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THE SAGA OF BILLY AND THE HIDDEN BUTTON

It was time to retire Rhonda, our beautiful car that has served us lovingly and well, and now she was tired and had earned her rest. So we set out on a quest for a car that would step in to fill the void left by Rhonda. I had already been given the name for her, a suggestion as to where to go to look for her from our good friends Summer and Karl so off we went. We drove into the parking lot of the dealership, parked, got out of our car and were approached immediately by one of their salesmen. I told him who sent us and why, he acknowledged Summer and Karl and we talked a while, I shared with him what we were looking for in a used car, he showed us what they had, and there was Billy, with every one of the attributes we were looking for, just waiting for us. We test drove her and bought her on the spot.

And so begins "The Saga of Billy and the Hidden Button" :)

My husband, and we will refer to him as Bob hereafter since that's his name, drove Billy home. She was sold to us with only one key and we discovered that that one key did not really fit the car. It worked if you could figure out the combination, wiggled it around for several minutes, and had a bit of luck in the process. Bob was able to do that for a while but since I wasn't able to, he did all the driving. We requested from the dealership that we be given two keys that worked. Come to find out the key that we were given was not an original key but one that had been made after the fact and really never worked right. The people at the dealership agreed to get us two keys made to spec for our car, Billy.

Unfortunately, before the process of getting these keys was put into motion, Bob became ill and I was told to get him to emergency immediately. Since I couldn't drive our car I had to call for help, Thank God for Summer & Karl, he was there in a heartbeat and stayed with me until I finally insisted he leave, it was Memorial Day and they were having a party.

There were other things that I had asked about regarding Billy at the time of purchase and the salesperson volunteered to take care of whatever I was asking about.

Now…I couldn't visit Bob without the proper keys to Billy and after a few phone calls, the last one in tears, I was a little distraught at this point, they did rush, did their very best and I had the keys within two days and I was able to visit Bob and go about my day with the comfort of knowing I could depend on Billy.

Then, I noticed that the emergency brake was very hard to release but I managed it for a while until one day as I was leaving the hospital I could not release it at all. God, always there when needed, saw to it that there was, at that very moment, a gentleman and his family parked directly across from me in the parking lot, just leaving. I ran over and asked if he would please help me, that I couldn't release my emergency brake. He was happy to do it.

I drove from there directly to the dealership, shared my dilemma, and was told that I really didn't need the emergency brake on this particular car and to just not use it. (Have you ever tried parking without using your emergency brake? It's a hard habit to break :)

Anyway, my question, "If the emergency brake isn't needed, why is it on the car?"

Bob was finally released from the hospital and so I called the dealership to set up an appointment to have the things taken care of that the salesman had offered to do. He said he would call me back but that didn't happen. This happened on a couple of occasions. After waiting what I considered to be a fair amount of time I called the dealership again. This time I wasn't so nice.

The salesman who sold us the car answered the phone, I asked for the Sales Manager, was told he was busy and was asked who was calling. I told him and he asked what he could do for me. I proceeded to tell him that I was a little disgruntled, that he hadn't returned my phone calls, and why was there an emergency brake in the car if it wasn't needed. His response was something like... he couldn't help it if I wasn't strong enough to release the brake, that all emergency brakes in the middle of the car are hard to use, that if you pull up too tight on them then you lock the brake on the wheel and it's hard to release, etc., etc., etc. Long story short, obviously, I'm at fault here, not the brake.

And of course, bottom line, the Sales Manager was still busy but the salesman would give him the message and the Sales Manager would call us back in about ten minutes. Well... three hours later, Bob called them; at this point I was done and knew if Bob (a male) called, the response would be a whole lot different.

In the meantime, I was livid; feeling very much discriminated against because I am female and all that goes with that in some of the mindsets in the world. I ranted and I raved and I spewed, not a pretty picture but there it was. So... Bob called back, and, yup, everything was just rosy. " We'll call you and set up an appointment whenever you want, we will take care of everything and even replace the spring in the emergency brake if we need to." Still waiting for that call at this writing.

Anyway... look at the opportunities and the lessons learned here.

I asked for help twice, first in calling Summer and Karl to help me get Bob to the hospital and again asking the gentleman on the parking lot for help in releasing the emergency brake on Billy.

Billy found a hidden button within me that I didn't know was there and pushed hard. Dr. Peebles shared with me a while back that my next step is refining my healing abilities. Ok then, how do I do that I asked? How do we refine any part of ourselves? By realizing, really knowing, that the only way to do that is to free yourself of ALL those hidden buttons within us. I thought I had done a pretty good job of doing that, hmmm, guess not.

This was all made clear to me today during my time with God this morning. Running all of these events over and over in my mind while at the same time remembering Dr. Peebles mini-lectures for this month. "Be aware of what comes out of your mouth, those frequencies go out into the world", something like that. And the theme this month is "The Healer That You Are". It's always amazing to me the ways in which God works.

And so I am grateful to the salesman, the dealership, to Billy for being willing to bring these opportunities to me, and always to God and all of my beautiful guides for seeing me through these experiences.

Yes, I spewed and sputtered and raged, but in the realization of all this, I believe that the love that magnifies from me will be stronger, more clear and much more abundant than ever before. And we all know... love is the strongest, most powerful frequency there is and will overcome the spewing and sputtering and raging that went before it.

And by the way, Bob is doing great here at home and I am having even more learning opportunities in being his nurse.

The Rest of the Story At one point I started to get edgy again because our phone call was once again not being returned. Then I remembered all the lessons given to me here, I settled down immediately with "what difference does it make anyway", I was very calm and satisfied to just let it fall into place and guess what...

Our call was returned with the explanation that up until now he (our salesman) had the wrong phone number. They suggested that we bring our car in as soon as possible to have some of the work done on it, that this was a good time. I drove it over and was greeted by knowing smiles by everyone in the reception area – like – here she comes :) Our salesman greeted me with smiles that were returned to him by me, he drove me home to wait while our car was being serviced. On our way there we had a great conversation about many things including people being under great stress.

Among other things he told me that they had found a home for Rhonda, our former car. Some people from Prescott were in desperate need of transportation and were absolutely delighted to find her. I was ecstatic! I was so afraid that she would end up in the car graveyard, I had been feeling so sad for her. I told the salesman that her name is Rhonda, that she was a wonderful car with a beautiful spirit and had served us well. He said he'd call the people and tell them. I also shared with him that Dr. Peebles, channeled through Summer - he knows all about that - had told me that her name was Rhonda and I ended by telling him that the car we just purchased from him was Billy. He grinned :).

He voiced his concern for Bob stating "I was concerned about Bob too, I really like him, even though I haven't known him that long he seems like a pretty nice guy".

Quite a place, "This School Called Planet Earth", are we blessed or what :) There is a lesson in everything that we experience. It's so exciting and so much fun because with every experience we move through we move on to the next one stronger, each one bringing us closer to knowing the God that we are and bringing us closer to living our lives in peace, love, and harmony.

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