Connections and Angels

     It's been a long time since I last wrote in here.  I'm waking up from a long sleep brought on by the sorrow of losing my dear Tom.  I continue to live, to do the things I normally do and to put on a happy face, but for a long time, everything got done out of both habit and perseverance. My children and family members, including Tom's family, have held me up by just loving me.  My favorite philosopher said, "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight" ~Kahlil Gibran. 

     Tom was my delight and left me both sorrowful and yet with joy in my heart for having spent a short part of my life with him. His encouragement led me to finish college and to go on to finish my master's degree in Communications. Because I am here and can no longer be with Tom, I realize that I need to do the work I am meant to do.  Tom, I can't say it any better than this quote:  "As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us.  As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us" ~Sascha, as posted on motivateus.com.

     Speaking of angels, I have learned of a new way of communicating with them.  I didn't even know we could communicate with angels other than to pray to them and hope for the best.  When I decided to pursue an early retirement earlier in March of this year, I started to get strange messages on my office calculator!  No, I have not lost my mind.  My little calculator sits on my desk and every morning I notice that it turns on or something when the sun hits the solar panel.  The numbers are random and usually threes, ones or zeros.  I hit the clear button when I see it and forget about it.  One morning the numbers were all the same and across the screen: 44444444.  What the...  I remembered a friend telling me one time that the 4's were a sign of the angels, so I looked it up immediately.  I found a number of websites all saying the same thing:  the angels were trying to get my attention because they had messages for me.  I settled on one easy to use website called, http://www.sacredscribes.net/angelnumbersequences.htm.  Almost every morning now I get numbers in different orders.  Some mornings I get no numbers at all. Here is a synopsis of what I've experienced so far.

     Threes represent finding one's balance.  Now I know that threes were appearing because my angels knew I was searching for balance in my life. When I made the decision to retire early to babysit for my grandchildren and do things I've wanted to do for a long time.  On the day I saw all fours across the screen, the angels finally got my attention and I started paying attention to the numbers on the screen daily. 

     On April 3rd the numbers were: 55.555555 and on the 5th they were: 1.1111113.  On the 13th they were 111,111.11 and by the 16th they read -0.0000003. That scary negative number appeared again on the 20th and between the 16th and the 20th, the calculator never even turned on. On April 24th I had no money in my account and the account was actually negative $220!  I did go to my bank with some funds I had in a small savings account in another bank and asked them to remove the three $34 charges, which they did. 

By the 26th the number was 66668686.  I looked that up and according to Joanne at the above website address it means: 

TER connections

Today's blog is dedicated to the memory of Tom Rohan, my much loved husband who passed away last Wednesday, July 6, 2011. He and I were strongly connected throughout our relationship of approximately seven years. We touched each other's lives for a brief moment in time and changed each other forever. When we started our relationship we felt like we had known each other from the beginning of time - and we felt like we had been together in another lifetime. Who knows, maybe we were. But today I am only conscious of our seven years together and our present connection with each other spiritually. He is with me and yet he is with God. I am here and God is here with us, too, so it is probably close to the same thing. It is a connection between our secular lives and our spiritual lives. Love you babe. xxx

Connections continued

I'm writing in larger print for my friends who, like me, are struggling to see the tiny print. I just found another connection today and it's a biggie!



Two years ago, I started working at The College of New Rochelle, which is a Catholic college that was founded by the Urseline Order in 1904. According to Kevin Knight, editor of New Advent (newadvent.org), the order was officially started in 1535 in a small house near the church of St. Afra in Brescia, on Lago Garda.



In 1944 and 1945, several groups of soldiers were stationed in and around Lago Garda. My father was a part of the 10th Mountain Division and was in the mountains surrounding the lake. Dad often told us stories of his time in Italy, including the words he picked up while he was there. Even as small children, we understood that vieni qui meant "come here!" And capisce meant "understand?" One of the stories he told us was about the time he lived when his entire platoon went down in a boat on that lake. He was very ill the night before with a stomach virus. He had found a place to sleep in an abandoned house and never woke up when his platoon awoke the next morning. They all went on the boat and it sank just off shore.



I just found out today that St. Angela Merici is buried there in Brescia. We (my husband, my mother, and my sister) are going to that area of Italy soon. We are going to salute Dad, who's in heaven now, when we go by Lago Garda. I would love to see if we can stop somewhere to see St. Angela's gravesite and possibly the spot where Dad almost drowned. The connections are amazing, and they continue. I will continue to write about them.

Connections

Lately I've been noticing a lot of connections between what is going on in my "secular" life and what I hear at Mass on Sundays, or from Dr. Schuller (Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA) on the TV. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, a sweet older woman in our building passed away. Everyone liked her. I used to call her a philosopher, because she said things that brought you back to earth. Anyway, one of the tenants decided to take the chance and create a lovely garden in her memory. She asked me to help her collect the money on my floor. I did that, as I am sure other people on other floors did. She collected quite a bit of money and bought some perennials. We planned to meet at 10:00 a.m. that next Sunday. My husband and I went to the 9:00 mass that Sunday so we wouldn't miss the fun of planting the plants with everyone else. We arrived at our building just as they were finishing up the work, actually. The older woman's sisters were there, too. The readings at Mass were about loving our neighbors. As I looked around watching people that usually only say hello to each other on the elevator, I realized that we were living what I heard at Mass. I said it aloud to my neighbors and they liked the thought of that.

Today, Dr. Schuller transferred his congregation over to his daughter, Dr. Sheila Coleman. She is now the pastor of that church. He talked about how God answers prayers by saying no, or grow, or go slow, or Go! Either way, our prayers go before us - we enter each day with lots of prayers already before us that will be answered at the "right" time. At Mass later on in the morning, we heard readings about "Ask and you shall receive," "seek and ye shall find," and "knock and it shall be opened to you." AFTER Mass, we talked to a couple my husband knows better than I do. I wound up talking with the wife for a while. She was having a moment of discouragement. She thought her daughter and her husband of three years might be on the brink of breaking up. A light went off in my head as I realized that I lived through two miraculous healings in the past five years. I said that to her. I said she feels discouraged right now, but she doesn't truly know the outcome of her daughter's marriage. The two sermons I heard this morning reminded me of that.

I make simple jewelry I've taught myself through articles in magazines like Beading and Step by Step Wire. working with the wire is relaxing. The magazine, Jewelry Artist, takes me to a new level and makes me want to improve my skills with jewelry making. I'd like to get into working with silver and gold.

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