Rise Above

Love is the impetus behind all good deeds.  It is fear that is the impetus behind evil.  What is fear, but the opposite end of the spectrum of love.  Do not fear evil.  Bring love into the picture.  So radiate such high emanations of love, knowing this is your essence, that anything other than love cannot enter your field.

Fear is a very human emotion.  The soul is quite aware of its true nature.  It is only being surrounded by those who have fully bought into their humanness that causes others to entrain to that lower vibration.  Rise above, my friend.  Rise above your human nature to the level of the soul.  There you will find no fear, for there you exist as your True Self:  Love. 

Go forth today as Love in action and see no evil.

Bookends

When your world becomes hectic and crazed, you forget easily who you are.  You slip into doing-mode instead of being-mode.  Who is doing the doing?  Are you acting alone?  When your life becomes crazed, it becomes far too easy for you to believe that you are.

Ideally, you would remember to check in with Spirit frequently throughout your day.  In human form this often falls by the wayside.  Book-end your days then with a deliberate period of communion, be it in prayer or meditation or both.  This will be time well spent. 

There is no need to rush about feeling harried.  Stop, take a breath, and connect.  This is the secret to balance.

Internal Guidance

Step out with no fear
You walk with too much trepidation.
We will make the way clear
So that you walk with no hesitation.

It's easy to trust when you see.
Where, we ask, is the challenge in that?
But if you truly desire to fly free
You will see with the eyes of a bat.

This creature knows not where it goes.
If flies with the sole sense of feel. 
By sensation alone the bat knows
And in this way its guidance is real.

What if you were to fly in this way?
Can you see how your life would be changed?
With great trust you would step out and play
From true guidance no longer estranged.

Surrender and trust are the keys.
Yet these do not come without cost
When the ego you no longer please
Then false separation is lost.

Not a bad thing to find you were wrong.
And for years you did struggle alone
That the guidance was there all along
You are free now that this truth it is known.

Bitter and Sweet

Cranberries are a deceptive fruit.  They look so sweet and tempting, yet when consumed are bitter to the taste.  Not all is as it seems in your world.  Have you not heard of a wolf in sheep's clothing?  Why is this?  Because the physical world is one of duality:  hard and soft, sweet and bitter.  There is great purpose in this.  Once you have tasted sweetness, you will spend a lifetime searching for more of it, eschewing bitterness along the way. 

Yours is a world of trial and error.  You will try the fruits of the physical realm one by one until you find the most sweet and ripe.  That is why you are there.  Do not bemoan the bitter fruits, for they propel you ever onward, ever upward, knowing that something far sweeter yet exists, and this is true.  This is true at the micro level and at the macro. 

The Sweetest Fruit is yet to be tasted.  Never lose faith in this fact.  It is yours for the taking, but you must keep reaching higher, knowing that the journey for now may be bittersweet.

Always on Call

You send your ambulances when there is an emergency that requires a rapid response.  They respond immediately for physical concerns, but what of emotional or spiritual crises?  Who are the first responders then?  Your Personal Ambulance Crew is always at the ready, but when you get in crisis mode, it is hard for them to get through the door.  You must help yourself first, and it is very simple:  Stop what you are doing, sit down, and take several deep breaths.  You must get ahold of your thoughts, which easily spin out of control, causing a physical reaction in the form of various hormones coursing through the body, further aggravating the situation. 

Sit quietly and breathe.  Talk to yourself in a calming way until Help arrives in the form of a warm blanket that settles over you and once again you know that everything will be all right.  This too shall pass.  Your Emergency Response Team is always on call, but you must call them.

Regeneration

The blooming cycle.  Why do cacti not have flowers year-round?  In all things there is a period of rest and regeneration.  All of your flowering plants are like this.  Do you not see that you are like this as well, for all of life operates in cycles.  You cannot produce and produce great things constantly.  There are always periods of rest and regeneration.  Thus, when it does come time to bloom once again, the flowers burst forth with full beauty, fully fragrant.

Do not grow discouraged when you think you have grown a bit stagnant.  Recognize this as a needed time of rest.  In this awareness, fear fades away, allowing you to flower in tune with your natural rhythms. 

Relax and let nature take its proper course.

Can You Believe That?

There is only one Mind.  We can say this a thousand times and still you think you walk alone.  How do you explain synchronicity?  How do you explain mediumship?  How do you explain telepathy?  How do you explain Love?  All is Energy.  All is Consciousness.  All is the Divine Mind experiencing itself.  And so, you delight when there is "an incredible coincidence."  You think you and another must be thinking the same way.  Quite so.  What have we been telling you all along?  There is only One Mind doing the thinking.

Do us a favor and continue to hold this thought in your little aspect of that Mind and one day you will stop being so surprised.  It is quite all right to be delighted at the seeming coincidences.  Your Mind enjoys the delight, but allow that delight to lift you up into more of a sense of Oneness.  Returning to the state of complete and utter Love is what all of this is about anyway.

New Shoes

Embarking on a trip is never easy.  Exciting at times, yes, but not without a bit of trepidation.  Fear not.  It is the unknown that brings fright.  You grow far too comfortable in your house slippers.  Peel them off and step out in new shoes.  They may take a bit of breaking in, but they will wrap around your feet just right after a while.  And what happens then?  After a while you will have grown—and grown used to these new shoes as well.  Time to trade them in for a sturdier pair of boots and march on with confidence.

Life is like that—always asking you to readjust, to set aside that with which you have become comfortable, and strike out in new directions.  Enjoy a little comfort for a while, then challenge yourself.  Challenge is good for the soul.  Ego likes its soft slippers.  There is nothing wrong with a little comfort, but you are here to stretch and grow.  Beware of growing too comfortable.

Part of a Team

Celebrate your successes, but be mindful of how they came about.  Did you act as a lone agent, or part of a team?  Are you really able to do anything by yourself?  It is impossible to act alone, for you are intimately interconnected with All That Is.  You breathe and you take credit for this.  Can you stop the passage of the soul from life in physical form to spirit form?  Your doctors attempt to do this, and you call it "playing God." 

So, you see, at some level you do know that all that you do—from breathing to simply being—happens as part of a team:  the "little i" and the "Big I".  Go ahead and take credit when you do well, but take a moment and give credit where it is due:  to that greater part of You.

Be Here Now

You wait for a certain event to pass with great anticipation.  When the time comes, it is not as you anticipated at all.  You call this anticlimactic.  You expected a climactic event, and the event itself was less than that.  Now we ask you to go back to each moment of pleasant anticipation.  Was not each moment delicious in itself?  It was enjoyable because you created those enjoyable moments in your mind.  You were feeding off the future.

What if you had anticipated an event which you feared?  Then each moment of anticipation would have been frightening.  Events eventually come to pass, for each event builds upon another.  The future never arrives, for there is only this moment now.  Do you wish to lessen these moments of fear and disappointment?  Focus here and now.  Here you will find peace by going to the center and finding that place that never changes, no matter what is going on around you.  Create pleasant moments in the same place that you create the future, but enjoy them here and now.

Lessons

You think that others are your greatest challenge—dealing with less than ideal situations and less than the highest vibrations.  Do you not yet see that others have nothing to do with your own low vibrations?  They are aids to your growth, tools to help you in your soul's advancement. 

Do you grow impatient with others for you think they are impeding your spiritual growth?  Then, impatience is your lesson!  Do you grow easily frustrated and out of sorts?  It is quite easy to blame another.  Look first to yourself , and then, most importantly, have patience with yourself.  Laugh with us with a large dose of love as you realize that you have not reached perfection yet. 

We love you.  Please do the same.

Without Question

Simon Says.  Do you remember this game?  Whatever Simon said, you were to do, and you did it without question.  As you grew older, you outgrew this game and you began to question.  This is when ego truly began to take over.  That is the sign of separation:  digging in your heels and saying, "I want to do it my way.  Do not tell me what to do."  In your quest to be right and separate, you often limit your growth.  You limit your experiences to a set set of options which you repeat over and over, even though they may not be in your best interest.

Simon has been replaced by ego.  You ignored him so much that he went away.  There is another game even greater that we wish you to begin to experience:  Spirit Says.  Spirit has been giving you gentle suggestions for quite some time now, but ego speaks so loudly you could not hear the suggestions. 

Spirit says, "I am here.  Let us play.  Will you listen as I speak to you today?"

No More Hoarding

You carry your burdens like a boulder around your neck.  Do you not feel weighed down?  Is each step not heavy?  Are you not lacking energy and vitality?  Imagine if you were completely free of these burdens how light and energetic you would feel.  Why, you could practically fly!

There are many methods of lessening the weight you carry around.  The very first step is recognizing how unnecessary that extra baggage is.  The problem is that many burdens are buried so deeply you have grown accustomed to carrying them around and do not even know they are there.  Begin today by sitting in the silence and asking for that which is weighing you down to be revealed in some way, then ask for assistance in letting go.  Ego will want to cling to the baggage.  Ego is quite the hoarder.

Never forget that you are far more than the ego.  Spirit is in charge.  Ask for Spirit's help, then trust that in asking, the clearing process has begun.

The Low Hanging Fruit

The fruit on the branches hangs low—so low you can pluck it with no struggle.  "Low hanging fruit"—an expression you have for those things in life which are easy to harvest and well at hand.  God is like that—there all around you waiting to be harvested.    This may sound strange to you if you see God only as a being in human form.  If this is so, you are missing the low-hanging fruit. 

Reach out and pluck a cherry, a peach, an apple, a pear.  God is there.  Pet a puppy, smell a flower.  God is there.  View the sunrise, marvel at the stars.  God is there.  God is all that you see—not limited like the human being.  Form and formless, shape and shapeless, in every crack and cranny, in every empty space.  There is nowhere that God is not.  In every cell?  Yes, indeed.  In every breath you take, every step you make, every thought you create.

Reach out and touch the face of God in one you love today.  Take your hand and caress your own face.  God is Love, and now you are expressing your Godliness.  You do so every time you kiss, laugh, speak, and cry.  May they be tears of joy.  If not, know that God cries with you as you grow and learn together … as One, ripening on the vine in the sunshine of God's love.

Self Expression

"I love you" – the three most important words you can say.  Fully charged words are these—charged with emotion and a bit of fear.  What if the recipient of these words does not instantly repeat them back?  It means nothing, really, for what goes out from the heart always comes back.  If the words do not come back, know that the energy has been felt and the spirit has stirred.  You have had an effect.  It cannot be otherwise.

"I love you."  Feel the words as you say them and know that you are healing the world, one soul at a time.  Say it not to receive adulation in return, but to simply express your true nature.

"I love you."  Now don't you feel better already?

A New Day

Surrender to a Higher Power.  This is what your 12-step programs ask you to do, and some have trouble with this concept.  To many, a Higher Power carries a negative connotation much akin to a boss.  If there is a boss, then that would make the other a subordinate.  The ego rebels at this.  Ego wants to be the most important—subordinate to no one. 

Tell the ego it is special.  Tell ego it will always be the only one.  Ego likes this, and it is true.  There is only one ego for each manifestation of God.  But please do not tell ego there is only one Power, and that power emanates from the one and only Source of Love.  That power IS love.  Ego is a false power.  It does not like to surrender, for that act threatens its very existence. 

Surrender to Love and discover that ego has no power.  When you surrender to love, there is no longer a need for separation; there is no longer a need for ego.  It does not take 12 steps to return to love.  There is only one step.  Step over ego, but do it gently, for ego has served you well.  But ego's day has passed.  It is a new day, and your time has come.

Good Habits

You brush your teeth every day.  This avoids a bad taste and sticky feeling.  Not all of you floss, for the results are not immediate.  If it weren't for the bad taste and breath, not all of you would even brush.  We apologize for the very mundane analogy, but do you see our point?  Often the human needs a negative to propel you to do something positive.  You may know that an action is good for you, but fail to take it if the reward is not instantaneous.

Know that every time you send love to one who does not love you in return or immediately give you a loving response, you are helping yourself and that other.  It is like flossing the teeth.  You have removed that which is damaging, in the way of lesser vibrations.  You are helping the soul to shine.  It is a good habit to get into every day—this sending out your love instead of holding it inside for only the most worthy.

 Shine on as brightly as possible.  You will find that once you have developed the habit, the rewards are, in fact, nearly instantaneous and far more far-reaching than you realize.

Self-Generating

All is vibration.  The leaf trembles.  This is vibration.  A bird sings and warbles.  This is vibration.  A street light flickers.  This is vibration.  Your heart beats.  This is vibration.  What causes the fluttering, the quivering, the beating?  The Great Energy Generator.  It is a kinetic energy—energy without end—the bottomless Source.  The heart may stop beating, but you go on vibrating, pulsating, quivering, for you are Life itself.  That Force that cannot be extinguished. 

Your scientists have not yet detected the Source of this energy.  Like your gravity, they cannot explain it; you merely know that it exists.  So use it, this Life Force.  Call it what you want.  We choose to call it Love. 

May your heart today quiver with the Force of your love.  If you could feel the full Force of the Love that keeps your heart beating, you would fall to your knees.  Instead, stand tall and be your own generator of this love-energy.

The Eternal Flame

Lift up your eyes.  What do you see?  A light or darkness?  Even in the darkest of places there is a glimmer.  You call this hope.  We call this home.  Follow the tug that pulls you toward that glow and there you will find peace, even in the midst of chaos.  It is your pilot light, always there waiting to be turned up.  In a moment it can go from a glimmer to a glow to a full-force flame.  You ignite it with the recognition that it is there …with the recognition that it burns inside of you … with the recognition that you are never alone, and hence the warmth.

Allow the Pilot Light to guide you, to carry you to that place of peace, and know no fear, no worry, no discouragement.  This is the one true Eternal Flame.  May its warmth be felt today and every day as you travel this journey not alone, but safely protected in the arms of love.

As Close as Your Phone

You fly in the air in a man-made machine and think nothing of it.  What of your ancestors who could not imagine such a thing?  The history of your technology is the blink of an eye in the history of mankind.  Do you think your ancestors could have imagined a wireless communication device that allows you to talk across great distances instantaneously? 

Now propel yourself into the future.  Mediums are no longer necessary, for the technology exists to pull the frequency of those who have passed out of thin air and communicate with them in so-called "real time."  "Impossible," you say?  Can you see cell phone waves?  Can you see the television waves?  Can you see the spirit-being waves?  What is the difference? 

All is energy.  You merely need learn how to harness it.  For now you have very few finely tuned instruments called mediums.  Soon you will have one in every household.  And then what will your skeptics say?  We are sorry, but the world is no longer flat.