Who is watching over you?

Often times, I have simply lived my life without regards to the knowingness that there has been someone/s watching over me.  And then I have been met with my wake-up call.  I've been met with my someone who confirms that they are there and leaves me with NO DOUBT.  For without their protection, their careful eye, their guidance, I would have surely found the end to my physical life long ago; I would surely not even be writing this!

I give much thanks to those who are looking over me.  They have done a stellar job, for I have not been an easy task!!!  And too many times I have waited too long to recognize their presence and offer thanks.  And still, I am looked after!!!!  Did they know that I would be so grateful today?  Did they know that my gratitude would eventually come?

I have been met with human souls that touch me nearly everyday that have saved my life, that have said just a few words and changed my entire course of my existence, and that have been a soul to walk beside in times of trouble and in times of joy.  And I have been met with out of this world entities that clearly have intervened to save my life.  And I have been met with a consciousness within myself that has saved my life, as well.

One of the most profound occurrences that I can remember of someone watching over me happened when I was 16.  I was driving with some friends and we were switching drivers.  I got into the passengers seat and my best friend got into the driver's seat.  Two other friends were in the back.  They all put on their seat-belt, but I did not.  We began driving, and my friends said I should put on my seat-belt, and I laughed and said, "Well, I guess so, Cathleen is driving!"  Just kidding around, but not 10 seconds after the click of my belt we were in a high speed head-on collision......and had I not put on my seat-belt I would have been crushed to death because the seat came off track and the seat-belt held the seat in place.  A divine intervention, for sure.

An example of a human angel who saved my life was when I tried to kill myself and had taken 150 pills.  I should not have made it, but somehow she had kept me awake just long enough for the paramedics to arrive before my lungs shut down....just long enough for them to intubate me.  It was exactly through this experience that my entire process of awakening began.

And so many times I have heard the little voice of "Jimminy Cricket" in my head who would tell me...go back and get this from the house, or take this route instead, or leave tomorrow for that vacation...only to find that had I left earlier, or taken that original route that I very well could have been involved in a serious life-threatening incident.

Was it something from above that saved me from stepping on that rattlesnake by merely an inch when I was 8 years old and motivated me to run from the huge nest of them that began to rattle around me?

Was it someone watching over me that kept me from being killed when I was gang-raped, and allowed me the ability to survive and find forgiveness and LOVE?

Was it someone watching over me that met me in my dreams to tell me that it would all be OK at the bleakest moment in all my life?  Only to find later that that very someone had died that night and it was more than a dream.

I can't NOT believe that I am always being watched over...that I have a Spirit Guide that looks after me and hears me, that there are people in this world that do the same, and that I too, perhaps am one that is looking after a few from time to time.  (That's what mothers are for :-).)

In gratitude for all of those who have been watching,
Audrey Louise