In the spring of 2007, I finished the first draft of a novel called Tinimi.

The super short summary of Tinimi is that it’s about a woman whose love interest disappears into another reality.

The not-as-short-summary is as follows:

Ollie Finn, a former circus performer with no goals or sense of direction, has been dumped by her girlfriend and kicked out of her house. Everything seems to be falling apart – until she meets Pera Jones, an alluring singer who sparks Ollie’s mind and heart. Only weeks after their meeting, however, Pera dies. At least, that’s what everyone says. Ollie knows better. Pera’s “death” catapults Ollie on a journey to find her new friend in an alternate reality called Tinimi. There’s only one problem: Ollie’s boss, the wildly inappropriate Professor Glick, is trying to get to Tinimi in Ollie’s place. Who will get there first? Will Ollie reunite with Pera in the mysterious dimension of love and light? And can Ollie uncover The Key that will allow her to stay in Tinimi for good?

Cool, right?

Okay, here’s the freaky part.

About a year after I finished the first draft of Tinimi, I met Melissa. In other words, I met an “alluring singer” who was a lot like the love interest in Tinimi.

And that’s not all.

Melissa was in ministerial school when we met, and my relationship with her broke down the last vestiges of my resistance to following the call to become a minister. I left my job, went to ministerial school, and started OhMyGod Life with Melissa. In other words, meeting Melissa led me into a an entirely new reality – one of love and connection and unity, just like Tinimi.

But wait, there’s more!

In the novel, Ollie discovers her true vocation. I’m not going to say what it is, so as not to spoil it for those of you who want to read the book. But let’s just say it connects back to her childhood and brings her a deep sense of fulfillment.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going become a performer. I even had a vision when I was seven, seeing myself as an adult on stage in front of a bunch of people. By the time I met Melissa, I’d totally let this dream go. I figured it wasn’t going to happen. Then Melissa and I started writing word songs and Bam! I’m a performer again. My childhood vision became my current reality. Just like for Ollie in Tinimi.

And Ollie’s nemesis? The wildly inappropriate Professor Glick? She’s exactly like a married, supposedly straight woman I encountered a little before I met Melissa. I had a long pattern of attraction to unavailable people, and my connection with this supposedly straight woman was the most intense manifestation of this pattern I’d ever experienced. It almost stopped me from realizing what I had with Melissa and moving into my new life. Just like for Ollie in Tinimi.

About a year ago, I resurrected Tinimi. I had two novels published over a decade ago, but I stopped writing fiction when OhMyGod Life started up. Recently, however, the pull to writing fiction returned. So I pulled Tinimi out of a drawer and finished it.

It’s now an actual book that other people can actually read. Yay!

It wasn’t until I revisited the book, all these years later, that I realized the extreme number of parallels between the plot and my future life.

Did I write my future life into being by writing Tinimi? Or was there a deeper part of me that knew what was coming, a part that articulated itself in the novel? Or was it a combination of the two?

Whatever it is, it brings me comfort to think that there’s a part of me, a part of all of us, that holds a higher vision of what’s possible. Not in a simply predictive way, but in an expansive, pulling-us-toward-our-greatest-potential way.

It brings me comfort to see that this part of me came forward in Tinimi. And it brings me comfort to remember that this part is still with me, pulling me forward into my future-yet-to-be.

A whole new reality awaits us all.

We just have to be willing to go there.

What’s your experience with the knowing part of you? Share your comments below!

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