Welcome to a new page at T Michael Healing Arts.  We invite you to share your own message about how Spirit has touched your life.  We will post the message here and on our Facebook page to share positive, loving stories that are so needed in this world now.  If you would like to share your personal message about Spirit, please get in touch with us.  You can either write it yourself, or we would be happy to interview you and create your approved message.  You can message or email us at mike@tmichaelhealingarts.com or trisha@tmichaelhealingarts.com.

                                    You Don’t Know What Love Is.

Two days before I had a sigmoidoscopy to confirm whether I had cancer, I took a walk into enlightenment. Yes, I know how this sounds. To even say this out loud and write it down took me five months of reflection, going over and over an event that so profoundly changed me that I couldn’t really come to the point where I could write about it, let alone talk about it, without breaking down into an emotional mess.

Maybe I should start at the beginning. During June 2025, like so many other people in the world, as we age, I had an onset of great pain in the abdomen that took me to my knees. The intensity was stabbing and continuous and would not go away. Along with that, I had other things happening that don’t need to be part of the conversation. Suffice it to say, I thought that there was seriously something wrong. So, doctors got involved, tests were performed, and the suspicion was possible cancer, but more procedures would have to be done.

Overall, the C word did concern me, but I thought that I had a pretty good attitude. This is where things got interesting. I decided to go on a long walk with my dog “Blue,” so off we went. Just another typical day in the life of man and dog. On this walk, there is an area that has large trees on both sides of the street, which we always enjoy. As a writer and an inquisitive soul, I was wondering whether there was anything beyond God. It could be because I was feeling vulnerable, but I was just halfheartedly being flippant in my English sense of humor, so I asked the question.

The next thing that I remember was hearing a bird, which is no surprise, because when you are out in nature, what else are you going to hear besides cars and other noises? But it dawned on me that this bird’s sound was different. Chirping is one thing, but this little dude was singing. Blue and I started paying attention and realized this little bird was close to us, singing very loudly, and the sound was coming at us like a megaphone. We could no longer ignore it. I started searching for him because, up to that time, I hadn’t really seen him. But there he was, within five feet of us, singing. It wasn’t like any bird songs I had heard in my life. I looked at Blue, wondering what he thought, and he was sitting and watching. If you have ever owned a blue healer, that is not something they usually do.

Now, we are both paying attention. I didn’t know quite what to do, so I just thanked him and started walking again. Guess what? The tiniest little bird followed us down the street, going from tree to tree, continuously singing the same song. He literally hopped ahead of us and faced us with his beautiful music. What can you do but keep walking? My thought at that moment was that nature is so calm, but not much more than that.

We crossed the street to come back up the other side, and you guessed it, the bird crossed the street also, going tree to tree, singing. We came to the end of the trees on this side of the street, and both the dog and I looked up, and this little bird was within one foot of us. This is when my mind suddenly goes to another place. Looking back on this event, I am pretty sure time stood still. Blue didn’t move. I looked up at the beautiful clouds in the sky, and you might think this guy is losing it. But, somehow, I was transported mentally into the clouds. All I can say for myself is that it was the most beautiful experience of my life to date. I knew I was safe somehow, and I can only describe this experience as love and oneness. For some reason, this was God for me. I was overwhelmed by what I can only describe as love that I have felt before. It was so familiar. Pictures came to mind of being surrounded by the understanding that this was an experience so great that I wanted to stay in those feelings forever. I do not really know how long this went on, but I came back to the sidewalk and the dog, who was sitting there, watching my friend, the bird. I reached out my hand to see if the bird would come to me, but it was just happy singing its song, and I then realized that the bird was part of this journey, pointing the way for me, and was extremely happy that I was paying attention.

At that point, I broke down in tears just as I am now. The feelings of acceptance, love, compassion, and oneness sweep over me every time I think about this event. I told the little guy I loved it and said, “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” I got the sense that he did his job, and we parted ways. The walk home was a crying, happy mess. If anyone had seen me, I couldn’t imagine what they would have thought, but I didn’t really care. This went on for about a mile until I came exhausted through the door and couldn’t talk right away when I saw my wife. She is a talented psychic medium and is used to interesting, out-of-this-world things, but at the time, I wasn’t. I finally regained some composure and attempted to explain what happened, though I did not really know why it happened. But as I was telling her the story, it dawned on me that the reason I think it happened was the flippant question I asked about what lies beyond God.

I knew at that point that I got my answer in spades. Obviously, I will never ask that question again or even entertain the idea. For me, I now know what that question did: it triggered a response that, apparently, I was ready to receive. The miracle that day is not lost on me. My intuition tells me that all you must do is ask, and if it is the right time, the answer will come. But what I know for sure is that I needed to be open and receptive to the possibilities of Spirit. I also know for sure and without any doubt that my touch of Oneness healed me of Cancer, because two days later, the cancer that was seen disappeared. Doubt has always been something I have lived with, but for this one experience at this one time in history, this body was healed to make a point, and I am so grateful for that. I understand what love is at the deepest level, and I am not afraid to write about it, hoping that sharing this story will mean something to anyone who is second-guessing what might be beyond God. Forever the Wisdom Seeker, Mike.