Receiving Guidance

“Bringing in the higher self of you is the most important way for you to receive guidance because each time you do this, you become more and more open to it. When it happens, it is more readily recognized by you. When you are a stranger to it, it frequently happens and you don't recognize it. ... But when you are always tuned to the higher self of you, when the answer is there, you know it is. It is not a thing where you think you have not been answered. You know it is there.”

11/19/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, HOW WE ARE GUIDED, September 13, 1998, Pg. 8. Copyright 1998 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this booklet, please contact: sherry@sacredgardenfellowship.org

Animals in the Hereafter

Questioner: Is there a relationship between animals and ourselves that lives on?

Gabriel: Oh yes, animals live on forever. They come back to the same person sometimes many times. If you have a beloved pet and you lose it or it passes into spirit, it will return to you.”

11/17/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY, Pgs. 58-59. Copyright 2013 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this book, please click here.

Dealing with Difficulties

“Now I have been among you, I and those of my kind, and we have noted that this past month of your earth time has been rather horrendous, has it not? Has anyone here escaped the maladies of, ‘Oh my God?’ Nowhere that I have been. Now you each have dealt with things in the most profound of human manner, out and out panic! I have watched you.

               Now, here is what you do. This coming month you will meet some more ‘Oh my Gods’ and here is what you do. When they present themselves - and I care not what form they take or where you are when they attack you – you take a moment and you close your eyes. You go up to your Source. You leave behind the physical that would tell you all kinds of erroneous things. You leave behind your feeling nature that will be screaming at you. You leave behind your mental body that is going to be racing about saying, ‘What if, what if, what if. Oh my God, what are we going to do? This is awful. This is awful. Emotional body, get up and run. We are out of here!’

               You go up to that silent place and you make your connection. It is so simple to make that connection. You simply go there and you say, ‘Thank you, my Father, for being one with me now.’ You bring that back with you. As you come into your mental body, you say to it, ‘Peace, be still. There is nothing that you can think that is not of God, and all that you think this moment is transformed into that which is good.’

               Then you come into your emotional body, who by this time is totally hysterical. Did you know that all the emotional bodies are feminine? …They are feminine and I will tell you why. I know you are all thinking because women get hysterical, but I have seen some hysterical men, too…

               The emotional body is that which is sustaining. It is that which is nurturing in you. It is that which loves, holds, sustains, caresses, uplifts, and so therefore, it has to be feminine. This does not take away from the masculinity of the male gender, lest you be fearful that it will. It doesn't at all. But because it is sustaining, it also is sustaining of negative feelings. That is why you can change your mind but it is more difficult to change your feeling nature. Have you ever noticed that? You can change your thinking pretty much like that, but when you get into the emotional body, it is saying, ‘I don't want to change. This is not what I am supposed to be doing. If you leave this feeling of despair, it will die!’ So you go back to your feelings of despair and you nurture them.

               So when you get to the emotional body, the first thing you must say to it is, ‘I love you. The God of me treasures you and in that love, you are healed and all that you feel is perfect love.’ Now, this has a calming quieting effect upon the emotional body for at once it is wrapped in the love of God and there is it is secure. So it will bring forth all of that security in its givingness and its sustainingness.

Now you bring this into the physical body. You say to your nervous system - for your nervous system is the conductor of your psychic energy, don't forget that. You say to your nervous system, ‘Be still, be calm, where all is well. You are loved. You are at peace and there is nothing for you to be upset about.’ Allow this feeling to come over you. You will find as you do this, each time you do this, it is something that just sort of happens because what you are doing is using your true nature. You are using that element of spirit that is God within you, and you are dealing with whatever your circumstances be from that point.

               What is going to happen? Your physical body becomes calm. The adrenaline slows down. The heartbeat becomes normal. Your breathing becomes relaxed. The cells of your body lose all of their destructive forces and become constructive again. Instead of producing headaches and upset tummies and all of that sort of thing, you are producing good health, vitality, physical strength, and endurance.

               In the emotional body, anxiety disappears. There are no more feelings of, ‘Oh dear, what shall I do?’ Instead there is a sense of perfect calm. In that calmness the mental body of you can think positive thoughts. It is now open and receptive for the inflow of divine ideas. Instead of racing around and frantically saying, ‘I know not what to do,’ there comes into your knowingness clear instructions. It is something that you will instinctively know. You will calmly, and with a certainty, go forth to take whatever action is required.

               Do not be afraid to do nothing. Remember that, for all of you are of a nature to rush out and do something. Sometimes it is best to just be still and wait. Being still and waiting serves many purposes. For one thing, it prevents you from making a monkey out of yourselves! On a more concrete note, it allows the helpful forces that surround you, the angels if you will, to do a miracle for you because you are not in the way. You have a great track record for knocking off miracles, did you know that? We get one all set up to send your way and you give it a kick and away it goes. Sometimes in your stillness is where most of your power lies. Don't forget that. There is a saying you have upon your earth, ‘When in doubt, do nothing,’ that is a great truth. Simply wait.”

11/16/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY, Pgs. 110-113. Copyright 2013 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this book, please click here.