Living Stories

You Never Know!

Several years ago a friend and neighbor lent me a copy of The Secret. I had never heard of the book but upon reading it, it resonated so strongly that I decided to put it to action. At the time my children were very small. My partner at the time and I had bought our first home and we were pretty broke. I had always wanted a piano and so I asked the Universe for a piano. I told my partner that the following week there would be a free piano in our local trading paper and sure enough the very next Wednesday there it was a lovely old iron frame upright piano free to pick up!

The following week I asked my middle daughter what she wanted for her birthday as she was turning 5. All she wanted was a playhouse in the garden. It it might as well have been a Ferrari for us at that time, but following my success I thought to try the LOA again.

Again I told my partner I believed there would be a playhouse for free in our weekly trader. This time though it appeared it was not to be, however, in a seperate section I saw for sale a set of five menus from a ship my father had sailed on during his time in the merchant navy. I knew he would love them so I called and arranged to buy them for him for his Christmas present. When I went to pick them up. The garden of lady who I bought them from and my garden backed onto each other. We were neighbours but on different streets. We got chatting and she asked me “Do you have heaps of kids? I hear them playing in the garden” of course I replied that I did and gave their names and ages and apologised for my noisy babies. “Oh no, I love to hear them playing, I ask because my daughters are big now but there’s a playhouse in the garden. If you can move it to your yard you are very welcome to have it!” Always grateful!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!