Thursday, April 24, 2008

angels in our midst



I love my Louis. That's my car. I could write a whole blog on how perfect he is but that's not what this is about. One of the reasons I love Louis so much though, is that he is a bit of an angel magnet. Yes that's right... angels. They live among us you know. Thanks to Louis I have had so many angel encounters that I think I've become a bit of an expert. And that is the whole point of this blog. I, in my unfailingly generous wisdom, have decided to share a bit of that expertise with the world in the hope that you can all have some delicious angel encounters of you own.

Now the thing with having an angel encounter is that you have to understand how angels work. Figure out their angel protocol. Once you have that its like scales fall out of your eyes and you begin to see them everywhere you look. This is where I come in. And I have managed to break it down into just 5 easy steps.

Step No 1 : Find yourself in some sort of major or minor calamity. Angels love to appear right at the moment when they are needed the most and usually this is when we find ourselves stuggling with some predicament. This is where Louis comes in. He has a knack for causing calamities. Like deciding not to start for some reason. I remember a wonderful angel sighting when I was driving Louis, it was in the first days when I first got him and I knew that he had some vague starter problem but I had no idea what a starter was. Any hoo. I'm with my nephew and we're in the car and Louis won't start and I have no idea what to do. Actually Nzau was driving so he looks at me for help and I'm blank and then out of nowhere this guy comes up to us, gives instructions on what he should do, he follows the instructions and voila Louis purrs to life. We looked around to thank him but he was gone. Nzau couldn't beleive what just happened. I was totally unfazed. "He was an angel," I explained. "I'm surrounded by angels. I run into them all the time." He seemed to take my word for it but he wasn't too keen to take Louis out on his own after that " I'm not so sure I 'm surrounded by angels like you" he explained.

Step No 2: Recognise their unexpected gift as love: Angels always appear to remind us that we are loved and they do it by giving us a gift. Now the key to tell whether a gift is an ordinary gift is how it feels when you receive it. When it's given in love you feel a warmth that begins in the pit of your stomach ( or somewhere in that vicinity) and spreads to the rest of your body. You can't ignore it. It feels just like love. Now the tricky part is recognising it as a gift. There's no shiny paper or ribbons. They are usually things that appear most ordinary. Like words. Or a glass of warm milk, or a roll of kitchen paper or a song ( ok a bunch of songs), but there is something about them that just feels like love. If it feels like love, you may have just met an angel and if this gift was preceded by a calamity of some sort you can almost bet on it. To be sure you have to know what they look like and that's...

Step No 3. Know what they look like: Now we all think we know what Angels look like. I mean we've seen the pictures. We see them at the top of christmas trees. That halo is always a dead give away isn't it? You would think so wouldn't you. EEEE Wrong. Listen to the expert. Now angels sometimes, take the ones I ran into last night, are light skinned, have long hair (and even an occasional dreadlock) and usually are dressed in white and have the most gorgeous eyes, or sometimes, they're dark, bald-shaven, like to dress in darker clothes have the most gorgeous eyes and a charming smile or sometimes they look nothing like that ... No wait this is confusing... even for me. I think the best way would be for you to see for yourself. To do that we would have to come to ...

Step No 4: Even if you think I didn't do a job of explaining step 3 its ok because there is an angel right now in the room with you: Bet you didn't see that one coming did you. Isn't that fun? And I know how you can see them too. You will need a shiny, polished piece of glass with a silver backed surface. If you don't have one there are some very easy to follow instructions on how you can make one of your own here. Or you could just use an ordinary mirror. Now hold the piece of glass, with the reflective surface facing you, away from you so you can see your face. Especially your eyes. (Note: If the mirror is hanging on a wall or something you don't really have to take it out or even hold it, you can just look at it, really, its ok). Now look deep into your eyes until you see or feel something that looks like an inner light and feels like love. And there you have it. You have just seen an angel. Neat huh. All angels have that inner light so no matter what they look like, if you can see that then you're looking at an angel.

Step No 5: Its not really a step, but these are little known facts about angels that will make you understand them better: Angels have a lousy memory. I love these guys but this is something that they all seem to have in common. You'll run into an angel have a fabulous experience that meets every aspect of the angel protocol but if you come up to the person and ask them if they are an angel they may look at you funny and even deny it. Its not that they're liars or anything. They're not. They just don't remember who they are. Its wierd, its like for a minute they connect with their light do their angel thing and then forget. Some of the nicer ones may smile and tell you that its nothing and shrug it off. These ones may not totally remember who they are either. And the interesting thing though is the angels who do remember who they really are, the don't tell you either, they may say something vague like we're all angels or something like that. Basically don't wait for the angel to confirm that they are one. Once you run into as many of them as I have you'll just know who they are and you'll appreciate them and love them for it and just carry with you that warm wonderful feeling that all is right with the world because you are surrounded by angels.

Isn't that just great? It's the most beautiful feeling.

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