Guardian Angel Academy

by C V Ricks

  The lights were turned back on. “So you see,” said Angel Angelique. “This is a very good example of Thought instillation. This guardian angel knew what was going to happen in the future and knew that he needed to do something quick to prevent it. How do you think guardian angels are able to see the future?”

  Felix raised his hand. “Do they have a crystal ball?” he asked.

  Everyone laughed.

  “No,” chuckled Angelique. “There are no crystal balls involved.”

  A student raised his hand. “Yes, Christopher.”

  “Are guardian angels capable of seeing the past, present and future?”

  “No, we are not as powerful as God. We cannot see all.”

  Another student raised her hand.

  “Yes, Lacey.”

  “Are guardian angels gifted to see the past, present and future of their assignments?”

  “Sometimes, if God gives them that knowledge, on their own they are not capable of seeing that. Only God can see the past, present and future. He, in turn, sends a message to the guardian angel before something is about to happen and lets then know about it. The guardian angel receives the message and goes and does what he or she feels will be best in the situation. It is our responsibility to watch over our assignments and when we receive messages about their future, we must do what we can to help them. Sometimes we can see what is happening and do something about it right as it is occurring, as in the case of Budd and his broken parachute, but other times, it helps to know what can happen in the future and do something earlier to prevent it, as in Kerry's case. You are now excused to go to your first-hour class.”

  Chapter 12

  We floated to our next class. Walter floated to the front of the room.

  “Today we will watch a few movies showing two different cases. The first one will be Case A.

  The lights went out and the movie began. The scene opened with a young couple approaching a parked vehicle. The young man, Steven, opened the car door for his sweetheart. She got in and he shut the door and hopped over to his side of the vehicle. He got in and turned on the engine. As he put his foot on the accelerator, the engine cut out and stalled. At that very moment a big truck whizzed by. Had the engine not cut out, the young couple would have crashed right into the truck.

  The lights came back on. All right, now let's look at Case B.

  A young woman named Adeline, 17-years-old, was driving down a highway at 55 miles per hour. She was driving home from working at a fast food restaurant. All of a sudden a large poodle pranced onto the street right in front of her. Terrified, she ran over the dog. Her heart was pounding as she slowed down and turned into her housing subdivision.

  The lights came on again and Professor Walter said, “Which case do you think the guardian angel used Mind instillation and which case did the angel use Controlling the Elements?

  A freshman raised his hand. “Yes, Mark” said Angel Walter.

  “I think the angel used mind instillation in the first case to get the driver to turn off the engine instead of going ahead.”

  “No, that's not it,” said Angel Walter. “Any other guesses?”

  I raised my hand. “Yes, Josie,” said Angel Walter.

  “I think that the angel used controlling the elements to cut the engine in the first example.”

  “Very good,” said Angel Walter. “Now who wants to tell us what happened in the second example?”

  Kevin raised his hand.

  “Yes, Kevin,” said Angel Walter.

  “In the second example, the guardian angel used mind instillation to get the driver to run over the dog rather than swerve into the other lane, which would've caused a serious accident.”

  “Very good,” said Angel Walter. “Now we will watch the scenarios with the guardian angels shown.”

  The scenarios played out with the guardian angels shown. The first angel used controlling the elements, and the second used mind instillation.

  We walked toward the practice rooms where we were to meet for second hour, Controlling the Elements. Angel Addison was there waiting for us when we entered the building.

  “Please choose a partner and stand near one of the practice rooms,” she said. “Today I am going to have one of you go inside the room and the other one will get a slip of paper with a scenario written on it. This scenario will state what is happening to your partner in the practice room. In this virtual reality, I will place your partner in danger. You are to come up with a solution to the problem, and save your partner's life. Then you are to switch places. I will be recording each one as there is a camera in each room. Do your best.”

  I looked at Journey nervously. “Who wants to go in there first?”

  “Uh...” she said.

  “I will,” I stated. “Please don't fail me,” I teased.

  “What happens if I do?” she asked.

  “I'm not sure, but I'm sure I can't die again,” I chuckled.

  “Oh, that's right. We're already dead,” Journey uttered.

  I went inside the room and shut the soundproof door. I couldn't see out the windows, so I just stood there waiting. While I waited, Journey received her assignment from Professor Addison and began reading and pondering the scenario. She could see me standing there patiently, but I couldn't see her. Journey thoughtfully pulled her baton out of the pocket of her robe.

  Magically and wistfully the room turned into a beautiful forest. A gallant horse pranced up to me, begging for me to get on and take a ride. I did so, riding horses was, after all, second nature to me. The horse was quick and agile as it galloped through the beautiful green woods. Dodging trees, the horse seemed to know the way. We came to a clearing where the horse paused, then trotted through the meadow toward the side of a mountain. The mountain's trail led upward and we followed it, trotting along the edge. The trail was rugged and jutted in and out. I was afraid my horse would lose her footing along the narrow trail I'd ridden on many trails before, but this one was, by far, the slimmest.

  My horse kept going faster and faster, even though I pulled the reigns and said Whoa there. But the horse seemed to have a mind of her own. She kept speeding up as if on a mission. My worries were warranted when my horse slipped on a rock and we began to fall over the edge. Great, I'm going to die or even worse, get hurt. But I couldn't die and I couldn't even get hurt, so why was I thinking that? Silly me.

  In no time at all, our fall was cushioned by the branches and leaves of a tree. We were able to safely slide to the lower trail and make our way back down. I knew that Journey had intervened. It was too hard to believe that things accidentally happened for our benefit. Good job Journey, I thought. Now it's my turn to save your life.

  I came out of the practice room. Journey smiled. “I see you are still alive,” she chortled.

  “Yes,” I responded. “You did a great job. Now it's your turn to go inside and see how I do.”

  Journey went inside. Angel Addison floated towards me with my assignment. I began reading. I glanced up at Journey standing inside the room waiting for something to happen. Once again, the room magically changed. Journey and another young lady were walking up the stairs of a large apartment building. They were knocking on doors and talking to people as community or church volunteers. I watched them as they walked down the hall knocking on each door. I looked at my slip of paper again. It said, “Apartment 88 has a dangerous man in it and will try to get the girls inside.” I didn't know what to do to save her from a dangerous man. I thought for a moment then decided I'd use mind instillation to get the girls to avoid going in there. I watched as the girls continued knocking on doors and talking to those who would listen. I watched as the girls began to knock on apartment 88 as they casually smiled and talked with each other. I prepared my baton and closed my eyes tight, concentrating. I instilled the word leave into Journey's mind, then the other girl's mind. LEAVE. Journey began talking, her usual spiel, when she was overpowered with the thought to leave and paused her speech. The man
at the door said, “Come in, I have something to show you,” he started walking inside, thinking the girls would follow. Instead of following, however, the girls ran. They ran down the seven flights of stairs with the man soon following after them. They continued running down the street until they finally dared to look back and breathe and see that he was no longer there.

  Journey was huffing and puffing when she came out of the practice room. “What was that about?” she asked.

  “I think that man was a deranged killer,” I said. “I used Mind instillation to get you to run away. How did you save my life?”

  “I got the tree branches to move to where you were falling I used Controlling the Elements.”

  “I think we did a pretty good job, for our first week,” I said. “I wonder how Kevin and Felix did.”

  “We'll have to ask them at lunch,” said Journey. The bell chimed and we were excused to our next class.

  Chapter 13

  Angel Jeremiah greeted the class. “Today we will talk about when you will need to glow and we will take a glowing quiz. First of all who can tell me, from your reading, when glowing is required.

  One of the students answered. “If you are sent as a messenger to someone, then you will glow, so that the person knows that you are an angel.”

  “Okay, that is correct. Rarely you will need to tell something to someone and appear to them. Other times you can send the person the message by way of thought instillation or a dream.”

  “What other times will you need to use your glowing skills?”

  “When you are among an angel choir come to the earth.”

  “This is true. Also,when fending off evil spirits. It helps send them away as glowing thwarts them and their powers. I would now like to have each one of you come to the front of the room and show us your glow.”

  One by one we each came up to the front and the lights were turned off and we showed Jeremiah our glowing abilities. Everyone, except Bertrand was able to glow.

  “Very good,” said Angel Jeremiah. “In such a short time you have learned to glow. Practice some more tonight and tomorrow will be our final exam. Those who pass the final will not need to take this course next week. You can choose an elective to take in its place. We have some fine electives to choose from. Also, as guardian angels, I expect that you are compassionate, and not competitive. Therefore, I expect that one of you will help Bertrand so that he can pass also. You are excused.”

  We walked out of our class. I wanted to go up and tell Bertrand I would help him, but Journey beat me to it. Oh well, she was better at glowing than I and would be the better teacher.

  “I hope I pass glowing,” I said, while we floated out the door. “There are some electives I'm interested in.”

  “Oh, yeah,” said Kevin. “What are they?”

  “Either linguistics or Telepathy,” I answered.

  “Yes, I heard that to pass and become a guardian angel we have to be able to speak many languages and to use telepathy when communicating with other guardian angels on a job. You don't want to speak out loud when you're invisible.”

  “What classes are you guys interested in?” I asked.

  “I'd like to take the angel characteristics class,” said Felix. “I used to be a boy scout. In fact I just got my Eagle a month before...well you know, before I died. Anyway, there are certain characteristics we need to develop to become a guardian angel. It's like the Boy Scout Law only the Angel law: An angel is wise, intelligent, patient, meek, joyful, modest, holy, glorious, mighty, and obedient. I would like to work on those traits.”

  “Yes, so would I,” I said.

  We floated to Suicide Prevention class. Angel Agnes hobbled to the front of the room. It seems her floating skills were slowing down due to the aging that her position brought on. “Today, for fun, we will watch a movie,” she announced in a gruff, lack-luster voice.

  We watched the movie It's a Wonderful Life. Afterward, Professor Agnes said, “This is a fictional movie made by humans about how they perceive a guardian angel and the methods the angel uses to influence the human to change his mind about committing suicide and helps him to see how important his life is and all of the good that he has done in his life. As guardian angels how can we help prevent a suicide?”

  A freshman raised his hand.

  “Yes, Grazita?”

  “Sometimes we can make the attempt unsuccessful and then the person will have time to think about what they did and they will not attempt it again if they are wise, at least not for awhile.” Grazita spoke with a European accent, obviously her sojourn on earth was European.

  “Yes, we can make the attempt unsuccessful by saving them from themselves.”

  Another student raised his hand.

  “Yes, Jerry.”

  “We can try to work through others, having others help to save them.”

  “Yes, that may work.”

  Another student raised her hand. “We can try to instill a feeling inside of them to stop doing what they are doing.”

  “Yes, a dark foreboding feeling may help, or in some cases a joyful feeling, one that takes away the pain and depression may help them save themselves,” said Angel Agnes.

  An angel raised his hand.

  “Yes?”

  “How do we instill feelings? So far, we've learned about thought instillation, but we haven't learned how to instill feelings.”

  “Good question,” said Angel Agnes. In your upcoming classes you will take Sensitivity Training. You will learn how to instill feelings to your assignments. This class is just as important as Thought instillation, but it is a little harder to do, so you take that one your second week.”

  Just then, the bell chimed. “We will discuss this more tomorrow,” said Angel Agnes.

  Chapter 14

  The four of us went to our usual table in the green lunch room.

  “What classes will we have next week?” I asked.

  “Well,” said Felix. “I think that we all have to take Controlling the Elements 201 and Thought instillation 202. But if we pass glowing, then we can choose an elective to take in its place.”

  “What about Suicide Prevention?” I asked.

  “Yes, we have to take Suicide Prevention 201 next week, if you pass 101. And we take Choir every week. We take Floating 201 if we pass 101. I think we will have to take Floating all eight weeks until we reach the point where we can float as quick as lightning,” said Journey.

  “What about Invisibility?” I asked.

  “It's one that if we pass it, we can choose an elective to replace it.” said Kevin.

  “I don't think I'm ready to pass that yet,” said Journey. “I think I can pass glowing though.”

  “Me, too,” I said.

  In our next classk, Angel Anthony began after everyone was seated.

  “Today we are going to watch a movie of an instance when evil spirit confrontation was needed. This is a scene from one of your futures.”

  The lights were turned off and the room began to be filled with the vision. A young man and woman were driving through a low income part of a large city. The man stopped to get gas at the local gas station. A scaring looking man with a gun stood in front of him and stuck it into his stomach. “Give me your money,” he demanded in a gruff voice.

  “Bruce!” the young lady screamed when she saw what was happening. Bruce showed the criminal the contents of his wallet, where he had no money. “Give me the keys to your car then,” the man said.

  “No!” said Bruce. Becky and the baby were in the car and Bruce didn't want them to be harmed.

  “Then I'll have to kill you,” said the robber.

  Just then a car drove next to the next gas station pump and the robber, distracted, moved the gun to the side of Bruce's stomach. Bruce didn't think the robber wanted to kill him, but the gun could easily go off by accident if he wasn't careful. When the gun was pointed away from him or anyone else for that split second, Bruce quickly grabbed the gun. The robber started going
toward Bruce's car. Bruce feared that the robber would hurt Becky or the baby, and he felt a powerful urge to shoot the robber, but he didn't want to shoot the robber and have that man's blood on his conscience for the rest of his life.

  Becky had been silently praying. Before the robber could get into the car, the car sped forward a few feet and knocked him to the ground. Quickly Bruce got into the car and the car sped off.

  Angel Anthony spoke after the lights came back on.

  Unseen in this example was a confrontation between a guardian angel and an evil spirit. We will watch it again to see what happened with the invisible entities present.

  This time when the robber came, a guardian angel also came to Bruce's aid. Before Bruce could be shot, the angel quickly maneuvered a distraction of another car to the area. Then the evil spirit was trying to make Bruce shoot the robber by instilling those ideas into his head, just so that someone was killed, he didn't care. But the guardian angel filled Bruce's mind with the wrongness of this action and then gave Becky the idea to put her foot on the gas to move it up a little, enough to knock down the robber. Then Bruce quickly got in the car and away they went.

  In this instance the evil spirit wanted someone to commit a sin. He didn't care who did the murder or how. There was a conflict between the evil spirit and the guardian angel, who was able to thwart the evil one. As you can see, sometimes you have to act immediately without much time for thinking. That's why we do these scenarios, to help us think of solutions so you'll be better prepared to think on your feet in situations.”

  Cami raised her hand.

  “Yes?” said Professor Anthony.

  “Whose future was this?” she asked

  “Oh, yes,” Anthony looked out upon the class. “You are all wondering. Do any of you know whose future it is?”

  No one raised there hand. I suppose none of us recognized Bruce or Becky as a family member.

  “Very well, I will tell you. This is an incident from your future, Cami.” Cami had died at age twelve so she didn't have any chidren to watch over. Perhaps it was an unrelated assignment.