Hummingbird Encounter in a Time of Crisis

Here’s a story shared with me recently by a reader:

Sarah wrote:
“Hello, I stumbled across your site while searching for the meaning of a humming bird experience. I have been going through a huge personal crisis and soul search over the past 2 months. My son started having seizures in July and after many tests and many days of watching my son go through terrible suffering, he was diagnosed with Tuberous Sclerosis. It is a genetic disorder that causes benign tumors in the brain and all over the body as well as seizures among many other things.

As you can imagine it was a devastating blow to our family. I have been struggling with his diagnosis and my faith since that moment the neurologist uttered those words. After many weeks and some really bad days we are starting to adjust and step slowly back into reality. He is still having seizures but they are fewer and we are on the way to getting them under control.

I have started searching in myself for some direction and have chosen the path of positive and to not take anything as seriously as I used to and have started to turn to faith. I have found out the hard way that there is no path, no perfection, no plan just blind faith. Something that I never used to believe existed. Through the last few days I have started asking, with no expectation of a response, who is out there watching over us.

I just need a sign that things will be ok and that it will get better. Asking blindly to show me that I am not alone in this and there is a reason for us to live this new life and begin this new journey. I went in my backyard, as I do any other day, on a rainy day too and heard what I thought was a hornet, which is common in Texas, buzzing around my head. I slowly looked up and there it was – a hummingbird on a rainy day. He flew off as quickly as he came and an uncontrollable smile hit me.

A few days later, still struggling to find my sign that I am not in this alone and looking for that “something” to prove to myself that there is reason and someone is listening, he showed up again. When I saw him the second time I knew what he was here for. He was my sign. This little bird that I have never seen in this area the 20 years I have lived here, has twice flown into sight on yet another rainy day.

I went back outside again today, it was a hard one, and I sat down on yet another rainy day both inside and out and there he was again. I am not sure what it all means but I know it means something. It is a sign that I did not and was not going to miss. I wanted to share my story with you and let you know that yes – talking to yourself is a strange practice- but sometimes someone may be listening, even if it is a little bird.”

Thank you, Sarah, for sharing your story, and allowing me to publish your story on the Hummingbirdshaman.com website. I know our readers wish the best for you and your son, and share in the prayer of hummingbird healing, love, and blessings.