Was there a reason I encountered, on the sidewalk as I reached my property, a large, perfect, fall-colored maple leaf that was perfectly intact and quite beautiful despite the date being well into spring? The trees in my neighborhood shed their leaves last fall, and were raked up or mulched months ago. Was it just a coincidence or something more special?

This, indeed, was us saying hello. The fact that you are a warrior for the divine in the trenches every day of the year and take conversations with us, directly, for granted, does not mean we cannot bestow the requests of the protocol work you do in all respects for your benefit. Just as it does not mean you are special and will get more out of it that the average person as we must be evenhanded in our interactions with the physical realm. So we were simply giving you a personal example of a sign from heaven, in keeping with what we will do with all practitioners and recipients of the protocol work, at least provisionally, depending on their receptivity and desire to see something of that sort, so it is not simply wasted motion to no purpose.