Recognizing Moments of Wonder / Magic is a blessing to ourselves

Greetings!

I came out of a store with 2 bags and the receipt in my left hand.  I had the keys (incl. the car key) in my right hand.  I opened the trunk of my car.  While I was putting the two bags into the trunk, the wind blew the receipt away.  I chased after the receipt.  It was a cold, windy day.  My running toward the receipt could not match the speed of the blowing wind.  In desperation, I yelled at the receipt, "STOP!"  I caught the ridiculousness of my action, and at that very moment, I saw the receipt stopped where it was!  The wind was still blowing, but the receipt remained still on the ground.  A smile had begun to form on my face when I caught my silliness of asking the receipt to stop flying away; then, it blossomed into a smile of awe and gratitude.  I walked forward and picked up the receipt.  I thanked my angels and guides.

On a hot, humid day last summer, I went to a store to buy grocery.  I came out of the store with many bags of groceries.  In two of the bags were four boxes of popsicles and a container of ice cream; they were the brands I liked, and, they were on sale.  I knew it might not be a good idea to buy them because they might no longer be frozen by the time I got home.  I convinced myself the frozen goodies will be fine because I would drive home right away instead of going to one more store as planned.  While I was loading the groceries into the car trunk, rain began to pour.  In the car, I had to turn on the windshield wipers at full speed because rain was pouring.  In my heart, I said, "Oh, no!  How am I going to bring the popsicles and ice cream home?  I don't want to get myself soaked!"  I prayed for the rain to slow down.  The rain was pouring in full force as I got off the main road and turned into the driveways of the apartment buildings.  I drove past the apartment building next to ours.  I said out loud, "Please stop raining!  I don't want the popsicles and ice cream to melt!"  In the pouring rain, I turned into the parking lot.  I parked my car.  Right then, the rain stopped!  In disbelief, I opened the car door.  I put my hand out, and not a single drop of rain fell on my hand!  In joy and gratitude, I sang my 'thank you' song *.  "Thank you!  Thank you! Thank you, thank you . . . . "  (* In moments like this, I sang 'thank you' in my heart because I was outside.  Whenever I had a good day shopping, I sang 'thank you' song after I was home.  Sometimes my older son joined in the singing too because 'joy is contagious'.)

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I had other past unexplainable experiences, but the old ** me could not recognize the magic of those moments.    

** When I had the mystical experiences in the last quarter of 1999, I knew nothing about spirit guides / angels.  Some time in the year 2000, I began to read many spiritual books so as to find answers to my experiences.  The December 2001 reading by a known angel channel answered some of my questions.  The 'Night Vision - Pieces of A Dream' - an incredible phenomenon  helped me to recognize the magic and wonders of life.  Therefore, when I said the old me, I meant the me before all of these happened.

I had this experience when I was a child.  After taking a bath, with my arm extended and hand faced upward, I said, "Give me the towel!"  The next thing I knew the towel was in my hand.  (The towel used to hang on a bar a little distance from the bathtub.)  For a second, I wondered what had happened.  I had never said "Give me the towel" before.  I did not understand why I did what I did.  I did not say anything about it to my family.  I remembered that incident, but did not know what to make of it.

One winter morning in the restaurant years, my husband, our younger son and I were in the restaurant getting things ready before opening time.  My husband could not take off his jacket because the zipper got stuck.  Our son tried to help him.  I was doing what I had to do such as filling the steam table with water and getting other things ready.  At one point, my son said, "Mom, I cannot help Dad to take off his jacket because the zipper is stuck right below his neck!"  In a hurry, I leaned forward with my fingers pointing toward where they stood and chanted "Namo Amituofo".  Right then, I heard my son exclaimed, "Mom, how did you do that?  Your hand had not even touched Dad's jacket!"  My son saw the zipper unstuck and slid down smoothly right in front of his eyes.  I shrugged my shoulders because I had no answer to his question.  I leaned forward because they stood by the other corner of the steam table.  Therefore, I did not see what happened.  I knew "Namo Amitufo", but had no idea what prompted me to chant that.  Afterward, we continued to do what needed to be done.  We did not gather to acknowledge the moment of wonder or give thanks to the Loving Divine as in The Divine knows what will happen and an earth angel awaits .

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In Stories of Birds, Bees, and other signs from the Divine , I shared some wonderful experiences too.  I would always remember the afternoon we visited the city park for the first time.  I had hoped to see lots of white birds ( seagulls) flying above the artificial body of water, but was disappointed that I did not see any.  My husband explained to me that I should not have expected to see any seagull there.  I closed my eyes.  I said in my heart, "But, I have come to see the seagulls!"  I continued to walk along the body of water.  Suddenly, a few white birds came, and then more and more white birds came.  They put on a show flying gracefully in the air.  I was grateful and joyful beyond words.  After the first visit, we went to the park once in a while, I saw ducks, but did not see white birds again.

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Some people might brush off those experiences as wishy-washy experiences or might consider those incidents just happened by coincidence.  It was their opinion.  It was fine.  I might have the same opinion if I had not gone through the experiences I had in the last 20 plus years.  How true it was that Life Must Be Experienced !  If not for the purpose of this blog, I would have kept most of this kind of personal experiences to myself.

In my Dec. 2001 reading, I learned the names of my spirit guides and angels.  I learned they were (are) always present to love and support me; I could ask XXX (one of my angels) to bring in the vast experiences of God / the Loving Divine.  I am grateful for the loving presence of my angels and guides.

Do you recognize the moments of wonder / magic in your life?

Ask your angels and guides to bring in more touches of God / the Loving Divine.  Recognizing the wonders / magic / grace / beauty in life is a blessing to ourselves.  The more we recognize, the more joy we live in.  No matter what happens in the outside world, we know our connection with the Divine, and ALL IS WELL.

 

Love and Blessings,

Q of D

   

Prophecies, and What We Need The Most At This Time - 3

Greetings!

Some days had gone by since I published my last post Prophecies, and What We Need The Most At This Time - 2 .  One night, I prayed for inspiration.  I asked for truth and wisdom to come through because I really wanted to finish this post before the end of February.  In the morning, the dream of Be a Spark of PEACE and the post The War between LIGHT and Darkness came to my mind.  

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Before these two posts came to my mind, I had considered what we needed the most at this time was for us to center in PEACE.

I had the dream of Be a Spark of PEACE on March 2, 2024.  At the time I was working on two other posts, but had a hard time of finishing them.  In the dream, I felt the gathering took place in another dimension, and the words from the man 'Be a spark of peace' was of vital importance.  I eventually chose to publish it as the first post of 2024.

I re-read the post.  In view of the present situations in USA, the guidance in that post was as relevant if not more relevant now than then.  Below were the last two paragraphs in that post -

Everything is energy.  Our thought, anxiety, worries, joy, peace and other emotions are energy.  A person that was overcome by sadness could not comfort those that were sad; a firefighter must stay calm to rescue the ones that needed help.  Bless are the Red Cross and Peace workers in the war zones helping those in need.  They are anchors of peace and love that the world needs the most in time of chaos or turmoil. 

Dear Friends, we may not be the brave souls who selflessly serve in the war zones; but, we can pray and send love.  What the world needs now is peace, the unshakable peace that is within all of us.  Do not be disturbed by what is going on around us.  Have faith that only good comes out of all situations.   Let us center in peace.  Let our inner peace expand, connect and unite as One Peace around the world.

                                    Be a Spark of PEACE.  Just BE.

                                            

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Writing The War between LIGHT and Darkness was an experience for me.  I got the title of the post on April 30, 2024.  It took me quite some time to finish the post.  Many times I stopped writing because I did not know what to write next.  Instead of feeling frustrated as I sometimes did, I allowed myself to write when I felt inspired.  As a result, the post might seem unorganized / unfocused, or looked like a piece of cloth made up of many different patches.  Thank you for your patience.  I  was focused.  I could feel the importance of writing that post.

In that post, I wrote -                  

In our human mind, we might view a war as a conflict between two countries or more; we might consider the shooter in a mass shooting as the only culprit in the horrific crime; we might be dismayed by the increase in violence and unrest, yet believed we could do nothing about it 'because it is what it is'.  However, there could be more to what happened than how it might seem on the surface.

The so-called angel channel thought that the angels worked with her.  A man's energy was wrecked after going to her for healing sessions.  Another person's mind was flooded with negative emotions after going to her for a session.  My husband believed in what he read in a Chinese newspaper.  He thought the master was truly god-like, and fell under the control of a dark entity / dark force.  The truth is  Everything Is Energy .  Dark entities / dark forces were very much involved in the reality we were in.

Dark forces thrilled in creating chaos and mass destructions in our world.  They planted fear and magnetized fear.  Dictators / politicians that had unquenchable thirst for power might unknowingly or knowingly fell under their influence and joined in their evil plots.  They raised wars that caused lots of deaths and much suffering.  Dark forces were energized when the world was in turmoil.  They fed on the negative energies such as hatred, fear, pain, anger, and sadness.  Like draws like, people that were full of anger / hatred / jealousy, those that were extremely greedy and selfish, those that held evil intent, and those with no principles / virtues that would do anything for money easily fell under the control of the dark forces to do harm on a large scale.  

During this time of purification, we go through extraordinary earth and climate changes.  The dark forces on the astral plane are not exempt from purification.  In fact, the purification in the astral plane is The War between the Forces of LIGHT and the forces of Darkness.  The dark entities and dark forces in the astral plane must be cleansed before the dawning of a new age.  The dark forces want to live on.  They are in full force, and enlist evil people on earth such as dictators and war mongers to do their bidding.    

I published The War between LIGHT and Darkness in June, 2024.  The shaded sentences above had kind of described the wars/situation in the Middle East and the current chaotic situations in USA.

Many people in USA are living under a thick cloud of fear, worries, and uncertainty.  Tens and thousands of federal employees have been laid off which will in turn having an effect on many businesses.  Hopefully, those that feel that they are being fired for no proper reason stand up and join together, and may judges of good conscious uphold the law of justice.    

On the positive side, more and more people are standing up for the right of the people.  It is with hope that in time the power of the people will remind some government officials that they are elected to serve the people, and not the other way around.

What do we need the most at this time?

For the ones that are willing, be an ambassador of peace.  Look at all with peace and love including those who may have realized their mistake in creating the current political climate.  Your acceptance of them and your kind words of wisdom may help them more than you can imagine.

A couple of days ago, this suddenly came to me while I was watching TV.  

Submission to dictatorship in not a good choice or even an option, for in the long run, it would be harder to get out and reclaim freedom.  

I wonder if this thought / advice is about Ukraine.  Or is it about somewhere else.  What do you think?  

Love and Blessings,

Q of D

Prophecies, and What We Need the Most At This Time - 2

Greetings!

I would like to start this post with words of wisdom from my guides in The 'real beauty' of life is 'what you do not know' published on 9/23/2011 -

You want to know what's to come before it comes.  You want us to confirm what you think you know.  The 'real beauty' of life is 'what you do not know'.  For instance, if you know you will be very rich in May, you will look forward to May.  What happens in between now and May you will not handle them with emotions of not knowing.

With not knowing, you will handle whatever happens with creativity.  You will deal with them with your true emotions.  And to do that - living your life truthfully - is what life is all about.

I began writing this post on Jan. 23, 2025.  I just realized I received the above guidance on Jan. 23, 2003 which was exactly 22 years ago!  In  It is the not knowing that makes life intriguing , I shared some interesting experiences of not knowing too.

I supposed it was our human nature that we wanted to know what lay ahead.  If we searched online, we might find lots of videos on what were to come.  The end of time talks were nothing new.  Decades ago, I heard this story.  A woman lived in fear because she believed in the 'end of time' talks that she had heard.  She spent her money getting ready for 'what were to come'.  She died when she was around 40 years old.  People found her basement filled with packs and packs of bottled water, lots of canned food, and equipment for survival.  In another news many years ago, a group of people came to USA from another place.  They gathered on a mountain top.  Their (cult) leader had told them that a spaceship would come to pick them up by a certain date; they were the chosen ones to be saved.  That date came to pass.  They eventually went home.  

I did not say all prophecies were false.  There had been notable true prophets throughout history.  However, we should not simply believe in everything that others said particularly words that caused us to live in fear.

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In my previous post, I wrote -

The guest speaker's dreams did not stir fear in my heart.  Pease note that it did not mean I disputed his dreams.  I decided to join the meeting with an open heart.

The host had sent out emails inviting others to email him before the meeting what they had received in dreams or visions about what were to come.  He would compare the data to the speaker's dreams.  The host himself had read many books on prophecies and earth changes.

When zoom started, the host introduced a woman who corroborated with the guest speaker's dreams.  If I heard correctly, she did not live in USA.  I supposed she might have similar dreams / visions / she could be a psychic.  

The guest speaker began by sharing some of his stories that we had already learned from the host's email and attachment.  Later, he talked in depth about what the world would look like after the mass destruction and the safe havens.  He said there would be only a few safe havens, and his country was one of them.  He suggested for people to move there so that they would be saved.  He shared his views why USA and its people would come to a horrific tragic end as he saw in his dreams. 

When I wrote to this point, I felt I should pause before I continued.  I did not want to put this brother in a negative light.  He joined the meeting believing that a nuclear war was imminent, and wanted to warn others ahead of time.  As far as I knew, he did not gain anything by joining the meeting.    

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I had wanted to go straight to 'what we need the most at this time'.  I did not want to write about the guest speaker's personal views of USA which might put him in a negative light.  That was the reason for the pause in writing.  However, I had come to understand the value of sharing his views.  His views / experiences mirrored part of us in our reality.  In truth, his experiences were not just his experiences.  If we set aside our judgment, we could all learn something from OUR experiences.

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The guest speaker told us what he saw in his dreams - USA was totally destroyed and its people were massacred by people from different countries.  He said it was because USA had done lots of wrong to other countries and their people.  Hearing what he said, I realized his dream world might have been tainted by his personal views.  Everything Is Energy .  What he held in his mind (i.e. his views of USA) could have been reflected in his dreams.  (In The Conclusion of the Great Gray Cat , all of us in the family had dreamed of the cat after he moved on, and our dreams were different.)   

As grown ups, we saw ourselves as independent individuals. (Definition of independent - free from outside control; not depending on another's authority).  

However, our upbringing as well as our experiences had an effect or even an impact in how we looked at the world and life (e.g. the environment we grew up - the country we lived in, our culture, the society, church / temple, religion / no religion, what we learned from our parents / teachers / schools, our experiences with our family / relatives / friends / others and etc.).  At times we formed judgment / wrong views, but were not conscious that we did.  (e.g. In She loves her daughters more than her son , the waitress formed a view against her son simply because of other people's experiences.  In A talk among girls about the Criteria of an Ideal Husband, some girls were not aware that they had let a wrong view take root in their mind.)

I must add that some * people that lived under extreme dictatorship might not / could not be as free or as independent as they could be.  Sometimes they were being brainwashed since childhood through the educational system.  (*Some only.  There were always free thinkers that did not abide to what they were told, and fought for their freedom from whatever harsh conditions they were born into.)    

The speaker had told us he was in his 50 s.  USA and the country where he was born had long regarded each other as the prime enemy.  When he was in his late teens / around 20, that country dissolved into different countries.  By then, he had probably taken in the political views of his country about USA.  He now lived in one of those countries that declared independence during the dissolution.

The brother was not any different from us.  We had all taken in other views (incl. political) as if they were our own, e.g. a country's political stance, views from our family / friends / the society, and even cult leaders' / dictators' views.  In order to understand his views about USA, I could not simply think that he was wrong.  Upon contemplation, I realized he was not alone in his views against USA.      

The 2001 9/11 Terrorists Attacks came to my mind.  I remembered I was shocked and sadden because of what happened.  Every morning before I went to the restaurant, I sat in front of the TV watching the latest news.  At night I did the same after coming home.  Sometimes tears flowed down my face listening to the stories.  How could the terrorists do that?  My heart went out to those that had lost their loved ones during the attacks.  I prayed a lot at night.  I did not remember much about USA anti-terrorist wars in other countries.  I did remember I cheered as most did seeing the statue of Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, being pulling down to the ground in 2003.  By then, I was going through my own challenge watching my husband spent his time practicing the moves day and night.  Terrorist attacks still drew my attention, and I continued to pray for people that suffered when such incidents happened.  

The brother's words about USA led to my pause in writing.  As days went by, I realized there was far more to terrorism / hatred toward another country / its people.

In the name of righteousness, many wars were declared.  However, were there not wars fought mainly to maintain a country's political dominance in the world?  Yet, the same country / countries had turned a blind eye to great injustice such as the massacre of a certain race in another country.  There were also wars started for revenge.  Who suffered the most during wars?  The common people.  How many times we watched on the news that men and women held onto the dead bodies of their loved ones crying in the war torn zones.  Most people carried the sadness for the rest of their lives, but resigned to the brutality of wars.  Some grew up in hatred waiting for their time to avenge.  They blamed the country / countries that bombed their country, destroyed their homes, and caused the deaths of their loved ones /  friends.  Hatred blurred the sense of right or wrong.  Later, they joined terrorist groups or carried out terrorist acts on their own.   They did not realize their terrorist acts killed innocent people just as what happened in a war.  

Like the guest speaker, many of us had taken in a country's political stance or the doctrine of a church / a religion as if they were our own.  In a political climate where one country easily called another country the enemy, we might have unknowingly regarded another nation and its people as our enemies too.  Therefore, it should not be that hard to understand why the guest speaker said USA and its people had done lots of wrong to the other countries.  Many cheered after the death of Saddam Hussein the dictator, and felt victorious over terrorism.  BUT, most of us might not have given much thought / attention to the price of war - the innocent lives that were lost.  I searched online, and learned that 4.5 to 4.7 million people had died directly and indirectly as a result of the post-9/11 anti-terrorists wars in different countries, including over 7,000 service members of USA.  How would you / we feel if we were the ones that lived through the wars seeing our homes were being destroyed and our loved ones getting killed?  

In August 2021, US withdrew its military from Afghanistan.  After a long 20 years, the wars seemed to be over.  Was the war against terrorists really over?  The soldiers came home, but many carried the scars of wars physically and / or mentally for the rest of their lives.  Could we have taken another approach instead of starting a war?

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After the guest speaker talked, people were quiet.  It might be we had not expected to hear what he said of USA.  One person asked when the nuclear war would take place.  The speaker said it would happen in 2 to 3 weeks.  I had something to say, but did not want to raise my hand.  Knowing my English was not sufficient, I hoped and prayed someone else would speak up in response to what the speaker said. 

A few minutes before the meeting was about to end, the host asked one last time if others had any questions or wanted to say something.  I finally raised my hand.  I asked the speaker if it was possible that what he perceived as a nuclear war was an explosion of a natural cause.  He said it was possible.  I was nervous.  I did not recall all that I said, but my messages were always that of 'peace and do not live in fear'.  Unexpectedly, I heard someone cheered after I finished talking.  It kind of eased my nerves.  It was not that I was proud.  What was there to be proud of anyway?

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I paused writing this post because I did not want to put the brother in a negative light.  While trying to understand why he felt that way towards USA, the 2001 9/11 Terrorists Attacks came to my mind.  During the restaurant years, my husband and I worked 7 days a week from morning to night.  When we arrived home, it was almost 11 p.m.  Except during the 9/11 period, we did not spend much time watching TV.  Therefore, I knew very little about the other wars that USA was in.  In retrospect, the pause in writing and the surface of the 9/11 incidents in my mind were very much in divine order.

Many of us went through life seldom examined our views / attitude / patterns.  At times we thought that we were in the right, and others were wrong.  If we examined closely and truthfully, we might find that we were not that right either.  In writing this post, I realized it helped to listen to others with an open heart, and the importance of spending some time to examine the views we held. 

These days the world seemed to be in chaos particularly in USA.  Some of my friends said they had stopped watching the news.  

Sorry, it takes me a long time to finish a post.  I hope to finish 'What we need the most at this time - 3' before the end of February.  (Next post What We Need the Most At This Time - 3 )

Peace and Love, 

Q of D