Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
It is through tear filled eyes and with much sadness that I am writing this blog. On Monday, January 4th, 2010 my precious Jack Russell Terrier, Benny, died at 11:18 PM. Benny was 19 years old. Over the past year there were indications that Benny was moving towards heaven. I wrote a blog a few months ago about taking him to the vets for tests and bloodwork and being told to take him home and just keeping doing what I was doing abundantly: loving him.
Because I knew intuitively that the day Benny would be going to heaven was fast approaching, I prayed daily that 3 personal requests be fulfilled. I am so grateful to God that my prayers were answered. The first was that I would be home when it happened. I needed to be here with Benny. I needed to be by Benny's side.
It was Monday evening at 10:45 PM when I was sitting at my computer and I heard Benny yelp in pain. I flew down the kitchen and called to Chuck to come quickly as I knew Benny was dying.
My second and third requests were that Benny not be in any pain and that he transition quickly. Other than the initial yelp of pain, it did not appear that he had any suffering. He was laying on the floor of our kitchen, which was really Benny's condo as he could no longer go up the steps of our house. Because of how we had made the kitchen into Benny's personal abode, it now seems so empty and sterile. We had dog beds all over the floor so that wherever he decided to fall over and sleep, it would be comfy and cozy for him. A day or so before his death, I was watching him sleep and he looked like a little sultan peacefully sleeping in the center of an abundance of plumpy pillows.
After rushing to Benny's side, I found that he was laying down and I laid down beside him and a knowingness and clarity of the finality came over me. Even though his cataract filled eyes could no longer see, he knew I was by his side.
An amazing happening occurred. I was on the floor at the same level as Benny and all of a sudden he jumped up and looked me square in the eyes. His action totally took me by surprise. I even remembered feeling like my breath had been taken away by my surprise of his doing this. In that nano second, Benny's eyes were perfectly clear of cataracts. I felt as if with his energy he was holding my heart and saying to me, "I see you and you see me. We will never lose sight of each other with the eyes of our hearts."
He then laid down and quickly went from rapid earthly breathing that transitioned to slow earthly breathing. Finally there was no earthly breathing; just the knowing he was now breathing in heaven. I held him in my arms for the entire dying experience, rocking him gently, and unceasingly telling him of my love for him.
Benny had been by my side for 16 years. In 1994 I was living alone here at Angel Heights. I felt a huge void in my life and one day realized I needed a dog companion. I sat out to find a dog to rescue. The first two attempts I made resulted in being told that the dogs had just found homes. And then I saw a sign posted in the Upperco Post Office about a male Jack Russell Terrier that needed a home. When I saw Benny, it was love at first sight. I named him Benediction as I knew this dog was a blessing in my life. I called him Benny for short.
Benny came into my life on November 18, 1994. He died at 11:18 PM.
Benny helped me tremendously with the loss of my dear friend, Walt Blatt. At the end of February, 1995 - just two months after Benny came into my life, my friend, Walt Blatt, who was dying of cancer, came to my home to make his transition with the support of hospice. I had converted my living room into a hospice room for Walt. I remember one of the hospice nurses who came to check on Walt, looked around at the angel art and angel collection. The nurse commented that when it was her time she wanted to come to Angel Heights to be surrounded by angels. Benny was one of those angels surrounding Walt with love.
I had brought out a Black and Decker lantern style flashlight and kept it on the floor right beside Walt's recliner, just in case we lost electricity. On the day that Walt died, Benny did something he hadn't done before. He picked up the lantern with his teeth and ran through the house with the lantern. I knew that Benny, an angel with fur, was aware that the transition angels were positioning themselves to help Walt in his dying experience. Light was truly on the move at Angel Heights.
The day before Benny died, Chuck and I went out for a Sunday afternoon dinner in Emmitsburg, Maryland. We enjoyed a delightful, leisurely Sunday meal. I was watching everyone around us as they got their meals, dined and got their receipts. Nothing out of the ordinary was happening. The reason I share this is because after we got our receipt and paid the bill, the waitress came back to our table and handed me a single rose. No one else in the entire restaurant had been given a rose. The waitress said nothing. She just gave me the rose and left. I was thrilled to have a long-stem rose. Chuck and I both continued to comment to each other that we didn't know why it had happened, but it was really a kind gesture for me to receive a beautiful rose.
I truly believe that spirit was behind the gifting of the rose. Many of you who attend spirit message services know that loved ones in heaven very often extend a rose as a sign of love from heaven.
I shared in my book Driving Under the Influence of Angels, that I following Walt's death on March 1, 1995, I had asked the angels for a sign from Walt; a sign that he had arrived safely in heaven. In my mailbox the next day I receive a card with the poem: The Rose that Grows on the Garden Wall. It is a poem that tells of how a rose that once bloomed on one side of a wall had found a crack in the wall and was now growing on the other side of the wall. Additionally, someone had mailed me a cassette of the recording by Bette Midler of the song The Rose.
In November, while having a private consultation with a medium, my Dad, who is in heaven, came through and told me that when it was time for Benny to die, Dad was going to be with me and for me to be assured that Dad would take care of Benny for me. Dad wanted me to know that everyone was in position to receive Benny with open arms and great love and affection. While Dad was alive, he often called Benny his Grand-Dog.
Dad's message in the reading in November, the rose given to me the day before, all were ways that helped me through Benny's death. There is a huge hole in my heart and in our home.
A couple nights ago I was in the kitchen by myself. I heard a little bark and looked around because I thought that Riot, one of my two female Jack Russells, had joined me in the kitchen and was barking for attention. There was no one but me in the kitchen. I knew it was a sweet little hello from heaven from my Benny Dog.
I want to thank everyone who has been so kind in sending Chuck and me sympathy emails and cards. I have created a Benny memorial book and just as your love fills my life, your loving messages have filled the book and have been a huge comfort.
We had Benny cremated and were given his ashes yesterday. I will be having art created from a portion of the ashes. There is a company that uses a small amount of ash to create a beautiful heart. I want to have the heart near me to remind me of Benny's wisdom: We will never lose sight of each other. With the eyes of the heart we will always see each other.
Love in abundance, Jayne
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
ALL ABOARD TO FAIRYLAND
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
We've all heard about earth changes and pole shifts. Sometimes we imagine such changes may occur due to catastrophies that rock the world as we currently know it. I'm here to share a story that occurred this past month. It was a huge pole shift in my life and the experience was one of the sweetest ever. In fact, every time I think of the incident I just start smiling and thinking to myself: It's happening now. The shift occurred with the simplicity of a comment that was made to me.
My husband, Chuck, and I adore train gardens. We have a truly amazing train garden in our bedroom and keep it up year round. We both would love to miniaturize ourselves and live in this adorable community.
During the holidays we had a free Saturday and while reading our local newspaper, The Carroll County Times, we were delighted that the paper included a list of all the fire departments that had train garden displays. We set out to have a fun filled adventure of seeing a number of the gardens.
At the end of the day, which we topped off by dining in a restaurant that is a remodeled train station (yes, we are a goofy couple), Chuck made the following remark to me. Now before I share Chuck's pole shifting statement, I have to give a little more background information about the fire departments' train gardens.
We saw a lot of train gardens on that Saturday. The gardens were all set up and being run by men and the masculine energy was pretty obvious. The gardens included racetracks with fast running cars, rugged mountains and on one of the mountains was a scene where a plane had crashed into the mountain; houses on fire with fire trucks on the scene putting out the fire. One of the gardens had a huge refinery fire going on. Fast cars. Explosions. Fires. Disasters. Sounds like the making of a script for a guy flick.
Chuck and I are driving home from our train garden adventure day, and out of the blue Chuck says to me, "Wouldn't it be really cool to see a train that goes through a fairyland that is complete with mist and magical beings. An enchanted forest fairy garden." I know the look on my face conveyed what I was experiencing. The poles had shifted.
Chuck went on to say that being married to me for ten years had given him the experience of living in other realities. It has really sensitized him to a lot of stuff; stuff that he was never sensitive to before, including the world of enchantment, magical beings and fairies.
I do, of course, honor the train gardens that were on display because they represent a lot of hours of hard work and kind individuals are sharing their private train collections witht he public. And God bless our fire departments and fire personnel.
And I am also honoring my husband, Chuck. Chuck was in the Navy during the time of the Korean War. He worked in the corporate world for 49 years. He was an IBM engineer. He loves watching the military channel and movies with car chases and things that blow up.
And this same precious individual is someone who would like nothing better than to be a train conductor who says:
ALL ABOARD FOR FAIRYLAND.
In honor of Conductor Chuck, I share with you here ways to experience
FAIRY FELLOWSHIP
101 WAYS TO BE A FRIEND
TO THE FAIRY FOLK
1. Believe in fairies.
2. Read fairy tales from around the world.
3. Use the word “flow” in your daily dialogue. Fairies feel comfortable with people who flow with life; people who let their life force flow.
4. Be open to seeing fairies with peripheral vision (from corner of your eyes). This is fairy focus. If you notice circles of light, you are observing fairies dancing. Fairies love to swirl, whirl and twirl.
5. Keep your mind and imagination open. You develop fairy vision with your imagination.
6. Recognize many invisible worlds envelope your visible world. When you’ve lost “track of time,” and find your mind blank as to where you’ve been or what you’ve been doing, you may have been wisped away to a pixie playground. Without wisping in life, you can wither in life.
7. Celebrate flowers! Love flowers; in fact, a love for all living things is a bridge between humans and fairies. Fairies love bluebells, pansies and daisies to name a few fairy favorites.
8. Honor the importance of childhood. Children are closer to fairy folk than adults. Fairies nurture childhood spirit.
9. Look for magic in everyone and everything. Buy a magic wand. Even better, make your own magic wand. Fairies are
magic masters.
10. Attune to subtle energies. Allow yourself to sense energy changes especially changes in the environment around you.
Notice the obscure.
11. Slow down your life pace. Going too fast is a sure way to miss the fairies around you. A fairy pace is “flow and easy”.
12. Pay attention to sound and consider turning down the volume around you so you can hear fairytalk. Let your mind flow with dreams about fairies.
13. Make time to “get quiet”…really quiet especially in nature. If you can hear insects humming, you can hear fairies giggling.
14. Affirm! Proclaim in your environment: “Yes! I know fairies are here with me!”
15. Make time to have a picnic in a park. Frolic with the fairies.
16. Make contact with nature with loving energy and thoughts, i.e. touching leaves with love, hugging trees. When you notice flowers are bobbing up and down, there’s a fairy that’s playing.
17. Talk to everything, i.e. your houseplants, with a voice of love.
18. Use your inner ears and inner eyes to hear and see the invisible world around you.
19. Breathe in all the amazing scents of life.
20. Listen for the sounds that come out of flowers. They truly do inhale and exhale. Listen to the music that’s in the air and for the sound of little chimes, bells and fairy harps.
21. Celebrate life! Have parties and invite the fairies to attend!
22. Applaud God for all the glorious creations. Be thankful.
23. Dance a life dance. At sunset, join with the fairies in honoring God by dancing a happy dance. Fairies love dancing in sunlight and moonlight. Fairies love light especially the light in your heart.
24. Believe in happily ever afters. Believe in miracles.
25. Go to flower shows. Visit gardens.
26. Fairies can be found in meadows filled with wild flowers and pixies in pastures.
27. Be kind to all creatures and all living things. Create wildlife habitats as well as fairy habitats.
28. Be a connoisseur of life. Savor your life. Life is delicious! Let the laughter, playfulness and happiness begin and you’ll be attracting fairy energy into your life.
29. Pay attention when you’re living life in overdrive and feel you always have to ‘get to” some place. Be the fullness of the now wherever you are.
30. Be in awe of the earth’s beauty. Make time to behold the beauty around and inside of you.
31. Praise all the cycles of nature: spring, summer, fall, winter.
Celebrate the seasons.
32. Look for ways to include thoughts of the fairies in your daily life. Think about what the fairies might be doing.
33. Invite the fairies into your life and your home. Verbally welcome them. Have lots of mirrors in your home. Mirrors are spirit and fairy doorways. Have fresh flowers because flowers petals are where they nap.
34. Build a fairy house for your home so the fairies come for sleepovers.
35. Create fairy furniture.
36. Learn your own personal rhythm, i.e. biorhythm chart. Your biorhythm is your natural life flow.
37. Be on the lookout for fairies where there are mounds, caves, forest clearings, creeks. Fairy mounds, hills, forts, gardens, lands do exist.
38. If you own property, let a part of your property or yard grow wild.
39. Discover your own inner sound and keynote. Opening to your inner sound is a portal to “other worlds”. The key of you is a key to opening to worlds within worlds that you are already attuned to. Put your ear to the ground, and listen for fairy sounds.
40. Discover your own inner fairy colors.
41. Surround yourself with fairy beauty, i.e. works of art depicting fairies.
42. Be genuine in your life. Be passionate about your life. Be a lover of your life.
43. Sing a fairy song outdoors to the fairies. If you don’t know a fairy song, write a fairy song as a gift to the fairies. The fairies love to hear singing.
44. Get to know your spiritual “JOY GUIDE”. This is the fairy who is part of your spiritual support team.
45. Commune with “merfolk” when at the ocean.
46. Get to know the fairies as “Wee/We” people. Community is important to the fairies. Fairies feel a connectedness with all kingdoms and realms. Getting close to the fairies strengthens your own connectedness.
47. Put flower essences such as The Fairy Rose in your drinking water. Available from Green Hope farm LLC/POB125, Meriden,New Hampshire (NH) 03770. Telephone 603-469-3662. www.greenhopeessences.com
48. Attend fairy festivals. Dress up like a fairy.
49. Subscribe to fairy magazines.
50. When shopping, pay attention to when you see fairy figurines and know that you are starting to make the connection of “seeing fairies everywhere”.
51. Have a fountain in your home inviting fairy energy to flow.
52. Visit places where there are waterfalls and look for fairies. Fairies love to play in waterfalls.
53. Attune to crystals that resonate with the fairies such as amethyst.
54. Practice tolerance and respect for everyone and everything. Do not curse. Cursing causes fairy energy to shutter; in fact, everyone’s energy shutters at the sound of cursing.
55. Hold the intention that you are going to see fairies and you will!
56. Commune with dolphins.
57. Take walks in parks and woods and hold your love for the fairies in your heart. Look for places that fill you with enchantment. You’ll find fairies there.
58. Notice when the weather creates “whirlwinds”.
59. Send daily blessings to your fairy friends. Wrap your fairy friends in prayer.
60. Fill your home with fairy fragrances such as honeysuckle. Use fairy sprays throughout your house.
61. Wear fairy jewelry. Sparkle and shine with fairy light.
62. Contemplate your fellowship with fairies during the twixt times of the day, just before dawn; just before sunset
63. Notice when you see animals appear, i.e. a possum attempting to cross a road. All the kingdoms share sacred space here on earth. Be conscious of all family members.
64. Purchase a fossil sea urchin, echinite and meditate holding it to commune with fairies of the waters of the earth.
65. Read poems about fairies. Yeats called the land of the fairies the heart of our world. Connecting with the fairies opens your heart to joy.
66. Pay attention to when you spot golden ragwort growing. Fairies love it! Walk gently around toadstools.
67. Leave open space in your home for the invisible to become visible. Don’t clutter or crowd your home with useless stuff.
68. Fire fairies love candles, lamps, lights, sun images, triangles and red colors. Archangel Michael is the angelic guardian of fire fairies.
69. Earth or gnome fairies love clay pots, bricks, stones, square shapes, yellows, browns and orange colors. Archangel Uriel is the angelic guardian of earth fairies.
70. Etheric or air fairies love domes, round shapes, coins, kitchenware, clocks and colors that are silver. Archangel Raphael is the angelic guardian of air fairies.
71. Water fairies love fountains, ponds, fish tanks, mirrors, glass and blue colors. Archangel Gabriel is the angelic guardian of the water fairies.
72. Look for fairies when you see rainbows.
73. Talk to children about fairies. Let them tell you of their beliefs. Let a child draw a fairy picture for you.
74. Go barefoot on the grass. You’ll be giving Mother Nature a foot massage and the fairies will tickle your toes.
75. Feel the wind blowing through your hair. Experience the wind knowing that the wind is experiencing you, too.
76. Rest upon the earth and watch the white fluffy clouds float by. Imagine the fairies resting right beside you.
77. Imagine the fairies giving you a special secret name. What would the name be?
78. Be a fairy godmother to someone and fulfill a wish for them.
79. Recognize that the fairies are an Ancient Race. Honor their wisdom.
80. Buy a jar of bubbles and set the bubbles free from the jar.
Fairies love bubbles.
81. Pickup a seashell and know that the fairies of the ocean are calling to you.
82. Just because you don’t see something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It means your eyes aren’t fully open yet.
83. Rent the movie Fairy Tale: A True Story. Invite the fairies to watch the movie with you.
84. Purchase a deck of Inner Child Cards. These wonderful cards draw on fairy tales to assist us on our spiritual path.
85. Support the fairies in their effort to bring relief to waters of the earth. Consider adding a bird bath, waterfall or fishpond to your backyard to attract fairies, birds and wildlife.
86. Observe people and think about people who look like fairies disguised as humans.
87. Read Ted Andrews’ Enchantment of the Fairy Kingdom.
88. Study botany. Learn about plants, flowers and trees.
89. Use the Fairy Ring or Faeries’ Oracle as a communication
tool with the fairies.
90. When orbs and spheres appear in your photographs, you have just taken a fairy’s picture.
89. Ask the fairies how you can help heal the earth; be a partner
with the fairies in your garden. Listen to their wisdom.
88. Buy a pair of wings. Let your spirit fly!
89. Be creative. Creativity is magnetic to fairies.
90. Read Lord of the Rings; rent the DVDs.
91. Put up bird feeders and birdhouses.
92. When you sense fairies are near, know that they are.
93. Fairies love fruit trees. They use blossoms for clothing.
94. Read Dorothy Maclean “Oh Hear the Angels Sing” and
learn about magical Findhorn, Scotland.
95. Assist the fairies in lightweaving assignments to healing the Mother Earth. Fairies spin and weave healing energie
96. Buy little doors and place them inside and outside your
home to remind you of the reality of doors to other worlds. Look for doorways in nature. They are symbolic that nature’s door is open; waiting for you to enter.
97. Read Shakespeare.
98. Place circles of stones in your garden as a fairy ring.
99. Shiny wind chimes, bright gazing globes delight fairies.
100. Have a fairy reading with Jayne.
101. Make a pledge to be a friend to the fairy. Celebrate the joy of
Fairy Fellowship.
If you want to get to know the fairies, dedicate a meditation experience to exploring the word FAIRY followed by one of the words listed below, i.e. I am opening to FAIRY ZIP.
ZIP*FORMLESSNESS*SANCTUARY*ESSENCE*OPTIMISM*
CEREMONY*GAMES*BLISS*SPIRIT*NAKEDNESS*FAMILY*
PLAY*HOME*ZEST*WIT*MISCHIEF*GAIETY*MIRTH*JOY*
BOUQUET*REVELRY*DREAMS*GLEE*GIGGLES*LIGHT*
LAUGHTER*BANTER*HAPPINESS*BASKETS*TALK*
JUBLICATION*PLUCK*KINSHIP*DEWDROPS*COOPERATION*
THRILLS*LOVE*IDENTITY*FRIENDS*FUN*COOL BREEZE*
PERCEPTION*CELEBRATIONS*WEAVING*DOORWAYS*TIME*
BREATH*LUCK*WISHES*MUSIC*HUMMING*FOUNTAINS*
TALES*HILLS*FORTS*MOUNDS*GARDENS*HAVENS*HOUSES*
SONGS*GUIDANCE*TWIRLING*LOVE*WHIRLING*MOMENTS*
GLIMMER*SHIMMER*ELIXIRS*WINGS*FRIENDSHIPS*MONEY*
GATEWAYS*DAYS*NIGHTS*KEYS*HEALING*HIDEWAYS*
PORTALS*JOURNEYS*ADVENTURES*VISION
Fairy Fellowship@
Copyrighted May, 2006
Jayne Howard Feldman
Angel Heights
Healing Arts Center
P. O. Box 95
Upperco, MD 21155
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We've all heard about earth changes and pole shifts. Sometimes we imagine such changes may occur due to catastrophies that rock the world as we currently know it. I'm here to share a story that occurred this past month. It was a huge pole shift in my life and the experience was one of the sweetest ever. In fact, every time I think of the incident I just start smiling and thinking to myself: It's happening now. The shift occurred with the simplicity of a comment that was made to me.
My husband, Chuck, and I adore train gardens. We have a truly amazing train garden in our bedroom and keep it up year round. We both would love to miniaturize ourselves and live in this adorable community.
During the holidays we had a free Saturday and while reading our local newspaper, The Carroll County Times, we were delighted that the paper included a list of all the fire departments that had train garden displays. We set out to have a fun filled adventure of seeing a number of the gardens.
At the end of the day, which we topped off by dining in a restaurant that is a remodeled train station (yes, we are a goofy couple), Chuck made the following remark to me. Now before I share Chuck's pole shifting statement, I have to give a little more background information about the fire departments' train gardens.
We saw a lot of train gardens on that Saturday. The gardens were all set up and being run by men and the masculine energy was pretty obvious. The gardens included racetracks with fast running cars, rugged mountains and on one of the mountains was a scene where a plane had crashed into the mountain; houses on fire with fire trucks on the scene putting out the fire. One of the gardens had a huge refinery fire going on. Fast cars. Explosions. Fires. Disasters. Sounds like the making of a script for a guy flick.
Chuck and I are driving home from our train garden adventure day, and out of the blue Chuck says to me, "Wouldn't it be really cool to see a train that goes through a fairyland that is complete with mist and magical beings. An enchanted forest fairy garden." I know the look on my face conveyed what I was experiencing. The poles had shifted.
Chuck went on to say that being married to me for ten years had given him the experience of living in other realities. It has really sensitized him to a lot of stuff; stuff that he was never sensitive to before, including the world of enchantment, magical beings and fairies.
I do, of course, honor the train gardens that were on display because they represent a lot of hours of hard work and kind individuals are sharing their private train collections witht he public. And God bless our fire departments and fire personnel.
And I am also honoring my husband, Chuck. Chuck was in the Navy during the time of the Korean War. He worked in the corporate world for 49 years. He was an IBM engineer. He loves watching the military channel and movies with car chases and things that blow up.
And this same precious individual is someone who would like nothing better than to be a train conductor who says:
ALL ABOARD FOR FAIRYLAND.
In honor of Conductor Chuck, I share with you here ways to experience
FAIRY FELLOWSHIP
101 WAYS TO BE A FRIEND
TO THE FAIRY FOLK
1. Believe in fairies.
2. Read fairy tales from around the world.
3. Use the word “flow” in your daily dialogue. Fairies feel comfortable with people who flow with life; people who let their life force flow.
4. Be open to seeing fairies with peripheral vision (from corner of your eyes). This is fairy focus. If you notice circles of light, you are observing fairies dancing. Fairies love to swirl, whirl and twirl.
5. Keep your mind and imagination open. You develop fairy vision with your imagination.
6. Recognize many invisible worlds envelope your visible world. When you’ve lost “track of time,” and find your mind blank as to where you’ve been or what you’ve been doing, you may have been wisped away to a pixie playground. Without wisping in life, you can wither in life.
7. Celebrate flowers! Love flowers; in fact, a love for all living things is a bridge between humans and fairies. Fairies love bluebells, pansies and daisies to name a few fairy favorites.
8. Honor the importance of childhood. Children are closer to fairy folk than adults. Fairies nurture childhood spirit.
9. Look for magic in everyone and everything. Buy a magic wand. Even better, make your own magic wand. Fairies are
magic masters.
10. Attune to subtle energies. Allow yourself to sense energy changes especially changes in the environment around you.
Notice the obscure.
11. Slow down your life pace. Going too fast is a sure way to miss the fairies around you. A fairy pace is “flow and easy”.
12. Pay attention to sound and consider turning down the volume around you so you can hear fairytalk. Let your mind flow with dreams about fairies.
13. Make time to “get quiet”…really quiet especially in nature. If you can hear insects humming, you can hear fairies giggling.
14. Affirm! Proclaim in your environment: “Yes! I know fairies are here with me!”
15. Make time to have a picnic in a park. Frolic with the fairies.
16. Make contact with nature with loving energy and thoughts, i.e. touching leaves with love, hugging trees. When you notice flowers are bobbing up and down, there’s a fairy that’s playing.
17. Talk to everything, i.e. your houseplants, with a voice of love.
18. Use your inner ears and inner eyes to hear and see the invisible world around you.
19. Breathe in all the amazing scents of life.
20. Listen for the sounds that come out of flowers. They truly do inhale and exhale. Listen to the music that’s in the air and for the sound of little chimes, bells and fairy harps.
21. Celebrate life! Have parties and invite the fairies to attend!
22. Applaud God for all the glorious creations. Be thankful.
23. Dance a life dance. At sunset, join with the fairies in honoring God by dancing a happy dance. Fairies love dancing in sunlight and moonlight. Fairies love light especially the light in your heart.
24. Believe in happily ever afters. Believe in miracles.
25. Go to flower shows. Visit gardens.
26. Fairies can be found in meadows filled with wild flowers and pixies in pastures.
27. Be kind to all creatures and all living things. Create wildlife habitats as well as fairy habitats.
28. Be a connoisseur of life. Savor your life. Life is delicious! Let the laughter, playfulness and happiness begin and you’ll be attracting fairy energy into your life.
29. Pay attention when you’re living life in overdrive and feel you always have to ‘get to” some place. Be the fullness of the now wherever you are.
30. Be in awe of the earth’s beauty. Make time to behold the beauty around and inside of you.
31. Praise all the cycles of nature: spring, summer, fall, winter.
Celebrate the seasons.
32. Look for ways to include thoughts of the fairies in your daily life. Think about what the fairies might be doing.
33. Invite the fairies into your life and your home. Verbally welcome them. Have lots of mirrors in your home. Mirrors are spirit and fairy doorways. Have fresh flowers because flowers petals are where they nap.
34. Build a fairy house for your home so the fairies come for sleepovers.
35. Create fairy furniture.
36. Learn your own personal rhythm, i.e. biorhythm chart. Your biorhythm is your natural life flow.
37. Be on the lookout for fairies where there are mounds, caves, forest clearings, creeks. Fairy mounds, hills, forts, gardens, lands do exist.
38. If you own property, let a part of your property or yard grow wild.
39. Discover your own inner sound and keynote. Opening to your inner sound is a portal to “other worlds”. The key of you is a key to opening to worlds within worlds that you are already attuned to. Put your ear to the ground, and listen for fairy sounds.
40. Discover your own inner fairy colors.
41. Surround yourself with fairy beauty, i.e. works of art depicting fairies.
42. Be genuine in your life. Be passionate about your life. Be a lover of your life.
43. Sing a fairy song outdoors to the fairies. If you don’t know a fairy song, write a fairy song as a gift to the fairies. The fairies love to hear singing.
44. Get to know your spiritual “JOY GUIDE”. This is the fairy who is part of your spiritual support team.
45. Commune with “merfolk” when at the ocean.
46. Get to know the fairies as “Wee/We” people. Community is important to the fairies. Fairies feel a connectedness with all kingdoms and realms. Getting close to the fairies strengthens your own connectedness.
47. Put flower essences such as The Fairy Rose in your drinking water. Available from Green Hope farm LLC/POB125, Meriden,New Hampshire (NH) 03770. Telephone 603-469-3662. www.greenhopeessences.com
48. Attend fairy festivals. Dress up like a fairy.
49. Subscribe to fairy magazines.
50. When shopping, pay attention to when you see fairy figurines and know that you are starting to make the connection of “seeing fairies everywhere”.
51. Have a fountain in your home inviting fairy energy to flow.
52. Visit places where there are waterfalls and look for fairies. Fairies love to play in waterfalls.
53. Attune to crystals that resonate with the fairies such as amethyst.
54. Practice tolerance and respect for everyone and everything. Do not curse. Cursing causes fairy energy to shutter; in fact, everyone’s energy shutters at the sound of cursing.
55. Hold the intention that you are going to see fairies and you will!
56. Commune with dolphins.
57. Take walks in parks and woods and hold your love for the fairies in your heart. Look for places that fill you with enchantment. You’ll find fairies there.
58. Notice when the weather creates “whirlwinds”.
59. Send daily blessings to your fairy friends. Wrap your fairy friends in prayer.
60. Fill your home with fairy fragrances such as honeysuckle. Use fairy sprays throughout your house.
61. Wear fairy jewelry. Sparkle and shine with fairy light.
62. Contemplate your fellowship with fairies during the twixt times of the day, just before dawn; just before sunset
63. Notice when you see animals appear, i.e. a possum attempting to cross a road. All the kingdoms share sacred space here on earth. Be conscious of all family members.
64. Purchase a fossil sea urchin, echinite and meditate holding it to commune with fairies of the waters of the earth.
65. Read poems about fairies. Yeats called the land of the fairies the heart of our world. Connecting with the fairies opens your heart to joy.
66. Pay attention to when you spot golden ragwort growing. Fairies love it! Walk gently around toadstools.
67. Leave open space in your home for the invisible to become visible. Don’t clutter or crowd your home with useless stuff.
68. Fire fairies love candles, lamps, lights, sun images, triangles and red colors. Archangel Michael is the angelic guardian of fire fairies.
69. Earth or gnome fairies love clay pots, bricks, stones, square shapes, yellows, browns and orange colors. Archangel Uriel is the angelic guardian of earth fairies.
70. Etheric or air fairies love domes, round shapes, coins, kitchenware, clocks and colors that are silver. Archangel Raphael is the angelic guardian of air fairies.
71. Water fairies love fountains, ponds, fish tanks, mirrors, glass and blue colors. Archangel Gabriel is the angelic guardian of the water fairies.
72. Look for fairies when you see rainbows.
73. Talk to children about fairies. Let them tell you of their beliefs. Let a child draw a fairy picture for you.
74. Go barefoot on the grass. You’ll be giving Mother Nature a foot massage and the fairies will tickle your toes.
75. Feel the wind blowing through your hair. Experience the wind knowing that the wind is experiencing you, too.
76. Rest upon the earth and watch the white fluffy clouds float by. Imagine the fairies resting right beside you.
77. Imagine the fairies giving you a special secret name. What would the name be?
78. Be a fairy godmother to someone and fulfill a wish for them.
79. Recognize that the fairies are an Ancient Race. Honor their wisdom.
80. Buy a jar of bubbles and set the bubbles free from the jar.
Fairies love bubbles.
81. Pickup a seashell and know that the fairies of the ocean are calling to you.
82. Just because you don’t see something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It means your eyes aren’t fully open yet.
83. Rent the movie Fairy Tale: A True Story. Invite the fairies to watch the movie with you.
84. Purchase a deck of Inner Child Cards. These wonderful cards draw on fairy tales to assist us on our spiritual path.
85. Support the fairies in their effort to bring relief to waters of the earth. Consider adding a bird bath, waterfall or fishpond to your backyard to attract fairies, birds and wildlife.
86. Observe people and think about people who look like fairies disguised as humans.
87. Read Ted Andrews’ Enchantment of the Fairy Kingdom.
88. Study botany. Learn about plants, flowers and trees.
89. Use the Fairy Ring or Faeries’ Oracle as a communication
tool with the fairies.
90. When orbs and spheres appear in your photographs, you have just taken a fairy’s picture.
89. Ask the fairies how you can help heal the earth; be a partner
with the fairies in your garden. Listen to their wisdom.
88. Buy a pair of wings. Let your spirit fly!
89. Be creative. Creativity is magnetic to fairies.
90. Read Lord of the Rings; rent the DVDs.
91. Put up bird feeders and birdhouses.
92. When you sense fairies are near, know that they are.
93. Fairies love fruit trees. They use blossoms for clothing.
94. Read Dorothy Maclean “Oh Hear the Angels Sing” and
learn about magical Findhorn, Scotland.
95. Assist the fairies in lightweaving assignments to healing the Mother Earth. Fairies spin and weave healing energie
96. Buy little doors and place them inside and outside your
home to remind you of the reality of doors to other worlds. Look for doorways in nature. They are symbolic that nature’s door is open; waiting for you to enter.
97. Read Shakespeare.
98. Place circles of stones in your garden as a fairy ring.
99. Shiny wind chimes, bright gazing globes delight fairies.
100. Have a fairy reading with Jayne.
101. Make a pledge to be a friend to the fairy. Celebrate the joy of
Fairy Fellowship.
If you want to get to know the fairies, dedicate a meditation experience to exploring the word FAIRY followed by one of the words listed below, i.e. I am opening to FAIRY ZIP.
ZIP*FORMLESSNESS*SANCTUARY*ESSENCE*OPTIMISM*
CEREMONY*GAMES*BLISS*SPIRIT*NAKEDNESS*FAMILY*
PLAY*HOME*ZEST*WIT*MISCHIEF*GAIETY*MIRTH*JOY*
BOUQUET*REVELRY*DREAMS*GLEE*GIGGLES*LIGHT*
LAUGHTER*BANTER*HAPPINESS*BASKETS*TALK*
JUBLICATION*PLUCK*KINSHIP*DEWDROPS*COOPERATION*
THRILLS*LOVE*IDENTITY*FRIENDS*FUN*COOL BREEZE*
PERCEPTION*CELEBRATIONS*WEAVING*DOORWAYS*TIME*
BREATH*LUCK*WISHES*MUSIC*HUMMING*FOUNTAINS*
TALES*HILLS*FORTS*MOUNDS*GARDENS*HAVENS*HOUSES*
SONGS*GUIDANCE*TWIRLING*LOVE*WHIRLING*MOMENTS*
GLIMMER*SHIMMER*ELIXIRS*WINGS*FRIENDSHIPS*MONEY*
GATEWAYS*DAYS*NIGHTS*KEYS*HEALING*HIDEWAYS*
PORTALS*JOURNEYS*ADVENTURES*VISION
Fairy Fellowship@
Copyrighted May, 2006
Jayne Howard Feldman
Angel Heights
Healing Arts Center
P. O. Box 95
Upperco, MD 21155
Earthangel4peace.com
Earthangel4peace@aol.com
1-866-peace2u (1-866-732-2328)
Friday, November 20, 2009
HUGGING THE NAKED ARCHAEOLOGIST
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
I love inspiring quotations. John Milton's words truly describe the day I had yesterday. "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendant moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."
In short: I am so grateful to God for the transcendant moments of awe that I experienced yesterday.
Chuck and I drove to Washington, DC as we had tickets for the opening day of the National Geographic Museum's exhibit: Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor. For those of you near to Washington, DC, I recommend attending the exhibit which is at the National Geographic Museum through March 31, 2010.
In my lectures, I share the importance of paying attention to when powerful art is on the move around the world. Art on the move is symbolic of powerful creative energy moving. This exhibit brought energies from the east to the west. Because Kwan Yin is an Ascended Being and guardian of the etheric realm over China, in an essence Kwan Yin's awesome energy has come to Washington, DC. As some of the descriptions share, this exhibit is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistic mastery. I strongly recommend that if you do attend the exhibit, pay the extra $5 for the audio tour. I thank God that this amazing terra cotta army survived the ages and it's now here in Washington where I am able to see some pieces from this unbelievable archaeological find.
I loved listening to the audio and learning about the techniques used in creating this army; an army that were first created with the thought of honoring an Emperor who wanted to rule for eternity. Now in 2009 it is an army of artistic expression. I went away from the exhibit with the feeling that even though ego appeared to be victorious in the conception of this project and the grueling demands placed on the people who were the builders and artisans, it was creative artistic expression that was ruling supreme in 2009.
In her book TERRA COTTA WARRIORS, Jane Portal, senior curator at the British Museum, writes: "The terra cotta army of Qin Shihuangdi, the First Emperor of China (221-210 BC), is one of the most spectacular finds in world archaeology. It was discovered by chance in 1974 - a garrison of battle-ready formation, spread across a number of pits. Here were life-sized warriors made over two thousand years ago from fired clay: cavalry, archers and infantry; lowly foot soldiers and high-ranking officers; figures of varying ages, with different hairstyles and facial expressions and seemingly representing every racial group in China - more than 6,000 in all."
The exhibit appeared at The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana, California, the Houston Museum of Natural Science and is concluding its 2008-2010 United States tour at the National Geographic Museum in DC.
Before we went through the exhibit, I was wandering through the gift shop and saw the official catalog. I like to purchase catalogs for the exhibits I see and I'll share why a little bit later in this blog. I can do my own artistic life review from the collection of art exhibit catalogs I have gathered through my lifetime. There's something sacred about an art exhibit catalog. It mirrors to me the phenomenal effort that goes into museums bringing an exhibit from one part of the world to another. It is no small feat. One thing I love so much about the weekly spiritual class in my home, is that my class members are really great art scouts in telling me what they have heard is coming to Baltimore, DC and Philadelphia. My dear friend, Judy Stipanovich, in Pittsburgh is a great art scout, too.
The photographs were breathtaking, beautiful and awe-inspiring. Chuck and I agreed that due to the size of the catalog, we would purchase the catalog after touring the exhibit.
When Chuck and I concluded the tour, I walked from the end of the exhibit into the gift shop and there before me was a very distinguished looking Asian man seated behind a table preparing to autograph the catalog for the exhibit. The man at the table was Wang da Gang, the photographer of the images in the official catalog. After he signed my book, he rose and bowed to me. I bowed to him and proceeded to thank him abundantly for the wonderful blessing he is in capturing in photographs these incredible works of art. I thank God for cameras, photographers and photographs that inspire me.
While we were at the National Geographic Museum, I was crossing the courtyard by myself and realized that a man was walking towards me. I quickly recognized him. It was Simcha Jacobovic the Naked Archaeologist. Chuck and I watch and love his program on The History Channel. I excitedly said to him, "You're the Naked Archaeologist, aren't you?!" He admitted he was. I told him that I didn't want to come off as a total flake, but I adored his show and would it be ok if I gave him a big hug of gratitude as he is such a blessing. He agreed and so I hugged him big time and kept thanking him for his research. I thank God for brilliant researchers like Simcha.
Chuck and I then drove to Georgetown because we wanted to dine at a restaurant owned by Mauirico Sepulveda, a man who I first met through his attendance at classes I held, and since has become a dear friend.
The restaurant is: Los Cuates located at 1564 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Washington, DC. The restaurant phone number is 202-965-7009. The website is www.loscuatesestaurant.com
The restaurant is delightful in ambiance and the food is scrumptious Mexican food. After we finished our fantastic meal, our friends surprised us by treating us to the most wonderful dessert: Tres Leche Cake. The dessert is made with 3 types of cream. It is cake and then has something on top that is like an ice cream. When you cut into the cake, cream flows in every direction. I am convinced this is a recipe that was given to the chef by the angels. You have a heavenly experience when you eat it. So if by chance you get to Los Cuates, you must save room for Tres Leche Cake. I am someone who is truly grateful for desserts. And this dessert was awe-inspiring; it is truly divine. I thank God for desserts.
A lot of times in our lives, the stresses of our work day just seem to take the best of us. It takes all of our energy to get ourselves home at the end of the day and then we just don't feel inspired to do much of anything but collapse into a chair. Sometimes my mind feels too tired to read words.
When I am having this type of low energy experience, I like to play a cd of inspiring music in the background, and then reach for an art book or art exhibit catalog. The cabinet in which I keep my art catalogs is a kind of "good medicine" cabinet for me. I slowly turn the pages of the catalog and let myself be nurtured by the art. It is as if the art angels say to me, "Come to art, Jayne. Let art take your tiredness from you and replace it with divine inspiration found in the beautiful. Be healed by beauty."
This activity gives me an opportunity to revisit an exhibit I saw in the past, or be inspired by art images of a photographer or painter. It becomes an experience of beauty for my eyes, ears, mind, heart and soul. I find it to be a mini-healing.
I recommend the website: www.artashealing.org.
At this website you will find information on how art heals including the following statements: "Scientific studies tell us that art heals by changing a person's physiology and attitude...Art and music affect every cell in the body instantly to create a healing physiology that changes the immune system and blood flow to all the organs...in fact it is now known by neurophysiologists that art, prayer and healing all come from the same source in the body, they all are associated with similar brain wave patterns, mind body changes and they all are deeply connected in feeling and meaning."
Let art bless you and heal you. There's no coincidence that you will find the letters that spell "art" inside the word heart.
Heal your heart with art.
Love in abundance, Jayne
I love inspiring quotations. John Milton's words truly describe the day I had yesterday. "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendant moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."
In short: I am so grateful to God for the transcendant moments of awe that I experienced yesterday.
Chuck and I drove to Washington, DC as we had tickets for the opening day of the National Geographic Museum's exhibit: Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor. For those of you near to Washington, DC, I recommend attending the exhibit which is at the National Geographic Museum through March 31, 2010.
In my lectures, I share the importance of paying attention to when powerful art is on the move around the world. Art on the move is symbolic of powerful creative energy moving. This exhibit brought energies from the east to the west. Because Kwan Yin is an Ascended Being and guardian of the etheric realm over China, in an essence Kwan Yin's awesome energy has come to Washington, DC. As some of the descriptions share, this exhibit is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistic mastery. I strongly recommend that if you do attend the exhibit, pay the extra $5 for the audio tour. I thank God that this amazing terra cotta army survived the ages and it's now here in Washington where I am able to see some pieces from this unbelievable archaeological find.
I loved listening to the audio and learning about the techniques used in creating this army; an army that were first created with the thought of honoring an Emperor who wanted to rule for eternity. Now in 2009 it is an army of artistic expression. I went away from the exhibit with the feeling that even though ego appeared to be victorious in the conception of this project and the grueling demands placed on the people who were the builders and artisans, it was creative artistic expression that was ruling supreme in 2009.
In her book TERRA COTTA WARRIORS, Jane Portal, senior curator at the British Museum, writes: "The terra cotta army of Qin Shihuangdi, the First Emperor of China (221-210 BC), is one of the most spectacular finds in world archaeology. It was discovered by chance in 1974 - a garrison of battle-ready formation, spread across a number of pits. Here were life-sized warriors made over two thousand years ago from fired clay: cavalry, archers and infantry; lowly foot soldiers and high-ranking officers; figures of varying ages, with different hairstyles and facial expressions and seemingly representing every racial group in China - more than 6,000 in all."
The exhibit appeared at The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana, California, the Houston Museum of Natural Science and is concluding its 2008-2010 United States tour at the National Geographic Museum in DC.
Before we went through the exhibit, I was wandering through the gift shop and saw the official catalog. I like to purchase catalogs for the exhibits I see and I'll share why a little bit later in this blog. I can do my own artistic life review from the collection of art exhibit catalogs I have gathered through my lifetime. There's something sacred about an art exhibit catalog. It mirrors to me the phenomenal effort that goes into museums bringing an exhibit from one part of the world to another. It is no small feat. One thing I love so much about the weekly spiritual class in my home, is that my class members are really great art scouts in telling me what they have heard is coming to Baltimore, DC and Philadelphia. My dear friend, Judy Stipanovich, in Pittsburgh is a great art scout, too.
The photographs were breathtaking, beautiful and awe-inspiring. Chuck and I agreed that due to the size of the catalog, we would purchase the catalog after touring the exhibit.
When Chuck and I concluded the tour, I walked from the end of the exhibit into the gift shop and there before me was a very distinguished looking Asian man seated behind a table preparing to autograph the catalog for the exhibit. The man at the table was Wang da Gang, the photographer of the images in the official catalog. After he signed my book, he rose and bowed to me. I bowed to him and proceeded to thank him abundantly for the wonderful blessing he is in capturing in photographs these incredible works of art. I thank God for cameras, photographers and photographs that inspire me.
While we were at the National Geographic Museum, I was crossing the courtyard by myself and realized that a man was walking towards me. I quickly recognized him. It was Simcha Jacobovic the Naked Archaeologist. Chuck and I watch and love his program on The History Channel. I excitedly said to him, "You're the Naked Archaeologist, aren't you?!" He admitted he was. I told him that I didn't want to come off as a total flake, but I adored his show and would it be ok if I gave him a big hug of gratitude as he is such a blessing. He agreed and so I hugged him big time and kept thanking him for his research. I thank God for brilliant researchers like Simcha.
Chuck and I then drove to Georgetown because we wanted to dine at a restaurant owned by Mauirico Sepulveda, a man who I first met through his attendance at classes I held, and since has become a dear friend.
The restaurant is: Los Cuates located at 1564 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Washington, DC. The restaurant phone number is 202-965-7009. The website is www.loscuatesestaurant.com
The restaurant is delightful in ambiance and the food is scrumptious Mexican food. After we finished our fantastic meal, our friends surprised us by treating us to the most wonderful dessert: Tres Leche Cake. The dessert is made with 3 types of cream. It is cake and then has something on top that is like an ice cream. When you cut into the cake, cream flows in every direction. I am convinced this is a recipe that was given to the chef by the angels. You have a heavenly experience when you eat it. So if by chance you get to Los Cuates, you must save room for Tres Leche Cake. I am someone who is truly grateful for desserts. And this dessert was awe-inspiring; it is truly divine. I thank God for desserts.
A lot of times in our lives, the stresses of our work day just seem to take the best of us. It takes all of our energy to get ourselves home at the end of the day and then we just don't feel inspired to do much of anything but collapse into a chair. Sometimes my mind feels too tired to read words.
When I am having this type of low energy experience, I like to play a cd of inspiring music in the background, and then reach for an art book or art exhibit catalog. The cabinet in which I keep my art catalogs is a kind of "good medicine" cabinet for me. I slowly turn the pages of the catalog and let myself be nurtured by the art. It is as if the art angels say to me, "Come to art, Jayne. Let art take your tiredness from you and replace it with divine inspiration found in the beautiful. Be healed by beauty."
This activity gives me an opportunity to revisit an exhibit I saw in the past, or be inspired by art images of a photographer or painter. It becomes an experience of beauty for my eyes, ears, mind, heart and soul. I find it to be a mini-healing.
I recommend the website: www.artashealing.org.
At this website you will find information on how art heals including the following statements: "Scientific studies tell us that art heals by changing a person's physiology and attitude...Art and music affect every cell in the body instantly to create a healing physiology that changes the immune system and blood flow to all the organs...in fact it is now known by neurophysiologists that art, prayer and healing all come from the same source in the body, they all are associated with similar brain wave patterns, mind body changes and they all are deeply connected in feeling and meaning."
Let art bless you and heal you. There's no coincidence that you will find the letters that spell "art" inside the word heart.
Heal your heart with art.
Love in abundance, Jayne
Monday, November 2, 2009
Trusting in Divine Timing
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
Many of you know from reading my first book, Commune With the Angels, and from my sharing information about myself at lectures,I grew up on a dairy farm in Maryland. My folks owned the second oldest farm of continuous family ownership in the state of Maryland up until my Dad sold the farm just before his death. Dad sold the farm to a large farming corporation owned by the Lippy Brothers. The Lippy Brothers have farmland here in the USA and also in South America.
I live directly across from my childhood homestead. Every day as we drove down our home's driveway, I would come face to face with radical changes being made to the farm by the new owners. I realize that a new broom sweeps clean; however, I found myself having to process on a daily basis emotional feelings about the farm as I knew it growing up, and the farm as it was today with changes being made.
One day I came face to face with huge equipment and trucks taking down the barns on the homestead property. I watched as the hay barn was taken down; the silo; the milking barn. I cannot even begin to tell you all the memories that flooded my mind and feeling a sickness in my stomach to what I was witnessing.
To add to the emotions, it seemed like it took forever for them to remove the huge pile of lumber and tin that had accumulated from the destruction of the buildings. It was as if one day I came down from our house and saw the barns and silo intact, and the next day there was sheer destruction going on before my eyes. I was witnessing big piles of tin roofing and lumber. To me it looked like a big chaotic mess. I commented to my husband, Chuck, that I wish they would just take everything away as I felt my heart was being pulled out from inside of me. I am someone who does not advocate drama; however, I was a real drama queen about this.
They finally did remove everything and about a few weeks later I asked Chuck to drive us onto the property. As I got out of the car, I stood where the barns had once been and where I spent many happy hours as a little girl. As I looked at the radical changes, I truly felt I had landed on the moon. It was barren and unfamiliar. I had no emotion to the landscape. I don't know what I thought I would feel. The reality was that I felt nothing.
I remember getting back into the car and I was puzzled by the feeling of no emotion. And I remember wondering and asking myself if this non-emotion feeling would be what I was left with because of the radical changes that had been made to the property that held such a powerful heart connection for me for so many years of my life.
Now, those of you who have read my emails and heard me speak have heard me talk alot about detaching and the power that comes from letting go of things we are holding on to; also things we are allowing to have a hold onto us. A large part of my Angelic Feng Shui booklet is about releasing, letting go, clearing out to make room for the new.
I knew I was very attached to the homestead property and childhood memories connected to the property. I had felt that the changes made to the land and the buildings were a way in which the universe was helping me to embrace detachment and grow. However, there was something that was missing.
Yesterday I received an incredible phone call from my sister, Ginny. Ginny and her husband are moving from a horse farm they owned for 41 years into a home in an adult community. They are doing remodeling in the new home and are working with a fantastic builder who knew my parents and the farm they owned.
My sister requested wood known as barn siding to be used for the walls of her new home. The builder went to see a man in Pennsylvania who he does business with who carries barn siding. While visiting this man about a number of building projects, the builder mentioned Ginny's desire for barn siding for the walls in her new home. The man replied that the Lippy Brothers had just brought him a barn they had taken down that was part of a farm in Fowblesburg. The builder knew immediately it was my folks' farm; also Ginny's childhood homestead.
Ginny called to tell me that because of this amazing synchronicity of events, the walls of her home were going to be built with the hay barn's chestnut wood. The barn was taken down from its old form and will be transformed into a new life of being in my sister's new home and being part of the beautiful space of her home.
When I heard Ginny tell this story, I felt complete. The barn was transformed from the beauty of the past into beauty in the now. And just as occurs with the birthing of new beautiful stars, there is a time of chaos.
I think it's a wonderful story of trusting in divine timing. My first response to Ginny after she told me the fantastic news was, "That's God being God."
Angelic Blessings of Trusting in Divine Timing,
Love, Jayne
www.earthangel4peace.com
Many of you know from reading my first book, Commune With the Angels, and from my sharing information about myself at lectures,I grew up on a dairy farm in Maryland. My folks owned the second oldest farm of continuous family ownership in the state of Maryland up until my Dad sold the farm just before his death. Dad sold the farm to a large farming corporation owned by the Lippy Brothers. The Lippy Brothers have farmland here in the USA and also in South America.
I live directly across from my childhood homestead. Every day as we drove down our home's driveway, I would come face to face with radical changes being made to the farm by the new owners. I realize that a new broom sweeps clean; however, I found myself having to process on a daily basis emotional feelings about the farm as I knew it growing up, and the farm as it was today with changes being made.
One day I came face to face with huge equipment and trucks taking down the barns on the homestead property. I watched as the hay barn was taken down; the silo; the milking barn. I cannot even begin to tell you all the memories that flooded my mind and feeling a sickness in my stomach to what I was witnessing.
To add to the emotions, it seemed like it took forever for them to remove the huge pile of lumber and tin that had accumulated from the destruction of the buildings. It was as if one day I came down from our house and saw the barns and silo intact, and the next day there was sheer destruction going on before my eyes. I was witnessing big piles of tin roofing and lumber. To me it looked like a big chaotic mess. I commented to my husband, Chuck, that I wish they would just take everything away as I felt my heart was being pulled out from inside of me. I am someone who does not advocate drama; however, I was a real drama queen about this.
They finally did remove everything and about a few weeks later I asked Chuck to drive us onto the property. As I got out of the car, I stood where the barns had once been and where I spent many happy hours as a little girl. As I looked at the radical changes, I truly felt I had landed on the moon. It was barren and unfamiliar. I had no emotion to the landscape. I don't know what I thought I would feel. The reality was that I felt nothing.
I remember getting back into the car and I was puzzled by the feeling of no emotion. And I remember wondering and asking myself if this non-emotion feeling would be what I was left with because of the radical changes that had been made to the property that held such a powerful heart connection for me for so many years of my life.
Now, those of you who have read my emails and heard me speak have heard me talk alot about detaching and the power that comes from letting go of things we are holding on to; also things we are allowing to have a hold onto us. A large part of my Angelic Feng Shui booklet is about releasing, letting go, clearing out to make room for the new.
I knew I was very attached to the homestead property and childhood memories connected to the property. I had felt that the changes made to the land and the buildings were a way in which the universe was helping me to embrace detachment and grow. However, there was something that was missing.
Yesterday I received an incredible phone call from my sister, Ginny. Ginny and her husband are moving from a horse farm they owned for 41 years into a home in an adult community. They are doing remodeling in the new home and are working with a fantastic builder who knew my parents and the farm they owned.
My sister requested wood known as barn siding to be used for the walls of her new home. The builder went to see a man in Pennsylvania who he does business with who carries barn siding. While visiting this man about a number of building projects, the builder mentioned Ginny's desire for barn siding for the walls in her new home. The man replied that the Lippy Brothers had just brought him a barn they had taken down that was part of a farm in Fowblesburg. The builder knew immediately it was my folks' farm; also Ginny's childhood homestead.
Ginny called to tell me that because of this amazing synchronicity of events, the walls of her home were going to be built with the hay barn's chestnut wood. The barn was taken down from its old form and will be transformed into a new life of being in my sister's new home and being part of the beautiful space of her home.
When I heard Ginny tell this story, I felt complete. The barn was transformed from the beauty of the past into beauty in the now. And just as occurs with the birthing of new beautiful stars, there is a time of chaos.
I think it's a wonderful story of trusting in divine timing. My first response to Ginny after she told me the fantastic news was, "That's God being God."
Angelic Blessings of Trusting in Divine Timing,
Love, Jayne
www.earthangel4peace.com
Friday, October 23, 2009
ABUNDANCE CHECKS
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
Angelic Blessings of joy to each and every one of you. I just returned home from speaking at the For Purpose, Inc. Conference held annually in October in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This year was the 17th annual conference.
The conference began in 1993 (interestingly enough the same year as Be An Angel Day was inspired by the angels) and was birthed out of a spiritual community and network that was woven together by people who got to know each other through attending classes and intensives organized by the brilliant astrologer Buz Myers. Robert Kent "Buz" Myers was the founder of For Purpose, Inc. and the Creater of "Cycles, A Guide for Daily Living" which was the foundation inspiration for the astrology intensives he held.
Buz was also the author of a book entitled, "Getting on Time with Your Life". Buz's book helps people understand the phases of the moon and how they affect our lives. He was an amazing man who was a fantastic speaker with a wonderful sense of humor. I had the opportunity to hear him speak at a number of conferences and always went away feeling electrified by Buz's lectures.
Sadly, Buz died in March, 2000, but I know he was beaming down from heaven upon all the conference participants. You can learn more about the spiritual community known as For Purpose, Inc. which is dedicated to the healing arts at the website: www.followthemoon.org
The conference organizers give a folder of wonderful information to each participant. Included in the packet is a sheet entitled: ABUNDANCE CHECKS.
This is a technique or spiritual tool that we can use to create more abundance in our lives. I am going to share this information with you because it is a technique I have been sharing with my classes for many moons and use it in my own life. It's simple and easy and really works.
Within 24 hours after a New Moon, take a check from your check book. Where it says "Pay to," write your name.
In the little box on the same line where you would fill in a dollar amount, write "Paid in full."
On the line underneath your name, where you would write out a dollar amount, write "Paid in full."
Sign the check: "The Law of Abundance."
Do not write a specific dollar amount on the check. Put it in a safe place and forget about it for a month; until the next new moon rolls around. In your check book where you keep track of checks written, on the line where you would put what the check is for, write something like, "Check for Abundance" or "Abundance Gift."
When the next new moon comes, you will once again take a new blank check from your check book and follow the same ritual as above. Before putting the check away in a safe place, write around the edges of the check all the blessings you have received over the past month. Acknowledge abundant gifts both great and small. Then put the check away for safe-keeping. You will find that in a few months' time, the new moon checks you create will be filled up with all your notations of thankfulness for all God has done for you. When you focus on being grateful, your draw more to yourself to be grateful for.
You have also brought out the check you wrote the month prior. Say a prayer of thanksgiving over this check and then safely light a match and release the check through fire. While the checks burn, continue to thank God for all your blessings.
The New Moon Dates for the next few months are:
November 16, 2009
December 16, 2009
January 15, 2010
Love, Jayne
www.earthangel4peace.com
Angelic Blessings of joy to each and every one of you. I just returned home from speaking at the For Purpose, Inc. Conference held annually in October in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This year was the 17th annual conference.
The conference began in 1993 (interestingly enough the same year as Be An Angel Day was inspired by the angels) and was birthed out of a spiritual community and network that was woven together by people who got to know each other through attending classes and intensives organized by the brilliant astrologer Buz Myers. Robert Kent "Buz" Myers was the founder of For Purpose, Inc. and the Creater of "Cycles, A Guide for Daily Living" which was the foundation inspiration for the astrology intensives he held.
Buz was also the author of a book entitled, "Getting on Time with Your Life". Buz's book helps people understand the phases of the moon and how they affect our lives. He was an amazing man who was a fantastic speaker with a wonderful sense of humor. I had the opportunity to hear him speak at a number of conferences and always went away feeling electrified by Buz's lectures.
Sadly, Buz died in March, 2000, but I know he was beaming down from heaven upon all the conference participants. You can learn more about the spiritual community known as For Purpose, Inc. which is dedicated to the healing arts at the website: www.followthemoon.org
The conference organizers give a folder of wonderful information to each participant. Included in the packet is a sheet entitled: ABUNDANCE CHECKS.
This is a technique or spiritual tool that we can use to create more abundance in our lives. I am going to share this information with you because it is a technique I have been sharing with my classes for many moons and use it in my own life. It's simple and easy and really works.
Within 24 hours after a New Moon, take a check from your check book. Where it says "Pay to," write your name.
In the little box on the same line where you would fill in a dollar amount, write "Paid in full."
On the line underneath your name, where you would write out a dollar amount, write "Paid in full."
Sign the check: "The Law of Abundance."
Do not write a specific dollar amount on the check. Put it in a safe place and forget about it for a month; until the next new moon rolls around. In your check book where you keep track of checks written, on the line where you would put what the check is for, write something like, "Check for Abundance" or "Abundance Gift."
When the next new moon comes, you will once again take a new blank check from your check book and follow the same ritual as above. Before putting the check away in a safe place, write around the edges of the check all the blessings you have received over the past month. Acknowledge abundant gifts both great and small. Then put the check away for safe-keeping. You will find that in a few months' time, the new moon checks you create will be filled up with all your notations of thankfulness for all God has done for you. When you focus on being grateful, your draw more to yourself to be grateful for.
You have also brought out the check you wrote the month prior. Say a prayer of thanksgiving over this check and then safely light a match and release the check through fire. While the checks burn, continue to thank God for all your blessings.
The New Moon Dates for the next few months are:
November 16, 2009
December 16, 2009
January 15, 2010
Love, Jayne
www.earthangel4peace.com
Sunday, October 11, 2009
The Inspirational Nature of St. Michael
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
Like many of you, I am someone who loves studying numbers, numerology, and masters of the study of numbers. Pythagorus, the Father of Arithmetic, studied the science of numbers and discovered that everything that exists is vibration.
I truly believe that numbers are one of the infinite ways that the divine communicates with us. A perfect example is our birthdate. Just think how many times an individual writes or gives the numbers that make up their birthdate throughout a lifetime. Everytime we give our birthdate, we are in an essence making a statement: this is who I am as expressed as the vibration of the numbers connected with the day I was born. When we research the meaning or qualities of the numbers that are important to us, we get a glimpse of ourselves mirrored back to us by the numbers.
In my divine dialogue with Archangel Michael, I have been asked to share inspiration about two dates that are coming up in November. The first is November 1, 2009 and the second is November 11, 2009. If you write these dates as numbers you will see the dates are written as follows:
11 1 11 (2009=11) or 11111
11 11 11 or 111111
Michael is inspiring us to think of these two days as powerful BLESSING DAYS.
Michael's name in Hebrew means: he who is like God. He is an archangel who God has given the assignment to protect us and to inspire us to embrace the gifts God has given us so we can be in service to God here on earth. Michael inspires us to be the light and love of God in everything we do. Michael's mission is to keep us on our spiritual paths so we are embracing our divine identity of being like God's goodness.
If someone would ask me, "If Michael is helping us to remember to be like God, what one way could we be more God-like?" My response would be: Be a blessing.
Seventeen years ago, when the angels gave me the assignment to establish BE AN ANGEL DAY, I was given the motto: Be an angel. Do one small act of service. Be a blessing in someone's life.
A wonderful affirmation to start your day is to say: Lord, let me glorify and exalt you by being a blessing to everyone I meet and everything I do today.
Divine, supreme God energies are attracted to us and radiated from us through the act of blessing. I love the song from Godspell: All Good Gifts. The lyrics include these words: All good gifts around us, are sent from heaven above. We thank you Lord. We thank you Lord for your love. We really want to thank you, Lord.
All blessings are sent from heaven. We were sent here to earth from heaven to be a blessing. When we open ourselves to being walking, talking, breathing blessings, we are experiencing the highest frequency of vibration. God is pure, eternal blessing energy.
When we think of numerology, and recognize God as the never-ending circle of blessings and goodness, the first number vibration that begins with creation is the number one - 1.
November 1st and November 11th are dates that radiate the vibration of 1's and 11's.
One is the message of aligning ourselves as close to God as possible. Be the light of God. Be a blessing of light. Be the love of God. Be a blessing of love.
Michael is inspiring us to be a God blessing. Be someone who is like God by being a blessing.
The 11 is known as a master number and is the message of vibrating with inspiration, and fulfillment of hopefulness. Michael has shared the message that the number 11 is made up of two 1's - the first 1 is God's vision of us; the second 1 is us living our lives striving to embrace God's divine vision as our reality.
Years ago, Michael gave me the message that the anti-Christ was upon the earth and its name is: hopelessness.
When we give up hope, we stop letting God be God. God is infinite blessings and infinite hope. Sometimes we ourselves give our power over to fears, doubts and uncertainty about the future. In those moments we are being inspired to move ourselves closer to God. We are being inspired to let go of the fears and let God bless us. We are being inspired to be earth angels of hope and be - like Archangel Michael - messengers of hopefulness and goodness. We, too, become messengers of being like God in that we radiate God's blessings to ourselves and others.
In our darkest moments, we are being inspired to remember the words written by the Psalmist: Quicken me, O Lord, with Thy loving kindness.
Our doubts and fears slow down our vibration and we can even feel depressed by the molasses like energies. There are grades of frequencies with the highest being the Immortal Spirit of God. When we are going through challenging times, this is the time to go to God and offer our emotions, moods, and thoughts to God for vibrational healing and ask for a blessing of God's quickening vibration that is aligned and attuned to God's loving kindness.
You've heard the blessing: Godspeed. It means just that: be vibrating at the speed of God. To go at Godspeed is to live life vibrating at the speed of goodness, loving kindness and blessings.
Godspeed to each and everyone of you.
Love, Jayne
Like many of you, I am someone who loves studying numbers, numerology, and masters of the study of numbers. Pythagorus, the Father of Arithmetic, studied the science of numbers and discovered that everything that exists is vibration.
I truly believe that numbers are one of the infinite ways that the divine communicates with us. A perfect example is our birthdate. Just think how many times an individual writes or gives the numbers that make up their birthdate throughout a lifetime. Everytime we give our birthdate, we are in an essence making a statement: this is who I am as expressed as the vibration of the numbers connected with the day I was born. When we research the meaning or qualities of the numbers that are important to us, we get a glimpse of ourselves mirrored back to us by the numbers.
In my divine dialogue with Archangel Michael, I have been asked to share inspiration about two dates that are coming up in November. The first is November 1, 2009 and the second is November 11, 2009. If you write these dates as numbers you will see the dates are written as follows:
11 1 11 (2009=11) or 11111
11 11 11 or 111111
Michael is inspiring us to think of these two days as powerful BLESSING DAYS.
Michael's name in Hebrew means: he who is like God. He is an archangel who God has given the assignment to protect us and to inspire us to embrace the gifts God has given us so we can be in service to God here on earth. Michael inspires us to be the light and love of God in everything we do. Michael's mission is to keep us on our spiritual paths so we are embracing our divine identity of being like God's goodness.
If someone would ask me, "If Michael is helping us to remember to be like God, what one way could we be more God-like?" My response would be: Be a blessing.
Seventeen years ago, when the angels gave me the assignment to establish BE AN ANGEL DAY, I was given the motto: Be an angel. Do one small act of service. Be a blessing in someone's life.
A wonderful affirmation to start your day is to say: Lord, let me glorify and exalt you by being a blessing to everyone I meet and everything I do today.
Divine, supreme God energies are attracted to us and radiated from us through the act of blessing. I love the song from Godspell: All Good Gifts. The lyrics include these words: All good gifts around us, are sent from heaven above. We thank you Lord. We thank you Lord for your love. We really want to thank you, Lord.
All blessings are sent from heaven. We were sent here to earth from heaven to be a blessing. When we open ourselves to being walking, talking, breathing blessings, we are experiencing the highest frequency of vibration. God is pure, eternal blessing energy.
When we think of numerology, and recognize God as the never-ending circle of blessings and goodness, the first number vibration that begins with creation is the number one - 1.
November 1st and November 11th are dates that radiate the vibration of 1's and 11's.
One is the message of aligning ourselves as close to God as possible. Be the light of God. Be a blessing of light. Be the love of God. Be a blessing of love.
Michael is inspiring us to be a God blessing. Be someone who is like God by being a blessing.
The 11 is known as a master number and is the message of vibrating with inspiration, and fulfillment of hopefulness. Michael has shared the message that the number 11 is made up of two 1's - the first 1 is God's vision of us; the second 1 is us living our lives striving to embrace God's divine vision as our reality.
Years ago, Michael gave me the message that the anti-Christ was upon the earth and its name is: hopelessness.
When we give up hope, we stop letting God be God. God is infinite blessings and infinite hope. Sometimes we ourselves give our power over to fears, doubts and uncertainty about the future. In those moments we are being inspired to move ourselves closer to God. We are being inspired to let go of the fears and let God bless us. We are being inspired to be earth angels of hope and be - like Archangel Michael - messengers of hopefulness and goodness. We, too, become messengers of being like God in that we radiate God's blessings to ourselves and others.
In our darkest moments, we are being inspired to remember the words written by the Psalmist: Quicken me, O Lord, with Thy loving kindness.
Our doubts and fears slow down our vibration and we can even feel depressed by the molasses like energies. There are grades of frequencies with the highest being the Immortal Spirit of God. When we are going through challenging times, this is the time to go to God and offer our emotions, moods, and thoughts to God for vibrational healing and ask for a blessing of God's quickening vibration that is aligned and attuned to God's loving kindness.
You've heard the blessing: Godspeed. It means just that: be vibrating at the speed of God. To go at Godspeed is to live life vibrating at the speed of goodness, loving kindness and blessings.
Godspeed to each and everyone of you.
Love, Jayne
Friday, August 28, 2009
Pilgrimage as a Way of Life
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
I want to share inspirations I am receiving from reading a great book by Jim Forest. The book is: The Road to Emmaus; Pilgrimage as a Way of Life. Jim is going to be at Bon Secours Spiritual Retreat Center here in Maryland on October 10th. Jim resides in the Netherlands.
I have always been intrigued with the consciousness of being a pilgrim on a spiritual path. We are all truly on pilgrimages with every step that we take. I see our life as "the road" or "the path".
I have participated in many angelic adventures where I have actually made a pilgrimage to a sacred site or shrine and have come to recognize that they are simply enhanced experiences of what is occuring every day.
I am going to share here some of the thoughts Jim shares in his book. They are stimulating and thought provoking for me, and it is my hope that they may trigger some contemplation for you, too.
Human history is the history of roads.
Both the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are a celebration of roads. For Tolkein, it wasn't roads in plural but simply the Road.
Walking and praying while you are walking is a spiritual practice of a pilgrim.
"The fundamental action of a human being is walking upright." - Benedicta Ward, To Be A Pilgrim.
When we make time for prayer at the beginning and end of each day, with islands of prayer, however brief in between, daily life becomes an event of a pilgrimage.
One of the hallmarks of pilgrimage is an attitude of silence.
"We cannot find God in noise or agitation. Nature, trees, flowers and grass grow in silence. The stars, the moon and the sun move in silence." Mother Teresa
Saints mirror to us lives that were on a constant journey and the pilgrim's road is not an easy one.
St. Teresa of Avila, a true pilgrim, was the target of passionate opposition from the church hierachy. Her writings were the subject of investigation by the Spanish Inquisition. "I am really much more afraid of those who have so great a fear of the devil, she wrote in her a autobiography, "than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much."
The Celts refer to a place where ordinary matter seems charged with God's Presence as "thin places." It is where the veil is thin. Jim discusses Iona, Scotland as an example of one of those thin places.
Just as we experience places of great light on our pilgrim's path, we also experience dark places and dark paths, i.e. battlefields, places of tortue or mass execution; the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family.
Jim also writes about the spiritual support offered by relics and labyrinths. Many of you know I have a deep fondness for both. Additionally, Jim discusses how an illness can become a pilgrim's journey for us.
Jim also includes Thomas Merton's words from Mystics and Zen Masters. Merton mirrors the thought of regarding our life as one continuous pilgrimage; filled with inner and outer journeys.
"The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer journey. One can have one without the other. It is better to have both."
This past weekend I had the joy of listening to a woman convey her experience as a pilgrim on the path to Santiago de Compostela. She was on the path for over a month,which included walking over mountains. She indicated that at the beginning of her pilgrimage, she shipped a lot of items home as the key was to carry as light a load as possible.
It was wonderful hearing how the people of the villages are supportive of the pilgrims. I have read of people walking this pilgrim's path; however, it was inspiring to be sitting at a table hearing someone who did it, and to experience her sharing what the experience was for her personally.
At the conclusion of the pilgrimage, there is a church where the pilgrims receive some sort of document affirming their accomplishment. There are masses held throughout the day which both tourists and pilgrims can attend. This precious woman shared that in celebration of her accomplishment she attended three masses. She radiated with the joy of fulfillment of a huge spiritual goal. You could tell that the document didn't matter to her; she was on her own God-high. I experienced God-high energies from just listening to her.
I am certain all of us have had God-high moments in perhaps exotic and far-away places. You may have had a pilgrimage experience going to New York City and seeing a Broadway show that changes your life in a literary way. These experiences are exhilirating and memorable. And equally grace-filled are the simple day to day joys of walking with God as we fulfill our daily tasks. It's all encountering God wherever we are; whatever we are doing.
Angelic blessings to you, fellow pilgrims on the road of life. May your life be lived with a divine consciousness that you are walking with God every moment; every second; every heartbeat and breath.
Love in abundance, Jayne
I want to share inspirations I am receiving from reading a great book by Jim Forest. The book is: The Road to Emmaus; Pilgrimage as a Way of Life. Jim is going to be at Bon Secours Spiritual Retreat Center here in Maryland on October 10th. Jim resides in the Netherlands.
I have always been intrigued with the consciousness of being a pilgrim on a spiritual path. We are all truly on pilgrimages with every step that we take. I see our life as "the road" or "the path".
I have participated in many angelic adventures where I have actually made a pilgrimage to a sacred site or shrine and have come to recognize that they are simply enhanced experiences of what is occuring every day.
I am going to share here some of the thoughts Jim shares in his book. They are stimulating and thought provoking for me, and it is my hope that they may trigger some contemplation for you, too.
Human history is the history of roads.
Both the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are a celebration of roads. For Tolkein, it wasn't roads in plural but simply the Road.
Walking and praying while you are walking is a spiritual practice of a pilgrim.
"The fundamental action of a human being is walking upright." - Benedicta Ward, To Be A Pilgrim.
When we make time for prayer at the beginning and end of each day, with islands of prayer, however brief in between, daily life becomes an event of a pilgrimage.
One of the hallmarks of pilgrimage is an attitude of silence.
"We cannot find God in noise or agitation. Nature, trees, flowers and grass grow in silence. The stars, the moon and the sun move in silence." Mother Teresa
Saints mirror to us lives that were on a constant journey and the pilgrim's road is not an easy one.
St. Teresa of Avila, a true pilgrim, was the target of passionate opposition from the church hierachy. Her writings were the subject of investigation by the Spanish Inquisition. "I am really much more afraid of those who have so great a fear of the devil, she wrote in her a autobiography, "than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much."
The Celts refer to a place where ordinary matter seems charged with God's Presence as "thin places." It is where the veil is thin. Jim discusses Iona, Scotland as an example of one of those thin places.
Just as we experience places of great light on our pilgrim's path, we also experience dark places and dark paths, i.e. battlefields, places of tortue or mass execution; the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family.
Jim also writes about the spiritual support offered by relics and labyrinths. Many of you know I have a deep fondness for both. Additionally, Jim discusses how an illness can become a pilgrim's journey for us.
Jim also includes Thomas Merton's words from Mystics and Zen Masters. Merton mirrors the thought of regarding our life as one continuous pilgrimage; filled with inner and outer journeys.
"The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer journey. One can have one without the other. It is better to have both."
This past weekend I had the joy of listening to a woman convey her experience as a pilgrim on the path to Santiago de Compostela. She was on the path for over a month,which included walking over mountains. She indicated that at the beginning of her pilgrimage, she shipped a lot of items home as the key was to carry as light a load as possible.
It was wonderful hearing how the people of the villages are supportive of the pilgrims. I have read of people walking this pilgrim's path; however, it was inspiring to be sitting at a table hearing someone who did it, and to experience her sharing what the experience was for her personally.
At the conclusion of the pilgrimage, there is a church where the pilgrims receive some sort of document affirming their accomplishment. There are masses held throughout the day which both tourists and pilgrims can attend. This precious woman shared that in celebration of her accomplishment she attended three masses. She radiated with the joy of fulfillment of a huge spiritual goal. You could tell that the document didn't matter to her; she was on her own God-high. I experienced God-high energies from just listening to her.
I am certain all of us have had God-high moments in perhaps exotic and far-away places. You may have had a pilgrimage experience going to New York City and seeing a Broadway show that changes your life in a literary way. These experiences are exhilirating and memorable. And equally grace-filled are the simple day to day joys of walking with God as we fulfill our daily tasks. It's all encountering God wherever we are; whatever we are doing.
Angelic blessings to you, fellow pilgrims on the road of life. May your life be lived with a divine consciousness that you are walking with God every moment; every second; every heartbeat and breath.
Love in abundance, Jayne
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