Awakening the Lightworker Within —
A Personal Journey of Answering the Sacred Call
By Elizabeth J. Foley 
My first meeting with Elizabeth Foley was a happy little accident. She coordinated an Earth-Sky-Heart Workshop up in New Hampshire a few years ago — at the last minute, somebody called me with instructions to get my butt over to that workshop and set up a table with Slim Spurling's Tools. I was living in Vermont at the time so this wasn't a hassle — and I knew it would be a good thing to do because in every one of his workshops, Drunvalo talks about Slim's work. Having me there to talk to people and let them actually see the Tools would be helpful to everyone.
Arriving the night before, I didn't catch up with Elizabeth till the following morning. As is always the case on the first day of a Drunvalo seminar, things were busy. Elizabeth was flying around performing her coordinator chores, and I was thronged with people at the Slim table. When she and I finally found a minute to introduce our selves, my first impression of Elizabeth was, 'Wow, this lady really has her feet on the ground'. With her school teacher looks and her deceptively normal persona, it was not immediately apparent that Elizabeth Foley was one of those people who kept company with angels.
The idea that everything is the opposite of the way it appears proved to be true one more time. Once I got to know her better it became clear that Elizabeth just might be an angel herself. In living her Truth, she works tirelessly, on the front lines, informing and educating those who are in the early stages of the awakening process.
For some of you, the story she weaves will retrace steps you have already taken — but if in reading these excerpts you are reminded of what it was like when you first began to live from a place of Faith and Trust, you will understand why books like this are so important. It took years for Elizabeth to discover her own divinity. In sharing her experience, she gifts her readers with knowledge that will make it easier for them to take off on their own unique journey.
Congratulations on your book Elizabeth! We wish you all the best.
As I drove home to New Hampshire from Maine I began thinking about my schedule for the next day. It was around 1:00 AM by the time I got in and feeling very content and yet exhausted, I quickly unpacked my teaching gear and headed for bed.
I had just taught a class called "Touching the Angelic Realm" which is one of my favorite classes to teach. It was a rather large group and everyone had enjoyed themselves. Lively discussion ensued after the lecture, which was followed by looking at some real angel photos. I always travel with these, many of which are given to me by students and clients. It's quite a collection now and, as a spiritual teacher, I find it valuable to show them. The pictures are validation and provide some tangible proof that angels or angelic energy is real and does exist.
The class had ended on a positive note and I could see that the material discussed had moved some people. I could see their spiritual light bulbs being turned on, for the class itself had stirred up questions and possibilities for many.
Tired yet thankful, I let thoughts of the class and tomorrow's schedule help me drift away into sleep.
In what seemed like only a moment later the phone rang but, incredibly, my clock said 7:00 AM. I thought "Who could be calling me this early in the morning?" I jumped out of bed and slowly moved to find the phone. "Hello, Divine Healing" I said with a fuzzy voice.
"Hi, Elizabeth, it's Lisa. Did I awaken you?"
"Yes, but that's okay. I taught last night and got in really late. How can I help you?"
"Well, you probably don't remember me, but I have gone to several of your classes."
I searched my memory to try to make a connection but none came.
"Elizabeth, I am sorry to have awakened you, but I need your help. It's urgent. Do you ever visit people in the hospital?"
Lisa explained that her cousin, Pauline, was in the hospital in Burlington, Massachusetts and had been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This fatal disease tends to be widespread and involves the growth of malignant tumors.
Lisa continued on saying she and Pauline had stayed up most of the night discussing treatment strategies and what to do next. It seemed that chemotherapy was the only viable option left. Lisa decided to call in the angels for this one. As Pauline listened to Lisa speak about her guardian angels her eyes lit up like the sun, feeling hopeful for once. She had never known that she had angels around her and with excitement in her voice, asked Lisa to do an angel reading for her. Not feeling very comfortable with doing a reading herself, Lisa told Pauline that she knew of someone who could and she would contact this person right away.
"Elizabeth, could you please come to the hospital today? The doctors want to give Pauline another course of chemotherapy today but she may end up with her vocal cords being totally paralyzed." Pauline had had a severe reaction to the chemotherapy medications that were administered the day before.
Checking my schedule and seeing all the appointments booked for that day, I still agreed and told her that I could be there in the early afternoon. This required a great deal of rescheduling but everyone I called was very kind and understanding.
Before leaving for the hospital, I received some Divine guidance to bring a deck of angel cards, with the intent to give them to Pauline. On my arrival, Lisa met me in the waiting room telling me again how excited Pauline was about meeting me and having her angel reading.
Pauline was in her late 60's but looked much older as she laid in the hospital bed with what seemed like every tube and needle known to man connected to her, monitors all around and an oxygen mask on her face. As I walked into the room, she pulled off her oxygen mask and said, "Hello," then asked, "Are you the one who will tell me more about my angels?" Answering "Yes," I looked around. The room seemed really small with all the equipment in there and it was going to prove challenging to find a space where I could lay out my cards and do her reading. Pauline was so excited that she kept pulling off her oxygen mask, causing alarms to go off when she kept it off for too long. She didn't even care, for she just wanted to know more about her angels.
Pauline reminded me of a little child who had just gotten a wonderful new toy or a new friend. "Elizabeth," Pauline said, "Lisa tells me I have angels. Do I really have angels? How many and what are their names? Can you tell me all this?"
The questions kept coming one right after the other. Pauline was so eager to know more and connect with her own angels that sometimes it was hard to get a word in edgewise.
Laughing, I told her "Pauline, just relax and calm down and please keep your oxygen mask on!" The nurses were constantly monitoring the equipment and giving her more medication. They didn't seem to care who I was or why I was there, but Pauline told them anyway — that I was there to talk to her about her angels.
At first I sat on her bed and spoke to her about angels, in general.
"Everyone has guardian angels around them Pauline and, for most, there are usually two. Our guardian angels never leave our side — no matter what happens. They never judge us. They are always there to guard, guide and protect us and they are beings of pure Divine love. Basically, they function as our own personal life coach and cheerleader."
Then we talked about her specific guardian angels that are around her all the time. Her angels, very eager to connect with her, gave me their names, Grace and Joseph. I asked Pauline if she had ever seen quick sparks or flashes of white light (especially at night). These lights, I explained, are the energy of the angels that we can see with our physical eye and are called "angel lights." Pauline said that sometimes she had seen them but had not really known what they were. She laughed as she told me she'd thought that there was something wrong with her eyes.
While talking with Pauline about angels, I also spoke to her about Archangel Raphael, who is noted as the healing angel and whose energy is a brilliant emerald green color. I let her know that she could work with Archangel Raphael while she was in the hospital, to have him watch over her and her hospital care, as well as guiding her medical team.
Looking around her hospital room, I was able to find a little stool that I used as a table to lay out the angel cards for her reading. Pauline's eyes glowed with excitement and anticipation, eager to hear what her angels wanted to tell her. She was thrilled with the information and messages that she received from her angels and immediately began working with Archangel Raphael for her physical healing.
She also asked Raphael to supervise her medical care and to work with her and her doctors, while watching over her. Later that same day, when her physician decided to continue with the chemotherapy despite her adverse reaction of the day before, Pauline was amazed to find that she was able to better tolerate her chemotherapy treatments.
What made her happiest, however, was learning that she was not alone. Just before leaving I was guided by my angels to give her a deck of her own angel cards so that she could have yet another method to communicate with and receive messages from her angels.
In the days that followed, Pauline constantly spoke to her guardian angels and Archangel Raphael. She remained positive and hopeful. She now knew that her angels were around her, as she continued to see the angel lights that we had spoken about earlier.
A few weeks later, Lisa let me know that Pauline had passed on. Her healing had been a spiritual one, freed of fear. She died peacefully with a smile on her face and her angel cards in her hands knowing that she was always in the company of angels.
On learning of her passing, I wondered once again, "Who would have thought I could be a Divine messenger for God and the angels?"
We receive messages of love all the time from God, angels, our guides and the masters of Light. But do we listen and hear their messages?
Communication is always happening and their messages of love can come in many different ways, such as a license plate, number sequences, bumper stickers and street signs or a song on the radio to just name a few.
Sometimes deep and poignant life altering messages come through strangers, as well as "out of the mouths of babes"!
Very often parents have shared with me deep messages, spoken easily and playfully by their children. Messages that remind us that we need to rediscover the Joy and Love that is the true purpose of Life.
Even an animal or insect can open us to hearing God! One day, after teaching a class in my home, I was tidying up things in my living room and noticed an ant right in the middle of my living room. The ant was injured and was struggling to move. I assumed it might have been stepped on.
Being compassionate about nature, animals and even bugs, I gently picked the ant up and brought it some water and a little honey. I thought maybe some food and nourishment would be in order and I treated this small creation with great love and compassion. If others saw me fussing over this ant they would think that I was crazy!
Yet in that moment, I received the most beautiful and powerful message of all.
I suddenly heard in my mind, "Treat others with the same amount of love and compassion as you did this small creature." This message of love was simple and yet profound.
God and the heavens talk to us all the time and constantly through Divine, synchronistic messages and events.
One evening I was on my way home from teaching in Worcester, Massachusetts and, being alone, I started a conversation with Jesus while driving my car. Driving down the busy highway to one of my favorite restaurants, I asked Jesus to give me a clear concrete sign today if he was truly listening to me.
A bit later on, I noticed a pick-up truck that had an extra mud flap but this wasn't around or even near any of the tires. It was smack right in the middle of the back of the truck and the only thing written on it was "Jesus." I first thought that maybe Jesus was the name of the company because this was a commercial vehicle. However, as I drove up closer and around to the side of the truck it was, indeed, a painting company but with an entirely different name. Hmmm�. I wonder if just may be Jesus letting me know that he really was listening?
Another time, I was very stressed while working at my regular clinical job, so on my way to work, I asked the angels to please surround me with extra love and light that day and to please give me a clear sign that they were around me. I was in need of some extra tender loving care (TLC) and sure enough, within just a few minutes of asking, a car literally pulled in front of me and I was guided to glance at the license plate which was 444XC.
I quickly remembered from one of my angel books on numerology that 444 means the angels are surrounding and giving you extra support and love. I just had to laugh at this one.
Speaking of numbers, the number 555 means that big changes are coming, so hold on, you're going for a ride! I have been seeing this number sequence for quite some time now and each time, change of some kind has certainly followed.
I have gotten this message with the numbers on license plates, clocks, odometers, paid receipts and change, building numbers and on television. I even found it once on my caller ID as I checked for messages!
There it was — the number that was left "555-555-5555." I was so stunned that I could not even think. How weird was this I thought.
I did call that number and sure enough it is not a working number. Of course, I was not surprised by this but what a powerful message relayed through the numbers. Now I always pay attention to the numbers and especially the 555's. Heads up! Change is coming!
I recall other 'heads up' messages that have come through friends. For example, in the early Fall of 2002 I had taken a medical intuition class with a very gifted intuitive. A friend had phoned me about the class and asked me to go with her. I had no idea what I'd be getting into but I said, "Sure, I would love to go."
The class was three weeks long, very interesting and expanded my own awareness, pushing my intuitive gifts to the limit. On the last day of class students had to do a medical reading on each other and my friend and I partnered up.
While she scanned me with her eyes closed and feeling my aura, she suddenly opened her eyes wide and said "Elizabeth, you have a new angel coming to you." I was quite surprised at her reaction and the message. I asked if this angel was a new spirit guide. "No!" she said "Elizabeth, there is a new angel that is coming to work with you." I thought to myself that she must have gotten the message confused as I was not aware of any "new angel" trying to make their self known to me. I just laughed a little and brushed it off.
After class it was late but on the way home I decided to stop at the grocery to pick up a few things. I arrived just five minutes before the store was closing.
There were only two other cars in the parking lot and as I stepped out of the car, I was drawn to look at the license plates. On the car to my left, the plate read 444LKB. The car to my right just had printed on it "ARIEL."
"Oh my God," I said to myself. "This is the new angel that is trying to get my attention and work with me!"
Archangel Ariel is a very powerful archangel. Her energy and color is a soft lilac or purple. She comes around when someone is getting ready to pursue a strong spiritual path but has blockages like self-esteem issues, worthiness and deservingness and even some self-sabotaging behaviors preventing him or her from their spiritual work.
Still in disbelief and just shaking my head, I ran into the store to make my purchases. I must have run too fast because the next morning I realized that I had forgotten a couple of items that I needed.
While getting ready to venture out to the grocery again, I called on Archangel Ariel and I asked her, "Archangel Ariel, if you are truly the new angel that I need to work with now, please give me a clear concrete sign today."
Off to the grocery store I went, not knowing what to expect. Just as before, I pulled into a space not really paying attention to anything around me. However, when I jumped out of the car my attention was drawn to the car parked two cars away from me.
And? You guessed it! It was the same car that I saw the other evening and the license of "ARIEL."
Of course, I began to work with Archangel Ariel to clear through some of my own personal blockages so that I could get myself moving in an even more powerful way.
When you ask for a sign, watch out, because you will see sign after sign after sign.
I once found myself driving home from Vermont in a blizzard, wanting only to get home safe and sound. The snow was piling up quickly making the roads very slick. I made it up the ramp for getting on the highway and I knew I had to just keep going or else I would become stuck in the snow and ice.
I asked for angelic help and started to pull on to the highway. Everything was fine for the first couple of seconds. Then I began to spin out of control and was quickly heading in the opposite direction. A pick-up truck was coming my way and was headed right for me. I knew that the truck would not be able to stop in time and maneuvering around my car was limited.
With what could only have been Divine intervention, the truck saw me in time and somehow was able to quickly maneuver around me without incident. We were both just fine and I was able to get control of my car and headed back in the right direction.
Driving even more cautiously and slowly, I asked the Divine Mother to surround me in her loving arms and energy for a safe journey back home. As I spoke to her about my concerns and what I needed, I asked her to give me a sign that she was right here with me.
With snow and ice falling fast and heavy and with no plow or salt truck in sight, I could feel my car swerving on the road. Willing myself to remain calm and be still, I kept asking for help to get home safe and some kind of sign to reassure me.
I wasn't sure just how Divine Mother would do this, but She did it, perfectly as always!
Out of nowhere, I suddenly saw another small pick-up truck in front of me. My windshield was fogging up but I could make out the license plate which spelled "MOTHER". I laughed and felt reassured that everything was going to be just fine and it was. It took four hours but I got home without further incident and with feelings of much gratitude.
I've shared a few of my own experiences and, indeed, I feel truly blessed.
Yet working as I do, with people who are awakening and actively opening their awareness to the many ways that God speaks to us, I know for certain that we all receive these messages of validation, confirmation and reassurance.
The Divine and the angels all have a wonderful sense of humor. They give us wonderful messages of hope and yes, of love, if we take the time to observe and listen.
It is always about Love and nothing more. We are here to remember the Love that we are and that Love leads us closer to our journey back home.
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