Beautiful Inside and Out
-The Story of How Lorna Byrne Showed Me that I was Beautiful-
This is the story of how Lorna Byrne, an Irish woman who has seen angels since birth, changed my life.
First I saw a video of Lorna telling her story on Youtube. She seemed different in a beautiful way. She glowed, and her wisdom and peace moved me. I was moved by her having made it through with such grace so many trials throughout her life.
Intrigued, I looked at the links below the video and saw that there is a place called the Sanctuary in Ireland where Lorna does retreats. The photos looked so beautiful, and there were forest walks, Scottish Highland cows, and sheep on the property.
Around the time that I had watched Lorna’s video, I had been wearing a red coat that I couldn’t zip up because it was too small for me. This red coat magnified my insecurity about my fuller size, as every time I would put it on I would feel “too big” and ugly.
Even though I exercised and ate a diet that would have otherwise been seen as balanced, I had to take an indisposable medication for a life threatening condition that gave me extra weight. I was fuller. This medication affects my metabolism. I found myself undesirable physically.
The next morning, after seeing Lorna’s videos about her seeing angels since her birth, I went to a local coffee shop to get a coffee and oat milk. I heard Lorna’s voice in my mind’s eye, and I felt a true peace. She said: “Buy the green coat,” and i saw an image of the Target store. Then, as if by an angel, I looked down at the cafe floor, and i saw a small purple flower that had fallen. I just felt in my heart that it was from Lorna on s spiritual level. I pocketted the flower then headed to Target.
Surely enough, I found a green coat that was big and warm that I could zip up! I purchased it, and I keep the flower in my pocket. I live in Minnesota, and the winters get bitter-cold, so it was a nice change.
That experience was powerful enough for me that I decided to sign up for one of Lorna’s retreats at the Sanctuary.
When I first met Lorna at the Sanctuary, the first thing she said to me was “You are beautiful.” She meant it. For that entire first retreat, people kept telling me how beautiful I was, and surely with angelic help, I realized that I felt more beautiful than I ever had! One of the women at the retreat, and i were talking, and she said “You are beautiful, but you don’t think you are.” I still had more work to do. It was interesting to me that people could tell that just be looking at me.
Lorna’s Sanctuary is a truly divine place full of peace, abundant nature, angels and grace. It is full of friendship, healing, prayer and simple joys.
When I left the Sanctuary after that first retreat, I added several new prayers to my daily prayer list. Two of them were: “I pray to God that I know that I am beautiful inside and out,” and the other was “ I pray to God that every man, woman, and all life knows that they are beautiful inside and out, no matter what they look like.
I signed up for a second retreat at the Sanctuary six months later. I knew I had come a long way since that first retreat. Lorna said to me that my beloved guardian angel kept saying “Isn’t she glowing?” and that was truly how I felt. I felt strong, beautiful and abundant in blessings and new friends. There is something about the Sanctuary that makes making friends so natural and easy and beautiful, truly with everyone there! There are no clicks at the Sanctuary. I was the same weight, and I was still doing the best I could with moderate exercise and a fairly healthy vegetarian diet, but this time, I knew that I was beautiful.
Lorna and I during our solo time, that everyone gets at the Sanctaury for ten minutes on teh last day, spoke about how many people spend so much energy finding themselves ugly or too big or undesirable as I used to. Lorna taught me that beauty is a radiance and something we must all know that we possess inside and out! No matter what we look like, we are beautiful, and we must believe it!
I returned from that second Sanctuary trip about a month ago, and I made so many new friends, danced, prayed, hugged beautiful, ancient Irish trees, and laughed with beautiful women, men, angels, cows and sheep!
This morning, now back in the USA, I saw a group of high school aged girls walk into the coffee shop. One young woman in particular caught my eye who was not only fuller figured like I am, but also I could just tell she didn’t find herself beautiful. Just as Lorna could tell with me! I sent her a prayer that she knows how beautiful she is inside and out, and then I put on my green coat that fits perfectly, with the flower in the pocket, and continued on with my day.