Angels Among & Within

A Fox News poll said 79% of people believe in angels. I'm not one to argue as I've had direct experience with things I cannot explain any other way. Moreover, these encounters have included sensing a sentience and a communication of it. They speak in colors that become words, truths expressed in expulsions of resonance in light. Beyond this, on several, SEVERAL occasions, I have felt physical interaction. One in particular was when I was falling from a tree, 25 feet up, toward a sidewalk far below. I was headed for certain injury. As I shouted at the top of my lungs "NOOOOOO!", I felt something hit the back of my heel which turned me so my head was situated slightly below my feet in a flat-out, frantic sprawl. After a split second of sheer terror, I found myself wedged in between two limbs, caught perfectly in a large fork, each underneath my arms. I didn't have a scratch. There was nothing there for me to have hit my foot on, and I wasn't even moving at the right speed or angle to have something smack the back of my heel so hard...

There's a subtle scent that goes along with these interactions, one your heart can smell. It makes it want to sing upon smelling it, shine upon hearing it. Angels wear a cloak of assurance. They glow with what we perceive as faith, and our bodies, spirits and minds receive it, are warmed and influenced by it. I have had so many such encounters, I know them to be always present. Sometimes they urge me not to forget something important, scatterbrained as I am, and just as often urge me to speak certain words or to speak at all, pushing me out of complacency and imploring me to believe and act in that belief.

Perhaps your mind is calculating a reasonable response. Understandable, as mine did the same for years, even after I had been guided to the side of a one-lane road just before a car came around the corner, even after I had been pushed into a situation with x in-laws that involved a drug-soaked brother and the power-crazed aunt he slighted. A jail sentence was inevitable. I had no experience dealing with all this, I was 22, yet that same urging, all under the banner of what I had come to know as God, was there. I was told I would know what to say, to fly out to New Mexico and handle the situation. A force beyond me was guiding me, and to keep this from you would be to withhold a knowing of potentials that have been the most exciting in my life.

Have you had something urge you on to be what you can be? Perhaps a parent did, perhaps their way of encouraging left something lacking. Perhaps they didn't recognize the best in you and wanted something else, thus letting gifts wither for the tending of their own pastures. I tell you now that the way of your talents and dreams are available. It will test your laziness and your belief in yourself. It will develop resolve and confidence. It will show you that within is a power magnified by faith and invulnerable to fear. All you have to do is ask.

I hope this has shown some sunlight into your heart. So few realize how much help is at hand. You want to do something meaningful? Realize what you are, thereby what you are here for, and be fulfilled. I speak not of a God on a throne with a list of laws. I speak of the very force of Life which urges us to live a life of fulfillment. I speak of a Creator that loves all of life, its challenges, heartaches and victories. Those things that move us in great novels or movies are there for all of us to experience in our own lives, if we only choose to. Will you write a story for the ages with your will and blood? Or will you die with the pen in your hand?

The last line was a bit frightening, and hopefully strikes you with the urge to do. The villain of procrastination seizes us all at times, I fear, especially when it comes to doing something truly remarkable and fundamentally worthwhile. I am led to give you these questions that may be answered in the quiet of your mind:

1. Why me, why here, why now?

2. Show me the gifts I have, please.

3. What are the questions in my heart that act as pits for every morsel of inspiration before they can take seed and sprout into dreams realized?

Take these to the bank. Love to you from everywhere.