Did you know you had wings?
by Susan K. Sanderford
illustrated by Pamela J. Smith

Straight from Mother Mary's heart to yours "Did you know you had wings?" expresses the divine love Mother Mary has for each of her children, whether young or old. As you read you will feel Mother Mary's love surround you, and your heart will be touched. Based on Susan's life-changing visionary experience, this story is designed to build self esteem in our children and within your own inner child.

The happiness-provoking illustrations of Pamela J. Smith will have you smiling. Perfect for ages 1 to 100+. (48 full color pages) $14.98 + S&H

"Tears flowed down my cheeks and my heart opened wide as I read 'Did you know you had wings!' Thank you Susan, Mother Mary and the brilliant artist Pamela." RL - Akron, Ohio

"Guess what my three grandchildren and my older brother are getting for Christmas? Thank you, thank you, thank you. What a healing blessing!" SC - Beaver, Oregon

Messages of Love from Mother Mary's Heart
by Susan Sanderford
illustrated by Dr. Henry Reed

Mother Mary asked of Susan, “Share my words, and my love, with all my children until they can hear my voice for themselves.” This book is a result of that request. Designed to introduce you to the loving words of Mother Mary, as-well-as to serve as a meditation guide to help you personally connect with Mother Mary’s loving heart and healing presence.

In this incredible book there are 52 channeled messages of love, one for each week of the year. Each message is accompanied with original and stunning Heart-Art by the gifted Dr. Henry Reed. The purpose of this book is to help you find the voice of Mother Mary within your own heart. It is there you will find her waiting to answer your call for guidance, wisdom, understanding and love. (116 full color pages) $26.95 + S&H

"Wow! Susan you did a great job producing this book. It's wonderful to hold and read and look at. I'm honored to have my art with such spiritually uplifting company!" Henry Reed - Mouth of Wilson, Virginia

"A stunning and heart healing aid to connect with the divine within! Powerful." MH - Austin, Texas

The picture to the left shows the center section of Mary's 300' diameter garden. This is the exact spot where the ten foot tall Western Red Cedar Native American totem carving of Mother Mary will stand within the next 21 days.

After loosening the hard and rocky ground with a shovel, here we see Susan, with her trusty trough, preparing the area by removing the hundreds of rocks per square yard from this not-so-ideal soil. Just as we promised, one rock at a time.

We haven't ruled out our original dream of Spirit dropping several million dollars in our laps to pave the way, but we're willing to do whatever it takes, however long it takes. If you'd like to join in to help make the process faster and easier, please consider making a donation to the Casa Garden Fund that will allow us to hire some part-time professional landscaping assistance.

Mary's Garden will be the focal point, the invitation to visit the Casa de Santa Maria. A welcome to all regardless of religion, belief, or race, to come and rest while connecting with the Divine, amidst the nonjudgmental peace and beauty that's being created. A place to leave worries and concerns behind, and just BE and ENJOY! From that spiritual oasis the healing energy will flow. We welcome you to be a part of it all!

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness...
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone...

People, even more than things, have to be restored,
renewed, revived, reclaimed,and redeemed;
So never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
You will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands;
One for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.

The miracle happened during our visit to the beautiful gardens and sacred waters of Chalice Well in Glastonbury England. (It was after hours so our group had these magnificent Gardens all to ourselves.)

Earlier in the day, during meditation, Mother Mary asked Susan to channel a message from her to our band of pilgrims while at Chalice Well. While Susan had Mary on the line, so-to-speak, Susan asked Mother Mary if she would honor the group with the miracle of the spinning sun as commonly witnessed in the sacred Village of Medjugorje, Bosnia. (Susan did not share that conversation with any in our group.)

Soon after the beautiful and moving channeling service had ended, our dear friend Susan Palmer came running down from the upper garden terrace, excitedly exclaiming "Would you come up the hill with me, I think I'm seeing the spinning sun!" As many of us joined Susan Palmer to the higher ground, sure enough, there we witnessed the miracle of the spinning sun. We were in awe.

Many of us who have visited Medjugorje in the past have been witness to this incredible phenomenon while there. Now to see it again, in this part of the world, was almost beyond belief. In all their travels, even our tour guides Cameron and Glenn have never witnessed the spinning sun.

For those who aren't familiar with the spinning sun of Medjugorje, I reprint the following from our Casa website tour section.

Inexplicably you find yourself staring directly into the sun on a cloudless day. We all know that doing something this foolish can cause grave injury to your eyes, yet there you are staring into the bright light without regard to harm. (Here I can only describe my experience since it seems to vary slightly for others.)

From behind the glare of brightness came a variety of colors, blue, green and pink the most predominant. The colors seemed to be spinning clockwise around the sun. Almost immediately it was as though someone caused a total eclipse, as the bright sun was blocked out and one was left viewing the spinning colors emanating from behind the eclipse with kind of a centrifugal effect. Slowly at first, then speeding up.

Then the entire vision began to wobble as though the sun was spinning off-axis. Talk about your "WOW-what-was-that?" experiences.

Here's how Susan describes what she saw. "As I stared at the sun a dark round shape came from the right and eclipsed the sun. Then the sun started spinning on it's axis and from the sun emanated these beautiful pink, blue and green colors filling the sky. Then the sun appeared to wobble as if off its axis. The experience left you awestruck!"

Thank you for giving us that miracle Mother Mary, and Susan, thank you for asking for it!

What busy lives we all lead, and how much enters our life that causes us to waste time in mundane activities! In that spirit, we're trying a little experiment.

Until last month we've been sending you both the monthly Casa Newsletter and our mid-month Casa-Gram with more lighter background news and pictures. Last month we skipped the Casa-Gram. Did you miss it?

We realize how busy everyone is and we certainly don't want to fill up your mail box with unwanted material. What do you think? Are two communications from the Casa one-too-many? Or, do you enjoy receiving both. Let us know, and we'll listen to your preference.

Our goal is to have you feel a part of what's happening in the high desert country in San Luis Valley, Colorado. We want you to support this effort to build a spiritual healing oasis with your prayers and, if you're able, financially as well.

We're trying to find the right level of communication that will help you feel joyfully involved, but not over burdened. What do you think? Continue the Casa-Gram as well, or just send the first of the month newsletter? Talk to us!

Please email us with your comments: casadesantamaria@mac.com

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious Human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself. To expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts toward others, I am not going to get angry , or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as I can." — Dalai Lama