AN AMASING STORY...
ABOUT KAREN
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My name is Karen Anderson. I feel that I have been on a spiritual path all of my life, but not on a personal soul's journey. I was blessed to experience the beginning of such an event in the fall of 1997, when an Angelic encounter transformed my life and what came from this experience, was a healing for my soul that I can only describe as a miracle from God. Here's my story . . .
I was born December 17, 1959 and was immediately adopted into in a very conservative Mormon family; one where religion was taught daily, but spirituality was not. My spiritual gift from God was . . . let's say, not approved of in my mother's eyes and certainly not in the Mormon church. In the churches mind, only males are gifted with God's spiritual gifts, through appointing them the "priesthood" title, where the same offering has never been given to females.
When I was young, I could hear words being said in my mind that someone was about to speak, before they spoke them, which was great as I knew what was going to be said. I noticed I was able to do this at will, no effort at all, it would just happen. I thought everyone had this happening to them and figured this is how life was, a normal way of hearing things. It became clear to me, after I would ask time and time again, did you hear this or that? and I was told no . . . that's weird, did I began to realize, maybe this is not for everyone. Growing up, I would often hear my mother Darlene say at social and family gatherings, "Karen's different, she has a very active imagination, she says she hears words being said before someone speaks them and I often catch her talking to and answering herself." I feel since my mother could not explain "me" to others, it was easier to just say I was different. It was probably more than my mother was able to comprehend at that time in hers and my life. I was different and unusual, spending many hours happily alone in my bedroom, listening to God, staring out the window longing for "Home" and watching loving faces appear on the ceiling, that didn't frightened me. As the years passed, I saw how my "truth" affected people. And as a young girl, with my loneliness at an all time high, I decided to conform into what I felt was the best way to be. This way, I thought for sure I would have acceptance in my life. So at the age of about 11, I let my gift from God go, shut the door to hearing him, not knowing at that time my spiritual gifts would reappear with a reopening that would change my life forever.
In February of 1996, a new chapter of my life was beginning to form. This chapter would take me on a personal journey of self-awareness, one I had longed to travel for many years. After a 15 year long search, I was reunited my birth father Chuck and 4 of my 6 birth siblings. I learned from the family, that I was fourth in line of seven children born. This was so great to hear, being raised with only one sibling, my brother Kevin (also adopted), I had often secretly wished for more brothers and sisters in my life. I was thrilled to hear how many siblings I now had to love and cherish (Michael, Lynn, Sherry, Tony, Shawn, Troy along with Kevin); I was truly blessed. What a joyous occasion it was to know of my ancestral and spiritual roots. What was to come from this family reunion was many things, as well as the knowledge that I had come from a family of intuitives, starting with my birth maternal grandmother, Marie. Weeks after the family reunion, it seemed the word "psychic or intuitive" became my personal quest to grasp the idea of such things and gain understand of it's meaning in my life.
I began to read all I could on spiritual matters. Book after book such as, psychic development, life after death, learning to channel, reincarnation and books on angels such as, "The Wisdom and Teachings of Archangel Michael" by Lori Flory and "The Messengers." by Nick Bunick. Through all of my reading, I quickly became aware of a new way in thinking about God and life. During this time of discovery, I recognized that there are many spiritual thoughts and paths that lead one back to God, many ways to perceive his love and messages for us. My thinking about God was now not only coming from my seasoned upbringing in religion, it was as well expanding to include spiritual matters, and new insights about God. It allowed me to see different views and opportunities of creating a close bond with God and Heaven. I learned through many of the books that, God, our Creator was not only there to send our prayers to, but it was our divine inherited right to "hear" him speak to us in return. As I researched a particular book entitled "Angelspeake: How To Talk With Your Angels" by Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, memories about my childhood gift of hearing began to resurface. In this particular book, I learned that my "hearing" as a child was actually called clairaudience and I became very determined to reopen this gift. I sincerely wanted to recapture what I had let go so many years prior. Throughout 1996 and well into 1997, I continued enlightening myself on spiritual matters and psychic phenomenon and what came from this journey, I can only describe as a true miracle from God.
In March 1997, I came across a "Ouija" like Angel Board which I was thrilled to obtain. Though each time I used it, as beautiful as it was, I always felt a sense of fear. I sensed the fear was connected to years of being told in church, that the Devil was always trying to get us "good" ones and that he was behind and personally operated such things as a "Ouija" board. I remember stating,
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