A Message from God about Life and Death

Dear Friends,
Today I did a brief Shamanic journey with a skilled friend and during the journey, God's Light came into my thoughts and gave me a powerful message.
Many things have died in my life this year, as well as many new beginning have graced my space.  God said to me:

A part of spiritual mastery is being able to accept death.  This acceptance of death is a peaceful way of "being".  We need not push death away, ignore it, condemn nor reject it.  Once we can be in the space of accepting that everything dies eventually, then we can let go of expectations and allow new life to gently take over.  All death is an important component of a cycle, like night and day.  They work together harmoniously to bring life to one another.  Without the ending of day, we cannot experience the beauty of night, and without the rising of the sun to melt away the night, then we cannot be warmed and refreshed by the daylight.  This cycle brings forth the passage of time, for every night is different and every day is new.  They are never the exact same night and day.  This is because life grows during this cycle.  Every day brings new height to a baby tree and every night brings new new learning for a baby owl. 
All of death returns to life, maybe not in the exact same form, but it does return.
This, however, is not the same as killing.  Killing and murder are the forcing of death, which is an entirely different energy.  This energy does not spark growth nor love.
So allow yourself to sit quietly in the mist of an ending, a death, and allow the ashes to rain down upon you without trying to stop it, fix it or change it.  Just allow it to happen.  This allowance will cause the ashes to becomes seeds around you which will then grow into new life more swiftly than if you tried to control the process.  We cannot predict the exact nature of this new life, but by Being with it, you allow life to return effortlessly.

Surrendering to God

Surrendering to God seems easy, in theory.  The words sound pretty and the concept seems honorable and it makes us looks good to others.  We can say, "I've surrendered all of my problems to God."  This statement might make us seem open and pious, but does it really work that way?

Truly surrendering to God is not always easy.  It can be an agonizing process of breaking down the ego and admitting that we don't have all the answers.

And what does it mean to truly surrender to God anyway?

Surrender is reaching inside of ourselves to bring the Light of God into those dark places, the ones that are deeply hidden away from the rest of the world.  Surrender is showing God our guilt, shame, ugliness and mistakes.  It is admitting to God that not every part of ourselves is love and that not every thought in our mind is pleasant.  Surrender is letting God see Who We Are all the way through and allowing God to cleanse us with warmth and Light. 
Surrender is allowing God to take over a situation and committing to avoid complaint about the result. 

True surrender can be quite scary!  We don't know the outcome and we cannot predict where we will end up.  Yet there is massive beauty here too.  It is like throwing ourselves into a river and trusting that the rushing waters will somehow know us and take care of our well-being.  Trusting God is also loving God.  It is the ultimate love for God.  This is because God is our Co-Creator.  God is our best friend.  God knows our soul and ignores the ego-mind that just wants to fight and be right all the time.  Surrendering to God is admitting that we don't have all the answers and don't know the solutions and are asking for our Friend to step in and remind us that we are human.

Surrendering to God is Love.  And Love is what is scary.  This is because True Love is not passive.  It is highly potent and calls us powerfully into action.  Love is action.  Love is movement.  Love is speaking up for the weak and having compassion for the guilt, shame, ugliness and mistakes.  Love is accepting the truth.  Love is reaching out and making contact with the world and offering only good and peace.  Love is stepping out of our comfort zone and being of service to others.  Love is creating an environment around us that is strong and healthy.  Love is making a contribution to the world... and most of us are too lazy to do this.  And this is why surrender can be scary, because it requires more of us than we are used to giving.

Creating Change in Our Lives

Recently I received a beautiful message from my angels.  They taught me that there are only two ways to change things in our lives:  death or birth.

They went on to explain that all of us go through times in our lives when it seems like everything is changing. Or we run up against times in our lives when everything needs to change.  Relationships end, jobs come and go, children grow up, or we need to move to a new city.  During these times, we have a clear and distinct choice, we can either pull out our sword, start swinging destructively and chop portions of our life to pieces, or we can choose re-birth. 

Re-birth takes longer.  It can be more painful.  It can be more challenging and cause us to look at ourselves in depth.  It requires patience.

Death, on the other hand, is immediate, but it is also permanent.  There is no going back and killing off relationships or situations in our lives can cause a ripple effect of destruction.  It can leave other people deeply hurt and confused.  There is the expression "burning bridges" and this is what my angels were talking about: complete destruction instead of transformation and re-birth.

Re-birthing ourselves in our lives can be tough at first, yet it has the most powerful and beautiful rewards.  We become whole new people.  We begin a whole new life.  In fact, we earn the ability to "give life" to every corner of our lives.  This is called Inspiration, which means: to breath life into a relationship, and idea or a situation.

But burning bridges leaves nothing but ashes and there is a high price to pay for leaving people hurt and feeling destroyed.

The angels also told me about giving life to Love so that Love gives Life to you.  Choose the path of Love.  Sure it can be tougher sometimes, yet it opens up possibilities instead of crushing them.  There might not be immediate gratification, but there will be miracles. 

And if you find yourself in the place of needing to let go of a relationship or a situation, consider doing it with Love and grace.  Give everyone involved dignity instead of pain.  Proverbial blood is not the pathway to God, only Love lines that road.

Digesting Emotions

My 13 year old son has been going through a lot of change and turmoil in his life.  He is entering the age of trying to figure out how to navigate through tough emotions and challenging situations.  Someone close to him suggested that it is bad to talk about his emotions.  This confused him.  He was upset with me because I have always taught him that talking about emotions and feelings is how we process and heal.  I told him the contrary was true, that by avoiding emotions, they get stuffed down inside our body and this causes sickness and depression. 

I sat my son down and told him that talking about our feelings is healthy.  I told him that the way we heal is through conversation.  Conversation is how we connect to those we love and is a powerful way to let another person know that we care about him or her.  Once we speak our thoughts and feelings into the Universe, then we have room to either embrace them or transform them.  This process does not have to be scary or bad.  In fact, it is empowering and full of self-care.  The key here is not to "fear" our emotions.  Even the tough or uncomfortable emotions and feelings need to be digested and understood in order to give us the freedom to move forward, lest we get stuck in one particular emotion and end up wallowing in it for days, months or even years.  True pain comes from not feeling empowered within ourselves and not giving ourselves the space to feel.

Releasing the Inner Child

Sometimes the inner child just needs love and acknowledgment.  By taking the time to meditate, we can give  our inner child permission to speak and to be heard.  As adults, we need to allow the past traumas to heal by guiding our inner child into the light. S/he has been hiding away from monsters far too long.  Lovingly let her know that the monsters are gone now and that she can come out to radiate her brilliance and empower her to grow up and be a strong adult.  Believe me, she is tired of hiding.  She needs to take your hand and know the sensations of comfort and safety.  Let her cry.  Allow her to be angry or frightened, but also allow her to heal and stand up tall.  S/he is your powerful ally and she needs you to be her hero.

Thoughts for the Day

Today I had a conversation with a beautiful woman who needed some advice from the Higher Beings of Light.  The messages that came through were amazing and peaceful so I would like to share some of the information with you.

Trust your inside world, it's not empty, get to know who you are all the way in there and allow the Divine to be in that space with you.  Show the Divine around your insides and invite that energy to be a part of your personal space.

Many people don't feel worthy enough or valuable enough to have a true and deep connection with Source.  Organized religion teaches that humans are "less than" Source and can never live up to the glory of God.  However, God is the one who gave birth to us. Therefor, you are not "unworthy".  You are the child of God, whole and complete.  And by simply seeking to know God on a more intimate level proves that you are worthy, otherwise you would not bother to seek. 

Your words and actions stem from what you are "being".  Therefor, if you are being confused in your life, then your words and actions will be confused.

Spirituality is the basis for our entire lives.  All problems begin with spiritual problems.  So, when you're spiritually ok, then everything else in your life tends to be ok.

Sometimes when we go through a lot of pain in our lives, it can bring us down and make us feel less connected to Source.  We might feel like we've lost something in our spirituality.  However, consider that this feeling is only a loss of innocence, not a loss of spiritual connection.  Ask yourself, "Can you still embrace your love for God even with your pain?  Can you embrace the hard times and move from innocence into wisdom?"  Pain and hard times bring us from innocence to wisdom to teaching.

You have inner magic!  Your larger Self and larger visions and dreams are real.  They do exist, you just have to weave them into your day to day life.  God needs to know that you can maintain your spiritual self during the hard, monotonous times, not just the easy times, in order for your larger dreams to manifest.

A powerful prayer:  Show me how to get from where I am to where I want to be.

Surrender thinking that you know the answers, then ask God to show you the answers.  When we think we are "in the know," this can be a blockage to actually learning what it is we really want to know.

Please Welcome Me

My femininity has been drained trying to survive. She is exhausted to the point of being almost non-existent. Now I am remembering she is there. She has been deeply ignored and lonely and craving acknowledgement. She wants love and joy. She has survived. She has done well. Now she wants to create. She wants to thrive and to dance. She was born this way! The spirit world is familiar and angels are natural. But where did she go? How did I loose her so profoundly? It was because I chose to take care of a man's needs over my own. A father, boyfriends and now a husband. I thought this was love, but now I see it was the opposite of love. It was destruction. I nearly destroyed myself. But I'm coming back now... slow and steady. I finally give myself space to grow rather than constantly trying to be everything to him. Time to thrive. Please welcome me.