OK, you who know me, know me to be "no nonsense". Something happened today, (that I may or may not ever elaborate on). But, I honestly, may have just seen today, ...an Angel. Like someone snatched her out of a 40 year old black and white photo, in my actual current time path today, that seemed to know what I was thinking, she communicated to me verbally, an odd thought as I approached her. Dead serious. Does anyone think there may be, ... "Angels" amongst us? PM me if you prefer. Gave me chills. (?)
A big old walk out to the car, put stuff in trunk, cart in coral, I plop down in the driver's seat and turn the key. Just when I started to think, "could that have been", the music CD came on and finished the thought, "an Angel, sent here, from above". (Van Morrison, These Dreams of You)
It bugged me off and on all day. I heard a couple of stories 2nd hand about people seeing "Angels", or at least people who appeared to be from a different time period but were there, plain as day, and several people saw them. Wondering what it meant?
Another time when I had to present at a conference and was helplessly lost (before the days of GPS), I prayed for help. In minutes a person appeared at the car door window and asked me if he could help me. He brought me right to the place and then disappeared in a flash.
Many times answered prayers and helpers appear in my life. I believe in God and that He is always there for each one of us.
OK, so ruptured disk was sooo big, that my MD since I was 8 years old sent me to neurosurgeon, who said if I did not have the surgery to retract it I would lose my lower right quadrant, (use of right leg and bladder). So I had the surgery. I had a long trip home, was instructed to get out at gas station parking lots and walk at every so many hours on trip home.
Was doing just that, when a lady approached me. She knocked on my car door, and said, "I have no idea what is going on in your life, but "someone" is really urging me to tell you, that, "It will be OK". I smiled, knowing who that probably was, and thanked her. She said "No, you just don't understand, "someone is really urging me to tell you that it will be OK". :-) I thanked her again, and she wouldn't even look at me as she drove away in disbelief that she had actually approached me, told me that.
I told a few key family members about that, (DH experienced it 1st hand, saw her, heard her.) So yesterday when I told my Mamma, and DH about the "angel?" at the box store, both brought up the lady on the way home after my surgery as being similar. And, here, you tell me the words she spoke, verbatim. Hmmm. ;-)
Thanks for your input. Wow.
Intuition is your connecting rod to God. Tune in and develop your intuition and you can navigate life a bit easier, I think. Have to separate what you want, what Ego wants from what is to be for you. That's hard but start with small things and you'll see that you can tune in to your own intuition. Very helpful.
With caregiving: I think my parents are not long for this earth. Mom went to the doctor and found the narrowing of a major artery. Dad is not in good shape either. Nothing I can do to save them. I must trust that this is the way it is and give the love how I can.
Not easy to love my mother. Can't communicate well with Dad: he's lost his vision and much of his hearing. But love can be felt. Ego junk must be dimmed and the love channel turned on. Even then it can be blocked on the other side!
Just let it travel as it will. Like light, energy, air. There is so much more than what we can "see" with our eyes. I want to "see" more with my heart. No matter obstacles. I am not saying I can easily do this! Much easier to just deal with myself and my intuition concerning myself.
Another time I prayed for God to send me sign so I would know for sure if the place I would be moving to next would be the right one for me. I had no idea where to move to. I was in my 20's and was ending a relationship with an alcoholic who I was living with. A stranger invited me to be her housemate. When I came to look at her incredible place she was renting there was a sign on the door to my bedroom and it said, "Home at Last!" I had told no one about my sign request. I lived there for three years and to this day I am still really good friends with the lady who had the apartment. That was back in 1980.
I find this stuff fascinating but I don't know what to believe so I'm with Gillian Welch (singer)...Let the Mystery Be.
Other 2nd hand account I know to be true for certain. My young Navy E4- Electrician Brother in Law. He landed a job at a pipe foundry after his time in the service. Pipes made of metal, a dangerous place to work. He made friends, formed relationships with co-workers. One who he saw as a very "level headed mentor" after 5 years, one night at "break time" said something odd. (They all worked 3rd shift.) At break, the 20 year foundry veteran asked the other guys if they had, "seen any angels" while working up near the foundry's roof? All quiet. Nope. Then he told the guys that he had. And, she'd been asking him to come to her. Break time over, back to work, ...the guy died with in the hour. He fell to his death. (Griffin Pipe, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1984-ish). I think his name was Ray.
Thank you guys for being so forthcoming on an awkward subject I encountered this week. I knew there would be some out there in this community who could guide me. :-) Thanks.
Oddly enough, it is a murder mystery series, since the dangers she is sent to protect people from often involve some very bad guys.
This is very frivolous compared to what you are talking about here. I don't mean to make light of the topic, but I thought this series might appeal to some of you.