P       Pardon the highlighted words, as they were within a quote and I cannot seem to change that...

ANDREW

Soft of voice, calm in manner,

My angel brother of compassion

Bears messages of God’s love,

            And to tell you, you are never alone.

Gentle, kind, and not without humor,

This angel opens his heart to hear you

In your suffering, your grief, your pain

            And to tell you, you are never alone.

His joyful smile can fill your heart,

His kind eyes hold a knowing,

Carrying a truth he wishes to impart,

            Giving you hope that you are never alone.

Carrying the message of his life

Into the message of his angelic place,

He still will tell you, “God loves you,

            And you are never alone.”

Andrews’s Words

Though my name comes first in the alphabetical scheme of things in this book, I wanted to be last.  This is due to the majority of readers being familiar with most of these other Archangels, but perhaps not me.

For lack of a better name, you can call me Andrew.  Angels don’t really have names, as they are beings of energy, as is your own soul.  But being people need to have a name for things, I will take Andrew.  Part of this is because I was called Andrew (though in a different language) at the time Jesus of Nazareth walked the earth.  So it’s good.  I’ll stick with it.

I recently left the realm of humanity where I was serving as an incarnated angel.  I am an angel of compassion and find that much of my work is with Azrael and Magdalena (the dualistic names of the yin/yang of the one soul, Magdrael) during times of grief, and other times with Zadkiel, who also deals with compassion.  All of the angelic realms do, but these are the ones I find myself assisting most often.  I also work with people giving them a nudge to make the right choices on their path.  Many of these choices have to do with compassion.

Compassion is a big word.  As I have found coming back into the angel realm from humanity, words make things smaller than they really are in an energy sense.  Words limit.  Words label things that cannot be labeled.  It is like trying to call the All That Is by one name – it is limiting the limitless.  So let us look at compassion.  One dictionary says it is pity, inclining one to be merciful, showing sympathy.  You will find it in a thesaurus with pity, sympathy, soft-heartedness, commiseration, mercy and so on.

We looked it up in wikpedia (having been human and being relatively new back on the angel block, I am aware of such things) and it said:  “Compassion (from Latin: "co-suffering") is a virtue —one in which the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy (for the suffering of others) are regarded as a part of love itself, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnectedness and humanism —foundational to the highest principles in philosophy, society, and personhood.

“There is an aspect of compassion which regards a quantitative dimension, such that individual's compassion is often given a property of "depth," "vigor," or "passion." More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another's suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. In ethical terms, the various expressions down the ages of the so-called Golden Rule embody by implication the principle of compassion: Do to others what you would have them do to you.”

Even with all this meaning, all these synonyms, and even with the Golden Rule, I feel it does not explain true compassion well enough.

Being that I am an angel of compassion, I know what compassion feels like, what it does in action that words cannot possibly explain.  Part of it is that some of you do not understand that you are all one, which is another part behind the meaning of the Golden Rule.  What it isn’t saying in that line above is that what you do to others, you also do to yourself.  Showing compassion is like taking care of yourself along with the person you are showing compassion for.  And it also means in some cases, you are able to look past a mis-perception or prejudice of a person needing compassion in order to give that to them. 

It is easy to show compassion for someone you know, care about, a family member or friend.  It is when you show compassion for the stranger on the street having a hard time, families you do not know misplaced through natural disaster, giving to a soup kitchen (or better yet, volunteering for one), or being a hospice volunteer.  These things show true compassion.

Some show compassion to alleviate guilt.  That is not compassion – that is like making good on a bad debt.  If you feel like you need to use the word “should”  - beware – as in I should go see so and so, because they are sick.  If you do it because you know it will make them happy, that is better.  If it is out of obligation and not out of a place of love in your heart, it is not compassion in the truest sense of the word.  Feeling the “I should do this” usually ends with a feeling of, “but I’d rather not.”  You know in your heart what the truth of this is.  Move yourself into a place of wanting to because it will bring a smile to someone (which will reward you more than you know).  Do it because it will make things easier for them, not because you are looking for thanks or any reward at all. 

That gets me thinking about giving and receiving.  They are the same thing, and one of the other of us gets into that more.  But know what you give, you receive, usually tenfold of what you gave.  What a deal!  And it makes one feel really good to give, and that is a part of the receiving – feeling really good.  We are all created to help one another, for we are all one in God, the Universal Consciousness.  And it is so very true that what you do for another, you do for yourself.  And it is also true that what you do for another, you do for the One That Is All Things.  If you find someone that needs help, but you are frightened, wary, thinking they will take advantage of you, think of this – God resides in that person.  Look for the God and there is nothing to fear once you see it.  Sometimes you might have to look harder than other times, for some people are good at putting masks on, but God is in there or that person would not even be in existence on any level in any dimension.  God HAS to be in there in order for that person to be in this world or any other.  It makes sense if you believe God is All Things, which puts the God within you and all others, including the air you breathe, the birds you see flying, the fish you see swimming.  God is All Things and All Things are connected through God.

I wanted to speak through Magdrael for a couple of reasons.  You will have read much more about the truth of life and death in Azrael’s writing, so I will not go into that here.  I do want to say that knowing that energy first hand, it is gentle, kind, loving and compassionate, and not at all the frightening character or energy people purport it to be.  That is truth.  The other reason I sought her out was because I am able to understand what she has been going through as an incarnate from the Higher Realm.  Being in human form creates a struggle, as many incarnated angels, angelic humans and lightworkers are going through right now.  They are trying to break through the fogginess of the human mind to re-member who they truly are, feeling they have a great purpose, but having a hard time either knowing who and what they are, and remembering why they are even here.  Once remembered however, things happen fast for them.  And then there is the struggle with believing it even after you remember.  So I thought I could help her, being I was a recent angel in human form myself.  This unified aspect of Magdalena/Azrael has also helped me from both sides of their perspective.

I would like to say here and now, that life is an illusion that humanity gets caught up in, playing the game to the best of their ability, wearing their costumes and masks, believing the parts they play are real.  But human life is more like a movie, just as Shakespeare stated; like being on a stage and all the men and women merely players; having their exits and their entrances.  When we exit, we all come back to the only reality, we all come back to our real Home, we all come back to truth, and we all are created from an energy of pure and total unconditional love.  There are no real goodbyes, so trust and have hope, for God truly does love you.  I know that without a doubt from where I am right here, right now.

Also, in wanting to assist this yin part of Magdrael’s energy in form, Magdalena, I want to explain that she is not the kind of medium or intuitive who finds the secrets or personal facts of someone’s life in order to prove or validate life after death to those in grief who are wanting to contact their loved ones.  Some people need to hear those things, and those are wonderful things to bring to them through that kind of mediumship.  Because of Magdalena’s energy, she speaks with those going into transition, or those passed over, or those grieving for a different purpose than to bring messages.  She wishes to bring the Light, Love and Truth of the Infinite One, and to speak of the truer reality of all of our Being-ness.  This comes from her own remembering, from angels like me, from those she sees on the other side, from some of the Ascended Masters, but mostly from her soul family of Archangels speaking to her and through her.

She tries to teach that the key to freedom is through forgiveness of self and of others.  She also brings messages through us all about the truth of what life is in the now, and how you can live more fulfilling, joyful, and loving lives by being in that now - how you can become the divine power that you truly are.  What happened in the past isn’t important for what we are trying to bring to you for your now. The past is gone and the future is only what you create in this moment, and the next moment, and so on.  Most of the others in this book have stressed this truth, so I do not feel a need to get into it in the depth that they do.  Just know that all you have is this moment in time.  Regrets from the past are wasted energy, and you don’t need the guilt or fear or worry over them to be creating your future, or your future will be more of your past.  Start here, right now, this very second, to see things differently and you can create whatever future you desire – more joy, more love, more peace, more security.  It is really up to you, what you focus on, and what your perspective might be.  You can always change your mind about things, you know.  And changing your mind changes how things appear to be.

I give great thanks for being included in this book, as I wanted to say these few words.  To finish, I would just like to add that if you only knew what truth is in the bigger picture of the cosmos, you would hold no fear whatsoever, for anything.  I can only hope some of my words have helped.  Thank you.