How wonderfully appropriate that on this Easter Sunday, my friend who contacted me out of the blue at the perfect time shared with me an incredible ‘touched by the big programmer’ encounter.

You see, “God” isn’t a word he’s comfortable using to descibe what most think of as the Infinite.

My friend can best be described as an incredibly intelligent and deeply sensitive man who takes great pride in approaching things logically and scientifically. In other words, he is a total skeptic when it comes to anything that cannot be proven scientifically or otherwise.

I’ve always loved God’s sense of humor.

He described this as a “really profound experience” – and I must say it’s one of the best I’ve heard yet.

As so often happens, he was in a place in his life where he was dealing with some significant Life Lesson kind of things. These thoughts kept him up late one night last November and he was outside having a cigarette, thinking about his choices. He made a request of the Universe (aka “programmer in the sky”) that if he was suppose to do “A”, he wanted an unmistakable sign – something that he couldn’t write off to coincidence. And he wanted it before he finished his cigarette – naturally.

The night sky was crystal clear. He was looking at the last bit of cigarette and just as he took the last puff, he felt quite odd – almost as if time slowed down. He looked up in the sky and there was an incredibly bright and long lasting ‘shooting star’. This was no ordinary shooting star though – this was VERY different.

It was very, very bright and lasted for a much longer time than an ordinary shooting star. I am showing these photos just to give you an idea of what it may have looked like.

Immediately following this profound experience, he would have his car radio off so he could think and when he’d subsequently turn it on, it would be broadcasting something that reflected EXACTLY what he had been thinking.

Just telling me about it tonight when we were chatting gave him the tingles. Obviously God, aka the ‘big programmer in the sky’ was giving him a gentle reminder.

As we were chatting about all of this, he said he wondered if his mind were playing tricks on him. I shared that when he thought about all of this from his “intellectual self” – that would be the only conclusion he could come to.

I suggested that in fact, thinking about it from his ‘Soul Self’ and utilizing the school of thought “All are ONE”, “God” or the “big programmer in the sky” is obviously reminding him of what really matters.

And yes – connecting at the ‘Soul self’ level IS all that matters.

It is what he experienced that night with his request for “a sign”, and it is that “Soul self” that prompted him to reach out to me after so long simply because ‘something’ made him feel concerned about how I was doing. In that moment, he KNEW all was not right with me – our “Soul selves” – connected as One – had become conscious for him and he was paying attention.

My humblest prayer is our “Soul Self” will become the dominant force in an otherwise very dark world.