Questions people ask me about guidance, prayer, angels, ‘the Universe’ and the supportive, loving wholeness of God

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How do I know if what I am feeling is really guidance? Maybe it’s my imagination.

This can be so frustrating. But the truth is, it really doesn’t matter whether the guidance you are receiving arises from within your heart or from the angels. Guidance that arises out of true connection with your higher self/core self is no different than guidance that originates with the angels or with God – for all derive from the same source.

Therefore, do not dwell on where guidance comes from – nor on figuring out the name of a guide or angel. Instead, seek to deepen your connection – and ask for more guidance. As you practice sending and receiving across the Sea of Miracles, you will come to a place where you know exactly where guidance comes from.

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I have prayed and prayed for money and things are desperate over here. But nothing is happening. My angels don’t love me at all. Everything you write is a lie.

First, I’m so sorry you are having financial troubles. I’ve been there and I know how challenging it can be.

Now, let’s talk about guidance. You’ll need to shift your expectation of what a response to your prayers looks like. When we ask for help with a financial situation, the response may not show up as cash; often, people receive help in other ways. For example, when I asked my angels for help getting a new refrigerator, they didn’t send money – they sent a refrigerator! When I needed new clothes, they sent a bag of clothes in my size. When my husband and I were having trouble paying our bills, we got a call from our utility company saying they’d over charged us for a year of service – with a check enclosed for the amount we needed to make ends meet. When a friend of mine needed help to feed her family, the angels sent food – not money.

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Why would the angels come to me? I’m nothing special.

Why NOT you? Over and over, your teachers and preachers have told you the angels come to everyone. What makes you so bad, so unworthy of love – so special that the angels would overlook ONLY you out of everyone and everything else in the entire universe? We don’t need to be special, extraordinary, pretty, wealthy or any other qualification to receive our angels’ blessings.

You are already, right this moment, beloved by the angels and worthy of their attention and support. No matter what you’ve done or not done, no matter who you’ve hurt or disappointed, no matter what you weigh, what you earn, what you’ve accomplished – your angels love you. Ask for a sign of this love – right now – a sign you cannot miss or misinterpret. When it comes, trust it and let it open your heart.

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How can I attract my soul mate? Can the angels bring me someone to love? Where is my soul mate?) Why do some people seem to have no trouble finding partners while others, like me, find it so challenging?

Some people are comfortable giving and receiving love; others find it challenging. In general, those people who are most challenged by relationships will be those who have the most trouble accepting what is, accepting others for who they are; and accepting their own flaws. The key to attracting a soul companion is to make contact with the deep, constant inner core of who you really are, and to begin a romance with yourself.

PS There are many who could serve as soul mates for you. The key is cultivating a relationship with yourself, with your own values, your own ‘I Am’ self.

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You talk about reading energy. What exactly does that mean? What do you see when you read someone?

I see in imagery. I also seem to be reading a kind of architecture of story.

Story is a psychic structure, a form, built of smaller forms or elements– as any other form or object—is built. There is an underlying structure, an organizing principle to all things – a matrix of matter and energy that combines in various relationships and patterns to create unique forms. I see patterns. I see connections between patterns, which are also patterns.

In a kind of intuitive “blink,” through conversation and asking questions, a picture builds in my mind’s eye, I follow clues, examining everything a client says or does – gestures, habits of speech, including, also, coincidental events that occur in the session. Everything has meaning.

I see your life as a story. I see the events of your life as imagery. When a client talks to me, I get pictures, which I build into a structure. I see the psyche as a space – often cave like, with rabbit warren passages, chambers and paths. I perceive the psyche as located in the energy center of theheart. SO you might say, I read your heart energy – I perceive blocked energy, suppressed experience, scars. It’s a kind of medical intuition of the psyche.

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When did you become a believer in angels?

I’m not so much a believer as a witness. I still don’t believe in angels the way most people do. To me, the angels are a response from All That Is to our collective longing for connection. To me, they’re an energy bridge between God and man.

That’s how I can understand/conceive of an archangel being everywhere at once. They’re archetypal forms, arising from the roiling oneness, called forth by our longing – and our prayers.

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My friend (loved one) doesn’t believe in angels but I know that if s/he did her life would improve. How can I convince her angels are real?

You can’t – and frankly, it’s not your job to convince her. Each of us has our own path, our own relationship with All That Is. If you want to inspire your friend, live your life the best way you know how. Your example is the best teacher. If your friend or loved one is open to exploring a relationship with the angels, they will naturally be drawn to ask questions. Until then, I like what Abraham says about this one: “You can’t answer a question that hasn’t been asked.” In other words, follow your path and allow others to follow theirs.

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Can I send healing to someone else?

Yes. Your prayers can add support to the healing process of another person – or, if it’s their time to die, your prayers will help ease their transition.

Simply ask the angels: Please send your healing light to <name the person> for the highest good for all involved. Then, let go of the outcome, knowing that each of us is always in God’s hands.

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What message do the angels have for me? Will you intervene for me? Please ask my angels …. The angels don’t talk with me, please ask them for me. Can you send healing to someone for me?

Each question on this list arises out of our programmed conditioning that we need a more powerful, more connected intermediary to approach God and/or the angels. To each of these questions, the answer is: You do not need me or any other “expert” to negotiate between you and the angels. Come boldly to the throne of Grace. Ask your question directly and listen for a response. This initiates your own journey through the Twelve Passages.

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Can one wear out one’s welcome with AA Michael? Does he tire of the incessant appeals/requests for help?

People often ask that question. The short answer is, no, we cannot wear out our welcome with any of the angels; they’re angels – timeless and also without judgment. They arise out of and respond to our call for friendship, help, reassurance – and miracles. They can be with all of us simultaneously; there’s no limit to the number or the nature of allowable requests.

The longer answer involves an awareness of the ways that we ourselves limit our engagement with the angels – and with other people. Our assumption or concern that we are taking up too much of the angels’ time or attention has within it two errors: The first error arises out of the idea of limited resources, or scarcity. When we feel as if we are competing for scarce resources, we may limit our request, not wanting to take more than our fair share. Know that there is no limit to the time or attention available to you. Ask for what you really, truly want – in fact, some teachers say: Demand what you want. “Come boldly to the throne of Grace.”

The second error arises from our own insecurity – the feeling that we are not worthy of our angels’ interest and support. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The angels showed me: We love you no matter what – we will never abandon you. Ask for the comfort, reassurance and support that you need.

Remember: Angels aren’t people – and have no agenda for us. We don’t have to live up to their expectations; we don’t have to earn their friendship. We have it – unconditionally. Allow yourself to approach them, imperfect as you are. Allow yourself to open to the feeling and experience of someone being there for you no matter what. That’s what the word unconditional means, without conditions.

Allow yourself to let Michael serve and love you – any time, in any way at all.

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Where are the angels, now?

Right here, all around us. You have the opportunity to work with the angels anywhere, anytime by responding to what comes with love. If your heart opens to someone in need, it’s an invitation to help. How will you meet this invitation, this calling? Will you keep driving by? Or will you answer?

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What constitutes a miracle?

I like Picasso’s take on this: “Everything is a miracle; it’s a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.” Essentially, a miracle is the suspension of the laws of time and space that creates an effect of healing, divine intervention or grace on our behalf.

Albert Einstein said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

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“You write about angels!? Wow!  So, what are angels, anyway?” (asked by an old friend at a high school reunion

Here’s my “cocktail party” explanation: Angels are messengers – a bridge – that allow us to communicate with God. Angels arise in response to our questions and prayers. They arrive (often out of the blue) lend a hand in some way or another and then, back out of the situation, often disappearing without a trace. In other words, they blend back into the oneness.

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Can you name the nine (or 12) orders of angels?

Um… no. That has never interested me.

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What are archangels?

Archangels are archetypal energies, a more articulated form of angelic energy. Our relationships with the archangels arises out of our collective longing. The angels of beauty, authority, wisdom and others represent universal qualities and principles of order and form found in all that is.

To simplify this, when we pray to Archangel Michael, we are asking that his qualities of strength, protection and courage, stream into our own life. When we pray to Archangel Gabriel for eloquence, ease of expression, and a sense of our true mission and purpose, we are calling on those qualities in our own life.

I don’t pretend to know exactly how this works, but I sense the presence of these forms and how they came to be. They are one of many ordering principles, woven into the interactive energetic matrix, the structure of the human psyche and the psyche of the collective.

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Seriously? You really believe this?

Yes. I have no doubt that there is a responsive, loving presence guiding and helping humanity. I know how to contact it, and I know the feeling experience when it responds. I am only beginning to see the forms. I know they are not human; that formed in their natural state, angels look like streams of columns of light. That is how they look/feel to me.

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Can you explain the difference between Law of Attraction and angels?

I will try. Law of Attraction is a governing, ordering principle of creation. The angels are a living and responsive presence who work with the laws of the universe, one of which is Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction dictates how things work; the angels do the work. One is a principle of how it is; the other simply is.

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Can you explain the difference between the terms: The Universe, The Divine and All That Is?

There is no difference. To me, each of these is another name for the same thing: The responsive loving universe of all that is, aka God.

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About God, prayer and angels:

Sometimes, I use the words God and the Angels interchangeably. That’s a problem for some people, some of whom take the time to send emails or letters containing quotes from scripture, even photocopied pages of the Bible.

So, let’s see if I can set this straight: I know that all grace comes from God. In all things, in all ways I give God all the credit, or glory, for every miracle I experience or witness.  I credit God for the sunlight, the water, the food that I eat and the air that I breathe. I also credit God for every interaction with the angels.

The angels are messengers of God; but they are not God. I understand, and clearly teach, that the angels are a bridge to that which is too vast for us to meet in its fullness.

However, I do not differentiate between God and the angels in my prayers – I just pray. I know that some scriptures have clear guidelines about how to pray and to whom we are supposed to pray. I encourage you to find your own path to God; to pray in the way that’s most comfortable for you. It is your comfort and openness to God’s response that is most important. So, if following a set of rules brings you to that comfortable openness, by all means follow them.

My studies have shown me that there are many ways to talk to God – so many systems of prayer, meditation and practice. So here’s where I stand: All roads to God are blessed by God; how could they not be, when each brings us closer to God? I do not believe that God minds if I approach the angels with a prayer or a question. God hears it anyway.

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