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Printed with permission from New Spirit Journal, March 2008

Finding New Wealth

Sandra Staves, D.D.

I usually step back this time of the year to review my goals for the preceding year and make new ones for the year ahead. One category I scrutinize carefully is my finances but this year I had a reminder from some company to look at my spiritual wealth as well.

In 2005 I opened a business called Energy Matters. As a psychic, I facilitate ghost rescues (ghost removals). It’s a process that helps souls complete the transition they weren’t able to finish on their own for many different reasons. It’s been a wonderful gift to me as I share a very special time with the one about to cross over and those who come to assist and greet them.

On Thanksgiving Eve 2007, there was a loud thud on my front door. I didn’t bother going to see if it was a neighbor or other guest. I knew from experience that it was a spirit, someone stopping in to chat. I quietly asked the soul to come back the next morning so we could visit during my meditation time and then I went about my business.

The next day a man appeared in my meditation. I asked if he was a ghost and if he needed help moving on. He said “No.” He had just come to talk.

I felt a deep, sad energy about him. He explained it was because he was going to have to come back to Earth. He wasn’t dreading it but he was sad because he would have to leave where he currently lived and enter a life here that would be much more difficult. He was fearful of the wars, poverty, illness and inhumanity that can threaten to overwhelm any of us on any given day. When I asked him why he came to see me, he replied he was trying to ‘keep his toes in the water’ so it wouldn’t be such a shock to his system to come back here.

I understood what he meant. Just reading the newspaper can make me cry. “How about looking at things through a different perspective?” I asked.

I began to talk about the opportunity each one of us is given at birth. We have the capacity to bring the wonderful love that we are into the world. Each day we have the opportunity to be kind and encouraging. We can comfort others, be a good listener or just give another person a smile. We honor people when we respect them and we make life good when we love them.

This was an awkward conversation for me. I was scrambling to help my guest see the picture with a fresh perspective but it was something I hadn’t given a lot of thought to lately myself. I go through each day taking kindness for granted and forgetting it is choice we make. Everything we give can be viewed as a gift - an opportunity to bring love and compassion into the world.

I recently read a prayer a friend wrote and in it she said, “Let me be the answer to someone’s prayer.” I loved this simple request and I now include it every day in my own prayer as it reminds me to give out the best of my spiritual wealth I have to offer. Every person we meet presents an opportunity to give and make the world a better place one person at a time. It’s so simple that it’s easy to not attach importance to it.

Obviously we leave all of our possessions behind at our death but we do take something away with us – our spiritual wealth. Every time we give joy, laughter, love, we have given a great gift that helps to ease someone’s burden. Spiritual wealth also includes such qualities as respect, compassion and gratitude. It is the ability to forgive and then forgive again. People who listen to their hearts have these qualities in abundance and aren’t afraid to use them!

Giving away spiritual wealth is only half of the equation. The other piece is being able to receive with gratitude. We all take many things for granted like getting to work safely, our loved ones and the roof over our head. As the awareness and gratitude for what you have received daily grows so does the tendency to say thank you. Letting the universe know you are grateful for what you receive will let it smile upon you in abundance and the heart-felt process will automatically establish a natural cycle of giving and receiving.

I don’t think my visitor left much happier than when he arrived but hopefully I gave him something to ponder. It took me about a day before I realized that I had received a wonderful gift from him that keeps growing. And I’m grateful for it.

Sandra can be reached at Energy Matters (www.energymattersinc.com).

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Printed with permission from FATE Magazine

Lee Ann

Sandra Staves

Several years ago I bought a home on the outskirts of Seattle. It was a small ranch with three bedrooms, a small bathroom, and a modest sized kitchen and living room. I loved the house but quickly discovered one bedroom was very cold. I thought it was because it was on the north end of the house away from the sun.

I moved into the home in April eager to start gardening, a prime motivator for buying the house. One afternoon I was gardening in the backyard and turned towards the house. Looking back at me was a woman - starring from the bedroom window. She wore a housedress and appeared as a three-dimension white apparition. I froze and couldn't draw a breath. Every hair on my body stood on end. No one lived there but me or at least that's what I had thought. As I stared at the woman in the window, the image faded.

Moving very slowly, I put my tools away in the shed and walked around the house to the side door. My body was wet with perspiration and cold with fear, but I was determined that nothing was going to keep me from living in my new home. Nothing was going to drive me out.

I entered my home through the living room. The air was cold and a white mist was suspended throughout the room. I walked through the clammy mist into the brightly-lit kitchen seeking warmth and comfort from the sunshine. With firm resolve and as calmly as I could, I told the spirit that I knew she was there and asked what her name was.

"LeeAnn," a voice yelled into my ear.

I said, "Lee Ann, I'd be happy to talk with you in the morning if you'd care to come back. That's when I do my regular meditation and I'll be in a better state of mind to help you then."

There was no reply.

Each morning it has been my routine, and had been for years, to meditate but at that moment I was buying time to think about what I needed to do. I felt scattered and a bit desperate. Shaking from the cold, I spent the evening wrapped up in a blanket in my recliner, mulling the situation over.

The next morning, I again wrapped myself in a blanket awaiting my visitor's return. Struggling with emotional jitters, I calmed my mind to meditate.

Immediately, LeeAnn appeared. I felt the temperature in the room drop and the air grew damp. I pulled the blanket closer. LeeAnn stood plaintively with a young boy standing beside her.

As soon as I noticed the young boy, I also felt LeeAnn's overwhelming grief and her story unfolded. Her heart was broken over the loss of her young son. He had died at a very young age and she missed him terribly. I felt LeeAnn's immense despair fill my heart and held back the growing tears.

“LeeAnn," I said, "hanging around this house is a waste of your time. Surely you know your little boy isn’t here anymore. When he died, he moved on. He went to a better place.” LeeAnn was listening so I went on to explain that his life didn’t end, that it continued.

“LeeAnn, you don’t have to stay here any more. You can go be with him. There are many people waiting to welcome you home.”

As soon as that was said, I became aware of a group of people bathed in a soft white light coming towards LeeAnn. Among them was a tall handsome man that LeeAnn immediately recognized as her grown son. As the group surrounded her, a look of wonder came over LeeAnn's face as she gazed at the young man. The group greeted her tenderly and LeeAnn moved with them off into the distance until they were out of sight.

Two or three days after LeeAnn moved on, my living room filled with sparkling white light. I'm not sure why, but I like to think it was LeeAnn stopping in to say thank you and let me know she was okay.

Because of my experience with LeeAnn and the many other ghosts that visited over the next three years, I started a ghost rescue and removal business called Energy Matters (www.energymattersinc.com). I can be reached by sending a Contact Us Form on the website.

"Your house doesn’t have to go bump in the night!"