If you are here, you’re here for a reason. That is part of
what you do when you commit to a path of a spiritual nature. You say, “I’m
going to do this, now.” Okay, so say you are 21 years old. Maybe you’ve
graduated from college with a degree in something, but it’s not something you
are really committed to. You don’t have to be. As you will learn, the older you
get, the more options you have.
When my husband got his degree in German, he moved to
Germany (with his first wife) to become fluent in the language. He did not have
a job that used his German, but in these years after college, the idea was to
become fluent. By the time I met him, his wife had gone, he had thrown his
wedding ring into the Isar River, and he had lots of German friends.
Eventually, we married as we had hit it off right away. Shortly
before we married, he got a job teaching German to newly arrived American Army
soldiers. There were two classes. One for enlisted personnel, which was 20
hours in language instruction and 20 hours with practical knowledge of this new
country. They would take a trip into town, order beer, use a telephone, learn
how to read the bus and train schedules, and just get comfortable living in a
new country. Because my husband, while he was an enlisted soldier as a
translator of Romanian and German for newly arrived people from Romania, could
relate to these enlisted soldiers, he was very popular.
The other class was for officers. It too was a 40-hour
class, except it was all about learning the language. They found out that
Dennis and the enlisted soldiers had a grand time on the 20 hours spent on the
economy, as we called it, they wanted to do that too. Dennis was all about
exploring the countryside, going to churches and castles, and just roaming
around. He felt his interest would dovetail nicely with this request for a
field trip. So, there began his trips with the officers. These also would show
how to order in a restaurant, how to place your cutlery just so on your dinner
plate to indicate the meal was good, and a bit of a history lesson, which was
his forte. Word spread. The spouses (mostly wives) wanted in on the
entertainment, and eventually, a tour business was born.
As the years went on, not too many, he got a call from
somebody at the University of Maryland, European Division in Heidelberg which
was a couple of hours away from where we lived in Stuttgart. The University of
Maryland had a two-year campus in Munich specifically for the children of active-duty
military and embassy personnel stationed in Europe. It kept the kids closer to
home than if they were on their own Stateside. That’s what I was doing when I
met Dennis in Munich. The school has since closed, but McGraw Kaserne was handed
back to the Germans and is still being used to house immigrants from other
countries.
Also, the University of Maryland offers lunch and evening
classes leading to college degrees for active-duty military and their
dependents, scattered across Europe and Asia on four continents.
I went with Dennis to his meeting in Heidelberg. He sat
across the desk. We had no idea why he had been invited to talk. The person on
the other side of the desk slid a book across the desk to Dennis and said, “Your
first class is tonight at Kelly Barracks.” And that’s how it started. We lived
in Stuttgart for another three or four years while Dennis began teaching
college courses for the University of Maryland. He did not have the master’s
degree required of the other teachers. It was his students in the Gateway
program who had recommended him. We never found out who it was.
We figured one of his students might have said something.
What was neat about where we lived was that it was top-heavy with brass. That
means there were many higher-ranking officers there. I can remember walking around
the post where my family was living and seeing a private. It was like bird
watching. You mostly saw generals dripping with medals and all the trimmings higher-ranking
officers had. But, to see a private? That was a novelty. Also, we had members
from five services represented at Patch Barracks. It was the USEUCOM – United States
European Command, and you’d see Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and the
Coast Guard walking around.
Eventually, we returned to the United States. Because of
that pesky requirement of a master’s degree for teachers at the University of Maryland
European Division, Dennis had never been able to teach the higher-level German
language classes. He had the curriculum for levels One and Two memorized but
was never able to teach the upper-level classes. So, we returned Stateside so
he could go back to school at the University of Maryland in College Park to
earn his master's and his doctorate.
Going to graduate school is a stress-filled existence. He
did earn his master’s degree in German, but we decided not to continue with the
doctorate. Instead, nine years into our marriage, we moved to California and
started a new life. He was unable to find a job teaching German there. Most
people wanted to learn Spanish at the time. One thing led to another, and he
got a job teaching folks to pass the state’s insurance licensing exam. Nothing
could be further away from learning German, with that job, but it was a job.
One thing led to another, and eventually he passed the
licensing exams for the insurance license and the Series 7 and 63 exams for a
stockbroker’s license in California. It was a living, but it was 100 times more
stressful than earning a doctorate in German.
Then, he broke his back. He came that close to never walking
again, and now, many years later, he is two inches shorter and is a writer and
an historian. Again, the jobs fell into his lap. It was as if the universe knew
he was ready.
My own life as a psychic channel has been similar. I fell
into the books and the people I needed to know for this happy accident to
happen. We celebrate our 50th anniversary this year. Who would have
thought?
Have the dream and then follow it wherever it takes you.
And thanks for reading. I’ve listed a few places where I am
on the internet below. Check out the last link to see what resources I
recommend if you’d like to learn how to channel, too.
🌺 Pauline
Evanosky
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