My World

2x4s FROM THE UNIVERSE

When the time comes for us to begin the work of our Divine Mission we know it, we feel it, we see it. We understand it but sometimes we are just unwilling to take the steps needed to get started. The universe will give us numerous chances to do what we have signed up to do. If we are not able to do so, the universe will provide one that we cannot ignore.

In my world, one of my Divine Missions is about sharing the Light. Letting others know that it is possible to communicate with the higher realms, and that there are souls who have the unique gifts to do this, like Lisa. Through Lisa, I have been able to share conversations with our Spirit group in my books. I thought my mission was complete when the books were published. But the universe knew differently.

So, the universe hit me with a very painful and somewhat frightening 2x4. In the pre-dawn hours of the day, my morning walks have been about connecting with nature, with Creator God, with my Spirit advisors. My morning walks are always peaceful as I watch the sky slowly lighten to the coming day, listening to the traffic noises and the train as it blows its horn and rumbles through the town. On one particular day, my peaceful state was broken by two barking dogs running out towards me. Then my peaceful state was shattered as one of the dogs took a chunk out of my leg.

Experiencing these universal 2x4s can be very painful. This is the time that we need to remember who we really are. We are the energy of love and Light. We need to remember the truth of the power of the Light and move forward, working towards fulfilling our Divine Mission.

I believe every event in our daily routine comes with a lesson and a blessing. As I tended to my injury, waiting for the doctor’s office to open, my mind went back and forth and around in circles trying to understand the lesson and blessing in being attacked. I could find none. In the following days and weeks as I dealt with the doctors and authorities about my attack, I was feeling unheard. It was then that I reached out to a reporter from our local newspaper by way of email. He contacted me and we had a heartfelt discussion about the event and he was willing to investigate and write a story.

This brought me comfort as I realized that I had taken action in order for my voice to be heard. In the following passing of time, I felt a nagging voice making its way from my subconscious mind as it moved to the forefront of my conscious mind. It was saying “Let your voice be heard” and I knew it was referring to the urgings of my Spirit guides from above, and I finally accepted that the time had come to voice my passion about the guidance from my Spirit group. Their wisdom was already recorded in the books, but the spoken word is sometimes needed.

There is so much that my Spirits have asked me to share. The importance of seeing the truth and letting the illusion fall away, letting go of the negative energies and embracing a new way of living in peace and harmony with everyone and everything that crosses our path. They have asked that I share how we are the creators of our daily life through our beliefs and intentions and how we are all connected through our God Spark of life, and how important it is to just “be”.

They have asked that I share the messages of life beyond our earthly lives and their lives in the higher dimensions. The want me to share how it is that their jobs are to tend to us every second of all time and all we need do is open our hearts and accept their help. They want me to share the meaning of ascension of our earthly hearts. Most of all, they want me to share that we are all One and are never alone; they are always there for us, just waiting for us to reach out to them.

Most often, it is not particularly comfortable to be hit with a universal 2x4. However hard the hit, it helps to be open and aware that a 2x has landed and to start looking for the lessons and blessing. Fortunately, the lessons do not always have to be painful. They are used to open our hearts to what the Divine Light knows our sight and feelings are missing. Just a little wake-up call from above.

I have unintentionally rocked someone’s world in a negative way, someone very close in my heart. So I am wondering and wandering about thoughts of forgiveness. When I realized the depth of her strict religious beliefs and that my actions were perceived as from a dark force, I apologized and asked for forgiveness. Several times I asked and did not get a response. A painful wedge formed between us and our close contact dwindled down to Christmas and birthdays.

I have forgiven myself, but as a human earthly being, I really wanted her forgiveness as well. I was hurt that she was not able to do this. While our love was not destroyed, our peace was.

Let’s say that these years later she accepted my apology and offered her forgiveness. I would gladly accept this, but the hurtful energy has left an impression so that nothing could ever be quite the same. The feelings of regret for the incident in the first place, and the feelings of sorrow of not being forgiven will be recorded in my book of life as my own conflict energy.  And I will have to deal with it, either sometime in this lifetime in Divine Timing, or when I meet up with her in the next dimension. I could have prevented it by being more aware and conscious of my friend’s feelings in the first place.

Forgiveness is spoken of often by our Spirit group. Specifically for Lisa, the angels brought in groups of Lisa’s people to clear energy – or to offer apologies for the earthly path they traveled together. These angels offered their apologies and asked for forgiveness. The first time they came (Conversation #47) and spoke to Lisa, she shooed them away like an old fly and did not accept their apologies.

They came a second time (Conversation # 58) and offered apologies and asked for forgiveness. Again, Lisa paid no attention to them. The third time they came (Conversation # 76), Lisa wanted to know why they are coming in again for the same thing. I reminded her that she had not accepted their apologies or offered her forgiveness.

One by one these angels came forward, expressed their sorrow at how their life plan had been so messed up, and asked for forgiveness. This time Lisa heard them, and offered her apologies and accepted their forgiveness. Bottom line is, if there are circumstances that are not cleared in life on earth, it will have to be cleared from the higher dimensions.

Every thought we have, every emotion we feel and every action we take in every moment of this life is recorded in our Book of Life in the higher dimensions. My happiness at my original action, my following regret and then sorrow are all recorded. This is powerful pause for thought for what is being recorded.

Has someone put a dent in your world and apologized for it? Did you respond with acceptance in love and Light? If not, put your energy towards softening your heart, accept the apology and offer your forgiveness.

Or is it reversed, and you put a dent is someone’s world, and apologized, and got no response? Forgive yourself anyway, and forgive who it is that can’t or won’t accept your apology. Forgiveness is a path to peace. Peace is the path to ascension.

THE FROG

The other night, as I made my way down the hallway, I saw something up against the baseboard that did not belong. As I approached for a closer look, my mind was considering many possibilities. When I knelt down for a clear look, I saw that it was a beautiful little frog. I asked him how he got in, and told him I would get him back outside in his world, but it was too cold already to put him out for the night. I wished him a good night, and told him I would get him out in the morning.

The next morning he was on my mind and in my heart, and I fully expected to be able to find him easily and get him outside, but hadn’t started looking for him yet. As I rounded the corner into the kitchen, I saw him up against the baseboard under the kitchen table. Excitedly, I got a plastic cup to scoop him up and take him outside to a flower bed. My heart was crushed when I realized he had moved on to the higher dimensions. I carefully picked him up, put him on a piece of paper towel and carried him out to the garage. There I placed him on a shelf, in a place of honor, to wait for the process of his physical body to mummify before placing him on my animal table in the living room.

All the while as I was moving the little frog to the garage, I was talking to Spirit, asking why did this happen? Was this even the same little frog? How could have his little legs already mummified over night? Surely this was not the same one. My question to Spirit was answered with a yes, it was the same one.

The Spirit messages delivered to us from all animals, creatures and critters in our world give us significant insight as to where we are on our spiritual path in the “now” moment.  Spirit signs from the animal kingdom come in both positive encouragement as well as the negative aspect of what needs to be acknowledged in our feelings.

The positive side of the frog is its connection to water, one of the necessary elements of all life. Among other things, water symbolizes rain coming down to cleanse the earth as it renews, energizes and heals all living energies it touches. All living energies need the life force of water for their life force to thrive. So, great, the Frog indicates that healing and new growth is coming for us to gather up into our hearts and spirits.

What about the “best to look at” sings of the frog? It is showing us where our energy needs renewing. Stuck, stagnant energy requires our attention as to what thoughts and feelings we are holding in our hearts. It shows us what adjustments we need to make to get the flow started again. I took the “best to look at” message of the frog and peeled back both the outer and inner layers of my hesitation and resistance. I asked myself where am I unwilling to move forward in the flow of life? To my surprise, I found more than a few areas where I need to start my energy flowing again.

Should have, would have, could have all crossed my thoughts as I reflected on all my different projects in numerous stages of accomplishment. Divine Timing also crops up everywhere in my feelings and thoughts. I am waiting on Spirit to give me a nudge (rather than a 2x4) to get started, but perhaps Spirit is waiting on me to take the first step. Divine Timing can be a very reliable excuse for not moving forward. I acknowledge and accept that I am stalled out under Divine Timing.

So I am feeling mixed emotions on how to proceed and get my energy flowing once more. The bottom line message for me from this precious little frog is to get moving or get left behind. And, once again, I give immense thanks to the One for this message from the animal kingdom, delivered in perfect Divine Timing.

In the mid 90s, I was living in a large city with a very noticeable homeless population. I tried not to look at any of them when driving here and there. I offered prayers for them and just wished they would go somewhere else. Looking back, I see that in my unusually unenlightened frame of mind and heart, I was holding a judgment towards them.

It was during this time when I saw a movie on TV starring Beau Bridges, an actor I enjoyed watching. It was called “A Stranger to Love” and was about a very successful businessman who had been caught in a bad situation and ended up losing his memory. As a result of this, he wandered as a homeless man. The movie haunted my soul, and caused a great shift in my heart towards these people. What could I actually know about the stories of these homeless people?

I couldn’t get the emotions of the story line to go away. Days went by, and I was still holding it in my heart. At the time, I was living in an apartment complex with two dwellings sharing the same front entryway. My neighbor always kept a small folding chair on her side of the porch. One morning as I opened the door to head for work, I was surprised to see a man sitting in the chair, sleeping. With my new awareness of the homeless, I went back into the apartment and got a serape and put it next to his feet. When I got home that afternoon, the serape was neatly folded and in the seat of the chair.

The next morning, I looked through the peephole before opening the door. I saw that he was there again, with the serape wrapped around him. I went to the kitchen and filled a paper cup with hot coffee. I opened the door slowly and quietly and as I left I put the cup next to him. When I got home that afternoon, the serape was again folded in the chair and the coffee cup was gone. That was the last I saw of him.

This is an obvious lesson in “what I think about, I bring about” because the plight of the homeless was circling in my heart and my thoughts brought a homeless person into my life. There are countless phrases relating to the thought process: You create your reality – Thoughts have magnetic energy – The more energy you give to a thought, the more powerful it becomes – Thought plus emotion equals thoughtforms which travel out into the vastness of the universe and, like a boomerang return to us.

Spiritual enlightenment comes from many directions. One event can lead to multiple advancements of the ascending heart. This event, watching this movie, gave me a new perspective on the homeless of our earth. It also caused me to look at where else I was holding judgments. These were powerful lessons presented to me for understanding a small bit of humanity. All these years later, these lessons continue to influence my thoughts and actions.

Author note: I started this article several weeks ago with the intention of sharing a story about how “mind is the builder”. What perfect Divine Timing, as it is just now that I have become aware of this month, November, being “Homeless Awareness Month”.

THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT

We don’t ever truly know what is going on with another person’s journey. It is just that simple. Whether it is a physical journey or a spiritual journey, we just cannot know what is really going on. Actually, a physical journey is also a spiritual journey because you can’t have the physical without an element of the spiritual.

This is a short story from my life from close to 50 years ago. The lesson, benefit of the doubt, has stayed with me, and served me well, for all these years. It is a lesson that my brother, Phil, taught me.

I had loaned him my car with his promise that he would have it back by a certain time. He was going out exploring in the desert for the afternoon with a friend. The time came and went for him to be back. I was just a little put out that he had broken his promise. It was many, many hours later, into the middle of the night that I got a call from my dad.

Phil and his buddy were throwing rocks down a hole they came across in the desert. The hole exploded. It was an old, uncovered mine of some kind and methane gas had collected in the bottom of the well. This was my brother’s first major head injury. It turned his life upside down and set him on a downhill path.

Never once, in all the hours did I even consider that something had happened to him. I thought he was just being ugly with a “she won’t really mind” attitude about it. In other words, I never once gave him the benefit of the doubt.

So, through all the years since, when someone doesn’t do what they had planned to, or said what they intended to, this lesson comes to my heart and my mind first. Because there is no way on this beautiful earth that I could possibly know what they are thinking, or feeling, or really doing.

Do you feel that someone has “done you wrong”? Get out of your own way and raise your vibration by offering the benefit of the doubt. By doing so, you will be opening the door to understanding, and more importantly, the door to peace. Offer the benefit of the doubt and welcome a higher vibration into your heart. Truly amazing things will happen.