Sabbatical

       I have always said I post when I am guided to do so.  It seems it is now time to report I have been on "sabbatical".
However, it has not been a paid leave from work. ( I wish it had been!!) It has been a withdrawal from many things, many people, my usual life.  A stripping down to bare bones of what is necessary to advance the evolution of my Soul.  Easy? Absolutely Not.  I have often quoted my mother: "Hell is right here on earth." As "unenlightened" as she may have appeared to be in the 50's, she really did believe that we came from Heaven and would return there.

       The challenges have seemed mercilessly unending.  The lessons have been to learn Patience with a huge capital P, that it is ok to be out of control, so Trust. It's ok to live without direction.  This forces you to be in the moment. It's ok not to receive guidance from my Spiritual team and Guardian Angels in a way that I had gotten used to.  My pleas of guidance were met with silence, or so I thought.  Then, all of a sudden, I'd find myself doing or saying something I totally had not anticipated, or planned in the  many scenarios of the "monkey mind".  I came to understand that this is guided action.  I often found myself suddenly recalling something I had not thought about in years, often feeling very emotional, crying.  Things that have been suppressed can no longer stay buried. It's time to feel it and then let it go.  This frees up vital energy and raises this energy to a higher frequency.

       I did hear from my Spiritual team that I cannot write or teach what I have not experienced.  I have absolutely no idea what is next. Guess you might say this is getting information on a need-to-know basis,  My personality is fiery.  Astrologically, I am a Sagittarius sun and an Aries moon.  Two restless fire signs. I am action oriented and want things yesterday. So, you can imagine the depth of these lessons for me.

     I AM that I AM, I AM my Soul, is all that I am to really know.  Until next time, Love, Light and Peace to all of you.

Linda

FYI..Dr. Brian Weiss has been posting some thoughtful notions, gleaned most likely from his work with past life regression, on his social media.

"I AM my Soul"

       In the spring I channeled high frequency "I AM" affirmations from Lord Melchizedek, along with their meanings printed in a guidebook, that he wished to be brought forth.  They were to be printed on business size cards, rather than the traditional size of an oracle card, so that people can choose "the card of the day" and take it with them to refer to throughout the day.  
       On the surface, this may seem like a straightforward project.  Little did I anticipate!  Challenges abounded.  At times, one right after the other, to even the point where my husband was shaking his head.  To my exclamations of, "I'm done!", "I am not doing this!", both my husband and my friend, Bridget, would remind me, "It's a learning experience!"  And then, my Indigo warrior would kick in and I'd go back to it, knowing full well my most recent "I AM's" were not of a high vibration for either me or the project.  Of course, this "going Indigo", as we've come to call it, was part of the process.
       It has been most definitely a learning experience, not only in the how to get it done, but the Spiritual lessons.  This has been huge.  Even to the point of receiving defective boxes in order to connect to the company representative somewhere in the country and hearing from my guides that I needed to send her a link to this blog. REALLY?!!  Yes, really.
       Lessons of patience and self-love.  To really feel in my very depths that "nothing matters, really", for truly, "I AM my Soul" stepping into the magnificence of who I AM as that Soul, and loving that Soul living in this not-so-perfect body.  Reverend Dan Chesbro said at our ordination into The Order of Melchizedek that the most important thing is to love yourself as much as God loves you.  To go about your day, living your life as the Light you really are.
       God, my Soul and my Spiritual team led me on a journey to live and learn from the wisdom and beauty of what I channeled so that I can gratefully bring it forward to anyone who seeks me out.  And so it is.

Hope in Time of Upheaval

       Previously, I referred to personal and global upheaval. You know this has continued.
       Growing up when I did, there were norms, parameters, support of extended family.  But, things happened back then, too.  Only they were not discussed, not to be revealed beyond the family borders.  But that was also a "norm".  
       Today, things cannot stay hidden.  Light must shine and reveal all that is no longer in one's highest and best...and the highest and best for planet Earth.  
       It feels like chaos.  But, it really isn't.  Many of us have led so many lives that we have evolved to the highest level of frequency ever.  As we rise and heal, so does the Earth.  It is Divine timing that we are at a point to really change things.  Will it happen overnight?  Absolutely not.  It really does seem to be the era of the battle between light and dark, good and evil.  
       Never before have so many people openly expressed their belief in angels, a belief that they are divinely guided.  Energy workers, social workers are allowing their sessions to be intuitive, guided by their teams of spiritual guides.  More and more lightworkers are having trouble describing what they do and say they pull out of their toolboxes whatever tool they have that the client needs at that point in time.
       Throughout all of this, there is hope.  Focus on staying in the present when things are chaotic, knowing that everything serves a purpose and that we are exactly where we are meant to be in the evolution of each Soul manifested into a human body.  This may sound like gobbleydegook to some.  Make a conscious choice to slow the mind chatter so you can listen to your intuition and see the signs. Ask to be guided each day to your highest and best.  Your team is there, 24/7.  

LESSONS

       I knew it had been some time since the last post, but I did not know just how long until I logged on Thanksgiving morning.  Ten months to the day. I am sure some have thought I abandoned the blog.  I only post when I am guided.  Plus, how does one top the last post?  It, basically, says it all!

         The last months have presented challenges to many.  There has been upheaval on personal and global levels.  I and my family are no exception. Throughout, I reminded myself that life happens FOR me, not TO me.  We are not victims and there is ever choice.  I often remembered a class with Rhys Thomas during the "Growing The Healer Within" program.  We were absorbing a point that had been made, followed by groaning about "are we ever going to get 'there'." Rhys asked us if we were still breathing. If you are, then you will have issues.  At the time, I thought it was a rather deterministic, pessimistic way of looking at things.  Now, I realize we are always learning, evolving, whether here on the earth plane or in spirit. How we approach these lessons while in school on earth determines how much peace and joy we create in our lives.  Sometimes we are our own "worst enemy". 

       In the spring I started hearing (I am clairaudient) "Melchizedek".  Lord Melchizedek brought in the energy of Third Phase Magnified Healing, so this did not surprise me.  I asked for clarity, as I did not initially understand. Ultimately, I was led to the website of Rev. Daniel Chesbro.  He is a graduate of three divinity schools, led a church and was led to form an Order of Melchizedek.  He wrote "The Order of Melchizedek".  After reading it, I knew I was being called to The Order.  In September, my husband and I were ordained into The Order of Melchizedek by Rev. Chesbro when he came to Kindred Spirits in Connecticut.  It is an Order for people in service to God.  

       The only teaching that is significant is to love yourself as much as God loves you.  Dan also refers to dying as graduating.  As the January post calls living on earth "school", this was awesome to hear.  The ordination does give me the legal authority to perform ceremonies as an officiant.  I am not sure if or how this component will unfold.  He said we will be shown if this is part of our commitment.

         In closing this post, know that it is your Divine mission to love yourself as much as God loves you.  We came from God's unconditional love, but we have forgotten what that feels like.  It is now time to make the effort to remember this.

Wisdom from My Illumined Guides

       My first post for 2014 is amazing to me as it is a surprise message I received from my illumined Spiritual team on January 13, 2014.  The wisdom and teachings are phenomenal and I have been "sitting" with the impact of it since then.  It is now time to share it and I write it here, except for two paragraphs that were personal.  I am sure that content was to get my attention and to serve as validation.  Otherwise, the following is as I received it:

       "We came here to experience.  We are one and came from Oneness.  We came from perfection and unconditional Love.  We came here knowing everything, and everything about our Soul purpose and Spiritual purpose.
       When we chose to come back to 'school', we brought with us that part of Source and Oneness that is me, that is you.  We only bring back the amount of energy we need for this incarnation and energy includes the issues of past lives - and only those lives - that impact on the lessons we chose to work on for this life.
       Our societal values say the negative things.  Our minds run with these messages of lower frequencies and we interpret that we are broken, in need of healing.
       Sometimes our 'highest and best' includes negative experience.
That is how we grow.  We interpret negative experience as punishment, and 'ease' as being in our highest and best.  We can experience ease, joy, flow, once our minds and egos truly accept that we came here to experience, to grow, and it is how we deal with the experience that make up the lesson.  And, we are ever at choice.
         Some lives are more karmic than others.  An easier life can be to experience and learn a specific issue, and only that issue.  Sometimes we volunteer to be an instrument to balance the karma for someone else.
      Truly, ease and earthly wealth and how, if you acquire it, is decided at the contract, with the proviso that your choices, and how you deal with both the good and the bad, changes things as you go along.
       The choices you make are never judged when you return.  Only you decide whether you achieve the growth and purpose of each incarnation.
       You have questions about getting in touch with the 'knowing'.  It truly is the practice of living.  It is also getting in touch with knowing we came here to experience and no experience is good or bad - it serves the purpose of your incarnation.  The more you interpret things that happen in your life as bad, the less joy and you will dwell in lower frequencies. As you heard, it's how we deal with the experience that you have labeled as negative.  As you realize its purpose and go with the flow of knowing that the experience has purpose, and growth, the easier it is to be in flow and experience joy.  Good experiences are growth, as well.
       Throughout your practice of living here at school, remember that you are one with Source, you are beautiful, you are Love, you are awesome, you have choice.  A positive choice is to remember this - to remember your God-given magnificence.  It is time for humanity to recognize this.  No one is to be treated less than the Divine you are.  Speak your truth with love for and of yourself, and with compassion for the other.  Compassion for the other does not mean enabling, does not mean allowing someone to mistreat or disrespect you, either as a human or that Divine being you are.  Stand tall.  Stand in the Love that surrounds you.  You truly do have a daily team of Spiritual Cheerleaders around you.  As you know, they change, depending on what is best for you.  Still know they are there.  Continue to ask for illumined beings of Light.  We will guide you to fulfill your contract, but only if you ask.  For choice is always the ruling factor of the human condition.
       You are being asked to share and teach this.  It is your choice whether you do it or not."

       With gratitude, I have chosen to share this.
              

A WINDING PATH

       It has been quite some time since my last post.  Usually, I get a nudge from Spirit to post, that there is something to channel, or I just know it is time to say something.  I am not quite sure how to bring this blog up-to-date, as I kid you not when I say the path has been a winding one.  A very unexpected one.

       Shortly after the last post, an unanticipated event hit me out of the blue.  I asked my angels and guides for help, guidance.  I heard, "you are being pulled, new direction."  OK.  I asked for additional signs and they came from unexpected sources, including a call from someone that I had not talked with in about three months and who had no idea what was going on.  Out of context she said something that I had to have her repeat.  Unwittingly, she had become my earth messenger, so I knew the next step to take.  Awesome.

       Shortly after that, my daughter, her three children, my husband and I all got sick within a few days of one another.  I went down for the count.  We heard from our medical teams that there was something going around that was taking a long time for people to recover from.  Again, I went to Spirit for guidance.  Heard that I had been "pulled" and it was time to "stop and be."  I had no choice but to stop and be.  Though it was not "fun" being sick, it provided a time to go inward, heal what needed attention and what was now the time to heal.  It was a time for messages, tying up loose ends, insight.  This took me by surprise as I thought Ed and I were suppose to bring Soul Entrainment(TM) forward.  We are, but in Divine timing as he also needed to go inward.  

       The media focused on the end of the Mayan calendar last year.  The real energetic work has been this year for many people.  There has been upheaval, turmoil, new directions, the end of some relationships and the start of new ones, etc. A time of deep learning and the releasing of what no longer serves us.  All of this as a way to prepare us to go forward in ways we could never have imagined. 

       One of the important lessons/messages is that there are many people who stay in their ego and are (to quote a dear friend) "chasing spirituality" rather than living it.  The way of man is limiting.  We must always remember we are a Soul having a human experience.  Our Soul came from a Source of unconditional love and we are returning to that unconditional love.  We must periodically remember who we really are.  We are not merely this body in this world.  This physical body is hosting the Soul.  This time of going inward and staying put gave me the time to do "The 40 Day Love Affair with Your Self" by Karen Paolino Correia.  Anyone who knows me, knows of my admiration and love for Karen.  She is an Earth Angel and I cherish her as a teacher. I highly recommend this.  It is done as an online program and it was perfect timing for me to do this during this time.  You will see a difference in yourself at the end of this.  Take your time with it and really go with the process.

       Linda being Linda, I had a go around with my doctor in mid October.  I was still getting a periodic low-grade temperature, and the physical stress of this caused a slight flare of lupus. I am not a good patient for traditional medicine.  It has often failed me, and my daughter.  It has been really important for my husband, but we still support him with supplements and energy work that is often frowned upon.  And the doctors marvel at how well he does!  At any rate, I am a member of the Rhode Island Holistic Healers Association and was part of the committee planning the Holistic Awareness Day that was held November 3rd at the Sheraton in Warwick, RI.  (It was fabulous!!!)  The co-founder of the association who heads it (Susanne Dillon)  works with therapeutic grade essential oils.  I started working with her and an oil I purchased from her finally ended the temperature.  The oils have a frequency and science is now looking at the benefit of the oils.  It is, really, another form of energy healing.  I have started working with a couple of others and, yesterday, my daughter embarked on a program for symptoms that have been resistant to traditional approaches.  I have started studying this.  It is important to use therapeutic grade oils for healing.  Looks like this is another tool in my tool box.  Love it.

       And so, the winding path continues.  And I welcome it, love it.  I would be bored otherwise!!! Guess Spirit knows this and uses this.

Be Open to Guidance

       We have been so busy with a variety of activities that I decided to just "be" for a couple of days to re-center.  My husband had a doctor appointment this morning.  Upon leaving, he suggested we go to a specific place.  I responded that I really was not prepared to do this and he noted that the idea "just popped into my head."  My response was "hmmmm". I am so glad I listened to what he had been guided to do.  I was "off duty" but he wasn't.  I always say I am in service to God/Spirit to help in any way I am guided, but I had decided to just be for a while and my listening antenna was not up as much as it usually is.  Not that there is anything wrong with this, as taking care of ourselves is so very important.  We cannot help another if we are not taking care of ourselves.

       So, I said, OK, let's go.  We proved to be quite a team as we were placed in a situation to help and teach.  God and Spirit have very interesting ways to tap into our willingness to use the gifts we have been given.  It turned out to be an awesome day in a very unexpected way. I feel blessed and ever so grateful.