Julie McNulty - Peace and Serenity

Follow your Passion of Passions and be aware of the signs!

Some of you may not be aware of this, but my passion of passions is working with children. When I think back to age five, I wanted to open a school where kids could express themselves freely and as far back as I can remember, playing school where I was the teacher, was always a good time for me.

Recently I have been blessed enough to be redirected to my passion of passions. I believe it was way back in 1999, when I wrote my first children’s book. I was with my children who were about 2 and 4 at the time. It was a wonderful experience. I had placed the story in one of my journals and had reflected on it from time to time, but had never thought to do anything with it.

About two years ago I began to want to publish the book so I started looking for an illustrator. I tried a few people to illustrate the book, but the timing seemed off for them. Then last April I went to the “I can Do It Conference” and met a talented artist there. This woman and I shared a love for working with children and she mentioned to me that one of her life long dreams was to illustrate a children’s book. I remained quiet as I contemplated telling her about my book. Then the woman mentioned that she had just recently finished a poster for the local play of “Peter Pan” so I took that as my sign (for those of you who are not familiar with my “sign” of Peter Pan please see my story in an earlier blog).

I then shared with this woman that I had a children’s book that I wanted an illustrator for and that one of my signs was “Peter Pan” –she was amazed. We then spoke further about things we loved and she mentioned the movie, “Field of Dreams” –she said she loved it because it reminded of her of her Dad and his father. I mentioned to her then that I had three major signs, things that I look for to make sure I am on the “right” track. One is Peter Pan and the next one is the movie, Field of Dreams. The reason Field of Dreams is one of my signs is because I related so well to Kevin Costner’s character in that when he heard “the voice” he thought he was going crazy. I too heard a voice like that when I was first healing. I believe there are more details in “my story” on my website. I heard the Angels’ guidance on how to heal my life and I followed their advice which is what lead to me to work with the Angels.

Well this morning I met with my wonderful book agent and he is doing a great job in helping us to find a publisher for “The Night The Moon Was Hiding” which is the name of the book my children and I wrote back in ‘99.

On my way to meet the agent this morning I saw a license plate with the numbers 808 in the middle of the number sequence (my mom passed on August the 8^th) so to me, that is always a sign that she is around. After we met I drove to me next appointment and in my mind I asked the Angels for a sign. Just then, a Dragon Fly flew by – yet another sign from my mother, for on the day that we had her eulogy there were a swarm of Dragon Flies, so much so that it felt like a cloud was over our heads. Then as the Dragon Fly flew away a white feather dropped on my car. I took the feather as a sign from my Angels. My eyes filled with tears felt from the joy in my heart and I thanked my Mother and the Angels out loud.

I hope this acts as a reminder to follow your passion of passions and to let you know that you also have Angels around you and loved ones that want to help you in any way that they can.

Blessings,

Julie

Its that time again! We’re answering your angel questions. Please write us, we’d love to answer yours!

Q: I’m feeling stuck on my writing. I guess this is what they call writers block. I’ve finished one young adult novel and was ready to be done with it, when I got a wild idea of changing the setting from 1971 to modern times. This is where I’m stuck. I can’t seem to find the desire to work on it.  I’m ready to abandon the entire book and begin a new novel about a young teen who seeks information on the “magical” side of life. This mean angels, spirit guides, card readings, stone energy, dowsing, you get the idea. What do you recommend?  Should I push through and re-write my finished novel set in 1971 and change it to modern times? Stay with the 1971 setting?  Abandon the book for now?  Start a new book?  Oh yeah, is the world ready for my Emma Jean Picture Book Series?
- Frustrated Writer in Aptos

A: Dear Frustrated Writer in Aptos: The good news is that I am hearing you are extremely “creative.”  As I’ve shared with people who are creative (during Angel Readings), being creative can seem like both a gift as well as a curse.  It’s a gift in that you are able to come up with thousands of ideas, but a curse because one usually doesn’t know where to start because many ideas just keep flowing in. How does this sound so far?

I’ve asked the Angels what very creative people should do and they’ve said this: Though this may be difficult at first, the creative person must follow one idea all the way through to completion.  Ideas will continue to flow, of course, because with a very creative person, there is usually no way to get them to stop.  If while working on a project another idea pops up, merely get a note book and write down the new idea to be finished later.  The person must tell themselves it is perfectly okay to finish one idea at a time – there’s plenty of time to get this done.  We encourage this kind of self talk to settle the person’s emotions from any anxiety that they may feel from receiving so many ideas at one time.  In the long run it is best for the creative person to have as an assistant.  This assistant must be task oriented in order to help the creative person carry their ideas through to completion.

In saying this I would advise you to work on the book that you feel the most excited about right now and follow it all the way through.  In doing so, keep in mind that the other books will have their place and time.

In closing, I felt drawn to end with this quote, “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” (Walt Disney)

Many Blessings.

Julie

Hello everyone.  I hope all of you are enjoying your summer. Its such a special time of year when families get together to take their annual vacation to places near and far.  So many memories are created during these few short months. With all of your special memories, I’m certain that many of you have an angel story that you hold very dear to you. And with that, I invite you to share your story with us.  Below is an angel story that a client/friend shared with me, and something that I’d like to share with all of you.  Many Blessings.

The women’s group does move mountains. Things changed right after I left the group. I asked for signs and they all came like a tidal wave. When I came home from the group, Terry (my boyfriend) was so mad that when I walked through the door I could feel the wall of anger. When Iasked him what was wrong he said, “you’re a liar, you told me you were going to a friend’s house not a woman’s prayer group.” *RED FLAG* The truth is, I wrote Julie’s name on my calendar, but I didn’t discuss it with him at all. He then said, “you’re keeping things from me.”

Let me give you some background to this story.

I’d been awake/working for 24 houre before going to the prayer group. I went to Terry’s house, slept for an hour and set my alarm to wake up on time (I didn’t want to be late to the prayer group). I was going to move my things out of Terry’s house and into my apartment on this particular day. I didn’t know how long the group meeting was going to last, but Terry demanded to know exactly how long I was going to be gone. I told him I didn’t know, but he refused to accept my answer so I told him one hour.

In the meantime, while I was gone, my son arrived at Terry’s house to help move my things. And when he arrived, Terry answered the door, let him in, and stormed to another part of the house, ignoring my son, because he was so angry at me. RED FLAG They proceeded to load the truck and when my son asked Terry where I was he said he did not know. So my son packed up some of my things, including my daughter’s bed, and left before I arrived. When I got to the house my son was gone and Terry was really upset. I asked him where my son was and he said he didn’t know and when I told him the bed was gone he was mad again, like my son was stealing from the house. He was appalled that he knew nothing about the move!  RED FLAG  But, in fact, Terry knew in advance that I’d planned to move out that day, he’d even offered to help a few days prior. But today, instead of helping me, he wanted to pick a verbal fight. I wasn’t in the mood to get into it with him and I refused to engage in the fight so he was angry, again, and said, “fine I will just leave.” So he left and I called my son to come back and he helped me move all my things. I took every thing I owned out of his house and I erased my schedule from his calendar because it was no longer any of his business. I left for good after that day!

Thank god for our woman’s prayer group. God and the angels do answer our prayers. The group was amazing and it was worth all the drama. Now I am going to live life drama free. I love all of you.