Type A and B People

“You have Plan A and then you make Plan B to fall back on. Now, you’ve got to get rid of Plan B. ‘But how do I do that? All my life, I’ve tried. All my life, I’ve tried. All my life, I’ve tried.’ …So what is the problem? I shall tell you.

Type A people get an idea and they go with it. They do their homework, they figure out what they have to do – I go from here to here to here to here – and they don’t sweat the details. They don’t bother about the details. Something breaks; fix it. Something isn’t moving; get another one. Somebody says, ‘You can’t do that.’ ‘Watch me.’

Type B people worry about the details. ‘I would like to go from here to there, but you know what? 'There are little lines here, there are squares, hmm. I wonder if I should step on that square or that one. I better not step between them. I better not go from here to there because I’m not sure which square I should step on. Well, it was a good thought.’

Go forward. Don’t bother about little details. Get your idea, take your inspiration, use your enthusiasm, and go from here to there. All of the little things in between will take care of themselves. They always do.

…It’s that kind of thinking that makes a Type B person: fear of the adventure. Supposing everyone was afraid of adventure, would you have ever discovered the world was round? No, indeed. Sailing ships will only go so far for fear of falling off the earth.

…Now we are going to talk about these three things [i.e. Daring, Confidence in God Self and Trust] because in order to transform you from Type B to a Type A, we’ve got to deal with each one of these things. Now, a Type A person has a lot of daring. I’m not talking about foolishness. I’m talking about daring. They dare to be adventurous. They dare to go forth and investigate, to find out, to get to know, to learn.

They also dare to expand their minds past what they already know. Now, we talked a little bit about expanding your minds this morn. You’ve got to learn to think past your limitations, because if you stay within the periphery of your limitations, you do not have daring. And that is one of the first prerequisites of being a Type A person is to be daring.

…Now, this is Type B thinking: come to an obstacle and give up. Come to an obstacle and say, ‘Well, it is the will of God that I do not do this.’ …Now this is how the life vibration works. If you’re willing to stop, it will stop. But if you turn it about and say, ‘No, we’re going to do this,’ then life will take you to where you need to be. But you have to have daring.

Now, daring requires confidence in yourself and in God. And there’s something very strange about confidence: when you make believe you have it, you have it. When you think, ‘I’m not sure I can do this, but here goes,’ and you do it anyway and it works, what happens? You feel very good about yourself. You think, ‘I did that! I really, really did that!’ and you’re confident.

…When you pretend you have confidence, and you go forward, what happens? The real thing comes in and replaces your pretense. Then you really have confidence. Then you really, really can go forward. Now once you get confidence in yourself and in God… and you know something? God has an interesting aspect to it, because God follows this rule: Thy will be done. That’s what God says, ‘Thy will be done.’

You say to God, ‘I want to do something.’ God says, ‘Go for it. I’m with you all the way,’ and God is with you all the way. Once you have that, now you’ve got no reason not to have trust – trust in yourself and trust in God.

Now, that’s a grand truth. Every single person in this room trusts God. You all trust God. If someone said to you, ‘Well, what if God doesn’t…’ ‘Oh, I trust God. God will take care of me. God will look after me.’ You know where the lack of trust is? In yourself! You don’t believe that you’ve got the smarts to do what it needs to have your program, your project, successful. You think, ‘I’d like to do that. Yes, I would, but oh, I wish I was smarter. I wish I stayed in school. I wish I had more money. I wish, I wish, I wish.’ If wishes were horses, beggars would be kings.

So let’s take wishes and turn them around. Let us suppose that instead of saying, ‘I wish,’ you say, ‘I will. I will do this. I will have this. I will know this.’ Now you establish that. That is one of the ways of establishing confidence. Now you take it a step further and you claim your God Self. ‘I AM.’ When God breathed you forth and you became conscious, living beings, you awakened to a great joy. You awakened to an unbelievable love. And the first thing that uttered forth from the human awareness was ‘I AM! I AM! I AM!’ And it was a marvel to you. ‘I AM!’ You felt, you believed in, you knew: ‘I AM.’

…The words ‘I AM’ is a command to life. It is a command of energy. That’s why we [i.e. angels] shudder every time we hear someone say, ‘Oh, I’m tired,’ or ‘I am ill,’ or ‘I am poor,’ or I am disgusted, or ‘I am…’ Anything that’s negative; we cringe because you’re calling it forth with great power. But when you say, ‘I AM,’ so you are bringing in the very life force into whatever you follow up with.”

02/16/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, MANIFESTING, Pgs. 210-214. Copyright 2019 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. Photo: ID 346591077 © Miftah Rasit | Dreamstime.com

"Oh My Gods"

“When they [i.e. Oh my Gods] present themselves, and I care not what form they take or where you are when they attack you, you take that moment and you close your eyes. You go up to your Source. …You go up to that silent place and you make your connection. It is simple to make that connection. You simply go there and you say, ‘Thank you My God for being one with me now.’ You bring that back with you. As you come into your mental body, you say to it, ‘Peace, be still. There is nothing that you can think that is not of God, and all that you think this moment is transformed into that which is good.’”

02/10/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDITATION, Pgs. 11-12, June 6, 1993. Copyright 1993 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved.

Understanding Situations

"Now there are always certain elements that are involved in any earthly situation. The first element is the opportunity to use your God-Self. That is always the first and foremost reason why one chooses certain difficulties. They give you the opportunity to prove that you are master over them, that you are never a victim, that you are never on the receiving end or the short end of the stick.

The second reason is discernment. How do you look at a situation? How do you see what you are into? Do you see it as something fearful, something over which you have no control, or do you see it as, 'I shall walk through this and I shall take from it it's blessing, That is all that I shall take from it' ? That is a difficult thing because you are looking at a situation that would appear to you to be unbearable or unsolvable or 'How can I ever make my way through this?' Yet, regardless of that, the higher part of you is encouraging you to be in tune with your force.

Know you how you had a make-believe story upon your picture boxes about traveling through space and meeting monsters and all of that sort of thing and the key phrase to that was, 'May the force be with you.' Remember that? You are always with the force. That is a very fine blessing to wish upon another - may the force be with you. But to deal with your situations, you have to go within yourself and know the force, the power of your spirit. When you do that, angel help comes in instantly for that is what we are there for. We come and we hold that vibration of spirituality around you and we see you through every bit of it.

The other aspect that is so very important and that a lot of people don't even look at is forgiveness. When you are in a difficulty, it usually involves another person or sometimes more than one person. Your tendency to blame rises up very strongly, the tendency to see the other fellow as the reason why you are in the mess you are in and not recognize that that individual or many individuals, whomever you are dealing with, are there doing exactly what you requested of them. That is a very hard lesson.

Look at your antagonists, for they are mirroring to you the lesson you asked for. You think, 'No way. I can't accept that. I would never ask these people to treat me so poorly. I would never do that. No way.' Oh yes you do. Why do you? First of all, most of you believe you deserve it. But more importantly, you are asking, 'Dear God, help me to know how strong I am. Help me to know the power that I have as the child of God. Help me to love my antagonists and to forgive them for what appears to me to be something unforgivable. And in that forgiveness, Father, allow me to understand that they have given to me the gift I asked of them.'

That is an extremely difficult thing because nobody wants to be in a hard place. Everyone wants to think they got there accidentally or because of another person's mistake. The truth is that you are always in your hard places because that is what you have chosen. When you reach into that forgiveness, what is going on?

First, there is nothing to forgive the person for because he only gave you what you asked him to. So where does this forgiveness come in? Why would one need to ask for forgiveness? It is because you are asking for yourself. You are asking for your own forgiveness. Since it is nearly impossible for the average human being to look at their own need, by personality standards, to be forgiven, you always project it outward onto someone else, a situation if not a person.

When you are forgiving, what are you doing? You are recognizing that this is a gift, a wonderous gift. In recognizing the gift you are recognizing that forgiveness is the releasing and letting go of every error perception that you held that caused you to draw this to you in the first place. It is a form of cleansing, of releasing, of letting go, of getting rid of all of the debris that you pulled to you, that drew this very thing that you hated so. So you are cleansing. You are releasing and letting go of every error perception that you held about yourself that would have made you draw draw to you a painful situation. Because forgiveness is part of an error perception, when you truly forgive, you come up out of that realization of the error perception,"

02/09/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, HOW WE ARE GUIDED, September 13, 1998, Pgs. 10-12. Copyright 1998 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved.