Time For Us to Rebuild | Barack Obama

As an energy healer and intuitive, I'm used to reading people and getting information about where they are and what is in store for them. Peering into the future is always a challenge, for nothing is written in stone. In short, my destiny or future is created from my actions today, and I can change my actions at any time.

Challenges not withstanding, I decided last year to try predicting on a bigger level and took a look at the entire country for the year of 2008. You can read that prediction here on my blog, Science of Energy Healing.

Perhaps one of the most compelling things that I predicted was the election of Obama. Now, I didn't name him at the time, because I was hardly aware of him. Personally I was hoping we wouldn't elect another Bush clone, but my rational mind thought that Hillary Clinton would be the other choice. The president that I saw had a very different quality and vibration than Hillary had and from anybody that was running from the Republican party. I was very struck by the qualities of moral ethics and deep spirituality that the elected president would have. But then my rational mind stepped in and groaned, "Oh no, the last time we had a president like that was President Carter, and although he was a great man he wasn't a great president." With all the other challenges I was foreseeing in 2008, I didn't think it would be possible to actually see change in our government and our world with such a kind and well-meaning new president. (Remember, all this was in November of 2007).

During my energy reading for the year 2008, I distinctly heard the words "Power Returns To The People." It seemed like a fitting theme for the entire year, so that was what I wrote.

Once Obama stepped out into the spotlight more I knew immediately that this was the "foreseen" president. Throughout Obama's campaign, however, I didn't tune in much to the news and listen to what he was saying. I was having an interesting internal struggle between my intuition and my rational mind (How could it be possible for Obama to beat Hillary? How can he stay true to his nature and not appear weak with an opponent like McCain?)

And always, always a part of me was resigned to this great man getting elected and not being a great president.

But I was missing the point...and shortly before Obama won on November 4, 2008, I received more information in a meditation about how Obama represents a new style of leadership. It's not about some of us agreeing with his policies and some of us not agreeing. It's about all of us becoming leaders and changemasters with him; that he will only be as successful as all of us working with him will be successful. He won't be the powerful president of the Great Depression that FDR was. FDR took it upon himself to impose a parental authority deciding what was best for us. And that was appropriate at that time. This time, however, we must co-create our destiny with a president who is all about empowering us to find our future.

That's when I finally understood that my prediction, although correct, was also incorrect. "Power returns to the people," meant "Empowerment returns to the people." Our new president would be successful not because he was a magician that would wave a magic wand over all our problems, but because he was inviting everyone of us to be part of the solutions. That was the day the cynic within me died.