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The Secret Is The Lesson
Submitted by: Thori Norris Brewer
Gaylesville, Alabama /Cedartown, GeorgiaI am a sweet Georgia peach who only began to blossom when transplanted to the ridge tops of N. E. Alabalma with the Husband of my dreams!!!
My Daddy was one of “those people”.
You know the ones I am talking about. They never seem to worry or panic. They create something out of nothing and money out of thin air. My Daddy use to tell mother to let him know on the Tuesday when they had a bank note due on Friday because there was no need to worry before then. Things and opportunities just seem to come their way. People loved them. They can sit down alone in a restaurant and ten minutes later there are people all around them. They never try to call attention to themselves they just seemed to draw people, things and opportunity their way.
My Daddy was diagnosed with A.S. a severe form of arthritis when he was 19 years old. He was in constant pain most all his adult life. The funny thing was even though his condition was physically noticeable (he could not stand straight or turn his head), no one seemed to notice. Even with a body wracked with “dis-ease” Forrest Norris lived more in his short 45 years on this earth than most live in 100.
It has been 18 1/2 years since he pass from this life and still people come to me with stories about my Daddy. Words of wisdom he gave to them or ‘I went with Forrest to leave groceries on some one door step’ or ‘did you know Forrest once sent a taxi full of groceries to some ones house’.
There are the stories I can tell of the times he had me slip a $100 bill into someone in need’s bible. He would just smile and say to me “If they read their bible this week thy will get a blessing”. He never wanted anyone to know what he did. He was blessed and he shared his blessings and in return he was blessed tenfold.
I share this story because today I have received a blessing greater than any I could have ever thought possible.
Since the day I lost my Daddy I have been lost. I learned so much from him but I never learned “the secret” to his ability to attract seemingly impossible things out of the air. In all other aspects I am my Daddy’s Daughter. His beautiful dark hair, his bright blue eyes, his build, his mannerisms, his dry wit, yet I have wandered through life for 18 1/2 years feeling empty, searching for that thing that he had. Searching for “the secret” to his success and happiness. Looking for what was missing in me that came so naturally to him.
Last week “The Secret” audio cd jumped out at me in two stores in one day so I bought it. Since then I had been looking for the DVD to share with my husband and last night I went into the store because I KNEW IN MY HEART it was there. After watching it we realised we have been using it in small ways our whole life.
Today as I listened to Rhonda Byrne’s commentary on the DVD, I experienced the life changing moment for which I have searched all of these years. I learned the lesson my Daddy did not have time or did not know how to teach me. I realized at that moment that “The Secret” was also my Daddy’s secret.
I will turn 35 next week. The universe saw fit to give to me a birthday present that will be with me till the day I leave this world.
For me “The Secret” is the road map to the world my Daddy lived in, a world of joy and happiness filled with adventures of giving and receiving blessings. A world that was lost to me till today. What an amazing world we live in. A woman across the globe is inspired by a book written decades ago. How many thousands of hands this information has passed through to come to a woman who has been searching for it since she was a teenager.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, I had no idea the pain I carried inside of me until it was lifted.
Knowing “The Secret” for only one week has brought change into my life in many, many small ways but today it healed the heart that I never realized was broken.
Today I am my Daddy’s daughter in every sense of the word. I know how he did it!!!! He knew “The Secret”!!!
LOOK OUT WORLD HERE I COME!!!!