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From Lisa in California

 Timing: I want to tell you something about my partner and me.

From Lola In Argentina.

 Earth Angels; Once upon a time there was a lonely lady named Lola

From Mary in Colorado

 Abundance: Cool, huh?  It only took overnight!

From Darryl in Sydney

 Miracles: No one on this planet knew what I had asked for; yet all did.

From KAren in Sydney

Forgiveness: You deserve an Academy Award!

From Malcolm in Sydney Aust.

 Around the world in 90 days; you can have everything you want

From Lisa in Australia

"Wouldn't it be nice if…….?"

From Lesia in Sydney

 Taste the beauty of letting go

From Malcolm in Sydney

 The art of smiling

From Janice McNamara

 Your strengths is in me

 

From Lisa In California;

I want to tell you something about my partner and me. I reunited with him, my 4th grade boyfriend, after 35 years.  We were each other’s first kiss when we were 10 years old!!  He had been trying to date me for years, but I always ignored him.  I have to say, I really admired his persistence, and I finally went out with him.  I knew within five minutes we were going to be together, and we are!!  His name is Dale.  This is the best, happiest, easiest relationship either one of us has ever had; it’s like it was meant to be.  We were so comfortable with each other right from the start, it was so easy it was almost strange.  But anyway, a couple years after we were together, we had been cleaning the garage and I found a big box of all my travel mementos.  Later that night we were going through them and in there I found a little 4”x6” book from my childhood, a Girl Scout friendship book that I didn’t even remember having.  It’s a little book where a young girl would paste a school picture of her friends and write a little biography of them.  Well, I was telling Dale, “I wonder what this is doing in here with all my travel stuff.  Where did this come from?”

I opened the book and there were only two pictures that had been put in the book by me when I was 10 years old.  One was of me, looking pretty dorky, wearing cat girl glasses.  The other picture was Dale!!  Ten years old, looking pretty cute, I must say.  Next to our pictures I had written (when I was 10)   “Lisa loves Dale.”  “ Dale and Lisa forever.”  For Dale’s favourite sport, I had written “Lisa, I hope!!”  I had written his parents phone number in there, and they still have that same number to this day, and that was in 1969!! You can imagine our surprise, we were laughing so hard.  That book now sits on our coffee table and people are always curious about it when they see it.  We will probably use those pictures of two innocent 10-year-olds for our wedding announcement.  Of course, to Dale, it’s just proof that I should have dated him years ago, instead of making him wait 35 years.  But you know, timing is everything….

 

From Lola In Argentina.

Once upon a time there was a lonely lady named Lola, whose only company at home, after the separation from her husband, was her two small children. They were doing ok until one morning her youngest son of 12, discovered someone had tried to break into their house. Lola felt herself and family to be very vulnerable and she became afraid. Afraid the thief might come back to try again, afraid that she was alone as a single mother and afraid that no one would be there to protect her.

But as if by magic, a few days before the attempted break in she had met three beautiful Australia women who were in Argentina on holiday.
These three young ladies were visiting Argentina on their way to Brazil. So taken by their friendliness Lola showed them her city and shared her home, her family and her love of yoga with them. She also shared her comfort and food, when they too underwent a miserable experience as one of the women had her wallet stolen with all her travel money and her travel documents in it.
Lola made things easier for them, and the Australian girls taught their Argentinean friend to look at her traumatic situation in this way:

It is not that your house has no angelical protection ..........it has such a protection that even though the thieves tried to break into the house. They could not get inside because of the protection of your angels.
Later the girls decided to name their Argentinean friend their angel, and so Lola also decided to name the Australian ladies her Australian angels.

Lola decided, through her encounter with her Australian friends, at a time when she most needed it, that the world is a magical place; a world of intentions: a world of friends. It can be a different place, than the terrible things we see around us and in the news, depending on which side of the road you decide to sit at.

One of my Australian angels is Karen and ever since the girls sent me a pack of angel cards, I have felt it was for me a message to help others, which has been happening for more than five years now.

Thank you all.
I love you

Lola and my highest self: the Universe….

 
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From Mary in Colorado

I was watching a love movie the other night and the gorgeous gal in the movie told her dad how it would make her deliriously joyful if someone would be gift her with a huge bouquet of white lilies since they were her favourite flower.  I thought "boy, that would make me ecstatic too."

The next day I was getting ready to go to the grocery store and as I began to turn into the store a voice said "Today go to the other grocery store."  So, I did.  Upon entering the store I saw a huge grocery cart filled with white lilies.  Since it was after Easter weekend they were on sale for $2 each.  "Wow! I thought-I'll get three and make that big bouquet I wanted!"  At that very moment a gal who worked there walked up to the cart filled with the delicious lilies and said "Hi! Want some of these?"  "Oh yes, I am going to get three-they are so beautiful!"  Whereupon she said "Just take what you want.  In fact, take the whole cart."!!!!!!!!! I did!! I came home with 14 beautiful pots of white beautiful lilies that now fill my house!!  As I walked to my car with this shop cart full of free lilies I thanked the Universe for her bouquet to me. 

Cool, huh?  It only took overnight!!

 
Attitude of Gratitude

From Darryl in Sydney Australia

Hi Beautiful

Well I came home on Sunday night from spending my usual weekend at my special beloved Ken's house. It was cold and dark and I felt like taking a walk around my suburb. I walked and meditated and Thanked the Universe for being so happy and abundant and said, "God if I am on my right path, give me a sign....mmm show me an owl." (That's my favourite bird) I looked up at the beautiful autumn trees expecting to see or hear a hoot or big eyes looking at me. Nothing. I walked on and forgot about it and my thoughts turned elsewhere.

On arriving back home, the phone was ringing..it was Ken. "Darryl," he said "You are not going to believe this. I was upstairs when the dogs were making a commotion downstairs, so I went there and to my surprise an OWL had flown into the back room and was sitting on the curtain rail and staring at me."

Needless to say I was speechless..

No one on this planet knew what I had asked for ---yet all did.

Lots of love Darryl

You deserve an Academy Award!

From KAren Swain Sydney Australia

When I was a small girl my father experienced some difficulties, I guess he never really felt understood back then, and wanted more out of life. His frustrations often turned to anger, and for one reason or another, his anger was often coupled with violent outbursts. This morning was one of these;

I was twelve years old and vacuuming the house. My little half brother, a toddler at the time, insisted on playing a fun game called, sitting on the vacuum cleaner.  Rushing, I tried to get my chores done so I could go out and be with my friends and I became frustrated with the game my little brother was playing. I picked him off the cleaner and put him on the couch and told him to stop it and sit still until I was done. My step Mother was not impressed with my disciplining attempts and complained to my father that I was throwing my weight around. This was enough to set him off and yelling and abuse followed.

I defended myself in the only way I knew how, when he was handed the leather strap I gab it and held on for dear life, only fueling the flames of his outburst. The fight ended and he won. I was thrown up against the wall and had the consciousness beaten out of me. I woke up on the floor  in the middle of the hall and, when I realised I was alone, I made a dash for the door and ran for my life.

This was one of the many abusive stories that happened when I was young and as a young woman my life became a journey to understand myself and people's behavior better and why, why , why does all this kind a of go on. I found my answers and I found my forgiveness and a place of love and understanding of all of it. How? This is something that really helped me;

One night while contemplating life, love and the universe, I imagined life to be like a colossal Hollywood movie. One filled with adventure, drama, contrast, challenges, joy, journeys and variety. After all, a  GOOD movie has all these ingredients; Drama, betrayal, sadness, love, mystery, intrigue and happy endings, that's what makes it such a good show. Without the drama, the happy ending would not feel as good.

I thought about everyone I had encounter on the stage of life. The ones I loved and the ones that had hurt me, and I remembered that from a place of unconditional love, from source, that place we are ALL from, we are the same. Actors playing our roles in the movie of life, richer for ALL the experiences we have, just as an actor on the stage or in a movie would be.
So in my mind we went to the Academy awards, and the nominees, being the people in my life, received their awards according to their performances.

I had arrived at the understanding that everyone is an extension of unconditional Love, and our natural state of being is to be loving, so  I gave out the Academy awards to the people who had acted so well they had really convinced me they were not loving. As you can imagine most of the awards went to the people who I felt had betrayed me, but the prize, the pinnacle the BEST actor award went to Dad.

So convinced I was in those time of violence that he did not love me. I swallowed it hook line and sinker. His performance had me believing his anger was who he really was and I was not worthy of love. But in my search for understand I found that this was not the truth, it is a magnificent acting job, and for his performance he received a golden statue. Just like an actor who convinces us they are different to who they really are.

I thought of Dustin Hoffman in  Rain man. He was not really like that, but he played his role so well, we all suspended our disbelief for the moments we were witnessing his performance. Just like I had suspended my disbelief in this cinema called life. As a result of this my relationship with my Father and my childhood healed, as did the relationships with the rest of the men in my life. I no longer felt I had to push away the people who loved me. I could accept their love and I could accept my own self love. I became less defensive and more accepting of the behavior of others, understanding that their behavior has nothing to do with me. Their behavior is all about their distorted perception of lack, loss, mistrust and forgetting that we are adored by the universe, and life will bring us everything we want when we believe.

I am a believer Now, I believe we are all an extension of pure positive energy and all is well. Next time someone try's to convince you they do not love you, that you are not worthy of love or of getting what you want, tell them, " You are doing such a good acting job, trying to be anything less than the pure positive energy that you really are, you deserve and Academy Award!"

 Around the world in 90 days

From Malcolm W Walsh in Sydney:

I always thought it would be cool to see the world, from a young age I would see my friends travel around the globe and hear there stories. But I was insecure and unsure to do it myself so I put the ideal out of my mind. Also I thought I didn't’t have enough time or money.

So years down the track I meet a wonderful girl called Karen and she asked me one day what you would like to do with your life if money was no problem and I said I would really like to see the world. Then soon after that at my work they introduced a new work place agreement where you could take three months off work without pay and I thought who would take all that time off work without pay.

After that about two months had passed Karen and I were at a spiritual workshop with a lady from America and she asked us if we were married and we said no and then she said she would like to marry us that day. So we just went with the flow and we got married that day, we were at a friend’s house and Karen borrowed some clothes and then some rings appeared and a brown paper bag filled with rose petals. It was a wonderful wedding with lots of excitement and joy.

Then two weeks after that a friend said that she would like to give us a trip around the world and she said, I want you to take three months to see it. This was her gift to us so we had a honeymoon around the world. We went from swimming in the Ganges, to blistering wind at Stonehenge, to climbing on pyramids, to meditating at Mary Magdalene's Grotto in France, to the subway in the big apple to, shoveling snow from our front door in Itheca, to the beach near LA to the Mexican Rivera, to the ski slopes of Colorado, to the land of the long white cloud.

As you can see we certainly saw all what we wanted to see, and what I learnt from this whole experience was you can have everything you want as long as you appreciate and are grateful for everything that is your life in this moment, then more can come to you. So dreams do come true when you let them in.

Malcolm

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From Lisa; Australia

"Wouldn't it be nice if…….?"

These past few months my partner and I went into a business venture. No matter how much light and positive thought I put into the venture it left me quite a bit in debt. To add to that I had made the decision to drop a major accounting client due to a conflict of ethics. In February I found myself faced with high payments, low income and a really large uncertainty in life's direction. In addition to all of this there was a workshop I wanted to do in the states that I had been told was sold out and at least 4 in front of me on the wait list.

I was feeling at a loss as this was just not suppose to happen to me. I had done years of work around Financial Abundance and it had been a really long time since I found myself struggling. The only thing coming through from my guides was get the new Abe Book. All I could think of was great… here I am struggling with money and you want me to go spend more!

I gave the book a quick read and picked the process "Wouldn't it be nice if…" Life was just to busy to add to much more in to it and it was the process that radiated to me first.

When I was asking the universe to provide for me I realized I was using the wrong wording. Using words such as Find me more work… Pay my bills… Take this struggle from me. I was sending out the vibration of lack. I am missing something… I can't pay my bills… I am lacking in money…. Nothing was coming to me as I was sending out the vibrations of lack.

The process switched this by changing the words to "Wouldn't it be nice if… " if all my bills were paid and in the fashion I am a custom to, no thought as to how that would happen… just a "wow, wouldn't that be nice".

Wouldn't it be nice if I found the perfect job that offered me money and Freedom… Wouldn't it be nice if I could go to the Mediumship course in Laguna… Wouldn't it be nice If I sat next to the ocean sipping ice tea, watching the sunset… After each "Wouldn't it be nice thoughts" I would feel the smile and the warmth fill my body as I thought about the joy that would bring into my life.

Each time I got stressed, about what was happening around me, I would mentally play my game. Which by this point was quite often as I was still struggling with the changes around me.

After two weeks of my game, I was traveling to a clients office and my phone rang… my partner called to tell me she had just won $100,000 on a scratchie after a very excited phone call and a little convening she was telling the truth. I knew money dramas had just gone away. When I reached worked to check emails there was an email from the course in Laguna saying a place was available and did I want it.

"Wouldn't it be nice if….?"

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From Lesia in Sydney

In 2004 I decided to go back to full-time studying and in the first half of the year I felt I had to go back to Germany to visit my relatives. My mum was constantly on my mind. Maybe because I had started to study full time and thought I might not be able to see her alive anymore since she is getting older now. I thought about it almost every day. One morning after waking I couldn't stop thinking about a dream I had the night before. "I saw my brother in a black suit wearing a golden shirt and my sister-in-law with him wearing a light blue dress." My brother is not the type to wear anything like that in real life, because he loved his Hawaiian shirts. I called my mum and told her about this dream but mum didn't react to it at all. A little while later I received a message from Germany that my brother has been taken to hospital and a tumour on his stomach was removed. It was cancer! He then had a rupture in his oesophagus and had to be in an induced coma for about 2 months. Meanwhile my travels were confirmed and when I arrived one month before Christmas, my brother had been out of the coma and was in a sanatorium for rehabilitation. I went to visit him there and when I looked into his eyes I saw he had been already on the other side.

He recovered and came back home. However, I realised he was no longer the strong person I had known all my life. I accepted that and prayed for him all the time. In February 2005 after my holidays I returned to Australia and this year in March my mum tried to contact me while I was out, she wanted to let me know that my brother was in hospital again. I somehow knew what the outcome was going to be. When I returned home that night I had my brother on my mind and talked to him quietly. I wanted to let him know whatever he decides he should do is okay. If he knows it's time to leave then he should. I went to bed and couldn't sleep immediately but finally fell into a good sleep only to be woken by the windows of my room going berserk. They were rattling and shattering and making such a noise even though there was no storm out there.

I knew it was my brother's energy letting me know he was letting go of his time here on this earth. I acknowledged him and while I was drifting back into my sleep I felt the most magnificent sensation I had ever felt, twice. It was like nothing I had ever felt before, from the top of my head right down to the tips of my toes, I felt a feeling of lightness, as if a sheet was pulled lightly across my body and then lifted off. All the heaviness and burdens in my body and mind disappeared. What a gift, I know it was my dear brother allowing me to taste the beauty of letting go. Thank you so much, I love you dearly and may you rest in peace my brother and friend.

Always Lesia xox

The art of smiling

From Malcolm in Sydney

Quite a few years ago I had the opportunity of working as a bouncer (security guard) in a local club. This vocation felt like a strange thing for me to do, as I had never thought about fighting or restraining anyone in my life. So I thought why not try something different and stretch my mental boundaries. For the first two months I worked by myself, which seemed like a daunting task as the club held about two hundred people at full capacity. I did not want any trouble or confrontation, so I just smiled at everyone that came through the door thinking good thoughts about them and seeing them as wonderful beings. I had no trouble over that time, everything went very smoothly and I enjoyed myself.

One night I befriended a guy whose wife had just left him for another man. He wanted to go out a lot and not sit at home alone. The club was getting very busy by now and I needed some help, so I asked him if he would be interested in helping me at the club. He was a great martial arts expert and I thought he could be the ideal person to help me if I needed a tough guy. The first night he started two very angry men, just released from jail, were causing trouble. I asked them to leave, but they refused becoming aggressive and they started a fight with my new friend. He had them down on the ground in a blink of an eye. I didn't have to do anything, my friend took care them and I thought, “this is cool, this guy is just like Bruce Lee.”

We became great friends and I thought,” how lucky I am to have this great fighter at my side if I needed it.” Then I noticed that every weekend he had trouble with drunks and I was not involved with any physical action. I realized that the anger he had about his break-up was being expressed in his fighting, but I wondered why he attracted all the aggressive people and I did not. I thought this was an amazing experience as I realised I was thinking positive thoughts about the people who came through the door and my friend thought the opposite. He was expecting trouble, even wanting it and he attracted what he was thinking and feeling.

I did this job for about two years, It was really a great time in my life, I learnt a lot about human nature and the power of our thoughts. After that we both moved on, but when people would say to me what martial art had I studied I would say. “The art of smiling.” They didn’t understand, but now I know you can connect to anyone from a place of love.

Malcolm W Walsh

 

Dear Karen,

I am sending this on to you after meeting you today – regarding my mother Jean Shortland who passed away (very appropriately on 1 September 2007 the first day of spring)

Earlier this year I went to the Travel Agent and picked up various brochures on Canada etc. Probably about two weeks after doing some research I felt as if I wouldn’t be going on the trip. I felt my mother, who had been not so well over the past three years, may not last out the year. Just a feeling I had. As the year progressed this feeling became a much stronger inner knowing. Because I decided that I would not go overseas, to move my life on I have been attending various personal development courses.

Early Friday morning 31 August I had a call from the Nursing Home to say that my mother had a bad turn during the night and wasn’t well and that could I come down to see her. When I arrived, the Doctor said in his opinion she had a stroke and she wouldn’t have longer than 48 hours to live. By that time Mum had lapsed into unconsciousness.

Two hours later my brother and my daughter arrived and they went over and spoke to Mum – just then she regained consciousness and put her frail arms around my brother’s neck and then my daughter’s neck and pulled them to her and gave them a hug. She then said to my daughter that she didn’t think that she would see her again. Earlier on in the week my mother kept asking me was her grand daughter coming down to see her this weekend.

The family spent all day with my mother reflecting on her life and saying our good byes. Mum passed away peacefully in her sleep at 6.30am on Saturday morning the 1 st September the first day of spring.

When I think of my mother, joy and happiness colour the memories. Immediately, I see her smiling face with the lights in her eyes. My mother was always a happy soul and a shining light. What a gift! Her smile carries on in her grandson Michael.

Mum was always there for us – through the good and the not so good times. Somehow, Mum was always able to call on an inner strength to carry on and guide us through the most difficult of situations. Even though she never admitted to being a strong person – I am in awe of her courage, determination and the wonderful outlook she had on life.

Mum was always there to lend a helping hand to all her family and everyone she met. Mum lived for her family, children, grand children and of course her great-grandchildren.

I have learned so much from Mum and cultivated it into my life. I admired her ability to be on time, her organisation and financial skills, her pride in her home and cleanliness. Her love of laughter her ability to cope with the job in hand and get on with life was amazing.

The special thing I love about Mum is that even though she has experienced more than her share of hard knocks and many a situation that would daunt the strongest character, she never lost the ability to smile.

We love you Mum – May you move on to the next phase of your life with love and peace.

After Mums passing I felt completely at peace even though Mum had drawn her last breath I really didn’t feel that she was gone. Even though I can’t see my mother I feel her loving presence. I delivered the eulogy for Mum at her funeral and as I walked into the parlour I asked Mum if she would give me the strength to deliver the speech.

When I walked out the front to do this I felt overwhelmingly strong and delivered a warm and loving speech on my mothers life. Since I did this I have had this very strong presence where I feel that I can conquer all. My mother was a very special lady and I feel that she has now passed on her strength to me and her strength now lives on in me.

Janice McNamara – Jean Shortlands daughter

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