Debra Landwehr Engle - Let Your Spirit Guides Speak: A Simple Guide for a Life of Purpose, Abundance, and Joy

This book is going to be a valuable tool for people who are serious about their spiritual journey. It's one of those topics that people can't get enough of and I want to thank Debra for taking on a huge topic in such a beautiful way.

ECHO BODINE, author of
My Big Book of Healing and Echoes of the Soul

It may sound contradictory, but Debra Engle is an inspirational writer with a down-to-earth style. Her conversational tone has a way of putting us at ease. Her personal anecdotes make it undeniable that we all have the ability to enter into relationship with our spirit guides. In Let Your Spirit Guides Speak, she encourages and nurtures us until we relax into the possibility that our spirit guides are not fantasies or distant mysteries, but are literally by our side whenever we are ready to request their help. By the end of this page turner, nothing feels more pressing than tuning in to those forces that are only here to uplift and love us.

AMY TORRES, author of
Sweet Dreams of Awakening

Let Your Spirit Guides Speak is a masterful work for realizing your inner mysticthe absolute guide to finding purpose, peace, and joy.

MAYA TIWARI, Ayurveda pioneer,
spiritual teacher, and author

Praise for The Only Little Prayer You Need

A delightful little book on healing our fear-based thoughts through prayer.

JON MUNDY, PHD, author of
Living A Course in Miracles
and publisher of Miracles magazine

Debra Engle's The Only Little Prayer You Need took my breath away as I sat reading it. Like Engle, I, too, have been a student of A Course in Miracles for thirty years. And also like her, it has taught me all the important spiritual tools I rely on every day. However, her little prayer provides a much-needed shortcut to peace-filled living that everyone, Course student or not, can use daily. Hourly, even minute by minute. Thank you, Debra. I needed to read your book today. I needed to shift my perception on a current situation and your book and prayer did just that for me.

KAREN CASEY, PHD, author of
Each Day a New Beginning

Copyright 2016 by Debra Landwehr Engle

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ISBN: 978-1-57174-740-2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Engle, Debra Landwehr, author.

Title: Let your spirit guides speak : a simple guide for a life of purpose, abundance, and joy / Debra Landwehr Engle.

Description: Charlottesville : Hampton Roads Pub., 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016008013 | ISBN 9781571747402 (5 7 tp : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Guides (Spiritualism)

Classification: LCC BF1275.G85 E54 2016 | DDC 133.9--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016008013

Printed in the United States of America

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A FEW MONTHS AGO, I sat at a bagel shop having lunch with a friend. We talked, as we always do, about the ups and downs of our lives: her challenges as a single mom, what it takes to run a business, how much we love lemon bars.

One of the things I treasure about our conversations is that, underneath them all, there's a spiritual thread. Our discussions are not so much about what we've done, but what it all means. Even when we're raving about lemon bars, we're really talking about abundance and joy (which, to be fair, may then be followed up with a conversation that's really about losing weight).

During this particular conversation, I mentioned something I find myself talking about more and more these days: my spirit guides. I told her that I'd spent time listening to them that morning, and they'd given me another aha insight.

My friend looked at me and began to cry.

What's wrong? I asked.

I forget, she said. I forget that we have guides. I forget that I'm never alone.

It was poignant to see this powerhouse of a young woman brought to tears by the reminder of spiritual comfortsomething we all have and constantly forget.

That's why I'm writing this book.

I've been blessed to be aware of spirit guidesor angels, light beings, or entities by other namesas a constant and real presence in my life since my youth. But it's only recently that I've been brave enough to talk about them out loud.

Clearly, my guides think it's time.

When I wrote The Only Little Prayer You Need, I alluded to the idea that we're moving into a new conversation with Spirit. We need to go beyond prayer to build a co-creative relationshipa relationship in which not only do our guides help us fulfill our purpose, but we help extend their love into this world. We work not just for our own good, but for the good of the whole.

And judging by the fear-driven conflict and acrimony we're bombarded with daily, that's going to take some intervention.

I'm writing this book because we have a vast resource of spiritual help available to us, and we're not making the best use of it. We feel cut off from it, we're afraid of it, we think we're not worthy, or we snort in a cynical sort of way when someone mentions the possibility that spiritual guidance exists. After all, aside from 84 percent of the world's population, who would actually believe in a spiritual power?

This is a gift
that all of us on the
planet right now
have been given.

The point is that there are unseen helpers for all of us. Instead of waiting for them to get our attention or prove they exist, we need to throw up the veil between our worlds and say, I want to know you. I want to hear you. I want to work with you.

This is a gift that all of us on the planet right now have been given. We have the opportunity to explore and understand personal spiritual guidance in a way that few people have been able to before. We can take spiritual texts seriously when they talk about angels and guides. And we get to fully embrace this remarkable time, when even quantum physics acknowledges other planes of existence.

Think about it this way: Imagine you're an astronaut, and the group in the control room at NASA is your team of spirit guides. They can't control every decision you make. But they are with you constantly, watching everything you do, and they are available every moment if you have a question or need help.

Like the team at NASA, our guides accompany us on our journey. They nudge, advise, protect, and companion us. And, if we listen, they help ensure that we complete our Earth mission with the greatest success.

MANY YEARS AGO, author Gary Zukav appeared on Oprah discussing soul growth. When they opened up the discussion to questions from the audience, a woman asked Zukav if she should start her own jewelry business.

Why, he said, are you asking me?

His response woke me up to a major problem in my life, which I believe is a major problem in all our lives: we keep looking to other people for answers, which may give us a quick fix but eventually leaves us disappointed, frustrated, and seeking once again.