Guardian Angels

A Guest Post of behalf of Oi Servais. 

Moving to live in Africa brings me closer to Europe. After my husband accepted the job assignment to work in the Republic of Congo, I have been travelling back and forth between Pointe noire/Republic of Congo and Geneva/Switzerland, where my children go to boarding school.

I like Geneva airport. To me, it is the cleanest and the least complicated airport in Europe. I feel safer there than in any other airports I ever gone to. But this is about to change as the last time I travelled to Geneva, my purse got stolen in my favorite airport! A young lady followed me from the passenger exit as I pushed the trolley loaded with 3 big heavy suitcases and a small purse containing all my IDs and Swiss money.

The little purse was tucked in the small compartment of the trolley and parked next to me in front of AVIS counter car rental. While I was busy with all the documents and signing the rental contract with AVIS, the young girl snatched my purse and started to walk away. The AVIS clerk behind the counter saw this and asked me if I came with someone because he thought the young girl could be my daughter taking my bag to go buy something. I told him I was traveling alone.

I barely finished my sentence when the clerk jumped across the counter with an agility of an Olympic athlete and sprinted after the young girl who had my purse in her hand. I couldn’t believe my eyes! The clerk snatched the purse back and ran back to the AVIS counter and returned it me. The security camera has registered all this happening and many people came to congratulate me, saying that I was lucky to have my purse snatched in front of some one who reacted rather quickly. Just a year ago, Roger Moore, the James Bond actor had his briefcase stolen in this very spot but never got it back. So I was luckier than James Bond!

I will never forget this incident; that something like this can happen in the heart of the civilized Europe. I believed that something like this happens only in Africa. During my first two years in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, I purchased a CD from my Interior Alignment™ friend from Switzerland. It is a meditation CD in both French and English.  Very easy to use, it is guided meditation calling on awareness to meet with guardian angels. I started using the CD with a group of expat ladies in town and everyone really enjoyed it. So we set up a session once a week to do the meditation in the French version.

Even when I traveled away from Pointe Noire, the group still met at my house to do meditation using the CD every week. I learned later that all the houses around my area have been robbed several times during my stay in Pointe Noire because the area is ‘up and coming’, and there is a lot of construction going on along my street. I never experienced any robbery at my house; to the contrary I never felt insecure in that house at all. Even after I left, the family who took over the house told us that they feel happy and secure the moment they enter the house, no matter how much noise and the brouhaha going on outside.

Now I am in Brazzaville and my new home is going to be in a somewhat vulnerable area. Even though it is located in the safe zone of the city, it is within proximity of the port, where petty theft abounds. I even experienced a near hit twice while shopping in the area. But my chauffeur was able to ward off the danger at the very last moment.

I feel so blessed to be in the protection of the guardian angels. It is not an accident each time and anywhere in the world I feel myself being protected by an invisible force beyond our mundane realm. Sometimes the angel came to protect me in the form of a human being like the clerk at the car rental counter or my chauffeur in Brazzaville. But sometimes, the angel gives the protection as energy radiation telling me to avoid association with certain people, groups of people or certain places, and to go to see certain people or groups of people or visit certain places. I always have some idea why I show up at certain place at a certain time to meet someone. There is always the reason why one is where one ends up at the moment.

I have some idea why I am still in Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo. But sometimes I wish I could communicate in a more linear way with my guardian angels. As the challenges of living in this African city accumulate, I wish I could ask my angel when I will be done with this place. But I know the answer already. I should not even ask. You will be ready when you are ready my dear. After you did what you come here to do or learn what you come here to learn or suffer what you come here to suffer. After it all said and done, you can go on.

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