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Angels: Messengers of Love and (spiritual quotes) Protection

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By Candace Talmadge

 Fog spread like misty syrup over the Jamaican mountains. The dark, narrow, twisting road out of Ocho Rios instantly became impassable to all but foot traffic.

Yet the taxi carrying Jeff Delgado had to keep driving the 40 miles to St. Joseph Hospital in Kingston–quickly. Without the medical facilities available only at St. Joseph, Jeff would die soon. Doctors suspected he had ruptured the major aorta above his stomach, the biggest blood vessel in his body.

A father of eight and just 40 years old, Jeff was bleeding to death next to his wife on the back seat of the taxi.

Tragedy threatened to end what had begun happily as an appliance sales incentive convention. Jeff, who was to emcee the banquet and ceremonies that night, had been indulging his love for liquor and good times on the beach that afternoon.

Drunk on champagne, he rented a Sunfish even though he knew nothing about sailing. The breeze sent the boat all the way out to the main reef, where Jeff realized he was in trouble. He struggled tipsily to turn the boat around. Instead, it capsized and threw him into the water. The boat’s gunwale twice whacked Jeff on the side with extreme force as the craft flipped over and over.

Working off pure adrenaline, Jeff managed to catch hold of the back of the boat and a bit of the rigging. Somehow he and the Sunfish floated back onto the beach. Jeff was so weak he had to be carried back to his hotel room, where he evacuated a huge quantity of blood from his bowels.

Terrified, he called his doctor’s office back in Norman, Okla. The nurse ordered him not to lie down, urged him to summon local medical help immediately and even phoned the hotel desk long distance to make sure others knew Jeff was in life-threatening trouble.

A young Jamaican doctor, summoned to Jeff’s room, watched in alarm as Jeff evacuated still more blood. He gave Jeff two injections of vitamin K to thicken Jeff’s blood to slow the rate of bleeding. The physician next tried to find transport to Kingston. Local residents were so fearful of the fog and the mountains that only one taxi driver was willing to make the treacherous journey that evening.

As the car negotiated the foothills and the fog closed in, a bearded, shaggy-haired figure appeared at the side of the road. Clad in sandals, cape and baggy work pants, he did not look at all like a native Jamaican. He had arched eyebrows and large hands, “like a carpenter’s,” Jeff recalls. Climbing onto the cab’s front seat, he glanced briefly at Jeff and asked: “Is that man in great pain?”

Jeff was in an almost meditative state at that point and was feeling no pain that he can remember.

The wayfarer then spent the next couple of hours guiding the driver through the fog. He even got out of the cab several times and stood just a few yards ahead, pointing the way safely through the thick swirling mists that obscured everything.

“We couldn’t have continued without him,” Jeff says. “There was a steep mountain slope on one side of the road and a precipice on the other.”

Finally, the taxi wound down out of the mountains and the fog. The wayfarer asked the driver to stop, got out of the cab and vanished, ever to be seen or heard from again.

By the time Jeff reached the Kingston hospital, he had only 40 percent of normal blood pressure and had to have massive pressurized transfusions. Doctors told him up front that he had no hope of surviving the rest of the night.

They didn’t take into consideration a tiny Jamaican nun, however. She talked to Jeff that first night at the hospital and in the days immediately following. She prayed for Jeff and the day after she made her supplication, Jeff knew his bleeding had stopped. He was even strong enough to get out of bed.

Jeff’s recovery was inexplicable to the doctors in Kingston. When he returned to the United States, Jeff was thoroughly examined at a hospital affiliated with the University of Oklahoma. Physicians there found nothing to indicate life-threatening internal injury–no scars, no lesions. They also could offer no explanations.

One of the most puzzling aspects of Jeff’s astonishing healing experience remains the sudden appearance of the wayfarer on that dangerous mountain road and then the wayfarer’s subsequent disappearance.

“I’m grateful and impressed,” Jeff says. “I don’t even pretend to explain it (the wayfarer) other than it was some external–divine–power that made this fulfillment possible.”

There are other explanations for the wayfarer: random chance, coincidence, circumstance, and even just dumb good luck or good fortune. Of course. A man just happened to be taking a nighttime stroll along a deserted, remote, fog-isolated mountain road at the exact time a dying person is also on that road and esperately needs help.

Such assertions strain credulity beyond the breaking point. Just as likely an explanation: Jeff’s wayfarer was an angel in physical form for a critical mission of love and protection: to assist in Jeff’s physical survival.

Also known as spirit guides, angels are messengers of love, faith, hope, and healing, and they are with us for the long haul.

As eternal vibrating essences, also known as souls, we choose for a number of reasons and motivations to return for an earthly presence. We do not have to face physical life alone. We gather to us a group of other vibrating essences to be our friends and remain by our side throughout our physical lifetime and even after that lifetime ends (an event known as “death”). These souls do not take on physical bodies.

When we are very young, we know our angels/guides as our imaginary friends. At least, that’s what our well-meaning parents or teachers tell us they are once we get a bit older. They’re not real, of course. They’re just wishful thinking or the figments of our childish

fantasies.

What utter nonsense. Angels/guides are every bit as real as we are. The only difference between us and the angels is we have physical bodies and they do not.

Occasionally, however, they can and do assume physical form–especially when our physical survival is on the line, as in Jeff’s case.

Angels/spirit guides also have many other ways to offer us their love, and future articles will explore some of the other “support” roles they undertake to help us.

Candace (C.L.) Talmadge is the author of the epic fantasy Green Stone of Healing(R) series and a political columnist syndicated by North Star Writers Group. As StoneScribe, she blogs about the intersection of politics and spirituality.

New age opinions and trends
By Clint Jhonson

 What does new age mean to people today? Young people consider this a trend for fashion and all of the implications that come with it. Older people consider this as something that isnt according to some of their overrated beliefs and behaviors.

The opinion of other people such as astrologers, the new age makes reference to the change of astrological ages. This implies the crossing from the Age of Pisces, in which we have been for more than two thousand years, into the Age of Aquarius.

This change of astrological ages brings with it lots of progress and innovation in many fields, just as we are experiencing for a few decades now. Something that goes hand in hand with progress is the change of beliefs. Even though most of us have relatively well defined beliefs, we are now turning our eyes on something that hides deeper meanings such as spiritual objects.

Spirituality is different from religion and all the things according to which we governed our lives. We are now able to find a sense in a lot of things that couldnt be explained before. Our spirituality may hold the key to a lot more doors than we think of.

Our level of spirituality can be observed first on the things we are showing to the world. Things like outfits and accessories are a reflection of our beliefs and the message that we send through them often plays an important role in how people perceive us.

Spirituality is an important aspect of the new age trends. Fashion garments and jewelry pieces are the most important things through which a person can express his or her beliefs. While we can obtain outfits from local stores that have a design close to what we want, there is nothing like a special piece of jewelry to hold deeper meaning and other hidden powers.

New age jewelry designs often have cosmic reflections and implication within them. For instance a pendant design called the Vesica Pisces makes reference to the Age of Pisces we have talked about afore. The Star of David also is popular not only for the religious implications, but also for the fact that when we entered the Age of Aquarius, a perfect Star of David constellation watched over Jerusalem.

An interesting irony is that a lot of new age jewelry designs are inspired from ancient beliefs. Among them we can name pendants that represent the Eye of Horus, Odins knot, Gordian knot or Merkaba, rings like the ring of Tao, the Lotus ring or the Bulgakov ring and more.

All of these designs are meant to improve the quality of your life with deeper meanings and hidden powers. Handcrafted from pure materials and submitted to a special energizing process, these pieces can be more than just fashion accessories.

But where can you find these new age objects? The designs mentioned afore are just some of many others that David Weitzman creates for people all over the world. If you are interested in receiving more information about them, be sure to visit ka-gold-jewlry.com.

Basically the expression new age makes reference to beliefs. At the crossing between ages, we have the tendency to rediscover ourselves and our beliefs and we try to make the whole world understand who we are.

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Visit the Inner Room of Love - Are You Showing Up Fully for Your Life?
By Peri Enkin

 Right in this moment love is in the air. If you take a deep breath you can draw it in to your heart and down to your belly. You can let it intoxicate you. I mean it!

We miss the very essence of life when we attach love to certain people, circumstances or events. Are you showing up fully for your life as it is right now?

When you show up fully life meets you with fullness too. And life, at the core is filled with the energy of love.

Imagine, that your life matters. I mean really matters - every single precious moment of it. And meet the air as if you are offering it a kiss. Drink in the deliciousness of early morning. Celebrate the middle of your day with a nod to the gods and goddesses of pure magnificence.

Why would you let the moments of your life slip by in mediocre ways? Let the tone to your days be filled with wonder, and pleasure. Feel the joy of existence. When the sun sets know the rays continue to light up some other place on the planet. And then welcome the darkness in your own hemisphere.

What does all of this have to do with Love? Everything! Either we are showing up fully for life - and love - or we are contracted, withdrawn, caught in the melodramas we make up in our minds. The stories of emptiness, lack and loss the mind likes to spin for us.

Now - with that preamble take an imaginary journey to the Inner Room of Love. Envision a room in your own consciousness where the highest vibration of love is generated on your behalf.

- What would you call to you now?

- What experiences does your heart yearn for?

- Will you let yourself imagine drawing these into your life?

Do you want to experience a lovers embrace? Tender words from a friend? Open communication with colleagues? Laughter? What will you allow yourself to see and to have? Will you let yourself enjoy dating? Will you know peace being single? Will you allow happiness with your mate?

Whatever state you are ready to appreciate belongs to you and then, when and if you wish, - you can choose something different for yourself again and again.

There is no stop to the journey of creation. Only the creative questions of choices you alone make. What next? What now? Will you say yes to your life? Make your desires real on the inside first. Use that wonderful mind of yours for what matters most - your happiness -your engagement with life -your full presence in all that happens to you.

Live fully and let love awaken inside. Then continue living fully as it blossoms outside also. There is no mystery here. Vibration matches vibration.

If you will drop the pictures of what love “should” look like and begin assuming that love is present, right here, right now you will begin to see and feel more love everywhere. This is practical spirituality put to work. Knowing that love is the essence of life choose it for yourself, relax and watch it appear!

And remember not to be attached to how it looks. The mind is sneaky. You might miss something spectacular because it does not fit your pictures. Let the pictures go and enjoy the energy. Your heart knows.

Peri is the Founder of Creators Choice Online School for Whole Life Fulfillment. Visit CreatorsChoice.com for free gifts to enjoy right now.

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