tech Tragedy and Planetary Healing

What an unexpected moment I was in.

For weeks I'd been feeling like I needed to visit my family in Virginia. Not knowing why, but feeling it was quite important, I finally booked the airline reservation.

Two days later 33 people were dead. The timing of the trip suddenly made sense in light of the Virginia Tech tragedy.

While visiting the Virginia Tech campus, I was flooded with memories, insights, and sadness.

How many times had I walked down that sidewalk? Across the drill field? Through those doors? Hundreds? Thousands?

Way too many to count.

I can't tell you the impact the Virginia Tech campus had on my life. I was a young, passionate, dream filled girl when I first stepped foot on that soil.

And I found myself reliving those passions as I sat on a park bench near the duck pond overlooking one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.

I'd been working full time as a receptionist at a doctor's office and attending classes full time at night at a nearby community college. I was planning to major in Business Administration. I was making A's in all of my classes and actually getting bored with the major.

Then one day I had an interview to be a secretary at Virginia Tech. There is a giant parking lot that runs along side the engineering buildings. I was so nervous about the interview that I forgot where I parked my car in that big lot. I finally had to get on the roof of one of the engineering buildings and look down from above in order to find it.

And that's when my life changed.

I began working full time and attending classes at Virginia Tech. And I continued the night classes at 2 Community Colleges. Instead of Business Administration courses, I was taking calculus and other engineering prep classes.

There are some amazing things that happen on a college campus.

Romances bloom and often result in marriage.

Career dreams are born and are often realized.

That is the magic available at a college campus. And that is what seemed lost and overshadowed at Virginia Tech that day.

So I acted as an instrument of peace, saying prayers and speaking the "Language of Light." I dropped fresh flowers in the duck pond as a memorial. And I asked for clearing and healing and that the icky overshadow be dissolved and that the magic return.

Because hope should be the predominant theme on every college campus.

This campus had certainly given me that. I was on top of the world when I graduated from there with a degree in Industrial Engineering.

I had successfully won the presidential election and became head of the student chapter of the Instiutute of Industrial Engineers. We had 300 members at the time. It was a big responsibility.

I developed and published a campus newsletter.

And I landed the job of my dreams. Life was darn good.

And Virginia Tech should continue to offer that hope to others for years to come.

Many people connected in with me that day through prayer and intention as I performed the clearing ceremony.

I had intended to head over to Norris Hall - the location of the shootings. But my intuition took me to the drill field instead.

What I found there was a beautiful memorial. A semi-circle of flowers and candles, the names of each of those who died with gifts and momentoes from friends and family. The grass had been worn bare from the number of people who had walked past and read the names through teary eyes - just as I had done.

The day after I visiting campus, I happened to walk past as my dad was watching the evening news and the President of Virginia Tech was on the screen in a cap and gown. I asked my dad what was going on and he said that it was Tech's graduation.

I was shocked. They were graduating already. The campus would be filled with thousands of families and friends and I'd been guided to visit the campus the day before and literally clear the space. I felt immensely blessed and that perhaps in some small way my actions had somehow made a positive difference.

And now on to the next part of the mission . . . to visit Jamestown and Washington D.C.

Blessings,
Deb

Read about the other part of this planetary healing pilgrimage to Jamestown, Virginia and Washington D.C.

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