Children have an intimate, readily accessible relationship with the Other Side. It’s the safe, idyllic, blissful Home they’ve just left behind to come to this strange, rough place called earth. They volunteered to make the trip and they designed each and every aspect of it, but they arrive Homesick and for at least a few years, more at ease with the dimension of the Other Side than with the much slower frequency we live with here.
Of course, we were all children once and that same intimate connection to Home was as natural to us as breathing and as familiar as our loved ones are to us now. And one of the questions I’m asked most often is : if that’s true, why do we seem to lose our awareness of the Other Side, or at least our memory of it? It would make it so much easier to believe in and we’d be so much less afraid.
The answer is frustratingly logical : if we spent our lifetimes on earth with a perpetual consciousness of Home, we’d never make the commitment to being here and accomplishing the goals we set for ourselves toward the growth and advancement of our spirits. On the most simplistic level, it would be like being stuck in a classroom every day with a clear view of Disneyland in full swing right outside the window. I wouldn’t get much schoolwork done, or care, would you? So against a backdrop of our God-given eternity, it makes perfect sense that our conscious awareness of the Other Side slowly fades as we adjust to a new lifetime on earth, even if it does leave us with a lifelong sense of Homesickness we can never quite put our finger on until we leave this earth again and return to the sacred embrace of God’s arms.
Until then, we have the fresh memories, the clarity and the unapologetic innocence of children to make up for everything we’ve forgotten about that divine, perfect world and its blessed residents. And all we have to do is open our minds and hearts and listen.
Children and their Spirit Guides
In an earlier chapter, Sylvia talks about the introduction of her Spirit Guide Francine, who announced herself in her bedroom one night when se was seven years old and scared her senseless. She goes on to say… I want to make it clear now if I didn’t make it clear then : The significance of that story isn’t the fact that I was and am psychic, or that there was something unique about my having a Spirit Guide. The significance of that story is that I first met my Spirit Guide when I was a child, which makes me and that experience far more common than you might imagine.
Every one of us has a Spirit Guide, someone we chose and literally trusted with our soul on the Other Side when we made the decision to come to earth for another lifetime. To clear up a common area of confusion, they are not a loved one who passed on after we were born – by definition, they were at Home with us at the time we were writing our charts and preparing for another incarnation. So when you’re wondering who your Spirit Guide is, you can immediately rule out anyone who wasn’t already on the Other Side at the moment of your birth and you shouldn’t be surprised or disappointed to learn that your Spirit Guide is someone you’ve never heard of. It’s impossible for you to have heard of them here on earth. Our relationship with our Spirit Guide always precedes this particular lifetime.
Our Spirit Guides made a holy, ironclad contract with us on the Other Side to be our constant, vigilant companions during this incarnation. They’ve all experienced at least one lifetime on earth themselves, so the problems, mistakes, temptations, fears and frailties inevitable in us humans aren’t as incomprehensible as they would be if they’d never been human themselves. Their sacred commitment is to gently and quietly advise, support and guide us along our chosen path, with our charts in hand to help keep us on track toward our intended goals.
Spirit Guides won’t interfere with the choices we make or deprive us of our free will. At best, they offer possible alternatives and warnings. But our agreement with them is that we’re here to grow and to advance the journey of our souls and they know we can’t accomplish that if they constantly shield us from the lessons we need to learn.
They communicate with us adults in a variety of ways, sending messages, most often through our spirit minds but occasionally audibly, that are usually mistaken for instincts, or hunches, or problem-solving dreams or all sorts of variations on ‘something told me to….’
Like the rest of the spirit world though, Guides have a far more direct line to the children who just said good-bye to them on the Other Side. It’s not uncommon for children to clearly hear their Spirit Guides, like I did, and to see them, which only happened to me once, fleetingly, when I was in my late teens. Their Guides will look and sound as real to them as we do, for one very good reason : They are real and they’re here to fulfill their sacred oath to God that the child in their care will never take a step or draw a beath without them until that child has returned Home again, safe and sound.
Children may not recognize the identity or significance of their Spirit Guide whey they show up. They might perceive their Guide as nothing more than just another friend from the spirit world who’s stopped by to visit and play. Pay attention to the frequency with which your child refers to visits from the same spirit. If you hear the same name mentioned over and over again as a seemingly constant companion – in other words, someone you might assume is your child’s imaginary friend – that’s one clue that it might be their Spirit Guide. If it’s no one you recognize as a family member o other loved one who’s passed on, that’s another clue. If your child never refers to the visiting spirit as having any injuries or physical challenges, and never perceives the spirit to be unhappy or behaving badly or saying negative things, that’s still another clue. Last but not least, if the information your child receives from the visiting is God-centred, spiritually nurturing, prophetic and infallibly accurate, that’s the most significant clue of all.
Author: Spirit Connection
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