Brenda Power Awakens

How I Awakened?

My spirituality came to the forefront and made itself known in 1991 when my mother's cancer reoccurred. 

I had gotten married in 1988 and my mother had to be on welfare.  My husband and I had started a new business.  Money was extremely tight.  My mother needed someone really bad to help her.  She did not drive in big towns. She had her radiation and chemotherapy treatments in Lansing Michigan, which was a really a big big city for my mother.  She needed to have someone to hold her hand and to be there for her.  I was there when she had gotten cancer the first time around and had driven her to get her radiation treatments.  I was there for my younger sister as much as she would allow me.  My younger sister was still in high school and living at home with mom.  I had to drive back and forth almost all the time to take my mother to get chemotherapy.  I was living 2 ½ hours from her house.  When I was at her house I would read the Bible and started to write the words that talked about God's medicine, herbs, healing and laying on of hands.  I was fascinated about the spoken word and I started to investigate. 

One day, I was in a Bible bookstore in a mall with my mother and sister and I saw this book titled "The tongue - A creative force." Wow!! Did I know I was on to something, but I could not afford this book.  I had no money to my name at that time. I was basically getting home and to her house on gas fumes.  I kept looking at the book, and putting it down.  I finally got a piece of paper and pen and wrote down the title and name of author.  Then a beautiful woman with such an angelic look said, "You really want that don't you?"  I said, "Yes."  She replied, "I love the author."  We made a little small talk, then She took it and said, "I am buying this for you."  I said, "you don't have to." and She says "nonsense!"  I must because this will help you. I said thank you so many times, I felt like a blubbering idiot.  I then went to get my mom to meet her.  She had been sitting by the door. I turned to say, "Mom, this woman bought this for me" but the woman was gone.  She just vanished.  There was no way for her to have walked away that fast.  I looked in my bag.  There was the book and receipt.  It makes me cry every time I think of that day.

I started studying herbs about the same time that I started to study the Bible.  I met a faith healer.  He was so fascinating.  I watched him with such enthusiasm.  I saw books on his desk and I wrote the titles and authors down.  I found out he did muscle testing, iridology, and many more things.  I bought the books and my journey to enlightenment began.  I studied whenever possible.  I started paying attention to synchronicity. Things seem to drag but happen very quickly at the same time.  I moved back to my mothers in 1990 and got a divorce in January 1991 because of my husband’s infidelity.  I took care of my mother and took over her job.  My mother had been taking care of her landlord.  He needed home health care also.  My mother passed in September 1992. The day she died, I decided to give up on the alternative medicine.  I felt like my own personal hope died that day too. That night I had trouble sleeping.  My mother came to me in my dreams.  She showed me that she was with Jesus and she was alive and happier and healthier.  She said, “I had to come and tell you that you must never give up on hope and to never give up on alternative medicine”.  The days ahead seemed really rough, but I stuck to studying and learning my life lessons.  My best friend got married and moved away in January 1994 and my landlord died in February 1994.

From this point on in my life it has been rags to riches.  In my case I had come from having no blessings to having continuous nonstop blessings.  I never really had anything. My emotions where all over the place.  It all turned around when I read the Bible and started to use my faith and power of thoughts and words.  I confessed out loud "I give myself to you to serve." You meaning God.  At that time I didn't really know it.  I started to see the results right after my landlord died.  I went into business for myself doing personal home healthcare.  I was getting paid hand over fist.  I would work long hours and would cook, clean (the people and the house), physical therapy, read to them, and gave them medication.  You name it I did it. 

Then one day out of the blue, I heard spirit speak to me.  I had asked for God to provide the man that is supposed to be in my life now.  Spirit said to me, "Go and call (This) man."  I said, Him!  It can't be him.  I knew of this man, but did not really know him.  I was outside and he drove by. I tell you it felt like God just kicked me in the behind!  I ran inside and grabbed the phone and called. Very, very nervous, but I did it.  I called on March 11, 1994, which ended up being our first date.  He proposed May 13, 1994 and we got married on October 1, 1994.  God truly blessed me with a great man!  I later found out it was because I had stuck to learning my life lessons.  A little fact that I found interesting after I was married on October 1, 1994 was that my mother was laid to rest on that same day in 1992. Something I had not realized until a later time.

I also wasn't supposed to be able to have children.  A month after I was married, I was pregnant. After my first was born, I got pregnant again. God blessed me twice.  I now have a boy and a girl.  Even though I used precautions, I know I was meant to have two children at that time in my life.

In 1995 when I was pregnant sitting in front of the TV watching the show "The Other Side".  I first heard about Reiki.  When my son was born, all he did for six months was cry day and night.  I later received a flyer in the mail to come to a Mind, Body and Spirit festival.  I had never heard of anything like that before.  I called my sister and talked to my husband. We all decided to go.  If you knew my husband, you would know he doesn't go for that sort of thing. I felt compelled to walk to a booth way over in the corner.  I looked at the man and said do you know anyone that does Reiki?  He said, "Why yes, my wife is a Reiki Master."  I about fell on the floor!  First because I actually opened my mouth and asked the question and second, because Reiki was real and I found someone that did it!  I took my son to her and the energy just moved through my son and corrected the problem.  He stopped crying immediately.  There was silence for the first time in six months.  I thought wow, just like God said about laying of hands.  She ended up being my first teacher.  Amazingly she only lived 10-15 miles from my house.  She taught me about Reiki, the pendulum, about Hanna Kroeger, essential oils, and Spirit.  I met a person there that was on her road to enlightenment as well.  We became the best of friends.  She holds meetings at her house about enlightenment.  After potluck we do energy work "Reiki" on whoever is there, and I began to blossom. I have studied diligently ever since.  I seem to learn something new each month that has helped me to create HOPE.