Thanks for Asking

Dear Michael,
Thank you so much for pushing me to do the things I don't want to do
All my life I have refused to do what others tell me.
The surest way to make sure I won't do something, is to tell me to do it
With you it's different
It has to do with the promise I made to you back in the summer of 2009
To ALWAYS say yes to those little ideas that pop into my mind
Since then you have put so many little ideas into my mind
I know it's you
Because it sure isn't me
You have pushed me to do so many things that I had no interest in doing AT ALL
The latest one is the Messages for Michael that I am bringing for you
I am not artistic
I have no interest in making things pretty
I certainly didn't want the responsibility of taking people's messages to LA
I don't have time
These are all the excuses that make perfect sense to me
Good reasons not to get involved.
Just when I had told myself all this, feeling sure about it,
I found myself sending an email to all the people who have bought Ever After,
offering to take their messages to you at Forest Lawn and Neverland.
Evan as I was sending the email, I was arguing with myself,
Don't do this, why are you doing this?
I did it
The response was overwhelming
I have spent the last 2 weeks printing, cutting, gluing,
buying paper, stickers, sending emails, taking pictures
All while getting my business and myself ready to go
I have cried over the beautiful poems and letters and pictures
people have trusted me with.
My heart is bursting with love for these beautiful people
 who love you as much as I do
I am honored to be doing this small thing
for you Michael, for them, and for me
There is nothing I would rather be doing
Thanks for asking

Michael In the Sky

Many of us spend a lot of time wondering if Michael really is with us or if we are hallucinating on a globally unified scale.  It's true that there are many of us but........
maybe we are all having Michael in the Sky dreams.  I am one of those whose confidence in the reality of what I am experiencing ebbs and flows.


On New Year's Day, I decided to put one of my many blank notebooks to use, and write down any Michael Miracles that may come up.  I actually bought the notebook a few months ago, for that exact purpose, but didn't get around to using it.  It has been 10 days now, and I find that, although I have not written them all down, the Michael Miracles happen more frequently when I am paying attention.  I don't think it's that they are actually happening more often, but that I am paying closer attention, and remembering them.  I know it's true that what we put our attention on, expands.  It is a universal law I think.


The question still remains, though, am I making it up or is it real?  Maybe my focusing attention is creating false MM's (otherwise know as Michael Miracles).  What I have discovered is that, at the time the miracle happens, there is no doubt at all.  I KNOW it in my heart, my mind, my body.  It's only later on, that the wondering starts.  This tells me that my first impression is the correct one.

I took this picture yesterday.  I looked up and saw Michael in the Sky.  At the time I felt warm, happy, delighted and totally sure that he had sent it for me to see.  I gratefully accepted the gift.  
Only now, when I sat down to write this devotion, did I remember the term Pie in the Sky.  To me, it means dreams that are too big, and not likely to come true.  Isn't it interesting that I would name the post Michael in the Sky.  Just looked up the original meaning for the phrase, it said: - A promise of heaven, while continuing to suffer in this life. 


I think it's our choice if we suffer or not, but i have no doubt that Michael definitely is a promise of Heaven. 

What do you Expect?

This morning as I was thinking about my hopes and dreams for 2012, I had an amazing realization.  How many resolutions do we make without much of a belief that they will really happen?  Can we really lose 20 pounds, quit smoking, pay all our debts, and mend our relationships?  Do we really think it will happen when it hasn't happened the last 10 times we tried?  How do we even start to do all those things?  How can we have the time and energy to figure it all out and follow through? It makes me tired just to think about it!

The realization I had, was that what actually happens is just what we expect to happen.  We don't really expect anything to change, so it doesn't.  But what if we DID expect it?  What if we really believed that it was possible, in fact, inevitable that we could have what we want in our life?  What if the secret is in our expectations?  Most of the things we expect to happen, do happen.  We get up in the morning, we go to work, people treat us the way they always treat us, we do the things we always do, everything goes along according to plan.  It's only when we think about making changes that our reality doesn't match our expectations.  We tend to expect what we have always had.  No wonder things don't change!!!!
What if, instead of trying to figure out how I will earn that money, sell those books, fix those relationships, make that difference, I can leave the details to the Universe and just work on my expectations?

Yesterday I went skating with my husband.  There are only a few spaces for cars to park close to the skating pond, and a big parking lot a bit farther away.  We turned into the close lot, and I was totally expecting us to find a spot, even thought it was a busy time of day.  There was a truck ahead of us, and I saw that there was a car ready to pull out.  Of course, we thought the truck would take that spot, but he apparently didn't notice, and drove right by.  We got the spot.  Maybe the driver of the truck was not expecting to find a parking spot, but we were!   This is a tiny example that you can see in your own life if you look.  Once you see that we really do get what we expect in life, you can start to use it in a bigger way, to create the life of your dreams.  That is what I am planning to do in 2012.  I'll let you know how it goes!
Happy New Year everybody!

My Friend Michael

I read this book by Frank Cascio, not sure where it would take me, or leave me.  I was nervous about what he might have written that would be too revealing of Michael's personal life, or something that could be used against Michael in some way.  I was hoping it was not another betrayal, something that happened all too often in Michael's life.   In the end, I need not have worried.  Frank Cascio clearly adored Michael from the age of five, to now.  He was very careful to try to write completely honestly and fairly, and give us a view of Michael's life, that could only be told by Frank, because he was there.  For me, it rang true, and gave me comfort that Michael had a true friend by his side, and a regular family to be a part of.   He shows us how it was from inside Michael's world, not as an excuse, but as a way to help us understand him and his life.  I admire the way Frank does not presume to take any other point of view than his own, and does not venture outside of his own personal experience to describe what was happening.  This is not written by someone looking for his five minutes of fame, but someone who truly was a friend to Michael, always.

I love seeing the human side of Michael, the jokes, the fun and how much he truly was a child at heart all his life.  Anything that pulls me closer to Michael can only be good.  I love to know that he was not perfect, in the human sense.  At the same time, this books is like a microscope focused on one person's experience of Michael and by no means is a complete picture of Him.  I think that Frank purposely avoided mentioning anything about Michael's godliness, in the hopes of being taken seriously by readers and reviewers.  He could probably write another book about the enlightening experiences he had with Michael, but that is not the purpose of My Friend Michael.  It's like Frank's relationship was one piece of the puzzle, and all of us have our own piece to put in to make the whole picture of Michael's effect on the world.

I did not feel that Frank went too far in any aspect of his writing.  Nothing that he wrote disappoints me in any way.   We all need to be able to accept the fact that Michael was human, which to me, make his determination and perseverance to be what God wanted him to be, even more beautiful.  It makes me love him more, and be determined myself, to be what He would have me be and do what He would have me do.

Be Love Now - Call For Love Devotion December 21

‎..once you have experienced unconditional love, you have nowhere to go. You can run, but you can't hide. The seed is planted, and it will grow in its own time. You can only grow into who you truly are.
You may think you are free to come and go and play where you will, but the Beloved has taken you for his or her own, and in reality you can only surrender more and more to that divine attraction. 
ram dass - be love now - page 7


I am currently reading this book and am thoroughly enjoying the similarities between the description Ram Dass gives of his relationship with his Guru, and the relationship many of us have with Michael.  It gives an outside perspective and validity to what we have been experiencing.  


Be Love Now 

Ryder Michael

One week ago, on December 6, my daughter gave birth to a baby boy.  She invited me to be with her along with her husband during the labor and delivery.  As it often is when babies, doctors and hospitals are involved, all did not go according to plan, and she was rushed in for an emergency caesarian.  During the short time that I was waiting to hear what was happening, I was sending love to my daughter and the baby and praying for the safe birth of my grandson.  Who did I pray to?  It was Michael.
After I found out everything was fine and the family was already getting to know each other, I thanked Michael for being there for us.  He has become so much a part of my life, my every moment, that I had no doubt that he was with us then, and I naturally turned to him for comfort and for help.
That turned out to be one of the most wonderful days of my life.  To see my beautiful baby, being a mother to her own beautiful baby, along with the most devoted husband and father to them both, and being invited to share their very first day together was a gift that I will cherish forever.  
They named him Ryder Michael.  Needless to say, I am thrilled with his name.  I am so grateful that they live close by, and that I will be able to watch him grow up, and be a part of his life.  Is it too soon to start playing Billie Jean for him?  I bet he'd love it!

Michael Pointing to Enlightenment

We love Michael for so many reasons.  He has helped each of us individually with our problems, dreams, decisions, hopes, confidence and beliefs.  I am still amazed at how totally devoted I can be to someone I never met, and didn't even appreciate until he left the physical world.  It seems to me that he was sent from heaven and returned to heaven, and spent the 50 years in between showing us in every way he could, the way to reach heaven.  He sincerely wanted to show all of us the way to love, peace and happiness, which we can only find by helping each other to get there with us.  In many ways, the story of Michael is similar to the story of Jesus.  I hope that 2000 years from now, we do not have a religion based on Michael, with rules and behaviors set by people in authority, which totally idolizes Michael and makes it impossible for a regular person to ever interpret his message or be capable of following his teaching without the "authority" telling them what to think.  I think that Michael, like Jesus, wants people to follow his example in their own lives.  Love each other, do what they love to do, be the best they can be.  He does not want us to think of him as "different", meaning that we have no hope to ever attain his level of "LOVE".  Like the finger pointing to the moon, the finger is not the moon.  We miss the point if we never look past the finger, or the beautiful, amazing person that is Michael, to see the possibility he is showing us.

Right now, we are each having our own experiences, our own interpretation of his message, and that is the way it should be.  We can each trust our own intuition and heart.  Part of Michael's message is exactly that trust and faith in ourselves and our own ability to know what is right for us.  Someone posted a quote from Einstein today (When I tried to find it again, I couldn't see it, so I don't know who posted it, but thank you so much!)


 “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” 
― Albert Einstein

Michael showed us how a life can be lived by remembering the gift and directing the servant.  Let's show him that we get the message.