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Angels are very close and dear to me. For those of you who have followed me for a long time you will remember the posts in which I showed pictures of the angel orbs that came to me every night for over a year. This one has a number of pictures. The remarkable thing was that they came to save my life. The terrible night my house burned down I got that inner calling to go outside. I took the dogs and went outside and the air was so thick with pink orbs I stayed outside photographing them. Just as I turned to go in the house and had just about reached the door to go in there was a terrible explosion in the kitchen. Had I not stayed outside with the orbs the dogs and I would have been killed in the explosion. And I knew the angels had saved us but after that night they never came again. I miss them terribly.
On my desk here beside me I keep a very large piece of Petalite, a stone of the angels and of love, and resting on it is my rose quartz angel pendulum. I talk to my angels through the pendulum.
So it did not surprise me when I woke up with a start on Friday and knew exactly what I was supposed to draw. Maisie and her Guardian Angel who comes to comfort her in her dreams. She always talks to her angel when she is awake too, as I do, but she sees her clearly in her dreams. In the purple band around Maisie and the angel you can see little pink orbs (Though mine were very large and in a color people who have seen the orbs rarely see.). They will always be in my heart.
I am a deeply spiritual person but not in a tradtional sense. While I was raised Catholic, have attended many different churches in my life, and in 2009 was ordained an Interfaith Minister (This was so I could marry my daughter Rachel and son-in-law Jeremy, but I also had plans for a ministry of sorts. My agoraphobia kept me from being able to do it but everything I do in the world has a deeply spiritual, heart felt ground from which it springs.) So I thought a lot about how I would introduce spirituality in the book. I did not want to talk about “God” because I want this book to reach and touch many people, and there are so many faiths and different types of beliefs I wanted to touch on the spiritual by showing Maisie with her angel. Many people of many faiths believe in angels, and for those who don’t in the traditional sense I would like to ask people “Who are the angels for you in your life?” It could be a parent, grandparent, friend, there are so many angels around us all the time. I want to remind people to call on their angels for comfort and help, in whatever form their “angel” comes to them.
I was going to try to finish the painting and do a blog post yesterday but I was so deep into the painting and there was so much more to finish I decided I didn’t want to show it until it was completely finished and I was far too deep into the work to stop. I would love to know if this painting resonates with you, and how it makes you feel, and I would love to hear who your angels are, in whatever form they come.
I think the most important lesson I’m working on this year was best summed up in the famous quote by G. K. Chesterton, “Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.” All my life I have lived through very hard things that made everything in the world around me feel far too heavy and serious. I’m 65 now, there’s no more time for that. The angels are all around me, and they are teaching me to fly…
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Dear Maitri, I LOVE your angel in your painting. So love her and Maisie too. I, too love angels. I have a specialty angel tag on the back of my car so if someone is searching or upset and they see it, they feel guided and loved. I’m looking forward to seeing what else you do or post about angels. They ARE still with you even though you don’t see the orbs. I do believe you are being guided with the paintings and the book.
Angel Hugs, Jean
Thank you so much dear Jean. I know how close you are to the angels. I’d love to know more about the tag you have on your car. I’d love something like that. And yes, I do miss seeing the orbs terribly but I still feel their presence here, and my Guardian Angel pendulum is very powerful. I hope you are doing well honey. Your kind words mean so much…
This entire post is beautiful, including your angel pendant. Is there a crystal protruding from the base of the pendant? Hugs, Memarge
Thank you so much sweet Marge and I’m sorry for the confusion, I mis-typed the word, it is not a pendant, it is a pendulum, and yes, there is a little crystal point on the bottom… 🙂
Maitri amazing one!! You so reflect mySelf in so many ways—–AND you are really doing it.—whatever that “it” is. I feel so honored reading your transparant notes inspiring me to go forward in many of my intentions—-and—the COLORS!!! Your came on my mail at the perfect moment nudging me into that wonderful unknown. I’ve talked about in my heart and otherwise for so long. Age is just a number and I get to dance with mine!! And YES I love your writing and the ourage it takes .to just” do it! ” writing, dancing, arting, planting, howling at the moon and sun. Keep on with all the Light you are . . Blessings with Love, Magdalaena
Oh dear Magdalaena, thank you so much dear one for your kind words. And yes, remember that phrase, “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” Now just DO IT! Yay! I’ll be cheering you on from here. Blessings to you dearheart…
Ah, every inch of the drawing, every letter of your words, bring us closer to an experience of the divine. I am agnostic but open to whatever openings to the divine the universe brings my way. Your drawings, you writing are such openings. You bless us with your work, dear Maitri.
Oh Cathryn, how kind you are, and it means so much to me that you liked it even though you are agnostic. I honor your path and I did intentionally not speak about God (That is a loaded word for so many, and everyone experiences the God of their understanding, if they have one, so differently.) but I believe many feel the presence of something angelic in their lives from time to time, even though their vision or understanding about what that means may be different for everyone. I want this book to be all inclusive, inasmuch as it possibly can be. It is a book about love, about limitless possibilities even within limitations, it is about doing everything we can to find joy in our lives. That’s what I want people to feel. You touched me deeply with your words…
Just beautiful, dear Maitri! xxx
Thank you so much sweet Jenny…
Maitri,
what a beautiful painting, real beautiful. It was so funny two days ago I was looking for my Angel diary and here today your writing about Angels. It was not a coincidence that this happen, it is the Divine speaking to both of us. Beautiful painting!
Love to you and Molly always
Cindy Lonardo
Thank you so much darling Cindy. The angels are really speaking to me now, very clearly, they are guiding me with this work. I’m glad the painting touched you, it is a very special one to me…
I was watching a documentary on the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, and it ended after eleven, so i was too tired to give homage to your blog (and unknown painting) last night. And so, this morning, with my sacred first cup of coffee, i opened the file, and saw — an angel with a patchwork quilt of wings in every color of the rainbow, hugging Maisie, and little Daisy leaping up saying “me too, me too!” Anyone who sees this painting will feel the comfort and the glow of love, the all embracing starry light-bursts …. and dear Maisie, wearing her purple and blue apron!! It matters not whether one believes or disbelieves in angels, the evidence is right before us — Maisie does, and the angel is there for her. Your work goes deeper and deeper, higher and higher, with such kindness, an invitation to all of us to open up to wonder, visible and invisible….. And, to read your 2014 entry (with the pink angel orbs) and the words, the declaration: I.Am.Happy. Yes, Maitri, what goes around comes around. xo ka
Oh my darling sister Ka, your kind, loving words mean so much to me. This particular painting, more than any so far, has touched me very deeply and tenderly. I don’t actually know if it’s even about this one painting or the stage of this journey I have reached but I am in a very very deep place with my art. That’s why I couldn’t blog on Monday, I was so deep into the painting I was compelled to keep on going. And now I’m getting ready to go to therapy, I will share the painting with my therapist. And Rachel will be here tonight. Tomorrow I will start the next drawing. Something is pulling me, and I must stay steady into this work.
I am sending you so much love, as always. I’m glad you are home…
M. xoxox
I agree that this painting is a reflection of love…love heals.