A MAGICAL HOLIDAY SEASON

Now is the holiday time of year when everyone is thinking of what to give to whom. I would like to share some gifts of the emotional and spiritual box. For many years, I shared wishes for all to have the true riches in life; these are Peace, True Love, Friendship, and Good Health.

In conversation #91, (and also chapter 12 in Messages), our Spirit group brought gifts to Lisa and me. These offerings were powerful and timeless. I share them here with you.

1.     The gift of Life. The earth nourishes and grows the most magnificent things. And I give you the ability to grow in your life.

2.     The gift of Love. To remind you that love is the answer. Love, above everything; it doesn’t matter about anything but love, and love is what will see you through.

3.     The gift of Peace. To remember that the gift of peace is what heals. When you are in the silence and you find that place of peace, everything is possible.

4.     The gift of Foundation. The foundation that you are putting in now will move you forward to the next step, the next phase, the next area in your life.

5.     The gift of laughter. To always find the good in things. And to be able to laugh at yourself is the greatest gift you can have.

6.     The gift of Joy. No matter what happens, find the joy and it will bring you back to center.

7.     The gift of Forgiveness. With forgiveness comes peace.

8.     The gift of Gratitude. We are thankful to share our energy with you, thankful to love you.

There is also something that has stayed in my heart regarding gifting that I would like to share. This was a gift many, many years ago from my aunt. It is a little box, 2”x2”x2”; it has shiny silver wrapping with a gold colored cord. On the bottom of the box, slipped between the gold cord and the wrapping, I found a note. I share this note from an unknown author.

I bet you think this box is empty. It is not. It’s full of love. It’s a very small box because there isn’t one large enough to hold all the Love I have to give. The wonderful thing is I didn’t buy this love. I was born with it and I can give it to anyone I want. I hope you will enjoy and treasure my Love, because it never runs out and I have more to give.

Let’s all go beyond the limits and, using our spark of life, send everyone we know these wondrous gifts, and make this the highest and best holiday season for one and all.

ANIMALS, CREATURES and CRITTERS

I died as a mineral and became a plant,

I died as a plant and rose to animal,

I died as an animal and I was man.

Why should I fear? When was I ever less by dying?

Yet once more I shall die as man,

to soar in the Blessed Realm;

but even from godhood I must pass on…

The Mathnawi as recorded in The 21 Lessons of Merlyn

 by Douglas Monroe

Animals, creatures and critters are connected to us by our God-Spark of life. It is important to acknowledge they are all on a spiritual journey, just as all 2–legged earthlings are. We need to respect their life and their journey. The domestic animals (dogs, cats, horses, etc.) are a part of our soul group and as such are with us through as many lifetimes as needed.

Swat a fly, kill a wasp, poison an ant, we are ending their spiritual journey here. Offer prayers for their heart and soul. Something as simple as “Bless your heart to the heart of the Creator” will give peace to their journey home. Ask the blessings of the Creator to accept these animals, creatures and critters back into His kingdom. There, their souls will take a break, rest, and come back again. Think for just a minute about the animals, creatures and critters who have returned to God’s kingdom. This is millions of souls, incomprehensible amounts of living energy.

Each animal, creature and critter has individual meanings from the higher dimensions. Their messages appear to us in Divine Timing under the guidance of the Light beings of both our world and the world of the animal, creature or critter involved. As we receive their messages, we need to be constantly aware that their messages are coming to us from the higher dimensions of Light for our soul growth.

As conscious, living energy, these animals, creatures and critters understand who we are and how we “shape up” as caregivers. And they know with absolute certainty why they have come into our lives. Can we imagine what kind of feelings these animals, creatures and critters will carry back to the Spirit world as a direct result of our care giving? And can we imagine, in a future world when they return to us, would we welcome these souls back into our energy fields to experience the same care giving we offered to them?

Let us strive each day to show the animals, critters and creatures in our world that we acknowledge and honor their spiritual journey alongside ours. Always, be kind, compassionate and loving to all animals, creatures and critters, as so many are angels that have come into our lives specifically to us to help us.  We never know which members of our soul group have returned to us in a lower form to offer their love and Light to our hearts.

CONSCIOUS LIVING

Thoughts, feelings and actions are all conscious energies. So, what exactly does the phrase “conscious living” mean? It is certainly a term mentioned often in spiritual communities in these accelerated and changing times. Perhaps if we were to change the word conscious to “soul” or “Spirit” living we would have a different viewpoint of the meaning.

In conscious living, we make decisions that will strengthen the brightness of our energy which in turn strengthens the brightness of our Light force. Light feeling-based emotions that are geared towards soul and Spirit growth are the highest emotions and will open new doors. These doors will reveal unexpected opportunities for our soul growth.

 With soul and Spirit filled living, we are able to recognize and accept we are not alone, that we are a part of the “One”. We are also able to recognize and accept we have many higher dimensional Spiritual energies watching over us. Through our God-Spark of life, we are connected to all living energies. We are connected not only on this earthly planet, but also to all living energies throughout all time, space and dimensions of the past, present and future.

It helps to remember that out of all these living energies we are not the only one who is going through the ups and downs of any and all situations at each moment in the time of “now”. And as part of this magnificent energy, when we make a soul and Spirit filled decision, we affect every other living energy who is experiencing what we are. How powerful is that?

The first thoughts and feelings we have in the morning set the tone for the day. A gratitude hello and good morning to Creator God and His universe and all His Light being helpers is a great way to start each and every day. Gratitude offered to the higher dimensions for all that we have and all that we are, as well as for their love and support will get our inner Light shining right away. This is soul and Spirit living.

And when we lay our heads down on the pillow at night, how do we feel about the day we just experienced? Are we peaceful about how we have shared our Light with all that we have come in contact with? Or do we have regrets that we did not shine our Light just a little brighter? Are we feeling half-hearted, or are we peaceful with the energies of all the universal Divine helpers as we review our thoughts, feelings and actions throughout our day?

Since every day is an adventure in creating and experiencing a soul growth, make the conscious choice to connect the dots. Live each moment under the guidance of all the higher dimensional energies available, and create love and Light. Conscious living is Spirit filled living, and it is the highest and best path for all involved. Start each day with Spirit filled energy and that will carry through to the end of the day. And in continuing the circle, it will carry us through the night and into the next morning. And once again we will have the opportunity to start our day in conscious awareness of all things Light.

SCATTERED ENERGIES

Our Spirits caution us of the dangers of scattered energies. Striving to be always conscious of our thoughts, it is imperative that we stop scattered energies from being broadcast out. How do our energies get scattered? The group speaks of the universal energies coming into our earth plane and instead of being embraced by our soul for help or for celebration in our daily lives, they are being scattered by our earthly energies.

Our day is planned out. We have “this and that” to do that we feel must be done before we can devote time to our Divine Mission. It is amazing how many “this and that” items can appear before us that must be handled in order to have some semblance of organization in our day. The hard part of this is for us to recognize that all the “this and that” items are distractions keeping us from the true business at hand.

The true business at hand is sharing love and Light in any way that we can in whatever project we are involved in. We must learn how to say “No, that can wait” and focus on spending time on our more important issues of soul growth for the moment. When we do this, we are much more prepared to handle all the “this and that” items coming in.

When we take a few moments to stop and go within to connect to the universal energies coming to us, we are able to see a little more clearly. We can see what is chaos and what is peace.  This takes patience, practice and determination. If we will only feel what it is before us, we will be able move forward with ease and grace, and allow the scattered energies to be transmuted into Light energy.

GOAL OR PRIZE?

What is the difference between a goal and a prize? The mental attitude and the heart emotions of our mind-reach will create the shape in the outer world. Part of humanity will succeed under the reach of a goal. And part of humanity will succeed under the reach of a prize. Our Spirits do not speak of goals, but they do speak of “keeping your eye on the prize.”

Both require a plan of action to get to the end result. Are the steps we have created for our journey heavy and burdensome, or are they Light and joyful? Is it “Oh no, I have to do this” or is it “oh boy, oh boy I get to do this”? The plan of action will require a first step. There may be several first steps of different actions to get started.

Thinking in terms of a staircase, we can lay out these first steps. Taking one step at a time, we move up one level. As we complete each first step it is important to acknowledge we have done this. For our balance, the different first steps all need to be completed before we can move up to the second step. Our emotions must stay in the attitude of gratitude for each step already taken.

What tools do we have to help us up the steps we have laid out to reach our prize? First, of course, is faith and trust that we will be able to actually manifest our desire. Faith and trust, along with a soul-deep belief in the universe hearing us and sending the energy we need to accomplish our task is necessary. Feeling and believing in the power of the Light of the universe is very important as we tackle the bumps and boulders we erect between ourselves and the prize.

Our feelings and emotions are right under faith and trust for obtaining our prize. We must envision the prize and fortify our vision with the happiest, most joyful emotions that we will actually feel when we have our prize in our hands and hearts.

We have many earthly tools at our disposal – meditation, crystals, essential oils, aromatherapy, rituals and any energy techniques that fit in with our ultimate plan. Each has its own powerful energy that is available for helping us. In addition, we have the help of our Spirit guides who will surround us with encouragement to keep our forward movement going.

What do we need to watch out for that will knock us off our intended pursuit? Confusion and chaos will knock us off balance. Being always conscious of our thoughts, it is imperative that we see through the illusion of disruptive energy and not allow it to be broadcast out. Any unsure thoughts will reflect little dips in our faith which will really knock us sideways and sometimes down.

Patience, determination and an unrelenting desire will get us where we want to be – and that is holding our prize in our hands and hearts, or achieving the goal we set out to do.

WHO IS LISTENING?

Our thoughts are living energy we are broadcasting out, not only into our immediate surroundings, but to the whole of creation as well. And we broadcast non-stop as we go about our daily routines. We may be rehearsing a conversation we intend to have, or reflecting on a conversation we have already had. Our thoughts circle and spin inside our heads and hearts without us paying attention to who might be listening.

So many are listening! There are all the Light beings that tend to us throughout our day, as well as angels, ascended masters and galactics; this includes the Supreme Creator of All That Is. We tend to operate on the basis that no one is really listening, or knows our innermost secret thoughts and feelings, but this is just not true. Everyone in the higher levels of existence who tend to our needs know all about what we are thinking; and more importantly, they know why we are thinking it. We never have a private thought.

As soon as we start thinking, the universe starts the energetic work to give us what we are thinking about. And just exactly what is it that we are broadcasting for everyone to listen to? Is it happiness and joy in the Light frequencies, or is it darkness in the lower frequencies? What thoughts and feelings do we want coming back to us? It is important to remember that our thoughts we send out from our hearts and minds will return to us like a boomerang. This makes it vitally important to pay attention to our every thought. Not only do our thoughts return to us, as they are traveling out in the vastness of the universe they are meeting up with like minded thoughts and gaining strength on their journey back to us. How powerful is that! What energetic forces do we want returning back to us?

So again, what is our thought radio station broadcasting at any given moment to all the listening hearts and souls? Are we helping ourselves with our thoughts and feelings by bringing in an easy flow to our energies for our daily activities? Or are we bringing in objects to trip and fall over?

It is great and wonderful for all the happy, joyous thoughts we send out when we are daydreaming about something fabulous to link up with like thoughts circling around the universe and return to us multiplied by unknown measure. But it is not so great and wonderful for the not so joyous thoughts we send out to multiply and return to us.

A question would be what do we do about the darkness that we unfortunately send out to be returned to us? When we recognize a dark thought we need to smother it with positive thoughts. If we recognize it fast enough, we can reach out and grab it and ask that it be transmuted into Light and Love and showered down where it is needed.

Who is going to help us catch these darker thoughts and transmute them? All the Light Beings in the higher planes of existence that are listening to us will catch them. These fabulous, loving, caring Spirits are always there, waiting to be of assistance to us. Our faith, belief and trust in the powers of the Divine will help make this a successful catch and release.

Let us all make the conscious effort to flood the inner and outer space we occupy with great and glorious thoughts and feelings through our loving and peaceful hearts. Everyone listening will celebrate as they return our love and joy to us.

MIRACLES and ENERGY

In conversation #40, St. Germain shares with us, “Magic is a normal and natural way of things. Because you live in the physical realm you see things in a limited way. You see magic, miracles and energy as something supernatural or out of your realm of possibility. That is not the case at all. That is the natural state that we on both sides should be living in. Sometimes you get the message and you say ‘Oh, that’s a miracle’ and someone or something outside of yourself had to have created this. Well, we are here to tell you that you have everything you need to create the miracles.” Bottom line, he is telling us that it is all in our hands, and it is up to us to do it.

We, each and every single one of us, experience miracles often. We acknowledge the happening and give thanks for the happening, but do we understand what exactly brought it about?

Miracles come to us on an energy path. As Universal energy and Divine energy work together in the vastness of the cosmos, they absorb our human energy.  Their energies gift us with what we have created in our hearts and minds through our energetic thoughts and feelings.

So how do create our miracle? First of all, we have to believe with every fiber of our being, that what we are attempting to create will come into being. We must believe that this creation is the highest and best for all concerned. The intensity of our feelings is most important. Just one little hidden doubt of assurance will knock us down and prevent the occurrence. We must be mindful of every single thought, feeling and action that we are broadcasting to the universe because what we put out is what we get back. If we recognize doubt anywhere, we must throw it out to the universe to be transmuted into Light.

We must have patience. As our thoughts and feelings go out to the universe, the universe starts the actions to create what we are asking for. It may be that even though we believe with all our hearts that we are ready for our energy to create and accept this miracle, the time might not be just right. Remembering that every single event happens in Perfect Order and Divine Timing, we continue our prayers and patiently wait for the miracle to happen. And while we are waiting, we must be aware of other events that are in themselves a miracle coming to pass.

Our imagination, our energy, is born in our minds and our hearts. Further, our imagination is both a workplace and a playground. We must be aware of who or what it is that we allow to work or play in our imagination. Is it Light, and nothing but Light? Or is there darkness afoot? Universal Light or dark gremlins? Make the decision who is allowed in. Celebrate the Light and give the gremlins the boot.

Unending focused energy, paired with the highest of faith and trust, is what will bring about our miracle. Imagine it, feel it, trust our heart and send it up to the Divine to be created and returned to us. We must understand the depth of our passion is what will bring it from the higher realms to our earthly heart. Let this new year of 2025 be one of transformation as you experience life beyond the ordinary. Let us ignite our passion and see what miracles our energy can imagine and create to be returned to us.

THE HAMSTER WHEEL

Those pesky lingering thoughts that just won’t go away! We have done everything we know to do to release and let go but we are still on a hamster wheel. We truly believe we are making progress in clearing these thoughts, but now realize there must still be more work to do. We wave our hands in the air as if to shoo away a fly, but our motions only stir the energy around us causing the wheel to spin faster. Thoughts and feelings swirling around us so intensely that we lose sight of the truth of it all. What have we missed in releasing these lingering thoughts?

Acceptance? Yes, yes, yes we have accepted that the events have occurred and what is done is done.  We have accepted that “things” may never be the same again. We have accepted it has all happened in Divine Timing for a specific soul lesson.

It’s time to review some of the basic truths. Have we given the benefit of doubt? We know we can never really know another person’s story, so the benefit of doubt is necessary in accepting the events that have occurred. With this understanding, have we followed this offering of the benefit of doubt with love to both our own hearts and the hearts interacting with ours? And have we followed our offering of love and gratitude with that of forgiveness? Forgiveness for known and unknown thoughts and feelings that have impacted our lives is a very necessary step in the process of clearing and releasing.

Another basic truth to review – Love is always the answer. We will love our way out of every situation. Since we are spiritual energy living as earthlings, we need to remember that Love is the bottom line. Love everyone and everything, no matter what. This is what we came into this incarnation to do - to use our spiritual Light Spark of God to experience the powerful miracles that love can accomplish.

So what is our “new” final step in getting off the lingering thoughts hamster wheel? SURRENDER. Collect all those dark, heavy energies that are involved and let them go. We don’t need to hold on to any of these lower energies, so we surrender to our truth and release them to the universe at large to be transmuted into love and Light. We hand it all over with the deepest gratitude and strongest faith that this weight, this burden, has been lifted up and off our shoulders and hearts once and for all.

We accept that we are ready to be released from our pesky lingering thoughts as we give it up and we surrender to the One Light. And that One Light is the highest energy we can hold on to.

LINGERING THOUGHTS

As humans, we all say and do stupid things. Sometimes we know right away that it was stupid, sometimes it takes a little bit for it to sink in. Then we are wondering and wandering about why, and about what “they” must think. The feeling of having messed up sets into our minds as well as our hearts. The feelings, thoughts, words and actions linger. Days, weeks, months, even years later the event comes back to haunt us.

Our minds and hearts wander in the south forty of the whys of it all. We look for answers outside of ourselves first. Then we look for answers inside ourselves, knowing the answers are there if we will but surrender to our truth. We try to recall what our feelings were, both before and after, we said or did it. We shake our heads and say “oh well”.

How do we make these fragments of thoughts and feelings go away for good? First and foremost is to let ourselves off the hook with self-forgiveness. What a wonderful thing if we could forgive ourselves as quickly and easily as God does when we ask.

Then we need to remember the higher truth that it happened for a reason. We need to remember ‘it is what it is’ and forgive ourselves some more. We need to remember that whys don’t matter, but feelings do matter. We need to wrap ourselves in a hug and accept that it has happened according to Divine Timing for everyone involved.

Through the grace of our I AM Presence, with heartfelt gratitude and utmost sincerity, we offer love and forgiveness to the universe at large as well as to the others involved in our episode. We keep in mind that our intentions set our thoughts and feelings into action. We keep our intentions as focused as possible for a victorious outcome. And every time the event comes back to haunt us, we offer more love and forgiveness to the universe. We do this over and over and over again until we have cleared our hearts and minds of the negatives and restored peace to our soul.

And when we have reached this peace, we offer our heartfelt gratitude to all of the beings in the Spiritual realms that have supported and encouraged us. We know they have held our hand while we wandered around in our little sideways jaunt as we cleared our hearts of anything that is less than Light feelings. And as a final acknowledgement of releasing these lingering thoughts, we accept that we have taken one more little step in our spiritual ascension.

GOD LAUGHS

We all know the saying “Tell God what you want and he laughs”. This is the opposite of God’s love and encouragement, leadership and direction. When God does laugh, he is laughing WITH us and not AT us.

In the stillness and silence of our hearts we speak to God, the Divine, the universe, our angels, and other higher dimensional beings. We bare our souls to all up there who are listening. We have made a plan to accomplish some specific something and we share our hopes and desires with them. We have looked at all the possible outcomes and believe we know what we are asking. We have been very careful to honor our feelings behind our request. We believe it is a win-win situation for everyone involved.

The universe hears our petitions and starts the energies moving as we double and triple up our patience, faith, hope and trust. As we watch and wait, we listen with our hearts to hear our message. It may not be what we are expecting so we keep our hearts open for a previously unseen window of opportunity that our support group in the higher realms want us to see and feel.

As we wait for guidance, a window appears. As we gaze through this window, we contemplate the possibilities with our thoughts and feelings. Our hearts begin to see a new path and a door opens. This is the Spirit Lesson on belief, hope, trust and faith. The Spirits ask us “How do you believe, do you believe with all your heart?”

And when it comes to pass, God and all His family will rejoice with us as we laugh in joy at our victory.

TOO LITTLE ~ TOO LATE

In the workings of the universe there does not exist the concept of “too little or too late”. The Spirits teach us that everything is always in Perfect Order and Divine Timing. It matters not what our human hearts are either giving or receiving. It is always the exact amount that we have deemed what we need, knowingly or unknowingly. This giving and receiving is an exchange of energy. And it is always exactly at the time that we need to become more aware of our feelings about what we have created with our thoughts.

The bottom line is always that this is what the universe has provided for our current soul growth lesson, and it is based on the thoughts we are broadcasting. By accepting this fact, we can accept that the universe and provided just the right amount in Perfect Order and Divine Timing.

WORN AND WEARY

Life as an earthling can be tedious, hard, and sometimes discouraging. We know what we need to do, but do we have the strength? More importantly, do we have the desire? These are the times that we need to remember “we chose this” and there is a higher purpose for these soul growth lessons.

Before our birth on earth, we gathered with our Spirit Group, our Soul Group, and set up specific goals for this specific life. Our angels and the universe surround us with love and encouragement as we descend down for our earthly birth.   

This earthly life has many ups and downs, great and glorious achievements as well as deep and dark pitfalls. Sometimes, when the going is rough, we end up going in circles and are not able to make a decision. Going in circles is a great waste of our energy but we are not always able to recognize that we are actually circling. But we do recognize that we are worn and weary from expending our energy.

This is the time that our angels and the universe will give us options. If we are paying attention, we may catch the first nudge or the second nudge from our Spirits.  If we are not able to move forward, the universe will make the decision for us and send us in a new direction.

It is best that we move forward even though we are so tired, so discouraged, feeling so stuck, and wandering and wondering in our head of the meaning of “why do I have to?” or “why am I stuck?”. This is the time to get out of our heads and into our hearts. This is the time to dig deep into our hearts and acknowledge what it is we don’t want to acknowledge. This is where we will find the answers.

We need to strengthen our trust in our connection to the universe and our trust in ourselves. We need to remember that our angels are watching over us, sending non-stop messages and help and love to us, and start moving forward. One little baby step is enough to cause the energy in us and around us to start flowing again. And if it turns out to have an outcome other that what we were hoping for, then we fine tune our feelings to the remembrance of “we chose this” and regroup. And, holding the highest faith and trust, we open our hearts for the lesson presented to become understood.

Our Spirits, from their view in the higher realms, know why we are stuck. They know why we are worn out, weary and discouraged. They know why we “have to” do this. This is the time for faith, for trust, for understanding that Light and love will always be triumphant. The universal Light always has our best interests at heart, and always desires the highest outcome for us as we keep moving forward.

HELLO AND WELCOME TO ALL!

The lessons offered in MESSAGES help us all to understand how we are responsible for all events in our earthly lives. How we cause them to come to pass and the choices we have available to deal with them. We are also shown how to recognize the various avenues we have to continue around or through these events. These Spirit messages always show us that it is always up to us. These lessons are given with the utmost love, compassion and empathy for us as earthlings. They are offered with the highest hopes and deepest faith that we will continue on an upward spiral even when we get knocked back down.

These Spirits, Angels, Ascended Masters and other Higher Dimensional Beings who helped us plan our mission for this current earthly life are with us always. The articles in this blog section show the many ways that their words of wisdom have helped advance my understanding of life in this schoolroom we call Earth. It is my deepest hope that my words here will set you upon your own path of wondering and wandering about life in this dimension of earth. And further, the many possibilities beyond this life on earth.

I thank you so very much for your interest in reading the words of the beings of Light shared here. I wish you a joyous adventure on your path to ascension.

The School Room

We are in the Spirit world and come to the decision that we want to have another go at human life on planet Earth. We gather with our angles, Spirit guides, ascended masters and our soul group to help us with this decision. We choose what gifts we want to bring with us, as well as what challenges we feel we need to claim mastery over. We ask for volunteers from our of soul group and choose which members will help us. We choose what astrological influences we want to grow under; we choose who our family members will be. We make all these choices, and many more, about our upcoming session in the lower 3rd dimension.

So, here we are, in the 3rd dimension of earth, and well into our journey of lessons and blessings. We have a goal of reaching the top of the mountain. At the top of the mountain we will find peace in all events of earthly life. There are basically two ways to get to the top of the mountain, the easy way and the hard way.

The hard way is straight up the barren rock cliffs, slipping and sliding back down to where we started. Each span of time we make a little more progress. At any time we might lose our footing and hand holds and we slip back down again. Determination is the only emotion that keeps us going.

The easy way is walking the spiral from the bottom of the mountain to the top. It is a slow, steady climb, ever slightly rising with each completed spiral. There are ups and downs, boulders and sink-holes in this path. As we seek guidance from the higher worlds, we study and learn our lessons as we navigate these obstructions. When we look back over our shoulder, we give ourselves hugs for our progress. We raise our hands and eyes and hearts to the vast openness of the universal cosmos. We give overflowing and unending gratitude for the challenge we have just mastered. And with excitement, we look forward to our next opportunity for soul growth here in the schoolroom of this earth.