toward the light if you can see or sense it.”
Karen sprinkled the holy water as she followed Lizzy. Lizzy demanded, “We consecrate this room and this house in the name of God the Father, God the Mother, Jesus and in the name of the Holy Spirit, Amen.”
They winded their way through the whole house and ended in the living room where they started and said the following prayer together:
“Lord we commit this house to you today, if any wrongs have been done to bring this upon this house or this family we ask forgiveness. If any spirit is lost and seeking the light we ask that you and the angels lead the way to peace for these spirits. We ask you to call angels to guard this house as we now commit it to you Dear Father. Guard Karen, Brandi and Billy. Protect those who enter this house. This family is now consecrated and freely given to you God, and now we put our trust and confidence in you to protect us, in the name of Jesus, Amen.”
Lizzy motioned for Karen to follow her outside. She then sprinkled salt in front of each door and began walking in a circle clockwise around the property sprinkling the salt in a protective circle.
The two friends walked with a lighter skip in their feeling something had lifted.
“Thank you Lizzy.” Karen said as she hugged her friend.
Lizzy felt the faint buzz pulsing through her body that she always felt after working with energy. She was feeling very revved up. Lizzy felt this same vibrational buzz in her Ordination class when learning Reiki. It must be a good sign that the energy is moving more freely and in a positive way, she thought.
“Do you think God would mind if we had a glass of wine?” Karen asked sheepishly.
“I don’t think so, let’s have a toast to a blessed house!”
Chapter 8
The three weeks that passed since Tina had visited Brandi left her feeling unbalanced. So many strange things had been going on she thought maybe she was going crazy. At one point she really had thought she might be certifiable. Fortunately did find out that she was not the only one experiencing strange occurrences.
The wall knocking started the night after she arrived home. At first, she thought it was Greg. Why would he do that? She tried to ignore it. Then she heard Anna moving furniture around at all hours of the night. This went on for three weeks when finally on Sunday she heard a loud knock on her door. She opened the door to find Greg standing on the other side. He had a scowl on his face normally smiling face. “Hi Greg,” she said, “what’s up?”
“What’s up with you?” he was obviously annoyed.
Tina stood there for a moment not knowing what to do, and then motioned for Greg to come in. He had been in her apartment before and made his way to the couch. She noticed he looked tired.
“Greg, what is it?”
“Tina, what have you been doing over here? I’ve heard you knocking on the wall and I don’t know if you and Anna have some kind of furniture moving pact but I can hear you two moving furniture at all hours of the night! If it’s not you, it’s her. You know, we’ve all gotten on pretty well here together but I’ve got to get some sleep!”
“I am not knocking on the wall and I haven’t moved my furniture around either as you can plainly see!” Tina felt embarrassed but wasn’t sure why.
“Tina, I can hear you! How can you tell me it isn’t you?”
“Well, it isn’t. I thought it was you. I’ve been hearing furniture moving in Anna’s apartment and I’ve heard the wall knocking but I thought it was you. I didn’t know what to think.”
This answer clearly was not satisfying Greg. “I’m tired Tina, I haven’t slept in three weeks and I’m just asking you to stop.”
“It isn’t me, Greg, I swear!”
As the two students sat in silence and pondered the other’s nocturnal behavior, four loud knocks sounded off on the wall between Tina and Greg’s
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