My Angels Do Know Best!

Sometimes I have lots of different things on my to-do list or that I’d like to do. Sometimes I go into overwhelm, wondering “What do I do first? What do I do second? Which thing is more important?” So, sometimes I just hand it over to my angels. They know what would be best for me to do and in what order. I’ll pull out my pendulum and dowse to get their answers. (If you’re not familiar with dowsing, here is a link to an instruction booklet written by the man I was taught by: the late Walt Woods of the American Society of Dowsers.)

Today was one such day. I’m on day 4 of my working retreat and I’ve got lots of things I could work on. I also want to continue working through the lessons in the e-course “Calm Mama“. In this course we doodle, we take photos, and we paint.

Through the dowsing the angels suggested I start off working on my newsletter. When I got to a good stopping point, I dowsed to see what I should do next. “Should I work on this?” – No –  “Work on that?” – No – “Do the next Calm Mama lesson?” – Yes – The next lesson was to be done with paints. Hmm. (In a Marge Simpson kind of way.) I haven’t done any painting in a while and was not sure I was up for it. I asked, “Are you sure?” – Yes –  “OK, if you say so.”

I followed the lesson’s instructions and mine was not looking nice like hers. Ugh, it was looking horrible! Even though I know this is just supposed to be for fun and to just let it flow out of me, my inner art critic hated the end result. I washed my brushes and put the paints away, and then dowsed my next question, “Ugh, can I go take my walk now?” – No – “What?!”

I asked about this or that, and finally sensed I needed to ask if I should do more on the painting. – Yes – “Oh, man! I just put the paints away. Can I use markers?” – No – “How about crayons?” – Yes –

So, I pulled out the crayon that called to me and drew some curlicues down the side of the painting. Since some of the paint was still wet, the crayon allowed the paint color beneath the top paint layer to show. “Oooh, I kinda like that!” So, I did a couple more like that, drew a heart, and drew wings on a splotch that looked like a fairy to me. Wow, what a difference adding those few crayon touches made! I don’t think it’s horrible anymore.

Now they answered “Yes” to taking my walk. And I was feeling so much better now about my art project.

Thank you, Angels! Why do I ever question you?

Here is my little painting project from this morning. I may not LOVE it, but I don’t hate it anymore. And I actually like the energy of it.