Hello Dear Friends of

Ano-Hou (answer to a prayer) Life Enhancement!

“All of our prayers are answered, all of the time.” True statement….

You don’t have to take my word for it, *energy test* it, (kineseology) for yourself! Yes, you do know how to do it!
(That’s another one of the skills that I taught those who attended my seminars and free Gatherings!

The answers come usually as, ‘Yes’, ‘No’, (or not yet!) or “I have something better in mind for you.”

You just gotta love that last answer.

Like many of you, I pray every day. There are sooo many who are suffering some sort of ‘hell’ to pray for…So much to pray and intend blessings for…

I don’t have access to their Soul’s Blueprint, so I can’t really pray for God to fill some sort of specific request for them, after all, we just don’t know what the ‘higher plan’ is for someone…
I always pray for the ‘Highest Good of All Concerned.’… though I gotta say, if someone is in physical or mental anguish, it’s pretty well impossible for me to not to ask for a cessation of that pain… especially when I begin to empathically feel it too…

It doesn’t surprise me at all that there are “Holy Men/Women” who have dedicated their entire earthly lives to sitting atop mountains in prayerful meditation for the good of the world and for all who live in it…
It’s been done for thousands of years… God knows we need it…

HOW we pray is supremely important. Never pray from ‘lack’… pray only in the positive… and intend on the Highest Good for all concerned.

And for heaven’s sake, REMEMBER to ASK for what you want!! Angels love to be asked…

But it doesn’t always work out the way we hoped for, does it?

Our prayers are always answered, only sometimes, they are answered in ways that we believe SUCK! Many answers, we believe, suck BIG TIME!

Yeah, I said it…

Tom was downsized out of his job 18 months ago…
SUCKED BIG TIME… “Bread Winner” to cold turkey, is hard…
harder still on the Soul…

However, at the time, I was very concerned for his health, as his job had become extremely stressful during their ‘restructuring’…
So, really, it was an answer to another prayer, to have him be relieved of the terrible stress load…
(*Be careful how you language your prayers* )

Despite our and those who love us, prayers, novenas, candle-lightings, moon dances etc…
Highly qualified, he’s been to no less than 47,000 interviews since then… and nada… nothing! (yet!)
Despite several nail-biting ‘close calls’ of finding something wonderful for him… NADA… NOTHING! (yet!)…
Oh yes, it sucks… sucks, BIG TIME…
Answer to prayer: NOT easily seen through all those hills of bills

Then, like Manna falling from Heaven last year, I was offered a HUGE business opportunity. An offer that came from someone I know, trust and respect… It was truly a perfectly timed ‘answer to a prayer’. Not only would it end any financial woes, it would give me the satisfaction that only comes with feeling truly ‘useful’ in this world. Living ‘Life’s Purpose’, using my unique skills while reaching the greatest amount of people to help as possible and being *valued* and compensated in return… Oh how we rejoiced! Prayers clearly answered!!

Not so fast Grasshopper….

Suddenly, my Mother was diagnosed with ‘incurable Multiple Myeloma cancer.’
She promptly had a heart attack and had no option but to have extremely risky(in her condition) quadruple bypass surgery or face certain death…
Of course, my full attention turned to her and her care. Sadly, it soon became clear to me, that I couldn’t split my time or focus to do the creative work that was required of me in the time frame required for the project opportunity, and so, in tears, I felt to be fair to the business partners, (despite my prayers for the work) I had to back out of the deal.

It was devastating.
Every day since, we live with the consequences of that decision…
But I cannot regret the choice I had to make at that time.

Every year since 2004, I’ve heart-brokenly lost a most precious Loved One… Not receiving the ‘answer’ I’d hoped and prayed for… My Mother’s condition scared the bejeebers outta me… I was not, and am not, ready for her to leave us…

Despite the Doctor’s worry that my Mother’s china-brittle bones would literally crumble into her heart during the invasive open heart surgery, my Mother survived the operation and rehabilitation…
Prayers, most blessedly answered..

She lives and continues to enrich our lives, living her life with the challenges of Multiple Myeloma, and we thank God every day for the answered prayer of ‘another day’…

During my Mother’s rehabilitation from surgery, my beloved little furkid ‘Tia’ became mysteriously ill.
Despite hundreds of years worth of combined knowledge in the people who were involved in her diagnosis, treatment and care, no reason for her illness was ever found… She steadily declined in health every day, looking at me with those large, beautiful, fawn-like, innocent, brown eyes, and nothing I did, seemed to help…
Not the treatments that were being given day and night, not the prayers, not the ‘power of love.’…
Nothing…
After three months of feeling the most frustratingly inadequate failure a ‘Mom’ can feel, we watched our baby die… The Vet who gave me peace of mind by giving me his schedule and promising me he’d be there at the ‘end’ to ease Tia’s pain at home, never showed up… It was not an easy passing… She died in Tom’s and my arms… It was Tom’s birthday…

In my deeply wounded human heart, I still haven’t found the Higher Good ‘answer to my prayer’ in this situation…
Though my Soul knows, there has to be one…
There has to be….

Last November, in a snow storm, a pneumonia virally infected, mite-infested, mostly dead, jiffy pop for eyeballs- blind kitten the size of a fuzzy peach, planted himself in front of Tom’s car in the driveway like some kind of Tiananmen Square stand off… I thought it was a clump of road salt fallen from Tom’s car, but Micaleen alerted us to his ‘live status’, and we took him in.
The ‘adventures’ of Champ’s recovery have been documented here ever since. Don’t you love it when prayers are so clearly answered in the way you want them to be?
Though for the life of me, I can’t remember ever asking God for a kitten??

Prayers were also positively answered when his light-footed little ‘Shim’ brother, *Star* was found in final death throes, in the snow by the barn, in January and so joined Champ inside our home, on the tables, under the furniture, inside our pillows, up our noses and solidly in our hearts… I had no idea cats scaled walls and could turn on water faucets for ‘fun’…

Two weeks ago, the worlds sweetest, most kind and beloved Tan, Barrel-chested, Wiggling Earred, Innuit Hooptoomoose died..
Our dear Micaleen…
Her passing came right out of left field and sucker-punched us…
Alright now God…enough is enough…
(NO damnit, that’s NOT a challenge!)

Why have I shared a glimpse of intimate portions of my ‘hit list’ with you? Do I think I’m the only one with problems?
Of course not!

And neither are you! Just look around you….

Have you noticed this (apparently) massive increase in suffering in recent times? If you haven’t been personally ‘hit’ have you been ’second hand hit’ by a loved ones’ tragedy?
Have you noticed it in your family or with other Loved Ones? How about friends, neighbours, colleagues? Certainly, you’ve noticed those in the news, hit by massive, natural (and some not so natural) disasters.…
Not just humans, but animals also, even our beloved Gaia herself is suffering… Its’ reached epidemic proportions…

I’ve seen it all around me…
Pointedly, I know a significant amount of ‘Spiritual people and Teachers’, all who have striven in every way to do good works and stay positive despite great personal hardship, die-hard “L.O.A.s”, heeding the ‘Law of Attraction’ philosophy, stiff upper lips now trembling, as we wait between hits, for the ‘good’ side of ‘it’ to happen…
And yet, despite embodying the ‘higher vibrations’, they are being slammed with the most devastating events that have forever changed our lives…

What’s happening? What’s going on?

No, really, I’m asking!!

When the Angels gave me this card to share with you this week, it came with the direction for me to write exactly what came to my mind and clearly, I have…

As always, I defer to the Higher Powers that Be to know what is ‘best’ for us, so I leave you with this message to pontificate….

But in the twirling Carousel of my Carnival mind, I feel that we are being ‘tempered’ like a fine sword… Plunged deep into the blazing fire, pounded repeatedly, to strengthen, harden and prepare us for some…
Higher Purpose… yeah that’s the ticket…

Some, grand and noble Heavenly Design…
and ohhhhh boy… Will we ever be ready…

Why else would a Father allow such suffering to His child, if not to one day gather us up in His arms and say, “See? This is why.”

It’ll give new meaning to the words, ‘I have something better in mind for you.

ANSWERED PRAYER

LISTENING

Brightest Blissings!

What answer are you expecting?

Rev. Aileen W. Donovan CHt. RM/T.