<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d8f57c1e-341a-4730-9eea-d22fa37c5e77/EE076E8E-60FB-4333-8583-1593E888A599/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2007/08/spiritual-friendships-and-ange.html" href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2007/08/spiritual-friendships-and-ange.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.beliefnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2007/08/spiritual-friendships-and-ange.html"><P>"So let me get this straight," a friend of a friend said to me last night. "You drove eight hours up to Boston to stay with a <A href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2006/12/my-guardian-angel-ann.html">woman you met on an Amtrak train </A>two years ago, and with whom you’ve kept in touch all that time? But you have never seen her except for on the train?"</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2007/08/spiritual-friendships-and-ange.html"><P>"Yep," I said. Weird, huh?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2007/08/spiritual-friendships-and-ange.html"><P>And you know what’s even weirder? This "stranger" understands me better than some of my family members who’ve been with me for most of my life.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2007/08/spiritual-friendships-and-ange.html"><P>They don’t make sense (according to human logic)--these spiritual friendships that happen in the most curious of ways. They defy reasoning because people meet not through mutual friends or business correspondence, but according to some divine matchmaking service.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2007/08/spiritual-friendships-and-ange.html"><P>I can just hear God saying this: "Therese needs Ann because she’s been where Therese is going to go, and Ann can guide her through the difficult places. Ann needs Therese because she needs to know her story is valid and worthy of hearing."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EE076E8E-60FB-4333-8583-1593E888A599/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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