My friend Cass Forkin is a devout Catholic who doesn’t merely pray. She walks the talk. Cass is the founder and director of The Twilight Wish Foundation that grants wishes for seniors. She is also, like me, a miracle manna-fester and consummate cosmic coincidence creator. Today gave us an opportunity to road test that.

As I was driving home from the gym, I was contemplating whether I wanted to stop somewhere for lunch or wait until I got home. I passed a food truck that announced that it was serving Greek cuisine. The last time I enjoyed food from that part of the world was about a month ago with my friends Dan and Mike on South Street in Philly. A moment later, a car turns in front of me, with signs and bumper stickers that told me that the driver was Cass. I pulled up next to her on Route 611, roll down my window, honk the horn and wave excitedly. She joins me in the greeting and says she is on her way to a Greek restaurant in Doylestown and invites me to join her and her friends Meredith and Lisa that she planned to meet there. Of course I had to say yes.

She then tells me that my appearance was no mere accident. She had been focusing on her relationship with Mother Mary and had a dream/vision that she was to ‘clean out’ of Mary’s Well, which is a sacred site in Nazareth. Literal or metaphorical? What she came to understand is that it is important to keep our own spiritual wells in good shape. How can we fill someone else’s if ours is crumbling or bone dry?  We can’t. Doesn’t stop us from trying does it?

I replenish my well by means of prayer and meditation, listening to music, being with kindred spirits, dance, time in nature, breathing in the life sustaining air, doing right livelihood work that I love, being of service, digging in the dirt, sweating at the gym, walking barefoot in the grass or sun, splashing about in water, writing …of course, writing, reading, singing, drumming, curiously exploring the world, setting intention each day to magnetize miracles.