Prophecy What the Future Holds for You

Introduction I was eighteen years old. I'd been psychic for eighteen years, but I still hadn't made peace with it. I was starting to do readings for people, successfully, and I was even building a clientele, to my amazement. The problem was, while I never doubted my God-given ability to see into people's futures (I didn't especially appreciate it, but I never doubted it), I kept hoping that somehow none of these new clients would notice that, accurate or not, I didn't especially know what I was doing or how I was doing it. Except for my much adored and brilliantly psychic Grandma Ada, I had no one to talk to about it, no one to ask advice from or express my insecurities to or, probably most of all, tremble to about the responsibility of people turning to me for insights and warnings about what their lives held in store.And so, I began reading everything I could get my hands on about other people who'd seemed to be ?like me,? communicating with spirits, seeing clients, peering into the future, using their gifts for other people's benefit and trying to serve God in the process. Somewhere between a biography of Madame Helena Blavatsky and one of Edgar Cayce's many books I became intrigued with the idea of expanding my visions of the future from one client at a time to the world at large, just like Cayce and Madame Blavatsky and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and so many others I was reading about had done, with often remarkable accuracy. I wasn't very ceremonious about it. I just sat down one day, surrounded myself with the White Light of the Holy Spirit to keep God's presence and protection around me, told Him what I was about to do (as if He didn't know) and prayed for His wisdom and insights as I looked into the future of life on earth, took a deep meditative breath and nearly fainted. The rush of images and sounds and flashes and special effects and explosions and music and words and cars and doctors and rocket ships'it was like seeing and hearing every movie you've ever sat through, all at the same time, superimposed over one another. Needless to say, I put a stop to that very quickly, and realized that if I was ever going to be able to expand my gift to anything beyond one-on-one prophecies, I was going to have to find a way to organize those prophecies into some kind of sequence my mind could sort out and make sense of. After a bit of trial and error early on, I finally learned that breaking prophecies down into one subject at a time'focusing on that one subject and then stepping aside for whatever information comes in'was what worked best for me. Which explains the structure you'll find in the pages of this book. As some of you may know, I have ?standing dates? on several television and radio shows to do annual New Year's predictions for the coming year. Those are great fun, and I enjoy them and am thrilled to be accurate enough that they keep inviting me back. But this book, subject by subject rather than year by year, is written at my real ?comfort level? and my ultimate pleasure when it comes to prophecies. I hesitate to call them ?my? prophecies, because again, ultimately, everything comes from God. That doesn't mean you should read these prophecies as a series of divine messages directly from Him. As you'll read in Chapter 3, prophecies have a variety of sources, all of which trace back to our Creator, but by the time we fallible humans have finished translating them and communicating them, we're bound to get it wrong some of the time. I simply meant to acknowledge that never do I write a book, do a reading, give a lecture, make a media appearance, appear at a book signing or, for that matter, even take a breath, without God and His love at its core. I thank Him for being with me through every page of writing Prophecy, and with you through every page of reading it. ?Sylvia C. Browne PROPHECY Chapter One[read more]