Meet Dr. Tonya Fields

I am one of those people who work, stress and worry too much.

For years, my spirt flirted with making significant changes in my life to produce more personal joy and fulfillment. I toyed with pursuing new initiatives and wanted to write books about my
real-life experiences.

I finally put writing on my “vision board” but even as I pasted the words on the board, I thought it was something I would do “later” on.

An out-of-the blue vacation went against everything in my nature. I found an affordable plane ticket with a 9-hour layover in JFK.

I would use the layover to get some writing done. I blew off my passport and was off to Dubai.

I didn’t want to leave my son.

At almost two years old, I noticed my son wasn’t speaking at the level of the kids his age. He spoke a one-word sentences to get his point across but I was worried he might have issues speaking, -----until he came up to me with an adorable two-year-old declaration -- “waah tttooyy stoorrrr”

He just strung together his first sentence. He wanted to “Watch Toy Story!”

One Mother’s Day, he gave me a cup shaped like “Woody” complete with a cowboy hat lid. I
LOVED it.

On the way to the airport, my now 22-year-old son said, “You Got a Friend in Me,” as he dropped me off. I knew we would be ok.

I wandered JFK for hours looking for a power outlet. I sat next to an unshaven gentleman casually reading a newspaper.

“I’m going to get a little close so my phone charger can reach the socket,” I said.

He smiled. “It’s ok. I’m charging my phone as well.”

We talked until it was time for him to board his flight.

“What do you do for a living?” I asked.

“I’m a writer,” he said.|

“I’m going to follow your work. Tell me something you have worked on.”

“Let’s see, I wrote Toy Story,” he said.

“WHAT?!”

I told him how special the movie was and how my son’s first full sentence was to tell me he wanted to watch Toy Story.

God put me there at this exact time. It was such a profound experience.

HE allowed me to meet a very special writer to remind me, “YES, I am destined to write”.

That chance encounter helped me to listen more closely for the precious moments when Spirit
speaks.

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