You will float free from the depths of a hostile realm into a heavenly garden

09/06/2009 by John Smallman

The divine plan continues to unfold precisely as intended, and as it must; nothing else is possible. Your awareness of it will increase and intensify as your energy frequency rises in preparation for leaving your illusory reality of fear, suffering, pain, and death. You do not belong there, you do not want to be there, and so you are going to awaken from it.

Life is to be lived in joyful exhilaration – now, permanently, forever. When you start to get sneak previews of that state – as you will – you will know that it is your true domain for which you have been yearning, and of which you have occasional brief memory flashes. It is these glimpses, sometimes so brief that they did not enter your conscious awareness, that have kept hope alive deep within you, and prevented you from losing faith in the existence of your ever-loving Father.

This faith is raising you from the depths of apathy and despondency into the awareness that all is divinely taken care of, that your Father truly is infinite unconditional Love, in which you are always completely enveloped. And as your faith strengthens, the light of God’s love, ever brightening and intensifying, spreads into the energy fields of those with whom you interact, enlivening and uplifting them.

Your awakening is an enormous cooperative undertaking in which you have all been involved since your apparent separation from your heavenly Father. And its success has been guaranteed and underwritten by Him, so that there is absolutely no possibility of failure. It has at times been very unsettling and painful as you have struggled to retain your faith in Him while still building and rebuilding your totally unsatisfactory illusory reality. You have spent eons trying to convince yourselves that the illusion was good, and that the pain and suffering that you were experiencing were merely a setback or obstacle that you could and would overcome. Now this internal conflict – faith in God or in your illusory reality – is emerging into your awareness to be recognized for what it is, and released.

There is no conflict; it is part of the illusion. And when you release it, the horrific illusion which you have worked so hard, so long, and finally quite ineffectually to maintain, will dissolve like mist, leaving you blinking in wonder and surprise in the brilliant light of God’s eternal day.

Fear, anger, confusion, and dismay, and all the other unhappy and unhealthy emotions that you have been experiencing intensely for what seems an interminable period of time will leave you instantly. The strength and lightness of being that will replace them are unimaginable to you in your present unawakened state. You might liken it to lifting the extreme weight and pressure from your shoulders that you would experience at the bottom of an ocean abyss, allowing you to float free and unencumbered from the depths of that cold and hostile realm into a heavenly garden, where the warm summer air and delicious fragrances caress your skin like a soothing balm as you relax in sublime serenity.

With so very much love, Saul

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The Light Speaks

What a wonderful message for this day, and all. I had to share!

The Light Speaks

a message from Gillian MacBeth-LouthanTuesday, 1 September, 2009

Time after time, existence after existence, you have been birthed, you have died, and you have been birthed again. In this lifetime alone you have birthed and died a hundred times already and there will be a thousand more to come. Level by level, week by week – you birth another level of you, another nuance that is not known and has not been seen, another possibility, another perception, another day. And every night as you slumber, you have the option to let go of what has hurt you, of what has wounded you, what has lessened your light, what has lessened your heart, and fly to the stars and dance in the heavens, and be birthed anew on the sunrise.

Humans are the only species in this part of the galaxy that have the ability to die a hundred deaths and be born a hundred times in one life span. You are re-incarnation-al aspects of the original you, of your original being from this human birth. It seems as if weeks are years and years are weeks, and days are long and nights are short, and the sun shines brighter and the waters run bluer. All of this is because you perceive it as so.

There are many whose perceptions are dark and dank and the waters are muddy and they see only debris on the shoreline of life. They see the residual pond of selfishness within the human pod that surrounds them. They do not see the heart of the situation. They lessen themselves as the lessons get crueler and crueler day by day. They shrink their horizons as their panoramic view disappears from their consciousness.

You cannot allow the delusional and the dilution-all energies of another’s perception to splatter mud upon your own joy. For what you seek, you shall find and what you yearn for you shall become, and what is unknown shall be known. For wide is the path that you have sculpted for yourself. Lift up your being on this day as you see above the conflict from a viewpoint high on the cliff of divinity. For it is up to you dear ones to always lift yourself above the confusion, above the pain, above the sadness and the delusion, the anger and the hate.

Many in your life do not heed your intuitive words. They heed not your perception, and your prophecy. For you hold the promise of the future within you. You hold the hope of all those who sleep in fear and confusion. You hold the promise within your cellular structure – the promise that this world would not be destroyed again.I come forth on this day of alignment. I am just a beam of Light. I have not a name, not a sound – I am only love. Lift up your head and your eyes to a new day as it is birthed. You are love, as you are loved.

My Jewelry

What another hot day! Going to be in the 90's - whew boy! Now that might not be all that hot to many but for me living here in Los Angeles where we have the beach and mountains all within less than a couple hundred miles of each other, we're spoiled with some pretty awesome year-round weather.

I thought I'd drop a blurb about my jewelry-making venture. It started when I would admired the eclectic, beaded necklaces and earrings at the Santa Monica Promenade. I loved the colors and styles; they were so dainty, but I thought the prices were a bit beyond my reach. I even thought that they looked fairly easy to make, even to one who had never made a piece of jewelry. Fastforwarding, I came across a bead catalogue; ordered a book on basic jewelry making and the rest is history. Now I'm no artist, yet, but I think I make some pretty cute earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. I really enjoy the reactions I get when people see my new pieces in person for the first time. Additionally, who can't use a bit of extra money?

I support myself and my two wonderful, wonderful daughters who both attend college. So in addition to the fun of making jewelry, and the joy of seeing others enjoy it, every sale is very much appreciated. I'm excited about advancing my skills by taking a metalsmithing class soon. I don't know if I'm quite up to actually attending a class at a college; perhaps I'll try a DVD and see how that goes!

Realizing Sentience

"To my mind, the idea that doing the dishes is unpleasant can occur only when you are not doing them. Once you are standing in front of the sink with your sleeves rolled up and your hands in warm water, it really is not so bad. I enjoy taking my time with each dish, being fully aware of the dish, the water, and each movement of my hands. I know that if I hurry in order to go and have a cup of tea, the time will be unpleasant and not worth living. That would be a pity, for each minute, each second of life is a miracle. The dishes themselves and the fact that I am here washing them are miracles! . . ." Thich Nhat Hahn

On this hot summer evening, I was washing dishes; my mind going in a hundred different directions as usual. I had brought the fan into the kitchen and it seemed to finally be cooling down a bit. I thought about how I appreciated the occasional cool breezes. I then thought about how fortunate I am to have cool, clean water with which to wash my dishes; enjoying how the clean, clear glasses and bowls looked when all the food residue was washed away. I took a break for a bit, and sprayed some bleach cleaner onto the silverware for extra cleaning. Then I started thinking further that my plants that I keep in the kitchen next to the sink were in dismay because of the probably death of any lingering bacteria on the silverware or in the sink. Oh don't think I'm crazy yet - try Googling "The Secret Life of Plants." That book is a discussion for another day. As I made my mental apologies to the plants I started to think about my wish for them to one day be in their natural environment, and naturally being supplied with everything that they need from the Earth. I then thought that I should send a friendly thought of thanks to the plant kingdom deva (nature spirit) for the plants' giving of themselves to humans for our enjoyment. Some people know what I'm talking about (probably anyone who is still reading to this point) and other (who have probably actually stopped reading this by now) might think I'm nuts.

In any case, how this post relates to the title of my blog site is that I've read SOOO much esoteric information, that I've got "monkey mind" more than ever now.

I am aware that every "thing" is sentient. Everything is matter. It occurred to me one day that if every single thing on Earth is made up of atoms, molecules, etc. then nothing is stationary. That's not to say that everything has a soul, but I think that plants, rock, dirt, the elements of our homes are sentient! Everything is made from elements from the Earth which are sentient and because those elements have been manipulated doesn't mean that they are dead.

I'm on TMI overload. I'm almost constantly trying to control my thoughts because I know that our thoughts create things. I need to focus on what I "want" rather than what I "don't want", i.e., pro peace rather than anti war. But then, it's also my understanding that if I "want" something that means that I don't already have it, which is supposed to be a state of mind.

I have so much more to say on this but I think the bacteria in the sink and on the silverware is dead now. I hope that my plants aren't angry with me. But that's just a human trait, right?