...the first book that my friend had recommended, 'Celestino's prophecy'; after work, in the evening, I would eat something really quickly and then I would dive into my book again. I would read, think, evaluate; I was not tired anymore, I did not wish to relax anymore, I wanted to know. While many were the books that followed that first one, only two were the ideas that fascinated me the most: Coincidences - as a manifestation of the connection between the divinity and us (or like someone jokingly put it: 'Coincidence: when God wants to remain anonymous'), and the second idea - that each one of us can experience divinity - directly, without intermediaries.

I considered the work from Redfield and Carol Adrienne so sound that I set up a group-study. It was precisely during that period that I had a very peculiar dream: I dreamt that I was on my computer, doing some work that I felt very passionate about, even though it was quite hard; when the work was completed I would realize that my job was melting the ice in an area that resembled the polar circle. Slowly the ice would melt on a specific spot, and on that spot I could see a large face, it looked like the face of a great big Santa Claus, complete with beard and white hair. As soon as the ice on the mouth melted, the face would call, (although in my dream I could not hear anything), it would look up towards the sky and at that point a seemingly infinite row of blue Angels would appear, descending from the sky, positioning themselves along the horizon line. At that point the Angels were becoming red, and I was supposed to understand the reason for it.

That night I think I dreamt the very same dream at least four times, from beginning to end, until I finally understood why the Angels were becoming red. They did not become red because they were turning 'bad', but because they were absorbing the violence, the negativity that are generally present on earth. At that point, the dream sequence stopped. When I woke up the following day and for several days after that, I remembered the dream perfectly.

I talked about my dream to other people, hoping to get some explanation, some way to explain or 'place' this dream, but to no avail. I then decided to put this dream of mine in a little imaginary 'pending' drawer.

Over the last two and a half years I have been doing precisely what that dream had proposed to me. I am working at the computer on the internet, collecting and distributing angelic testimonies, with the purpose of helping people to move closer to their Angels, melting away those barriers that separate us from these wonderful teachers. At that point, however, I still thought that Angels were a creation meant for children.

It was therefore with a lot of enthusiasm, combined with just as much scepticism, that I accepted the proposal from my friend and research companion: 'Why don't we buy books on Angels?' We let the bookstore owner recommend the first few ones, he seemed to have already read them all. We started reading, and as my reading progressed, a good part of my diffidence vanished.

Not long after that, something happened: on a normal day like any other, in the middle of a month like any other, once again without much warning, a new friend, who could see and even talk to the Angels, said 'Behind every coincidence there is always the touch of an Angel. Do you mean, you don't know that a coincidence is a creation of the Angels????' I did not even worry about feeling ignorant, my mind was racing with the question 'Are they really -that- close to us?'

That evening was entirely dedicated to our friend's experiences with Angels, the daily life with them, his travels, his romantic encounters. (now that I am writing about it, I remember that everything he said talked about how close the Angels were to us). He added that in a home there are two Angels, one to protect the home, and one the garden.

I still remember my excitement during the following first few days, I would walk around in the house - it was no longer 'my' home, it was 'our' home, where could they possibly be? Could they see me? I wondered what they thought, what they were doing. I would smile and just wander around the home.

My mind, however, needed proofs. If Angels manifested themselves through coincidences, then through the coincidences we would obtain the proof that we were looking for; so we began 'experimenting'.

We started with small but practical things, like finding a parking spot, all the way to the understanding of real problems of another person. For us, these experiments had become veritable adventures, where the Angels (our own 'Guardian' Angels were not known to us yet) had to prove their existence to us. Too many times these coincidences happened for us to think that they were just 'coincidences'. The parking spot tests, for example, were incredible: we had even started to joke about it, thinking that the Angels must have inflatable dummy cars that they can just quickly deflate for us, so that when we could park on the most convenient spot.

However, it was the messages about people's problems that were stupefying, extraordinary, of such incredible accuracy. Many of these messages talked about the 'barriers' that fear puts in front of us, and of the inevitable mistakes that we make when presented with considerable outside pressure - situations that are always created when people think that they are lonely, or see themselves as lonely.

An important thing was that through these messages, even though these messages were relating to other people, I worked also on myself; this allowed me to open up a lot more, I became more receptive to the messages from my own Angel. I say 'my own' Angel because by then my friend and I had finally worked out that the coincidences kept happening even when we were apart from each other. This meant that both of us were 'followed' by different Angels, in the same way as we noticed that even the styles of the messages were different, messages for me were 'customized' specifically for me, and the same for my friend's messages.

I initially named my Angel 'Celestino', but then I changed it for the more apt name 'my Love'. You see, at the time I did not know that our Angels already have names. My Angel began appearing in my dreams, when my mind stopped studying and asking questions. From some of those dreams all that I can remember is the two of us talking at length. In other dreams we would laugh out loud, and our laughter would merge in just one sound. In other dreams my Angel would speak to me about his love for harmony, for things built over time, with precision and wisdom; in others he would help me understand all the components of a problem.

However, I noticed that every time I needed him to help me make a decision, he would disappear. I tried asking and begging, but without success, he would not show up. No dreams. So I had to make my own decisions - he respected to the utmost my right to act out of my own free will. Once I had made the decisions, then he would show up again.

Recently something unpleasant happened, that not only involved me but also other people under my responsibility. Thanks to the great calm and understanding that I have learnt to acquire over the last couple of years, I tried my best to overcome the problem. Once I had done it, I consulted with my Angel to ask him if I had acted for the best. His reply did not show a shred of judgment: 'You see my dear', Angels are very endearing, 'these are tests. If you overcome them, then you proceed to the next stage. If you don't, the test will be re-presented to you, to give you the opportunity to overcome it at a future date'.

Only once did I ever see my Angel all dressed in white (official clothes colour for important events), it was on the dream that officially started our Angels Dossier on the internet site. However my Angel is not present only on my dreams, he is with me all the time. In the past he would manifest himself with perfumes or small feathers that I would find; when I was very nervous he would remove the tension from my energy, it was as if he would take part of my energy, he would cleanse it, and then he would give it back to me, bit by bit; and with this I would recapture the mental lucidity that I needed.

The more I worked for the Angels, the more my own Angel's presence was evident to me. Now he helps me prepare when I have major appointments, or he stops me by grabbing my face between his 'hands' when I am about to react with anger (this is now very rare for me), or he suggests I perform something in a specific manner, which only later I understand to be the best way to do it, or he inspires me when I am about to get myself into a 'one-way street'.

However, the thing that is even more important is that he has taught me, (and I am still learning), to look at each person as a soul, to understand that person as a soul, to look at certain experiences in life as tests that the soul has given itself, to learn. This has also created some wonderful changes in me: gestures, smiles, emotions, even toward people that I do not know, or toward people that have disappointed me.

These manifestations at first startle me, but then I like them and they make me feel very peaceful. I have had many proofs that our physical body can die, but our soul is eternal and that during all of our reincarnations, our Guardian Angel is always the same and is always with us. Most importantly, I was shocked by how every single step that each of us takes is lovingly followed and pondered upon by our Angels. To think of ourselves as lonely beings is truly one of the grandest illusions of humankind, because not only are we -not- lonely, but we will be -never- be lonely.

A while ago our Angel Giulio, (Giulio is Genny's Guardian Angel) said: 'A lot is being said about us, but the love that we send through our manifestations is hardly spoken of. We actually want it to be known that Man is not alone, he is not left prey of his existence, he is the very essence of existence, he is pure existence that is given by God, and we help him understand this'.

A sweet kiss, Sara Luce