Appreciation

Honor thy differences.  In this way will you find peace.  In this way will you be able to love.  Instead of needing others to see and think as you do, to give you the love you think you need, you will instead glory in the diversity of Life.  With this appreciation will you appreciate that all of your unique qualities are equally loveable.  Nothing is out of place.  All is as it should be.  All is Life … Spirit … experiencing Itself as love in expression—sometimes a bit twisted by the free will of man—so we advise you to see those distortions as what they are and see past the free will expressions to the pure expressions of God:  the uniqueness of a fingerprint, a snowflake, a raindrop, a smile … no two alike, yet all from the same Source.  Appreciation … it will take you straight back to that which never changes:  Divine Love.

Back There

When were you the safest you can remember as a human … the most loved?  When you floated in your mother’s womb, feeling and hearing her heartbeat and yours merged as one.  When will you have this feeling again, but not as a human?  When you pass from this physical existence and follow the silver umbilical cord back to the womb of Creation once again.  There you will know a love so profound that it has no bounds.  But you need not wait.  This feeling you can create by sitting in the silence and asking to know yourself as Love.  Have you bothered to do so, and to ask the question, “What is God?”  The answer may surprise you, as will the experiences when you can get the human mind out of the way.  Blessings be upon you on this wondrous journey back to Love. 

By the Roots

Zero in on your challenges instead of pushing them away.  Do you wish to truly be free?  There is a reason for everything that you do that brings you pain or angst.  Are you willing to find out the root cause and pull out those roots?  All you need do is set the intention of healing yourself and ask the question of your unseen helpers, of Higher Consciousness:  “Why do I behave this way?  Why do I have this challenge?  I wish to be healed.  Show me, please.”  And then, if you will spend time in the silence with an open mind, free of chatter, you will hear the answers.  You will receive the insights.  You can do this.  You do not toil alone.  Healing begins with the willingness to do the healing work and to feel a bit of pain.  It is true:  What you feel you can heal.  Heal thyself with Love.

Rays

Rays of sunlight break through the clouds, catching your attention, so striking are they.  Dark clouds come to all at some point in the human existence.  The rays of light are those unencumbered by the clouds.  They shine through like the sun to lift those in need.  At times you will be in the shadows and at times the roles will be reversed and you will be the ray of light for one whose turn it is to receive. 

Never forget that the eternal Light burns within at all times, but in your human incarnation you will experience clouds as well as sunshine.  Never fear that you are alone.  Look for the rays of sunshine.  They come in many forms … sent to you as the answer to prayers—yours and those of others—for strength and courage to carry on.  Blessings be these rays of light.  Blessings be upon you.

Special

All are Special.  Remember this and allow it to seep into your consciousness at the human level.  May competition become a foreign concept.  May comparisons cease when it comes to good, better, or worse.  There is no need for this, only for ego’s sake.  Ego is the one who shouts, “Look at me!  Please!”  And do you feel the desperation?  He tries to make you think that you need love.  That is always the bottom line for all of you.  The baby learns to cry and compete for attention.  Who has the loudest lungs, the sweetest smile?  And so it continues.  But beyond the cries and acting lies a beautiful soul who already knows the truth:  you are Love.  You always have been.  You and those around you have forgotten this when you fall into the trap of making comparisons.  Look only within, and judge not.  Simply turn up the love for all others, and the needs will slip away.

Free

Ah, yes.  You set a goal for yourself.  Perhaps you were going to eat certain food in certain amounts for a certain number of days and you did not do so.  Perhaps you were going to change a lifelong habit and you fell back into your old ways.  And what happened?  You fell back into your old ways of thinking badly of yourself.  Habits, habits, habits.  What are they?  Patterns of behavior.  And what are you?  A pattern of energy, here to learn and grown and to learn and grow to love.

Can you love yourself—this pattern of energy you call “you” just the way you are without changing your patterns of behavior?  Ah, yes.  There’s the question.  It may be difficult for you to do when you see with your human eyes.  So, shift to seeing with the eyes of the soul, which understands human behavior and patterns.  There you will find compassion for the human side.  There you will find understanding and patience.  There you will be free of shoulds and incriminations … free to simply be love as you look at your human self with the understanding that you are perfect just the way you are, you beautiful soul.

In Memoriam

What is a memorial, but a way of remembering, of keeping something or someone dear in the memory.  Every moment can thus be a memorial moment.  As you pause today to remember and memorialize your fallen ones, we honor all of you.  The true hardship is for those left behind to soldier on.  Death is not a tragedy for those who have passed, but simply a new chapter.  Mourn not your fallen ones, but celebrate Life and Love.  That is what you miss, but it is still there, most especially as you memorialize a being, bringing them to your heart, where they live on always.

Yes, honor those who have passed.  You call it a sacrifice, and yes, it is, but rest assured that your loved ones who died in service salute YOU for your sacrifice.  Can you feel the love they send to you … in memoriam?  Love goes on, and your memories ensure that your loved ones remain close, making every day memorial day.

Wispy

The question is so often asked, “Do we reincarnate?”  And the answer is a qualified yes.  Aspects do, yes.  The real you has no form.  The human thinks in terms of identifiable, separate forms.  That form-like aspect of you does not come back again so that you would recognize it walking down the street.  Yes, we see you smiling at this silly concept.  And so we smile as well when you worry that one you love who has passed will reincarnate before you get to join them and so will be lost to you.  You need not worry (about anything, ever).  Consciousness is an energy form, and it is true what you are taught:  Energy cannot be created or destroyed, merely transformed.

You and the one who has died are Aspects of Consciousness ... Aspects of Greater Consciousness.  When in human form, the Aspect of Consciousness takes on certain characteristics which result in the soul’s growth.  This is the point of human existence:  adding to the Whole.  After you have added what we hope is more Love to the Whole, a bit of the Whole of You may decide to go back and take on form yet again for yet more growth.  Those aspects that were you do not completely gel into one form and become lost to those who once loved you.  No, the Aspect of Consciousness that was you will always, yes, always remain recognizable as the Aspect of Consciousness known as you, even when bits (if formless energy can be referred to as bits) of the Greater You are now off having another experience as a human for the growth of it.

Do you see?  Fear not.  There is only Love, only Being, only One Mind, and billions of aspects of That.  Love never dies.  It merely goes round and round, growing ever brighter, ever stronger as you, and you, and you, and you.

Well and Good

Groveling … begging … what do these connote?  Desperation.  A lack of trust.  A lack of remembering what you have forgotten, either in the moment or over the years:  that you are spirit … divine at your essence, or you would not be breathing.  The greatest Power that exists breathes through you and as you.  Need you grovel or beg for anything?  Beware of conceit.  This Power has neither humility nor pride.  It simply is.  Is what?  Presence.  Being.  Love.

Does this make sense to you?  If not, sit in the silence until you feel the fullness of nothingness, and then you will know that at your core you lack nothing, have everything, and are enough.  You always have and always will have and be enough, for Presence is everywhere and everything, and you are That.  Trusting That, knowing the self as That, you need never again plead or beg, but surrender into the knowing that all is ultimately well.

Empowered

Be aware of rituals.  They can be as much of a crutch as special objects or any other item outside of yourself to which you give power.  When you do so, you forget that the Power lies within you.  Anything external is simply icing—at times sweet, but unnecessary. 

Think about your rituals and props.  Does the idea of being without them strike fear in your heart?  What have we told you about that heart?  It is the greatest gauge of Truth.  Fear in this area indicates misalignment with Truth.  The Force truly is always with you.  If you attempt to give it away (which is impossible) by focusing on external things, you are merely doing your Self a disservice.

Love vs. Fear

Love is all that matters.  This may seem a nonsensical statement to those who are worried about putting food on the table and paying bills.  This we understand.  What we wish you to understand is that there are two ways with which to view your life:  as a human, who basks in fears, and as a soul, whose true Home is Love.  Yes, it is true from a human standpoint that Love will not pay your bills, but neither will fear. Being in a state of peace where you know yourself as an aspect of the Presence, which is Love, will allow you to see the temporal nature of each human situation and see new solutions. 

Learn to shift perspective from human to spirit, from fear to peace born of Love, and the bills will be paid, for you will find innovative ways of changing your life.  We give you this one example, but the ways in which your life improves when you learn to rise above fear and see from the eyes of the soul, which is Love-based, are limitless as your life flows in new and unforeseen ways.

Pointing

Every time you point a finger, three of your own point back at you.  There is great truth in this, if you allow yourself to see.  We do not intend to shame you, only to bring awareness of how ego works, that impertinent fellow.  It is far easier to point out another’s faults than to admit that you are human, too.  We wish you to take note the next time you point a finger how soon thereafter you do the self-same thing of which you accused another. 

This is a testing ground in which you live and play.  Experiment all you like, for that is why you are here, but be cautious as you point out other’s faults.  They are merely playing as well.

Without Judgment

Shed the “shoulds” … our advice for the day.  In your human world, nothing will bring you more quickly to dissonance and misalignment with the spirit than the world “should.”  It leads immediately to judgment of another, which is of the ego and speaks to separation.  Using “should” states with the certainty based upon belief that your way is best.  How do you know?  From your experience perhaps it is, but the other is here for their own life lessons and experiences.  Should (and you will notd the use of the word “should”) all others think and act as you do?  This is righteousness.  You may know it all, but are you here to take away another’s lessons, or to continue growing yourself?  Shed the shoulds and you will find that the focus only on your own growth is far more peaceful.

For a Reason

“Don’t push it.”  When have you heard these words before?  There are other ways to get past a wall when you come to it.  You can attempt to climb it, you can continue pushing in an attempt to knock it down, or you can go around it.  But there is another way.  You can sit before the wall with an attitude of gratitude, and wait.  If the wall is still there when you close your eyes and open them, then close them again.  Now, with eyes closed, relax.  Ask to be shown why the wall is there.  Ask to be shown what lies on the other side.  Ask to be shown an easier, wall-free route with an easier path.  Who are you asking?  Those with a greater perspective than your own who can see beyond the wall.  You are not alone on your path, you know.  If you continue to run into that wall and you continue trying to push it, someone is trying to get your attention … doing you a favor, actually, by blocking your way.  So don’t push it.  The wall has something to say.

Why Wait?

If you knew that at the end of your physical life there would be a life review, what would you do differently from moment to moment?  If you knew there were consequences for every thought and action, how would you think and act?  If you knew that you will feel the full effect of what you do and say to others, would this cause you to pause?  All of this is true.  You are responsible to no other than the Self for what you do.  You are judged by no other, but instead become judge and jury through this review in which you are shown and in which you feel cause and effect simultaneously.

Perhaps you would make higher choices if you fast forwarded to this life review from moment to moment here and now.  Perhaps you would make the highest choices—coming from a place of Love always—if you allowed yourself to feel cause and effect now, in an ongoing review of this now-moment here.  Why wait? 

Listening

Oh, that place in the center of you is such a teacher, talking to you like a loud speaker.  But do you listen?  At times it twinges and gives you a tightened feeling.  You see, it does not always speak in words, but the message is clear:  “Do not go near that idea.  It is not in your best interest or in the interest of the Whole.”  And it speaks to you with no feeling whatsoever.  It is that lack of angst, the complete absence of constriction that says, “Go ahead with your plan.  It is in your best interest and will serve the Whole well.”  That feeling is peace.  Come to look for it before you make a decision or take action.  Rarely will it steer you wrong.

Free!

Take back your power.  “But I have not given it away!” you say, and we ask you to take a closer look.  Are there things that you would like to do, but you are afraid you might look foolish, afraid you might fail?  Then you have given away your power to your fears—to those you fear might judge you.  Others hold no power over you, only that which you so easily grant to them.  If this is a revelation to you—how  easily you have allowed others to dictate your actions and achievements and feelings--then the solution lies in the same place:  your thoughts. 

There is only one Power, and that is Consciousness.  The reason those who are achieving their dreams are successful is because they do not allow the individual consciousness of others to overpower the greatest power there is:  Love.  What does Love have to do with it?  Everything.  It is that which spurs you to service, to doing the best you can for the greater good.  When that kind of selfless love fuels your efforts, you care not what others think.  Repeat after us:  “I AM free of what others think of me.”

Until Now

Until now you have been unable to do something you wanted to do.  Until now you have failed.  Why is that?  What have you been telling yourself until now?  Who have you been blaming your lack upon until now?  What has to change before you stop saying “until now?”  If the answer to this question focuses on someone outside of yourself, then prepare yourself to continue saying, “until now.”  If you are willing to look deeply at your thoughts and actions and make a change, then you are ready to adopt a new phrase, looking at the past as you say:  “until then.”  And now?  And now the fun begins.

Obstacles

Obstacles in your path, such blessings they are.  Do you curse the tree that falls and blocks your way, or do you raise your eyes skyward, laugh and say, “Thank you,” for the turn your life must now take and the new choices you get to make?  See the blessings as they unfold and rejoice every moment as you grow old.  Life is one great adventure, unfolding not always as you foresee it with your ground-level sight.  That tree that fell across your path at night could be your greatest gift, causing you to stop and shift.  “Halt!  Don’t go there,” it says quite kindly.  “Do not move forward, oh so blindly.”  This obstacle is rather clear.  Others may not seem so dear, but each twist and turn your life takes has reason.  There is growth in every season.  So curse not the changes in your plans and the flexibility your life demands, but smile and say, “Ah yes, a bump in the road I did not expect.  The unseen reasons I now choose to respect.

For a Reason

Forever yours.  There is one who has told you this and now is gone …separated—or so you think—by death.  What has been joined by love cannot ever be separated.  With the focus so strongly on the physical, perhaps you cannot sense their presence, but it is there.  Gone from your sight, yes, but not from your heart and mind.  “But that is not enough!” you cry, and that is the human way.  Join them in spirit each day, each moment, if you wish, simply through the practice of closing the eyes and shutting out the physical world.  They will join you there.  But there is a reason you are still here.  If you cannot find a reason for still being here, then you have more growth to be had, and paradoxically that is the reason. 

Dedicate your life in service to others, perhaps in memory of the Love your loved one brought to you.  That service could be to one or many, but through the act of it you will come to appreciate the “why’s” and no longer ask, “Why me?”