The Veil of Mysticism by Monika Petry (short books for teens .TXT) 📕

and then from then on to put it into practice. Although you may or not lose your confidence in it completely, you will eventually be preventing others from descending into unreasonable ways.

The best way to learn deep confidence is by believing in God. You can trust Him unconditionally. Then you can believe in yourself, and gradually open yourself to other people of similar faith. You then gain the confidence that these people are serious about you and you will never be cheated by them. This of course applies to all others that may come and go in your life. If you have a tendency to cling to them, there should be no fault expressed if that person decides for good reason to leave you. Trust means giving others the freedom to live their own life. There can be only so much overlap with another as God intended it for you both and how you may need it to last in order to develop together.

Look confidently into the future, even if your life situation is uncertain. If you believe in God, then you know that this will help, you can then safely jump into the cold water. This is life within Providence. Surrender to the power of life and to say:

– "Maybe I'm at a turning point in life."
– "Maybe I should lose this job because somewhere a better one is waiting for me. "
– "Maybe I should go through with this disease, and through experiencing it, learn to grow in my life. "
– "Maybe I should ask for nothing, but just let Providence make it happen!"

"So how can you let yourself just drift like this and not even make a decision?" I'm sometimes asked. No, I do not let myself drift. Quite the contrary; I live mindfully, attentive, aware, empathetic and gazing intensely focused on everything I do and others do around me. I watch, open myself to surrendering to my basic confidence of trust and know it's good, that everything is in Divine Order. That's the freedom I am looking for.

Once a person engages in opening his own life path outside of God’s chosen path, he is closing his great Book of Life written by God, and through opening his own where he can romp with free will, in life that God has made available to him, this becomes the Book of Detours. He may be free to undertake countless detours, no question. But it is not the chosen by God. Of course we may make decisions and draw conclusions, we can even turn the world upside down and begin each day as if it were the first day of our lives, but the main thing is that we remain united to God, and to know our true Book of Life. We also assume the responsibility to do so and we must therefore take it on whole-heartedly.

Imagine: God knows every hair on your head - so he already knows the next step in your life. He knows your next Boss, your next home, your life partner, and He knows who your child is to be. "He looked at everything He had made, and behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:31). And you know that the Creation has never been completed. God creates in every day of our lives. He therefore takes a second look at everything that He has created and He will always find everything to be good and correct.

Provided we bring Him what we have received from Him, constantly present, so to speak, for inspection. "Look after that, does it still fit with my current life or do we have to change something about it?" Let the energies flow constantly, so that everything may adopt to our life, and we never make the mistake of being lazy and think: "Now, everything will stay the way it is." This is a dangerous illusion. Just as every cell in our body is constantly changing, so too must we change and adapt everything around us. This is God’s will and care for as long as we allow Him to work with us, because he has already completed our major network of life long ago and updates it constantly. So it is important not to rely too much on the advice of our friends and acquaintances or of the many professional life advisors.

In my healing practices undertaken with many people, I try to make sure not to directly alter their actions when they are seeking help. The solving and goal-oriented support designated as 'coaching' is ideal. Here I will address myself to your Soul. What does your Soul need, wherever does it takes your heart? This can tell me what is in your subconscious mind, and I'll help you to perceive the messages of your Soul, to respect and implement your ideas into reality.

You see it in nature: When Man intervenes, the climate goes out of balance. Or if he is deleting an animal pecies, that can have a huge impact on the entire animal kingdom. The farmer spraying his fields to keep out the weeds, is killing off the wild plants that serve as food for the insects, and then the birds stay away, and so on. Once we begin to enforce things without making a connection to God within our own mind, we not only bring ourselves out of balance, but also our environment because we are not isolated from God as Beings.

This carries over to our immediate environment and within more and more circles. When deciding on a new job, you are influencing your entire family, and, so to speak, you are re-mixing the cards for your future and the future of your family, your friends, your colleagues and in turn their future – and so it goes on endlessly. Rely on your inner voice that comes from God, and be ready for everything to come from that. He knows your Life’s Plan, one in which not only you are involved but many other people.

Providing that you are not stuck in a time warp and repeating your life over and over like the actor in the movie "Groundhog Day", experiencing every day the same scene over and over again until he becomes, through his self-education a better person, and finally one morning reaches a totally new scene, so it will depend on you how you will be come to your Book of Life. Here it will be written who you will meet on any given day or in finding a new job, what direction your life will then take you. The situation you come to is already waiting for you.

Which people did God probably write into your Book of Life? Think about situations that were somehow special, where you felt: now God has just laid the groundwork for a major new phase of my life. When you first met your life’s Partner, for example, you probably felt you were not just waiting simply for any Human that might come along, but for this particular person, this special Soul. You have your whole life long sought each other unconsciously, until now you have found each other.

What was your age when the most important people in your life came to you or when your life changed? There is the famous rhythm of seven in our lives, that is, a certain age which can be divided into seven periods of life when there can be serious changes. Each of those stages of life can be coupled with a certain age period:

0 – 7: Toddler
7 – 14: Child
14 – 21: Puberty / education
21 – 28: Study / family planning / career
28 – 35: Profession / career / family
35 – 42: Profession
42 – 49: Additional activities
49 – 56: Rearranging Life to a new Phase


56 – 63: Reaping the experiences of life
63 – 70: Retirement and letting things be as they are

The rest depends on how you have presented your life. If you were talking constantly of a retirement at 65 years, it will very soon be upon you as you will feel this way. If you were thinking: "I will die soon", it will also become the case. You will be living as if you were already dead. If on the other hand you take life in a relaxed way, you may reach a hundred years of age. Through the way we experience our Book of Life can be written the last dates of our life. We can determine through our thoughts how we achieve it, whether we feel young or old and used, whether we stay healthy or ill. For these life stages the course and the cornerstone are set.

Of course we can ourselves choose! If we remember that we are composed of a combination of Body, Mind and Soul, everything is fine. Then the Mind is doing nothing he has not already discussed with the Soul. And this Soul is united with God. Ideally, you are one with Jesus Christ. Ideally, the Holy Spirit hovers above you. As long as this ideal situation has not occurred, your Soul will show you through so-called tragedies, bad luck, or by disease. Then you again have a chance to find God and to be found by Him. You have the chance to find Jesus and Mary – God is very resourceful when it comes to sending you His helpers. Maybe I'm your helper with this book.

Now we are back to the people in your Life’s Book. After all, some of these are the Divine helpers. In my Book of Life, there were some important helpers. By a helper I mean a person who helps us in a positive sense. Some also help by doing nothing because we are then reduced to relying on ourselves. However, there were also people who are shaking up those hurts from the past, and then what – in hindsight – has put us back on track. So they were helpers, even though they were people to whom we do not like to look back at and to whom we also had to forgive even before we began. These volunteers are not always in our Book of Life. They are in the "auxiliary books," which we wrote for our detours. They nevertheless helped us back on to track in our Book of Life. Think about whom you hurt very much in your life, and who has really hurt you - the result from that, and how it has changed your life.

Many people have a single major upheaval in their lives. This is usually caused by a disease or affliction that can change your life. In my experience, after many healing consultations, this happens mainly between the 42nd and 49th years of age - and that is usually the last warning. So it was with me. I was 48 years old when I had strained the patience of God enough that He gave me a serious lesson. My then 14 years old daughter and I lived together with our seven year old dog, a cheerful and clever Border Collie named Timmi, and to this dog I owe my life now. He gave it back to me in his own way.

More of that experience I do not want to enlarge upon, but it is enough to know why it happened: I was not on my true Road of Life, I did not have my salvation in sight. Because at a young age I had banished God from my life, assuming He had sent me too many disasters in my family, too many losses through their having all died or moved away. And the worst