We loaded up my brother-in-law’s Expedition, hooked up the trailer (still have a bunch of stuff in Loveland to pick up) and headed for Colorado via New Mexico way.  We were enjoying the ride and the scenery when all the sudden the truck just stopped.  Picture this, we are still 20 miles from the nearest town and had only seen one other vehicle on the road with us that morning.  Amazingly enough just 1 mile back, I had tried to use my cell phone and there was no service but we are stuck in just the right place and my phone WORKS!! Hallelujah!  OK, but who ya gonna call?

I decided to call 411 and ask for the town’s sheriff.  They very nicely gave me the number of a tow company.  I called them and left a message on their voice mail.  We patiently waited and watched a couple of cars come and go.  One did slow down up the road a bit, I know they were asking themselves,  “Maybe we should go back…” but fear must have won out and they kept going.  Finally the tow company called back.  I told him that we thought maybe the gauges screwed up and we ran out of diesel fuel or the filters clogged up.  “OK” he says.  I’ll be out in a while.

About 45 min later here came our wonderful helper and his son.  They put in the diesel fuel, and my husband tried to change the filters.  No luck, don’t have the right tools.  “No worries” Tow guy is going to run back to town get right filters and come back in his car as that will be faster.  Another hour later…

No good, so we hook up the trailer to his car (remember he drove his car rather than the tow truck to be faster) and went to town.  He took us to the Ford Dealer.  They start to tell us that they cannot look at the truck until next week, then the mechanic overhears that we are stranded and says he’ll get to it sooner.  But they close at 5pm.  It is now 3.  We drop the trailer at the tow truck company lot and he goes back for the truck.  My husband and he get the filters changed and try to start us up.  NO GO.  Ford is closing in a few minutes so they hurry up and get the truck to Ford.  Of course not before everyone has already left.  Oh well, tomorrow.

We are dropped at a nice little motel for the night.  All is good except they don’t even have coffee the next morning!  Can you imagine me in the morning with no coffee? Not pretty.  But my Knight in Shining Armor of a husband runs across the street to Burger King (Wonderfully GOOD coffee for future reference, Nannette)  Then he walks the couple miles back to the Ford Dealer.

A little while later, my motel room phone rings.  The owner of the motel is asking if I need a ride to the dealer!  What a sweetie. (There is no taxi in Las Vegas NM).  So I meet my husband at Ford, they had told him they would look at the truck in a couple of hours.  We are know parked in the lobby and enjoying the coffee.

Now for the Angel of the story…

A couple of older gentlemen and a lady had come in to get their cars serviced and had joined us in the lobby.  They were having a conversation about of all things – Alternative Medicine.  I couldn’t read my book any longer, I HAD to easedrop.  Next thing I know, Jack has joined in their conversation.  Before long a couple hours passed, we all became friends and then their cars were done and it was time for all of them to leave.  Our Angel, Jackie, stopped to say a prayer for us all before she left.  Jack and I sat in the glow of the afternoon thinking how wonderful that had been, when here come Jackie back to invite us to lunch!

We went to, get this, “Smiling Faces” Mexican restaurant.  Had a wonderful time, then she dropped us back off at Ford.  We then got the news.  Oil pump and computer chip.  Parts ordered.  Maybe tomorrow (Friday).  Ok.  But let’s go to Super8..Coffee and internet.

Friday…no oil pump.  Maybe Monday.  Super8, we’re baaaccck.

Saturday morning.  Cell phone rings.  Jackie and her mother would like to come visit.  How great is that!  We’ll be here, not going any where.  When Jackie and her beautiful mother arrive they tell me they would like to have a Biofeedback session.  I love doing sessions so this sideline in our trip just keeps getting better.  Had a fantastic morning with the two of them and have now come up to my room and get to write about my adventures.  Who knew getting stranded could be so fun.

Danette

Humanity’s awakening into full consciousness is an awakening into life — a cooperative, creative, integral life at one with and intertwined with God.  It is life as God has always intended it, filled with joy, delight, and enthusiasm that is limitlessly abundant.

This is where humanity is headed as it moves out of the illusion and into Reality.   Your presence is requested, expected, and awaited with fond anticipation, in the joyful knowledge that you are on your way and that there is absolutely not the slightest possibility that you will fail to arrive.

Without all of you Heaven would be incomplete, bereft, and that is another impossibility: If it were possible, it would not be Heaven.

Release your fears and anxieties; you have no need of them because in every moment of your existence you are divinely loved and cherished.   It could not be otherwise because you were divinely created by God and are consequently perfect, as is God.

Relax, sit quietly and comfortably, and allow your hearts to open and feel God’s Love for you; it is with you always.  You are and never can be alone, because wherever you are God is with you, enveloping you in His loving arms in an eternal and divine embrace.

As you sit, imagine the most pure and brilliant light shining down upon you, as from an extremely powerful spotlight focusing only on you, and know that God’s Love is focused on you infinitely more intensely than that.   And as you sit imagining it — not trying to imagine it but imaginatively accepting it — other thoughts will fade from your awareness and you will begin to feel, to experience the warm glow of His Love for you.  It is your right to experience it because that is why you were created.  But in your illusory reality it is necessary to let go of thinking about it, of wondering if you are doing it right, of seeking it out; because doing any of that creates blocks by filling your mind with distraction so that you cannot see or experience the smooth continuous flow of divine Love, which is life itself, and in which you are eternally immersed.

You need do nothing, which means you need to not do or think anything. Just relax into that space between your thoughts.  As thoughts arrive — and they will — acknowledge them but do not focus on them, develop them, or follow them.  Just let them pass.  Notice that they do pass, to be replaced by others, and let those pass.  As you become more accustomed to doing this you will find that the space or interval between your thoughts increases, and during those intervals you will experience the peace that God’s Love, your awareness of being, the life force flowing through you, offers you continuously.

Sitting daily, making space for yourself, just yourself, to be aware of this peace which is ever-present within you, greatly strengthens your desire and intent to awaken, and brings to you the most effective assistance of your spiritual guides who are with you constantly for this sole reason.  You are loved and helped in every moment, when that is your intent. Make it so!

With so very much love, Saul.

Release from the illusion, in which it seems you have trapped
yourselves, has been arranged. Have patience – alright, continue
to have patience – and accept the illusion as you perceive it. Do
not judge it. When you judge it, you are seeing right or wrong, good
or bad, and those are your own projections based on your beliefs
(ethnic, political, cultural, religious), none of which are without
prejudice. The felt need to judge comes from your own sense of
inadequacy, and separated from God – if that were possible – you
would be inadequate.
As you practice and learn not to judge, to accept the situation in which
you find yourself, you will find you are more and more at peace with
yourself, more self-accepting. Judgment leads you to attack another by
making them wrong, or to defend yourself from the attacks of others if
they make you wrong. This causes great stress and prevents you from
being at peace, relaxed, at ease.

As you become used to not judging, to just observing, you will see that
nothing is truly right or wrong, and that attempting to see things as
one or the other makes no sense. The less you judge, the less you will
feel a need to judge. You will be able instead to silently forgive those
who are arguing, disagreeing, and judging; and in so doing, you forgive
yourself, for all are one.

The more you forgive, the more you will become aware that all are one,
and that judging one judges all, and forgiving one forgives all. When
you forgive, you find love within you and you realize that with love in
your heart you are unable to hold a grudge.

Initially, you will oscillate between judgment and forgiveness, between
grievance and love. But as you practice with intent you will notice
changes in yourself and in others due to the aura of peace that you
extend. Arguments and disagreements will occur less frequently, and
when they do, they will be far less strident. Your practice will build
an energy field of peace around you that others will feel and respect.

To leave the illusion, you must be at peace, extending and sharing the
love in which your heavenly Father constantly enfolds you. Only in the
illusion can concepts and experiences that are not loving occur.

Your release from the illusion has been arranged and is guaranteed, but
you have to leave behind everything that is not love. In the illusion
it is very easy to judge, condemn, harbor resentment, and seek
recompense for perceived wrongs, but none of those attitudes can exist
in the presence of love.

So keep practicing acceptance of what is and love will replace all other
perceptions, and you will leave, or awaken from, the illusion into the
eternal presence of your loving Father.

With so very much love, Saul.

12/02/2009 by John Smallman
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