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Ready for Another Ring Story
Posted by: Ann
November 7th, 2009 >> Guides, Manifesting, Physical/Material
February 2008, my husband lost his wedding ring. He had lost a lot of weight recently and his ring was looser but he had not thought it would just fall off. One cold day he was outside showing his Lincoln welder to a potential buyer. That evening he realized his ring was missing. We looked all through the house and could not find it.
During this time I was working with a friend who had a “Rife” machine. While working with the machine and a pendulum, I mentioned my husband’s ring and my friend told me about some one finding a bag of money with a pendulum. He then proceeded to ask questions with the pendulum and figured it was about 3 feet from the outside A/C unit.
It was 2 weeks before I could dig around the unit, but when I did I came up empty handed.
The side of the house the pendulum said the ring was on was covered with a good 4 –6 inches of leaves. So a ring could easily become hidden. I mentioned the findings to my husband. He thought it made sense that the ring could be in the side yard. This was an area of about 12 x 40 feet. I wanted to do my own pendulum check of the area but again I was not able to get to it immediately.
Several months past before I could get outside with my pendulum. I divided the side yard up into 4 x 4 foot squares and asked each square if the ring was there. I had one that was a maybe but one that was a definite yes. Then again it was another 2 weeks before I could get back out and dig.
When I finally made it out there the yes square was still yes. I divided that square into 4 squares and had a yes in one. Then I started digging through the leaves. On the 3rd shovel I hit gold (ring that is). Yea I found it. I thanked my guides for leading me to it.
I showed my husband where I had found the ring and he pointed out that we had moved the outside condenser unit two years earlier and the spot was within 3 feet of where the unit had been. Wow! I had not even thought of that and it made sense to me as time is of this physical world and not the spirit world.
College was a fruitful time in my spiritual life. Some young people wander away from God during that time but I was drawn closer. Nature, whether sitting outside watching the birds, looking at the sky sometimes a solid blue other times with majestic clouds or even just riding my bike to class under the ancient oak trees, always brought me closer to God. My bike was my first major purchase with my own money as a teenager in high school. It was my main mode of transportation at college where parking spaces for cars were scarce and classes widely spaced. During my freshman year, I left my bike chained to a bike rack with many other bikes over a long weekend break. When I got back to campus on Monday I could not find my bike. I walked around the bike racks where over a hundred had been parked Thursday afternoon. Most of the other bikes were still there but not my blue thoroughbred (I liked to think of my bikes as horses, my first bicycle was a Morgan then I had a show horse before my latest acquisition). I walked around the dorms thinking some one had “borrowed” it and I would soon find it. I finally gave in and went to the campus police station and reported it missing.
They did not give me any reason to hold out hope of finding my thoroughbred. I thought why this might have happened. Was I becoming too dependent on material things? I talked to God about it. I told Him “I maybe relying on material things when I need to focus on you. This has jarred me awake on that. But I still need a bicycle to get to my classes on time. I would prefer to have my old bike because I’m use to it and I am sentimental about it, but if you want me to get a different one ok I will. If my old bike is not found by Friday I will go shopping for another one on Saturday”
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday passed with out a word about my bike. By Friday afternoon I had resigned myself to the idea of getting a new bike. I started looking at my money situation trying to figure out how to pay for one on a poor college student’s income. Friday evening at about 8 pm a roommate pokes her head in my room to tell me I had a call. On the phone was the campus police who said, “I believe we have your bike”.
The next morning I headed to the police station and they showed me a bike I did not recognize at first because the black handlebars had been retaped with white tape. But then I saw the blue fingernail polish I had used to cover the scratches spotting the frame and I knew my thoroughbred had come home.
Yesterdays post was about a ring. Well here is another ring prayer that happened when I was in college. This time it was not my ring.
During a physic class the fire alarm went off. The class trooped outside where we milled around for about 10 minutes then a fireman said, “ All of you are too close to the building. Move across the street”. So we all meandered across the street, walking around talking until the all-clear bell rang 20 minutes after the first.
When we had returned to class Bill looked down at his hands and exclaimed “Oh no, the crest on my ring is gone”. Bill was devastated; this was a ring his grandfather had given him before he died. I could tell he was very shaken as he hurried back outside to look for the lost crest. I prayed hard that he would find it but how could he. We had been all over the place out there, on both sides of the street, in the street.
My heart was heavy for Bill. Within ten minutes, Bill came back with his face beaming and the crest in his hand.
As a 3rd Grader, a well-meaning Sunday School teacher told me that we should not pray for “things”. I have developed a different viewpoint on that. Not only does God listen, He acts.
The Christmas I was 14; I received a ring from my sister-in-law. You need to understand, this sister-in-law was a very hard person to like. She was one who could dish it out but couldn’t take it. She also took things very personally. I really liked this ring. It had 7 small rings banded together with a dangling gold heart. I wore this ring whenever I went out.
This was the year the High School Band took a band trip to a pool in east Texas. Don’t ask me why we had to go to east Texas to go swimming but we did. There were changing rooms and lockers where I stored my clothes and my ring, which I snuggled down in the toe of my tennis shoe so it would not slip off my finger while swimming. When it came time to go, I pulled out my clothes and shoes then remembered my ring. Looking into my shoes I could not find it. I retraced my steps. Looked in the looker room, the bathrooms, around the pool were we had been standing. No ring. I was upset. I left my name and phone number with the pool attendants and went home on the school bus. During the next week I prayed some one would find that ring and turn it in. What really worried me about loosing the ring was how my sister-in-law would handle it. I did not want her to think I had been careless with her gift, which in her mind would mean I did not like her gift and so did not like her.
I imagined all kinds of ways that ring would be found. Some one would be walking along and see something shining on the ground and pick it up or the janitor would be sweeping under the lockers and locate it. My imagination went wild.
My mother was surprised to receive a call a week later from the pool attendant, they had found my ring! They were in the process of draining the pool and a maintenance man saw something shiny in the pool. He jumped in and pulled it out right before it went down the drain. That was one scenario I had not anticipated.
All through my life, my prayers have been answered in ways I just could not anticipate. It is almost like God saying “Got you”. I think God does have a sense of humor.
Which Makes the Other – Spirit or Body
Posted by: Ann
October 31st, 2009 >> Physical/Material, Spirituality
Our spirit contains our body – the physical, not the other-way-around. Therefore our body or physical needs are important, as important as the spirit.
The physical will not exist forever; whereas the spirit will. But the physical is important because we made it; created it, from our spirit and for that reason we should honor it and nurture it.
The physical is important because it is a physical representation of the spirit. Both the body (and its physical material world) and the spirit must be integrated and not separated.
Our spirit not just contains our body but creates it and our surroundings or physical existence. They are all integrated and important. You cannot ignore the one without hurting the other.
I have been trying to separate the two, making a surgical cut between the two (like in the Golden Compass). NO – Don’t do that!! Embrace both together. They make a whole.
I am here to do a job, to accomplish something and worrying just gets in the way – more than that – it actively prevents me from doing what I need to do.
God is my partner and my partner is very competent and a self-motivator, He can handle the whole business without me. I know in His hands, my business will only prosper – it can’t do otherwise.
But there is a portion up to me, and that is to act on the ideas and inspirations as they come to me. God can act but He wants us to take an active part in our lives also. We are often His hands and feet, especially in our own lives. So I EFT the worry out of the way and just do it.
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I place the future in the Hands of God. This releases me; a weight lifts off of me. We are here to experience not to worry about the future. To trust God to handle my future allows me to pursue things now that I would have been scared to try before.
What if I failed? My previous thought would have been “Oh No, I have wasted all this time, effort and money and now I don’t have any of it and I am further away from my goals.” But when you place the future in Gods hands, when you fail you think “Oh well, I’ll try something else” There is no pressure. God knows what I need and will provide.
Remember a job is not your source, God is your source.
In my struggles with abundance, I have two mentors. Neither knows that is what they are to me, but whenever I am sliding into the black hole of worry, I think of them.
One is my next-door neighbor. We have deep conversations across the fence or on the front porch. He is one of those few people who does not worry about where the money is coming from to pay next months bills. He knows it will show up. When things start getting tight, he will suddenly get 4 job offers out of the blue. He lets life happen and lives in the now. His lemons turn into lemonade. Once when money was tight, His car was run into. Most people would think “Oh No, more problems”. But the proceeds from the insurance claim covered all the car repairs and medical bills with money left over for the monthly bills. We have many over the fence conversations about abundance and life.
The second is a friend who experienced what he calls his “Miracle Year”. One year when he was young, he took off to see the world. All he had with him was his backpack. He said it was difficult at first, but when the fear finally left, the miracles started happening. He tells about a time when he was sitting on a sidewalk trying to fix something on his backpack and thought “I wish I had some scissors” then he glance beside him and there were a pair of scissors laying there. He said things like that kept happening. That is not to say that difficulties did not happen. He tells of arriving in Beirut and started walking towards town, not wondering why everyone seemed to be headed the other way. A car stopped and some one grabbed him and pulled him in. They had guns and took him to an old building and started to interrogate him. They were under the impression he must have been working for the US Government (CIA, spy) if he was headed toward town. My friend decided if he was going to die, he was going to enjoy himself and started joking with them. They finally decided he did not know anything and after some more shows of force they took him back to where they found him and pushed him out of the car. I think he should write a book about his experiences.
What have I learned for these two men? That fear keeps the miracles from happening. That fear stifles abundance. That is why I deal with fears in its different forms in my newsletters at naturallyresilient.com. EFT is great for keeping fears and worry at bay.
Abundance Thinking
Posted by: Ann
October 26th, 2009 >> God, Manifesting, Physical/Material, Sacrifice, Spirituality
I have been struggling for a number of years with the idea of abundance. This has been a hard lesson to learn and I still have not learned it. Most of my life I have been in conflict with abundance and spirituality. I thought to be spiritual you had to give away all you had and live under a bridge. In striving for spirituality, I could not come to terms with loosing everything.
The thought that God is abundance and all things are His to shower on us as He wills somehow did not include me. In my religious upbringing, it was enforced to me that I was nothing, a worm, worthless and God was everything. If I was a worm to be eaten and sacrificed to a bird then I was just here to be used and God did not really care about my physical life and comfort. But this just did not make sense. Deep down I believed in God’s abundance and His concern for us but my mind would not let me accept that.
I guess I got this idea of sacrifice from Matthew 19:17-24. This is where the rich young man asked what he must do to have eternal life and Jesus replied to keep the commandments but the young man said he had done that and what else should he do. Jesus told him to sell all he had and give the money to the poor and follow him.
This conflict came to a head about 3 years ago when I had a Body Talk session and this issue came up to be dealt with. It was very interesting. I went into the session feeling that God wanted me to give everything away and live under a bridge and came out thinking and feeling I did not have to do that to be spiritual. Referring back to the Matthew passage, Jesus told the young man that if he wanted to be perfect he should sell all he had and give the money to the poor and follow him. That was if he wanted to be “perfect”. I am not perfect and don’t pretend to be. I am not at that point where I can get rid of everything and live only in God’s abundance.
God doesn’t want you to be a burden on others or society. The well known spiritual people that have given up everything to live with those they wanted to help, did so because that was how they could best help others. Some can best serve others by having resources and abundance to share.
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day” — Henry David Thoreau
My days go so much better when I get up and walk. Just being outside in nature is uplifting and relaxing. My day gets an extra lift If I remember to show appreciation to God for everything I see while walking.
To Practice This Thought: Get up early tomorrow and walk, even if it is just a short distance. Remember to appreciate all you see on your walk.