I’d like to illustrate in a little more detail how Archangel Michael works with one of his legions, his servant.
It involves me going into more detail on how he selected the one location for a new apartment for me that would satisfy all my desires.
As we’ll see, Michael himself expands the lessons of these events to include activating our hope and trust, but let me tell the story first from my perspective and then from his.
Seen from my vantage point, Michael took my mental data (which now exists as memories) and combined my uncommunicated desires into one, finding me the one location in Vancouver that would satisfy all of them.
Here are my mostly-uncommunicated desires:
(1) I’ve had numerous spiritual experiences within line of sight of the front window of the new apartment and less than a mile away.
(2) If you increase the radius a little to include the large park behind, then many more occurred here.
(3) I was born within two miles of the new place. I’m drawn to this area.
(4) My mother stayed in a hotel a few blocks away in 1923. I associate it with happy times. It predates the family violence and so has a good feel for me.
(5) My earliest memories are of floating on a log across the Fraser River about a mile and a half away. I was very young and scared the daylights out of my parents, who couldn’t find me.
(6) For those who love summer, this location is the epicenter in Vancouver. Beaches, parks, restaurants, coffee shops, supermarkets, farmers’ markets. Annual fireworks show, below. Ringside seat on the Gay Pride Parade. Walk a block and I’m there.
(7) I always favored this location for when I retire, if I ever do, because it has my favorite drug store next to my favourite supermarket. Everything within two blocks.
(8) I had planned to locate the Michaelangelo Fund here, in the West End.
I could go on and on.
Don’t forget that I set out looking for my new apartment with only two days to find one if I was to save a month’s rent. I was in a pretty desperate situation. It was a time of relatively-high stress for an awareness writer and urban monk.
The last time I looked for an apartment with him (because he asked to come along), the Reval was … you know … around the corner?
At that time, too, I liked the very first apartment he showed me. So just from the perspective of finances, can you imagine the relief at the operation being over in a super-timely manner?
In Part 2, I look at the meaning Archangel Michael gave to events.
(Concluded in Part 2, tomorrow.)