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Hello dear
friend,
I hope you are having a good day. I hope
I can make it better by telling you that angels definitely do exist. I have
seen one! Also, it is my belief that one of my friends became an angel after
her death. I am sharing these things
with you to give you hope and encouragement.
First let me
tell you about the angel I saw. I was in noisy and crowded café having a
meeting with my friend Erica from church about a new project we were thinking
of doing together. As we swapped ideas the talk was lively and positive.
Finally I said to her, “You know, I feel the Holy Spirit very strongly here
with us. And I wouldn’t be surprised if we were surrounded by angels listening
to our conversation!” With that I looked up and saw an angel. It was a quick
glimpse, no more than a couple of seconds.
I said to Erica, “I’ve just seen an
angel! And it had its hand under its chin like this.” I demonstrated with my
hand under my own chin in a listening pose. “It was confirming that it was listening!” My friend and I looked
wide-eyed at each other. The angel – I couldn’t tell if it was male or female –
was a pale golden colour and ethereal in appearance, it had short bubbly curls,
and looked like a child. So I think what I saw was a cherub. I think I had a peak at ‘the other side’ of
life; which is also Life!
I said to Erica, “I think we can take
it that we are supposed to be doing this project together.” And she agreed. We
have had a few further meetings and it is coming together very nicely. I’ll let
you have some details when the time is right.
To continue for now with angels I
want to tell you that the above picture is a bookmark which my dear friend
Thalia gave me. If you read my last blog headed “A challenge to spiritual
growth!” you will have already heard that she has gone, this ten years since,
to join the angels. Actually, I do mean that literally as, after her death, I
had an experience which told me that she had become an angel. I questioned this
as I thought angels were angels and people were people. But the explanation I
was given was, “She willed it.” And when I mulled it over I believed it. I have
never known anyone so focussed on angels as Thalia.
I will leave you with a photo of
Angel Thalia and a poem I wrote shortly after her death.
Love
and blessings
Teresa
Thalia
Ode to Thalia
By Teresa O’Driscoll, 4th
March 2009
Dead and buried. Over.
Done.
89 years of living, learning,
growing,
all locked up in a box.
Only half a story.
Eternal. Spirit.
Everlasting Love -
Joining the angelic host
kneeling at the feet of
Our Father.
Gone on before me.
Living in my memory.
Living in Spirit and in Truth.
I believe therefore -
I am.
I believe therefore you are:
Alive and Vital;
renewed.
PS Don't
forget to take a look at my other blog:
https://creativelivingforthebestyou.blogspot.com/
Also, for
further inspiration check out my website:
http://www.teresaodriscoll.co.uk
PPS Don't
forget to check out my book: 9 Days to Heaven, How to make everlasting meaning
of your life - which is a practical guide to joyful living! You can see the book trailer by clicking on
this link: http://youtu.be/154luv8KMns
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Thursday, 12 September 2019
Angels are real: I saw one!
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
A challenge to spiritual growth!
Perhaps, like me, you love the month
of September! In childhood it was the invigorating beginning of a new school year.
Now, I consider it a great opportunity for a general fresh start to my life.
And those of you who know me well know that I am a huge fan of those.
So when, clearing up some paperwork,
I came across the small poster you see in the picture above, it hit the spot
perfectly. It was given to me by my dear friend Thalia who went to join the
angels ten years ago. It was a lovely example of what an inspirational person
she was. I have typed the contents out so you can read them easily.
On the left is the sublime bible passage
from Corinthians about love. While on the right is the poem The Invitation by Orah Mountain Dreamer.
Both, in different ways, throw down
the gauntlet, as they challenge us to grow spiritually.
I hope you enjoy them and are prompted
to join me in that fresh start.
Love and blessings
Teresa
First Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians
Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you
is a limb or an organ of it. Within our community God has appointed in the
first place apostles, in the second place prophets, thirdly teachers; then
miracle–workers, then those who have gifts of healing, or the ability to help
others or power to guide them, or the gift if tongues of various kinds. Are all
apostles? All prophets? All teachers? Do all works miracles? Do all have gifts of
healing? Do all speak in tongues of ecstasy? Can all interpret them? The higher
gifts are those you should prize.
But I can show you an even better way.
I may speak in tongues of men or of angels,
but if I have no love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. I may have
the gift of prophesy and the knowledge of every hidden truth; I may have faith
enough to move mountains; but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give all I
possess to the needy, I may give my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I
gain nothing by it.
Love is patient and kind. Love envies no
one, is never boastful, never conceited, never rude; love is never selfish,
never quick to take offense. Love keeps no score of wrongs, takes no pleasure
in the sins of others, but delights in the truth. There is nothing love cannot
face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and its endurance.
Love will never come to an end. Prophecies
will cease; tongues of ecstasy will fall silent; knowledge will vanish. For our
knowledge and our prophecy alike are partial, and the partial vanishes when
wholeness comes. When I was a child I spoke like a child, thought like a child,
reasoned like a child; but when I grew up I finished with childish things. At
present we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror, but one day we shall see face
to face. My knowledge now is partial; then it will be whole, like God’s
knowledge of me. There are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and
love; and the greatest of the three is love.
Corinthians 12:27-13:13
The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a
living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of your heart’s
longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking
like a fool
for love
for your dream
for your adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are
squaring your moon
I want to know if you have ever touched the
centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of
your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are
telling me is true
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself
If you can beat the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it’s not pretty
every day,
and if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with Failure
yours and mine
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon
“YES”
It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money
you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn’t matter to me where or what or
with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
Orah
Mountain Dreamer, May 1994
Don't
forget to take a look at my other blogs:
http://teresaodriscoll.blogspot.co.uk/
Also, for
further inspiration check out my website:
http://www.teresaodriscoll.co.uk
PPS Don't
forget to check out my book: 9 Days to
Heaven, How to make everlasting meaning of your life - which is a practical
guide to joyful living! You can see the
book trailer by clicking on this link: http://youtu.be/154luv8KMns
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