It all started on 6/13/12 - I was busy
sliding my debit card at the Wal Mart check out when
the cashier abruptly says in a somewhat monotone voice "Look at the total." I look up and see $111.33. I immediately look at the cashier's face for recognition because I had been seeing 11:33 on
clocks a.m. and p.m. really often, so I was taken back by this. I
thought maybe the cashier was on a similiar page, because, afterall, she
see's totals all the time, so what brought her to specifically bring
this one to my attention? I was surprised to read nothing out of the
ordinary on her face. It was as if she hadn't said anything. I even
tried to engage her by commenting about the combination of numbers
myself in case she was embarrassed that she mentioned it, but no
response. It's like she didn't even acknowledge that she was the one
who told me to look at the total. Anyway, the strangeness of the
scenario left such an impression on me that I've kept that receipt to
this day and have tried to figure out its meaning.
Fast forward a
few months later to the fall of 2012 where I am hired at a retail store
for temporary holiday work. During training, I'm shown the employee
break room and assigned a locker. The 3 digit locker that is to be mine
is #133.
2013 - I continue to
see these numbers on clocks, so I try to decipher the meaning. I make
lists of dates counting from the day of the Wal Mart receipt forward,
such as 1 year, 11 weeks, 33 days = 10/1/13 or 1 year, 1 month, 13 weeks, 3 days = 10/15/13, the next set of combos jump to June 2014, etc..
10/13/13 - It's Sunday and we're getting ready for church. I mention to my husband that I've been seeing combinations of 1133
alot lately. I bring up that my date calculation of 10/1 came and
went, but noted that it was the beginning of the government shutdown
that we were still experiencing, and now 10/15 (another calculation I
came up with) was approaching and so I was wondering outloud about it
all. He listened politely, but I could tell he was thinking it all a
huge coincidence. After church, we were contemplating a drive thru
lunch at Wendy's (our kids enjoy the frosty's), but we were sitting in a
Walgreen's drive up for a RX and my husband suggested the Burger King
that was in the same parking lot. It meant no frosty's, just a few
sandwiches off their value menu, but okay. We order, they give the
total and as I'm fishing for change, I ask "Did he say .33 cents? Wait a
minute, what was our total?" We get to the window and sure encough
"that will be $11.33 today!" My husband just looked at
me with a somewhat amazed look on his face :) That's one more receipt
I'll be filing away as I ponder the meaning of it all...
10/14/13 -
Next day is Columbus Day and my birthday, so I'm goofing off on my IPad
playing Sudoku, the Breezy challenge, and I get a time of 1:33 (1
minute, 33 seconds). I show my results to our 12 year old son who is
diagnosed with Asperger's and he asserts that maybe I was faking it just
to get some attention - ugh! Absolutely not true, but kind of
insightful for him to try and consider someone else's perspective and/or
motive. I defend myself by stating that game after game that day, I
had been unable to complete a puzzle in less than 2 minutes, so it's not
like I waited to finish at the exact second as I'm just not that fast
plus I never look at the timer while I play, I just play... About a
half an hour later, I hit it again, yep, 1:33 (1
minute, 33 seconds)! Twice in one day - wow! So, I run around the
house showing my family my score/time. Our Asperger's child
then suggests that maybe I was just focused on those numbers, like some
of the obsessive compuslive stuff he does due to being on the Autism
Spectrum, and that's why I was seeing them so much. I must admit, as a
Mom, I was really impressed with his rationale and ability to relate by
using his own experiences in that way, but I reminded him that I don't
suffer from OCD - he wasn't convinced. Oh, well... I continued to
leisurely play when I finished a puzzle in my best time ever!! Are you
sitting down? Yep, I scored a time of 33 SECONDS (:33)
and it's still on my IPad as a continual reminder that God is so
great! If this isn't miraculous, I don't know what is. Even our 15
year old teenage son was impressed this time! Now, I will say that my
"best time" up to that point had been 45 seconds, but that best time had
occurred when I first began playing the game months ago before leveling
up to tougher puzzles. Like I stated earlier, it was now a big deal
for me to complete a puzzle under 2 minutes, so even hitting the 1
minute 33 second mark (TWICE) was enough awesome for me! So, I
believe that the record breaking 33 SECONDS was meant
to make a huge impression on my very fact-based, male dominated
household! I pointed out to them that it could have been a record
breaking 37 seconds, but no, it was 33 - God is sooo cool and what a nice Happy Birthday to me :)
I'm
convinced I'm receiving a message, but not sure how to decipher it,
like Nancy Drew, but with no clue! I thought about dates, such as 11/3/13 when a very rare hybrid solar eclipse is to take place or 11/13/13 as
possibly significant. Or is it a time, not a date, since I mostly see
it on a clock? I even joked about using a combination of these numbers
to play the lottery :) Then, I thought maybe a scripture reference. Jeremiah 33:11 (backwards,
I know) , but I like it and posted it on my desk. It
reads "the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom,
and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the
Lord, saying, 'Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good;
his love endures forever." The bride and bridegroom paints a beautiful
picture of the rapture...
That's all I know - I'm not a number
person, so if anyone has any ideas, I figure 5 Doves is the
right forum. I've prayed for a vision, a dream like others have
received, but no, instead, I'm only seeing these numbers - oh, how I'd
love to figure out the meaning... If the rapture occurs first, I can
just see myself in heaven doing one of those V-8 commercial bonks to the
head when it's revealed to me :)
Enthusiastically Seeking,
Gidget