All Things Work Together for Good

Photo from the web

I was in for a surprise when I entered the church last night.  A friend greeted me with a warm smile, saying, I hear you're looking for some more plants.   In that moment, I knew the angels were working behind the scenes as I'd not mentioned my loss of vines to anyone.  (See 9/19 blog post Choosing Again).  It gets even better. The vines she has for me are a favorite spot for butterflies to lay their eggs. I'd just recently visited a butterfly garden and learned all about the process of a caterpillar becoming a beautiful monarch.  So I'm learning to trust the process and if things don't go my way, to just try to give thanks for the lesson, and say, oh well...  Then move on...Divine Love is amazing and things have a way of working out in the most wonderfully creative way.

Enjoy your day with the Angels.

Blessings,

Karen 

Choosing Again...

Photo from the web

I had an experience over the weekend that put me to the test.  The past week, the weather has been pleasant and it's a treat to sit on the patio and look out on the meditation garden.  Thick  heart-shaped vines have grown abundantly over the summer, canvassing the fence at the back of the lot, adding both privacy and a strong presence of nature spirits. I really loved the view.

On Saturday, my neighbor who lives behind us, was working in her yard. The angels prompted me to share a book with her.  There was a little opening in the vines where we could speak. She was busy pruning a bush on her side of the fence, but stopped and gratefully accepted the gift.

I came back inside, feeling good for following through on guidance.  A few hours later when I looked out again, I was in shock. She'd trimmed down most all of the vines at the back of the fence. 

It hurt my heart, but I knew that I had a choice.  In the past, I might have boiled over but I realized that I could either come from love or fear.  The vines would eventually grow back in the spring.  She'd done it so we could more easily converse over the fence.

 If all things work together for good, except in the ego's judgment (A Course in Miracles) then it must apply to affronts that could lead to seeming separation.  That's what fences are all about.  It's kind of funny because I'd been praying to have all the walls I've built to stop the flow of Divine love to me and me to others be removed.  According to A Course in Miracles, everything is either Love or a call for Love.

The Angels help us stay in the light and love of God's true Thought.  That's what I like about the statue in this picture.  Clouds swirl around her but her head is in the light.  Angels can shield us from every negative thought we may try to entertain.

Enjoy your day with the Angels.

Blessings,

Karen


 

You Hold The Key

Several days ago, I watched light particles fall like rain outside my window.  The earth is being showered by the coronal mass injections from the sun.  It doesn't sound poetic, but the energy is very transformational, so much so that lately I often feel like I'm in a molecule jumbo, in the process of becoming something new and different, but not yet discernible as to what that might look like. 

Recently I saw a little snippet in meditation where my physical body was shaped like a key stuck in a keyhole to a door to another realm.  Half in and half out, it wasn't a comfortable feeling.  I laughed at the idea because  it made sense.  I was leaving the old, having gotten the key into the hole, but waiting for the next step. Elliot, my husband, told me to just turn the key and pop open the door. 

"If  I'm the key, I'm not sure how that's supposed to work" I laughed.  "I need help--and that's where I believe my angel friends come in." I told him.

I'd forgotten all of this, enjoying a weekend visit from my girl friend from Virginia.  This morning I was drawn to a new angel book I'd bought on sale at the library last Thursday.  I had to smile when I opened it to a section:   You Hold The Key. 

The book makes an important point.  We get to decide how much we want to open our hearts to the angels.  The key is to ask them for assistance with goals we hope to achieve. The more service-oriented the goal, the better for everyone during this time of fast paced change.

So if you're feeling a little out of sorts, just know that you are a work in progress and get ready for a wonderful new change.  We thank the angels for helping us to accelerate our spiritual development.

Blessings,

Karen

P.S. After taking many pictures of  keys and keyholes, the angels guided me to an old clipart book, The Ultimate Angel Book, where I finally found the right image for this blog.  (I was sorry I hadn't asked for their help earlier.)


 

Sounding the Trumpet

(image from Wikimedia Commons)
The sound of a trumpet broke down the walls in the Bible.  Listening to the messages of the angels can break down the barriers we have set up, consciously or unconsciously, that hold us back from being our true selves. When we are authentic,  we more freely express and share our gift with the world. 

The Angels are asking us to come up higher and rejoice that our true Identity is and always will dwell in the Oneness of Divine Mind.  Wherever you find yourself today is perfect to celebrate the wonder of you and  to begin to enjoy life.  A favorite line in A Course in Miracles that comes to mind:  The past is over and all that is left is a blessing.

Many blessings,

Karen

Legions of Angels on September 11, 2001

Lillie Leonardi, a former police officer who retired from the FBI due to post-traumatic stress disorder linked to her role in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks has written a book about seeing legions of angels guarding the Pennsylvania site where a hijacked airliner crashed.  She served as a liaison between law enforcement and the families of the passengers and crew members killed in the United Airlines Flight 93 crash. She arrived on the scene about three hours after the crash.
 Leonardi's book, "In the Shadow of a Badge: A Spiritual Memoir," centers on her vision of angels.

“A white mist then began to take shape,” Leonardi recounts in her book. “It moved and swirled in patterns of spectacular white light. All at once, the mist took full shape and I saw what appeared to be angels.”

“There were angels standing in the open area to the left of the crash site. There were hundreds of them standing in columns. There was a field of angels emerging from the realms of the mist. They were Archangels with their wings arched up toward the sky,” she explained.

“And I didn’t say anything to the guys because you can imagine if I would have said, ‘I just saw angels on the crash site,’ they’d have called the office and they’d have said, ‘She lost her mind and tell her to go home’,” she wrote.

But she added that she saw more than just the shapes inside the mist. She, and two men with her, spotted a Bible from the plane that had been barely singed. All of a sudden this huge wind came out of nowhere and flipped that Bible open and I remember it flipped open to Psalm 23, “The Lord is my shepherd…” she told CBS Pittsburgh

I learned about In the Shadow of a Badge last night and look forward to reading her book.

On the anniversary of that tragic day, we remember those who lost their lives and the loved ones they left behind.  May God's angels enfold our hearts to extend love and peace and strength to all.

Blessings,

Karen

Angels on the Lookout

 

(artwork from Wikimedia Commons)

The more we stay vigilant for the presence of the angels, the more palpable they become in our lives. Our faith builds a bridge, experience by experience, and soon we begin to really understand that we are never alone.  Right now, in this very moment, we are on holy ground.  Holy in the sense that it is untouched by the material world.  We abide in the presence of Divine Love.  The Angels are on the look out, eager to help those who are willing, for they cannot assist us without an invitation.  Isn't it wonderful to know that in our darkest hour, an angel was there, watching over us.  God has truly given his angels charge over us to guide us in all of our ways.  When life is especially challenging, just a silent request for help, coming sincerely from the heart, brings not only peace but inspiration to guide us to the answers we seek.

Enjoy your day with the Angels and expect wondrous things to unfold.  Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.

Blessings,

Karen

Are We Listening to Angels?

(Artwork from Wikpedia Commons)

Angels are messengers of Divine Love.  Isn't it wonderful that God sends inspiration, guidance, and protection through the ideas that come into our consciousness from a higher state of being?  One  reason people often doubt the reality of angels is because they find it hard to believe that a heavenly visitor, wearing large wings, is hanging around, waiting to bring comfort and direction.  While there are many cases of humans actually having an experience of seeing an angel, more often than not, this wondrous angelic presence goes unnoticed because angels are not material, they are spiritual. 

Angel messages are accessible 24/7, but we must unhook from the distractions of this world long enough to still our mind and really listen.  What ideas come to mind?  Usually we will get a nudge or a push that we need to take some sort of action. It may not seem to have anything to do with our current concern. But when we follow through, the results become apparent that we are being led by wisdom far greater than we can understand.  This divine wisdom is within us.  Edgar Cayce explained in his readings, that we are each an angel, never having left the consciousness (the throne of grace and mercy).  Our goal is to reunite with the sacred part of ourselves, that Angel untouched by the perceptions of this world.

The world is a confusing place, but there is perfection in the seeming chaos.  Whatever we are dealing with is perfect for the growth of our soul, no matter how much we resist that idea.  So the best thing to do is accept the challenge with gratitude, and then listen for higher guidance as to why the lesson and how to heal it.  It takes work, but life becomes smoother when we do.  Divine Love solves every problem.

Enjoy your day with the Angels.

Blessings,

Karen

Flower Angels

           (artwork from wikimedia commons)

I found this lovely painting on the web yesterday.  Flowers bring love to the heart and often the angels will send messages through these cheerful ones.  If you find a particular flower crossing your path, pay attention.  Something in your own life is about to unfold and bloom.  In his book Nature-Speak, Ted Andrews explains the esoteric meaning of different flowers and trees.

I bought vinca over the weekend, not paying attention to the symbolism, I just wanted a colorful flower to brighten up the front yard. Curious, I looked up the meaning just now:  "Its essence awakens a renewed sense of coming into a new life.  ...it has ties to the energies of love and immortality." 

Another flower I was attracted to, was on the rescue shelf.  A pretty purple plant called, Shooting Star. I laughed when I read its symbolism:  "Keep your feet on the ground as you open to the new."

With all the changes in 2012, these messages apply to us all.

Enjoy your day with the Angels.

Blessings,

Karen

 

Entertaining Divinity

                            (Angel Standing in the Sun, William Turner, wikimedia Commons)
--I throw my selfe down in my Chamber, and I call in and invite God and his Angels
thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a
file, for the rattling of a Coach, for the whining of a doore.
                                                                                                --John Donne

This quote made quite an impression on me.  How easily distracted we become by the most mundane things when we are always in the presence of Holiness.  Where we put our attention is the place that our energy flows, creating our reality in each moment of now. 

Enjoy your day with the Angels.

 Blessings,

Karen

 

Let There Be Light

(cherumbim artwork from the web)

Light has been a big theme for me the past several days.  First off, my neighbor has a generator in his front yard called LIGHT TOWER.  We laughed about the name this morning at our A Course in Miracles meeting.  Last night, light crossed my path again in a deliberate way.  While we were driving home at dusk, passing through the neighborhood, I saw a real treasure discarded near a trash can.  An old fashioned lantern, made of heavy iron,  it was large enough to house a fat white candle the  size of a small birthday cake.  The design was handsome and it even had a little door.  I wanted it in the worse way, and so Elliot sighed and helped me haul it into the trunk.  We are light workers, after all.  I brought it home and cleaned it up.  All I need is a new wick for the candle. 

This morning, I smiled when my Course in Miracles saying card was on light. I read the words from Christ:   "I am come as a light into a world that does deny itself everything.  It does this simply by dissociating itself from everything.  It is therefore an illusion of isolation, maintained by fear of the same loneliness that is its illusion. I said that I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.  That is why I am the light of the world.  If I am with you in the loneliness of the world, the loneliness is gone..."

The message is a welcomed one.  No matter how dark a situation may appear, the Light of Christ is within each of us.  Sometimes it takes darkness to make that discovery that we are Light.  Gratitude paves the way to enlightenment.

Enjoy your day with the Angels.

Blessings,

Karen
 

Have Fun: An Angel Message

(Photo by Chris Castle)


Today the angels say take time out to play and have fun. Lighten up.  My friend, Drew, sent this photo of her granddaughter and her fun-filled playmates.  When I took a closer look at the picture, I noticed the large, tight knots in the rope by the slide.  I got it.  The choice is mine:  Stay tied up in knots, or let things slide and be joyful in the now. When we can let go, answers come in unexpected ways.

Have fun today with your angels.  Be spontaneous, like a little child. 

Joyful blessings,

Rae Karen

Love is Fulfillment

(Artwork from the web - Archangel Gabriel)
I was in the middle of processing an interaction with someone that I thought could have gone better.  I sat down at my desk and popped open an old journal. I was surprised by the entry.  It was so appropriate, I knew the angels had guided me. I'd made notes from The Book of Azrael, from the A.R.E. library several years ago.

 "So long as you resent a circumstance, resist an experience; find fault with, hurt, hate a person or a thing, you will never be released from it or them.

ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE CAN EVER BE CONCLUDED, FINISHED, AND DONE WITH UNTIL LOVE HAS ENTERED INTO IT.  LOVE IS FULFILLMENT.

Without love, there is nothing; the creation you started fades into nothingness.  Thoughts and concepts which are not supported by Love have not reached the point of their creation where they have an existence--a state of being--or identity--so, when Love is not forth coming, the thought must remain in abeyance until such time as intent is pure and all Law has been compiled with."

I was so thankful for the reminder.  It's important not to try to control the flow, but allow and accept things as they are, rather than wasting time wishing they were different.  By accepting each circumstance as perfect for my soul's growth in that moment, I am not resisting but opening up to receive Divine will, by letting go of personal attachments.

Archangel Gabriel oversees love in all relationships.  Call on him.  His gentle guiding presence will permeate your circumstances adding divine love to all those gaps where you may be withholding love.

Enjoy your day with the Angels.

Blessings,

Karen