While attending the Michael Conclave in Calgary, Canada in March, 1994, I was inspired by Spirit that I needed to attend a conference that was being held in Egypt in December, 1994.
The purpose of the trip was to gather people together on the 12th day of December – the 12th month- for a ceremony of rededicating ourselves and the earth to God’s Will.
Spirit was calling us to be messengers from God to choose love instead of hatred, understanding instead of judgment and peace instead of war. The place the ceremony was to be held was the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Even though I clearly heard the message, the part of me that likes to mimic Bill Cosby’s Noah, “You want me to build what?” asked for confirmation through what I call the Trinity blessing.
Give me a message three times and I know it has God’s stamp on it. I considered the inspiration at Calgary as sign number one.
Following my trip to Canada, I went to have a private session with an incredible medium that lived in Arlington, Virginia. The medium is Rev. Reed Brown.
I expected to receive messages from loved ones in spirit. God had other plans for my session. As Rev. Brown opened to God’s inspiration, he indicated that there was a large animal being shown to him. He described its big nose and humps on its back. He proclaimed that there was a camel being shown to him.
Rev. Brown explained that the camel wanted to give me a big friendly lick and that the camel was a messenger from God that I was to go to Egypt and that while I was there I would receive a message in a sacred place similar to a “holy of holies.” Now understand Rev. Brown knew nothing of my plans to go to Egypt. I knew that Rev. Brown had delivered sign number two.
About a week later my cousin Marty called me from Las Cruces, New Mexico. Marty was so excited she could hardly get the words out. Marty had just begun to learn to meditate. During one of her meditation sessions, she clearly heard God’s voice say to her, “Go visit Mrs. Brown, she has something to share with you.”
This was all new to Marty and so there was a part of her rational self that was questioning an inspiration that wanted her to go next door to Mrs. Brown’s house and inquire what Mrs. Brown had for her.
Marty decided “nothing ventured; nothing gained” so she went next door and knocked on the front door of her 85-year-old neighbor. Marty explained to Mrs. Brown that what she was going to ask might sound crazy; however she was meditating and felt she had clearly heard God’s voice tell her to visit Mrs. Brown because Mrs. Brown had something to share with her. Mrs. Brown smiled at my cousin and replied, “Come inside, dear, I’ve been expecting you.”
As it turns out, Mrs. Brown was a long-time student of spiritual development and religions. Mrs. Brown and Marty chatted the evening away. As Marty rose to go home Mrs. Brown remarked, “And by the way, please tell your cousin that God is calling her to go to Egypt.”
Marty dashed home and called me and shared the message. Just like Rev. Brown, Marty did not know I was considering going to Egypt. After she shared Mrs. Brown’s message, Marty asked, “What does it mean?” I replied, “It means tomorrow I am sending in my deposit for the trip to Egypt.”
There would be several more messengers who would come forward prior to my trip to Egypt. One was Michelle Anderson. God has blessed Michelle as the guardian of an incredible healing technique known as the Master Alignment. Prior to my going to Egypt, Michelle gave me a message that while in Egypt I would change my name. I have to admit that when she told me that my first thought was, “Oh great, I am going to come back thinking I’m the Queen of Sheba.” My thoughts were very flippant when she shared her message.
During my trip to Egypt both Rev. Brown and Michelle’s messages would come true. While I was visiting an ancient Egyptian temple, I toured a part of the temple known as the Holy of Holies.
While standing in the energy of this sacred space, I felt the presence of God come over me and give to me the following message: Change the spelling of your name from Jane to JAYNE. When people ask you, “Why did you change your name, tell them the ‘Y’ stands for YAHWEH and you are serving as a messenger to inspire people to put God in the center of their lives.” From that moment forward my name has been Jayne. I love the letter “Y in the center of my name. “Y” inspires me with the image of myself with my arms held up to God.
During my trip to Egypt I had the opportunity to be in the Queen’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. While in the Queen’s Chamber I had a vision of Mary and the Christ Child in her arms. I knew I was to share this vision with others and was guided to Marty Betz, a truly gifted artist, whom I commissioned on behalf of the angels to create in physical form what I saw on 12-12-94. Interestingly enough, I picked up the completed artwork from Marty on September 29, 1995 – Michaelmas Day.
As I experienced the vision in Egypt, I saw Archangel Michael standing in front of Mary and the Christ Child. I felt he was a protector of her energy and that was why he was in front of her. It would later be revealed to me that Michael was standing in front of Mary as a veil to an energy that I was not yet ready to experience or witness.
On Mother’s Day weekend of 1995 while co-leading a women’s spiritual retreat with Lucky Sweeny, the veil was lifted and I encountered Archangel Raphael and began learning of my co-service with Raphael in creating a Star of David grid energy pattern as an angelic assignment. When Michael stepped away from the front of the vision, which first began in the Great Pyramid on 12-12-94 and was completed on Mother’s Day 1995, I saw Raphael holding a Grail Cup with the world on the front of the cup.
The Holy Grail has fascinated the minds and captivated the hearts of many of us. I can remember as a young child being enchanted with the legend of the heroic King Arthur, his glorious knights and his inspirational Round Table. That enchantment grew into my quest to learn more.
I became a Grail Seeker; one who began her journey in pursuit of information about the Holy Grail, and in time realized that I was on a journey of self-discovery. That which I sought outside of myself was leading to that which was within me waiting to be found.
The Grail shows up in many cultures and traditions. What is it about the Grail that intrigues us on such an intimate level? What symbolic message can be interpreted from these tales of old that would hold relevance for us today?
The Grail reportedly came to the earth during the mighty battle for good and evil waged in heaven. While some angels sided with Satan and some with God, a third group of neutral angels brought down a “loving cup” and placed it on earth. This act was to be a reminder to humanity that through communion with the Christ energy, those lost in hell could find their way back to heaven.
A similar interpretation describes the sacred chalice as originating as a stone, an emerald from the crown of Lucifer. Michael, with his flaming sword, struck the jewel from Lucifer’s crown. The stone fell to earth and out of this gem the Holy Grail was created. A symbol of good being victorious over evil.
According to Christian legend, the Grail Cup was the same cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper. It was believed that Joseph of Arimathaea, a disciple of Jesus, brought the Grail to the place of Jesus’ crucifixion. The cup is said to have caught the blood pouring from the body of Jesus.
Years later, Joseph captained a ship and crew and took the sacred relics in his possession, the bloody spear used by the Roman soldiers to pierce the side of Jesus and the Holy Grail cup, to England to a place now known as Glastonbury. It has been inferred that the oarsmen on that ship were later incarnated as the Knights of the Round Table. This same group would gather again as the founders of the United States of America.
At the Round Table, symbolic of unity with God, was a mysterious empty seat, called the Siege Perilous, where none might sit except he who was successful in questing after the Holy Grail. It represented the perfect individual, or the “Christed One”. Sir Galahad, son of Sir Lancelot, attained this high honor because of his spiritual purity.
In lore, the Grail has been described as a greatly sought-after object. While the search for the Grail is depicted as long, hard and demanding, it is deemed as an exceedingly worthy pursuit. This is because the search is symbolic of seeking balance in one’s own life. In all the stories, the knights went out beyond themselves, sacrificing much along the way. Vigilantly walking the path between the opposites of good and evil, between fear and courage, they were inspired with the realization of their highest spiritual potential.
In James Russell Lowell’s “Vision of Sir Launfal” the arrogant knight rode forth in search of the Holy Grail and threw a gold piece to a leper who rejected it. After years of unsuccessfully searching for the Holy Grail, the knight returned home and encountered the same leper. This time St. Launfal shared with the leper his last piece of bread and offered him a drink from his cup. The leper revealed himself to be Christ and the cup transformed into the long sought-after Holy Grail cup. This is a lesson that Christ taught: What you do for others you do for Christ.
What significance does the Holy Grail hold for us now and why did I see it as part of my vision in Egypt?
The cup itself is symbolic of the heart. Christ’s command “Drink from it, all of you” is an offering of the Christ energy to all who commune and drink of the cup of the love of Jesus for humanity.
The Holy Grail is the embodiment of love from God’s heart to ours. It is the outpouring of God’s love, which fills each of our lives as we search for truth. Gaining God’s truth will unlock the mysteries of life and death, by revealing to us our own eternal being through Christ consciousness.
We are all knights. We are all seekers of that which is our own internal truth. However, like Sir Launfal, we discover the Grail only when we come back home or to the center point of our life.
Sometimes it is when there is a loss of something, or it feels as if we’ve hit rock bottom, that we discover that which has always been within us waiting to be uncovered.
Every One of us has within us the potential for this spiritual awakening. The moment that occurs in our life when we realize that instead of seeking a cup outside ourselves we proclaim, “Aha! I am the cup I seek.”
Each one of us is a sacred vessel of God’s life and light. We are a vessel of God’s love, one breath, one heartbeat, one body, one energy, one consciousness through which pours God’s illumination.
In the vision Raphael inspires us to discover the cup within us and lift our cup, our life, upward in glorification of God through service.
Spirit inspired me with the message that through service to God – drinking of the cup of service – God’s will for earth will be achieved. Raphael represents God’s healing hands lifting us up in consciousness, frequency, vibration, awareness and understanding. God lifts us up from the ashes of our lives.
At the same time I was communing with Raphael on Mother’s Day weekend, a woman named Allison Carter who lives in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia was in meditation. During that meditation she looked out of her home, which overlooks Cacapon Mountain. She saw a huge angel appear and the angel said to her, “Please invite Jayne Howard to your home and ask her to come spend time with me here.” Allison later shared with me that she felt she was “angel ignorant” at that time in her life and so she asked the angel, “Who do I tell Jayne invites her?” The angel replied, “Archangel Raphael.”
Allison thought I would think she was crazy, as she didn’t know who Raphael was but did what was requested of her. When she told me the name Raphael, I immediately asked, “When can I come?”
As we looked at our schedules I realized the importance of the meeting and chose the 4th of July as the date to make the trip. As our country celebrated the energy of freedom, I was enveloped with the energy of God’s desire for us to freely embrace the “God-thoughts” that we are.
While in meditation with Raphael at Allison’s home I received further instruction with regard to my angelic assignment to create an energy Star of David. At the conclusion of my meditation, Allison asked me if I had ever visited Cacapon Mountain. It was one of those moments when a cosmic connection is made. One of those times that you sense the bigger light bulb going on inside of your head. I replied that I had in fact been there 24 years prior…on the honeymoon of my first marriage.
I had returned to participate in a mystical marriage to God’s Will for my life. Allison was also blessed by the angelic energies sent by God that weekend. Her own life became a life of service to God in cooperation with the angels.
The painting of Mary holding the Christ Child and Raphael holding the cup of service started on its own traveling tour. I was guided by the angels to take the painting into homes where people were establishing healing practices, and to leave the painting there as a blessing upon their service. For many years, the painting moved from home to home. Finally it came to a permanent place of service here at Angel Heights Healing Arts Center.
So many people have shared that as they gaze upon the painting the true painter’s voice – the voice of God – speaks to them personally. I was asked to commission this painting not as validation of my vision but rather validation of God’s eternal love for us and desire for us to experience divine healing. God blesses us to be a blessing to others.
The art that I have been led to purchase or the visions I have been given and have commissioned others to create in tangible form are blessings I am to share with others. I always laughed that I get to do the art shopping for the angels. I buy the art they want people to see - people who will cross my path.
Letting our hearts be inspired by art is one of the many ways that God delivers divine healing to us. There’s something that goes on between those who stand witness to the art and the work of art itself.
I have been inspired by the angels to team up with amazingly talented artists to bring to you artistic offerings. On these projects, I create a meditation cd to accompany the beautiful work of art.
For those of you who are on my mailing list, you have seen my flyers promoting the work of Melody Loving (Angelic Art Odyssey); Joan Short (Angel Portraits); Cheryl Kirsch (Psalm91Angels.com); and Paula Matthew, csj. (A Rune Art Offering/Story Picture Experience and I-Ching Art Experience). I feel so blessed to be serving God in the company of these earthly angels whose creations are divine blessings in artistic form.
As many of you know, I was also inspired by the angels to create INSPIRE YOUR HEART WITH THE ARTS DAY, celebrated annually on January 31st. Every day is an opportunity to inspire your heart with the arts.
Last evening I watched a wonderful program about ActionAmerica.com. It shared the message of each year making 9/11 a day of positive actions.
Isn't that a wonderful inspiration?!
Angelic Blessings of Inspiration to each and every one of you,
Love, Jayne
Monday, September 12, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
ARCHANGEL MICHAEL
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
In March of 1994 in Calgary, Canada, a Conclave of Michael was held. It was an event that brought together people who felt called by God to serve alongside Archangel Michael. I was a presenter at the Conclave offering: I AM the Sword of God. The message of that presentation had been given to me by the Archangel Michael during a profound experience at my home, Angel Heights.
In Commune with the Angels, I share the story of a wooden statue of Archangel Michael that I purchased while I was in Mexico and how important that statue became in my life.
The wooden statue of Michael served as a communication bridge between myself and the animal kingdom.
My cat, Baron Maurice, who was a beautiful pure white Persian, became ill. He was losing weight. He wasn’t eating. He didn’t seem to have an appetite. I took him to the vet and was told from the examination that it appeared the problem was tartar on his teeth, which was causing perhaps an irritation, resulting in his not wanting to eat. If it became worse the vet felt it would need to be addressed.
Baron Maurice was tested for feline leukemia and was found not to have this disease. But for me, the diagnosis of tartar build-up just didn’t seem to ring true. Every morning I would open up more than one can of cat food trying to find something that would please him. He was becoming more and more finicky. He just would not eat for several days at a time. He wanted to rest and sleep more than usual for a cat.
One day while I was in my office, Baron Maurice came in and seeing the statue of Archangel Michael placed up on the table, jumped from the floor to the level of the statue and literally knocked it to the ground with his paw.
Now here was a cat who had been acting listless and without energy, knocking a large wooden statue to the floor with one swipe of his paw. When the statue hit the floor one of Michael’s wings broke off.
As I looked in disbelief at what had happened my first thought was not of anger at Baron for breaking the statue but rather, “Oh dear Baron, what am I not seeing that you want me to see?” He wanted my attention and I knew in that instant that I had to take him to another vet and get a second opinion. I had to find out what was the problem. I took him immediately to another vet.
In testing his blood it was discovered that he had cats’ Aids. They told me that there was nothing that could be done for him and that the merciful thing to do would be to have him put to sleep. I went home with Baron and through prayer and meditation, gained from God the strength to fulfill my role in helping Baron find peace.
Shortly after Baron’s transition I was holding workshops in my home as well as seeing private clients. Now the only part of Michael’s statue that was moveable was a sword, a very small wooden sword that you could move from his hand. One day I happened to walk past the statue of Archangel Michael and realized that he no longer had his sword. I couldn’t imagine how the sword had disappeared. As I looked at Archangel Michael, now with one broken arm and his sword missing, I expressed an inner hope that in no way this was a reflection upon what was going on in my life. I remarked to myself that Archangel Michael needed a healing. And a healing is exactly what he got, but it would not occur for almost two years.
At one of my in-home gatherings a man sat in the circle and during the class he was whittling a small animal figurine out of a block of wood. As I saw that he was beginning to learn this craft, I commented that I had just been to a country craft show and had purchased a small wooden angel. I told him that he might want to look at this wooden angel as it might be something that he could follow as a pattern in making Christmas gifts.
This wooden angel was no more than four inches in height and was patterned after a simple design. I forgot about the earlier conversation until after the workshop was over. The man came up to me and said, “May I see your wooden angel?”
Well, the angels of healing must have cast a veil over my thinking because with his words I thought of the wooden statue of Archangel Michael. I said to the man, “Follow me.” I took him up the steps to my office and there I showed him the quite large and impressive figurine of Archangel Michael with broken wing and missing sword.
Even with these imperfections, Michael stood strong, crushing the demonic force that was beneath his feet. The man looked at me in total disbelief and said, “You think that I can whittle that?”
When hearing his words I realized my mistake. I laughed, “Oh, when you said you wanted to see my wooden angel I don’t know why, I just immediately thought of this statue of Michael.” He looked closer at the wing and said that he knew a master craftsman, in fact, the man who was teaching him to whittle in wood. He asked if I would be willing for him to take Michael and his broken wing to this craftsman to see if he could repair it for me. With angelic blessings I sent Michael on his way to be healed.
Six months would pass by before Michael would return to Angel Heights. He returned the third week of September 1993. I clearly remember the events that surrounded Michael’s return. I was in the midst of transition. I had a sense that I was going through a major transformation in my life. It was as if I was walking through a tunnel and the woman that had walked in through one end would not be the same woman who came out the other end. There wasn’t anything in particular that I could identify that had changed, just a feeling in general that I knew I was changing and transforming my life. I didn’t have a clue who the new me was going to be.
To assist me through this dark night of the soul, the angels inspired me to take everything off my altar and just leave one object on the altar that reflected what I aspired to be when I came out of the tunnel. I had found a wonderful clear crystal. It was very small in size but it had a point. When I looked at it I saw several things. It was a flame. It was the point of a sword. I especially liked this crystal because when you looked closer there was a smaller crystal affixed to its side and it was in the same shape.
So I was seeing a larger sword with a smaller sword inside of it – or a larger flame with a smaller flame by its side. I liked the inspirational message the crystal gave me. It was saying to me, “God’s will be done. Not my will, God, but Thy will.”
The crystal sat on my altar for about three weeks. As I passed by the altar or did prayer service at the altar I would pause and wonder about the new me…the new me that God was molding and creating, a new person more aligned to God’s will. In fact, I was feeling quite peaceful about the entire transition as I knew God was in the driver’s seat. I was “little sword/little flame”, going along for the ride.
I encourage those of you who are going through a similar time of change and uncertainty as to where you will be lead and what your new experiences will be, to place one object on your altar which reflects, for you, a quality that you hope to express in this vision that is being held by the Master Potter – God.
Well, the third week of September came around and that particular weekend I was initiated into an order where I was given a sword as part of the initiation ceremony. It was quite a large sword, I might add. When I came home I placed the sword on my altar. There now residing on my altar was the symbolic crystal and now the sword of a holy order.
A few days later I hosted an angelic gathering and the man who was a novice whittler returned. When he came to my house, unknown to me, he was bringing Archangel Michael with him, and so presented to me a mended Michael. I was elated over the healing that Michael received and I placed Michael on the altar. A trinity blessing was created – the statue of Michael, the sword of the holy order, and the crystal sword.
I remember sitting by my altar, viewing the objects of inspiration. My heart immediately went to the statue of Michael. Even though the master craftsman had healed Michael’s broken wing, Michael was still missing a sword.
I thought to myself that maybe I should go to a local toy store and search out a sword that would make Michael complete. At the very moment, as I was holding that thought, a presence came into the room. I knew immediately it was Archangel Michael’s energy and radiance. Michael spoke to me and said that it was not necessary for him to have the sword. The sword was now made manifest through the heart’s conviction of all who served God on earth. All the wonderful people who were responding with their life and with love were now the swords of God.
He then went on to say that as the Swords of God we are being called to Speak our God truth; Write our God truth; Own our God truth; Radiate our God truth and Dedicate our lives to God’s truth – to wield our S-W-O-R-D.
In November of 1993 Michael came forth into my life again with a communication. I will never forget the moment for I heard his words so crystal clear. When the presence of Michael appears I can only equate it to the energy of rolling thunder. It always caused me to stand at attention. Michael’s words were as follows: “The anti-christ is upon the earth now.” I shuddered hearing his words. I can remember thinking to myself, “Oh no! Michael is saying the anti-christ is here now.” Michael spoke a second time, “The anti-christ is upon the earth now and its name is…” Michael stopped just short of telling me the name.
In that split second my heart stopped. Did I want to hear this? Did I want to know the name of the anti-christ? I filled up with total fear. If I knew the anti-christ’s name, would the anti-christ come after me? I was almost paralyzed with fear until I got a grip on myself and said, “Wait a minute, with God I have nothing to fear.”
I asked Michael to reveal the name. Michael spoke to me a third time, “The anti-christ is upon the earth and its name is HOPELESSNESS.”
When something is right, when something is true, your whole body chimes in the key of you! I was chiming with God’s truth. The truth of Michael’s words rang through me as I realized that no one man or no one woman would bring about the destruction of this earth. That no one individual could take our power into his or her control but rather it would be up to us whether or not we would hand it over freely to hopelessness. The message was given to me to share in my lectures and in my writing as we are God’s messengers of hope eternal. When we give up on God, we give up on hope. This is why the Bible inspires us to take refuge in God, because with God all things are possible.
As you are reading my words, think of yourself as an earth angel of hope. You may find yourself in what appears to be a hopeless situation. It is never hopeless if you let God inspire you as the messenger of hope you are in this situation. It may be that someone in your family is trying to find a job. This person may have sent out resume after resume with no response. They may be at the point of giving up hope. You are there to uplift them and encourage them that they only need one job to open up for them. The same is true when people feel hopeless in finding a love relationship in their life. We sometimes allow statistics to set us off on a path of hopelessness. If you are looking for that someone special, just remember that it is just “one” someone special that you need to find.
The summer of 1993 I spoke at Kutztown University as part of Life Spectrum’s week-long conference. I presented a five-day workshop about the angelic kingdom. I worked with a class of 30 people every morning for about two hours. On Friday when I concluded my class I went around the room and said to my students, “Don’t confuse the messenger with the message. What I am saying is not to be confused by what my service is.
Think about it right now. What is it that you want to do in your own life? How do you want to incorporate the message of the angels and service to God in your own personal life? How do you want to use everything that has been shared this week with you by the angelic kingdom to make your life better and the world a better place? What can you do in service with the angels?”
I went around the room and one after another, each student indicated how he or she was going to work with the angelic kingdom. One woman in particular had a whole new outlook on her job. She works for a blood laboratory and has the role of seeing thousands of samples of blood pass before her every day as she processes them. She indicated that she was going to work with the angels in blessing each one of these samples. She was going to pray that the information that came from the blood work would assist them for their highest good and would provide a healing in their life. She had never seen her role through the eyes of empowerment, but the angels have given her that opportunity to see herself as a servant to God. She went away from the workshop realizing she was going to touch the lives of thousands and thousands of people and would be fulfilling a service to God in doing so. She was quite excited about going back to work on Monday morning.
Again, I continued around the room asking how the angels had inspired the class members to serve God in their lives. It was apparent that the angels had blessed each life and each person in turn was going to be a blessing to their family and their community.
One woman named Irina, who was visiting the United States from Moscow, stood up before the class and announced with conviction, “I’m going to take the hope of the angels to my people in Russia too. I am going to inspire them with hope in these challenging times of transition and I am planning to take Jayne to Russia, too, to bring her message to my people.” Needless to say I was as amazed as the rest of the class to hear these words. I was honored by her invitation. Irina was the editor of Urania Magazine, a beautiful spiritual publication that had been in existence for approximately three years and was published in both English and Russian.
Irina came up to me after the class and shared her enthusiasm over her service with the angels as an editor and in her life in Russia. She then invited me to participate as a workshop presenter at a conference to be held in November of 1993 in Moscow. Hearing her words brought back into my awareness an incident that had foretold this happening. It had been a few years prior and it occurred on Sunday, December 31st.
Every December 31st I participate in promoting and being a part of the World Healing Meditation. I wrote about this event and included the actual meditation in Commune With the Angels. On this particular December 31st, which fell on a Sunday, I came home from a group meditation and turned on one of my favorite television programs, Dr. Schuller’s Hour of Power. That particular Sunday was an extraordinary Sunday because Dr. Schuller had just returned from Russia. He was the first western hemisphere minister to be allowed by the Russian government to give a series of sermons over the Russian television network.
He had been instructed that he could not have a sermon that promoted Christianity, but rather, it had to be a general inspirational sermon to uplift the people and give them hope.
I remember that Armand Hammer had arranged for the Russian telecast to be broadcast to the people who were tuned into the Hour of Power in America. I was one of the people who witnessed this history-making sermon being given by Dr. Schuller. I stood in front of my television almost frozen, knowing that walls were being brought down by every word Dr. Schuller spoke.
We were transcending time zones. We were transcending past fears. We were transcending cold wars. The message of hope was being delivered to all of God’s people on the earth. He shared the words from Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
As I stood riveted to the television set, I heard the angels say, “And you, too, will be a messenger of hope to the Russian people.” That was the first time I had ever thought about the possibility of my going to Russia. I knew in that moment that sometime in my life I would be visiting Russia as a courier of hope carrying with me God’s message.
That became a reality on Monday, November 1st, 1993 when I flew from Dulles International Airport to Heathrow in London, England and then flew onto Moscow. As part of a week-long conference I gave my workshop with the assistance of a translator and, of course, the assistance of the angels. The theme of the conference was ‘Sophia Returns’. Sophia is a term for the Wisdom of God.
While I was in Moscow the organizers of the conference took a group of us to a local flea market. At the flea market I came across a painting of Archangel Michael holding a sword that was not a sword of steel but rather of fire. I loved the symbolism of the fire because so often God is depicted in the Bible as fire. One such example is Moses’ experience with the burning bush.
The painting was of Michael cutting through all darkness with the power of God’s energy. The painting was on a piece of wood. I purchased the painting and after I bought it one of my hosts commented that I might have a problem getting the painting through customs, as Russia’s customs agency was funny about artwork leaving the country.
When it came time for me to leave Russia and I went through customs, I kept the painting of Michael out in full view. When the customs officer asked what I had to declare, I showed him Archangel Michael. He asked if it was old. I told him I didn’t know. I had bought it at a flea market in Moscow and had paid $50 for it. I was totally stunned by what he did next. He took out a pocketknife and cut the edge of the painting to see what was underneath.
I heard the angels inspire me with the words, “Detach! Detach! Detach!” I knew what I had to do. I said to the officer, “Look, I am really homesick and want to go home. If you need to keep the picture, keep it.” The officer ‘s attention was drawn to the eyes of Archangel Michael. He never looked at me again. With his eyes affixed upon Michael he handed back the painting and said, “You take it with you.” It was as if he couldn’t give it back to me fast enough. I have been so blessed in my worldwide travels, to be guided by the angels to awesome works of art depicting Archangel Michael: the wooden Michael I found in Mexico; the painting of Michael with a sword of fire in Russia.
At the beginning of blog, I shared with you the opportunity I had to speak at the Conclave of Michael. Many of us serve alongside Archangel Michael. Michael’s name in Hebrew means “He who is like God”. So if you have made changes in your life recently that are inspiring you to commit yourself to live your life in fulfillment of God’s vision of you, chances are you are hearing Michael’s calling.
Calgary, Canada has been written about as an established location of Michael’s energy on earth and when I saw the magnificent Canadian Rockies for the first time I commented, “Michael, this is so you.”
The week before I left for Calgary I felt Michael’s promptings to release my job of 20 plus years with an advertising agency. I heard Michael’s calling: “Come to me free of spirit. Come to me without your job.” I was panicked by the very thought of leaving my job. How would I survive? I was scared. I was a woman alone and paying the bills was totally up to me. I could feel the vibration of truth in Michael’s words but my fears were too great. I just couldn’t do it. Michael did not judge me. The angels never judge us. They merely stand back and let us “chew” on their wisdom. They are in our lives to inspire us, not to live our lives for us. The decision would be up to me.
While in Calgary on one particular morning during a lecture, the presence of Michael came to me again. I heard him speak as clearly as the speaker on the podium. Again he said to me, “It is time to be free in spirit. It is time to leave your work and take your place serving God with the company of angels.” My dear friend, Paula Kyle, who was seated next to me, felt something going on. She looked at me and said, “You just got a message, didn’t you?” I shared with her what Michael had said and she asked, “Did he give you a date to leave?” I replied, “We’re negotiating on that.”
There was really no negotiating except in my mind. I knew Michael was right. It was time and it was to be accomplished on May 5, 1994. On this date there would be a trinity or three-times blessing of the vibration of the five, which is the energy of change, expansion, growth, moving forward. I was inspired by the angels to look up the message for two times five, or the master number 55 because the energy of 55 was also included in May 5, 1994. Master numbers are numbers that emphasize the quality of the single number and raise its vibration to a higher level of intensity or consciousness because of its being doubled; therefore 55 is a higher consciousness of the number 5 and 555 is a higher consciousness of 55.
I used Numerology and Your Future for my research. It is written by Dusty Bunker, whom I consider to be a master numerologist. Dusty shares the possibilities that there are Masters who physically walk the earth or hover above it and each of these Masters guides watches over a different department of life. Under “55” Dusty wrote: “Master Agents 55 are assigned to the department of communications and investigation. They must separate the true from the false…The Ace of Swords in the Tarot would be a good card to reflect upon.”
Could Dusty be describing Archangel Michael as the Master Agent of 55 who is inspiring us to the Swordbearers of the Truth for God? Since that time I have come to know without a shadow of a doubt that Archangel Michael reveals himself thorough the numerical vibration of 555. Interestingly enough, years later I would catch a public radio broadcast with a scientist who spoke of the geometric symmetry in a flower known as the Michaelmas that has some sort of 555 configuration. His words were over my head but not over my heart.
When I came home and went back to work I was rationalizing as I sat at my desk at the advertising agency that what had happened maybe didn’t happen, but in my heart I knew it had. It was all so scary and rationalizing was an easier path than taking the plunge. As I played mind games with myself I questioned, “Was it really Michael?” Almost like a Memorex commercial. Was it real or was it Memorex? I didn’t have to play the game for long. A beautiful necklace of Austrian crystal beads that I was wearing around my neck just exploded and the beads flew in every direction of the office. I heard the angels lovingly whisper, “Jayne, you know it is time. You are out of here.”
Later that day when I got ready to leave the office and reached inside my purse for my keys, which were attached to a key chain with my name spelled out in big letters, I realized that my name had separated from the key chain. I knew I was being given signs and signals that it was time to separate myself from my old identity.
There was no doubt I had to resign. I knew it. The angels knew it. And my boss was going to know soon, too. I was certain about my leaving but was still dragging my feet on the date. Was 5-5-5 the date for sure? That evening the confirmation came through loud and clear. As I finished a telephone reading, I turned on television and saw the final scene of a program. A woman falsely accused of being a witch in Salem was sentenced by the judge. His words to her were, “You have been sentenced to die on May 5th.” I knew May 5, 1994 was the death of my old identity at the advertising agency.
The very next day I gave notice. My boss, though somewhat surprised stated, “I knew it was coming. I just didn’t know it would be this soon.” I shared with him that it was now because now was the time.
My boss asked me whom I was going to work for. I stated, “God and the company of angels.” After I had this conversation I went to the post office as I did each work morning to pick up the office mail and at the same time picked up my own personal mail. There in my mailbox was a large package. When I looked inside I saw copies of a newspaper article. I had forgotten that three weeks earlier a reporter had visited my home and had written an article about my service with the angels. I opened the article and saw the headline the reporter had chosen for her article: THE COMPANY OF ANGELS IS HER EMPLOYER. So it was official – in black and white print – I was working for God and the Company of Angels.
I share with you the following personal ceremony to rededicate your life to serving God and fulfilling your role as an earthly member of the legion of Archangel Michael.
Light a blue candle upon your altar. It is symbolic of the Blue Ray of Michael and represents the Will of God – the Power of God – the Protection of God.
Say these words or put the thought into your own personal expression:
Michael, I kneel before you in humility and dedicate my life to the fulfillment of God’s plan for earth. I have answered your call to serve alongside you glorifying and exalting God in all my choices, my actions, words and deeds. I AM THAT I AM
Mastering my life and its experiences.
Intuitively responding to life with my inner God-inspired wisdom.
Caring for all that I am given stewardship and guardianship over.
Healing and helping others to heal.
Abundantly embracing with joy my identity as a beloved child of God.
Energizing my life with love.
Living in the eternal NOW.
Stretch out your arm and visualize your arm as a Sword. It is not a sword that serves as a weapon. It is a sword that cuts you free from all that is less than God’s will in your life. Your whole body is activated with the Blue Ray vibration.
Hear Michael inspire you with the message: You are God’s swordbearers on earth. Speak your God truth. Write your God truth. Own your God truth as your identity. Radiate your God truth. Dedicate your life to your God truth. Remember, you can use the sword to cut yourself free from all the illusions in your life. Cut yourself free from any bonds to the past that prevents you from fully embracing your highest good. Cut yourself free from anything that is no longer useful or purposeful in your life. You are the Sword of God’s Truth – and the truth will set you free
Accept this dedication as fulfilled. May God be glorified and exalted by this ceremony and may you be blessed for you are truly a blessing on the earth.
I wish to share the following prayer sent to me by Shelley MacDonald of South Attleboro, Massachusetts. She shared with me that by saying this prayer she is given strength and courage, especially during the times when she feels anxious or discouraged. Shelley is the host of an inspirational radio program and truly is a member of the legion of Michael. She is a blessing of God’s light upon all those who meet her.
“Come, come, O Michael, dear.
By thy faith my way is clear.
Sword of blue
Flashing through
Give me faith and protection too!
Shine within me, all about me.
With Michael’s faith will none doubt me.
Guard my way, right now, today
Casting all my fears away.
Within, without I see your flame.
Go forth in God’s own name.
Love in abundance,
Jayne
www.earthangel4peace.com
earthangel4peace@aol.com
In March of 1994 in Calgary, Canada, a Conclave of Michael was held. It was an event that brought together people who felt called by God to serve alongside Archangel Michael. I was a presenter at the Conclave offering: I AM the Sword of God. The message of that presentation had been given to me by the Archangel Michael during a profound experience at my home, Angel Heights.
In Commune with the Angels, I share the story of a wooden statue of Archangel Michael that I purchased while I was in Mexico and how important that statue became in my life.
The wooden statue of Michael served as a communication bridge between myself and the animal kingdom.
My cat, Baron Maurice, who was a beautiful pure white Persian, became ill. He was losing weight. He wasn’t eating. He didn’t seem to have an appetite. I took him to the vet and was told from the examination that it appeared the problem was tartar on his teeth, which was causing perhaps an irritation, resulting in his not wanting to eat. If it became worse the vet felt it would need to be addressed.
Baron Maurice was tested for feline leukemia and was found not to have this disease. But for me, the diagnosis of tartar build-up just didn’t seem to ring true. Every morning I would open up more than one can of cat food trying to find something that would please him. He was becoming more and more finicky. He just would not eat for several days at a time. He wanted to rest and sleep more than usual for a cat.
One day while I was in my office, Baron Maurice came in and seeing the statue of Archangel Michael placed up on the table, jumped from the floor to the level of the statue and literally knocked it to the ground with his paw.
Now here was a cat who had been acting listless and without energy, knocking a large wooden statue to the floor with one swipe of his paw. When the statue hit the floor one of Michael’s wings broke off.
As I looked in disbelief at what had happened my first thought was not of anger at Baron for breaking the statue but rather, “Oh dear Baron, what am I not seeing that you want me to see?” He wanted my attention and I knew in that instant that I had to take him to another vet and get a second opinion. I had to find out what was the problem. I took him immediately to another vet.
In testing his blood it was discovered that he had cats’ Aids. They told me that there was nothing that could be done for him and that the merciful thing to do would be to have him put to sleep. I went home with Baron and through prayer and meditation, gained from God the strength to fulfill my role in helping Baron find peace.
Shortly after Baron’s transition I was holding workshops in my home as well as seeing private clients. Now the only part of Michael’s statue that was moveable was a sword, a very small wooden sword that you could move from his hand. One day I happened to walk past the statue of Archangel Michael and realized that he no longer had his sword. I couldn’t imagine how the sword had disappeared. As I looked at Archangel Michael, now with one broken arm and his sword missing, I expressed an inner hope that in no way this was a reflection upon what was going on in my life. I remarked to myself that Archangel Michael needed a healing. And a healing is exactly what he got, but it would not occur for almost two years.
At one of my in-home gatherings a man sat in the circle and during the class he was whittling a small animal figurine out of a block of wood. As I saw that he was beginning to learn this craft, I commented that I had just been to a country craft show and had purchased a small wooden angel. I told him that he might want to look at this wooden angel as it might be something that he could follow as a pattern in making Christmas gifts.
This wooden angel was no more than four inches in height and was patterned after a simple design. I forgot about the earlier conversation until after the workshop was over. The man came up to me and said, “May I see your wooden angel?”
Well, the angels of healing must have cast a veil over my thinking because with his words I thought of the wooden statue of Archangel Michael. I said to the man, “Follow me.” I took him up the steps to my office and there I showed him the quite large and impressive figurine of Archangel Michael with broken wing and missing sword.
Even with these imperfections, Michael stood strong, crushing the demonic force that was beneath his feet. The man looked at me in total disbelief and said, “You think that I can whittle that?”
When hearing his words I realized my mistake. I laughed, “Oh, when you said you wanted to see my wooden angel I don’t know why, I just immediately thought of this statue of Michael.” He looked closer at the wing and said that he knew a master craftsman, in fact, the man who was teaching him to whittle in wood. He asked if I would be willing for him to take Michael and his broken wing to this craftsman to see if he could repair it for me. With angelic blessings I sent Michael on his way to be healed.
Six months would pass by before Michael would return to Angel Heights. He returned the third week of September 1993. I clearly remember the events that surrounded Michael’s return. I was in the midst of transition. I had a sense that I was going through a major transformation in my life. It was as if I was walking through a tunnel and the woman that had walked in through one end would not be the same woman who came out the other end. There wasn’t anything in particular that I could identify that had changed, just a feeling in general that I knew I was changing and transforming my life. I didn’t have a clue who the new me was going to be.
To assist me through this dark night of the soul, the angels inspired me to take everything off my altar and just leave one object on the altar that reflected what I aspired to be when I came out of the tunnel. I had found a wonderful clear crystal. It was very small in size but it had a point. When I looked at it I saw several things. It was a flame. It was the point of a sword. I especially liked this crystal because when you looked closer there was a smaller crystal affixed to its side and it was in the same shape.
So I was seeing a larger sword with a smaller sword inside of it – or a larger flame with a smaller flame by its side. I liked the inspirational message the crystal gave me. It was saying to me, “God’s will be done. Not my will, God, but Thy will.”
The crystal sat on my altar for about three weeks. As I passed by the altar or did prayer service at the altar I would pause and wonder about the new me…the new me that God was molding and creating, a new person more aligned to God’s will. In fact, I was feeling quite peaceful about the entire transition as I knew God was in the driver’s seat. I was “little sword/little flame”, going along for the ride.
I encourage those of you who are going through a similar time of change and uncertainty as to where you will be lead and what your new experiences will be, to place one object on your altar which reflects, for you, a quality that you hope to express in this vision that is being held by the Master Potter – God.
Well, the third week of September came around and that particular weekend I was initiated into an order where I was given a sword as part of the initiation ceremony. It was quite a large sword, I might add. When I came home I placed the sword on my altar. There now residing on my altar was the symbolic crystal and now the sword of a holy order.
A few days later I hosted an angelic gathering and the man who was a novice whittler returned. When he came to my house, unknown to me, he was bringing Archangel Michael with him, and so presented to me a mended Michael. I was elated over the healing that Michael received and I placed Michael on the altar. A trinity blessing was created – the statue of Michael, the sword of the holy order, and the crystal sword.
I remember sitting by my altar, viewing the objects of inspiration. My heart immediately went to the statue of Michael. Even though the master craftsman had healed Michael’s broken wing, Michael was still missing a sword.
I thought to myself that maybe I should go to a local toy store and search out a sword that would make Michael complete. At the very moment, as I was holding that thought, a presence came into the room. I knew immediately it was Archangel Michael’s energy and radiance. Michael spoke to me and said that it was not necessary for him to have the sword. The sword was now made manifest through the heart’s conviction of all who served God on earth. All the wonderful people who were responding with their life and with love were now the swords of God.
He then went on to say that as the Swords of God we are being called to Speak our God truth; Write our God truth; Own our God truth; Radiate our God truth and Dedicate our lives to God’s truth – to wield our S-W-O-R-D.
In November of 1993 Michael came forth into my life again with a communication. I will never forget the moment for I heard his words so crystal clear. When the presence of Michael appears I can only equate it to the energy of rolling thunder. It always caused me to stand at attention. Michael’s words were as follows: “The anti-christ is upon the earth now.” I shuddered hearing his words. I can remember thinking to myself, “Oh no! Michael is saying the anti-christ is here now.” Michael spoke a second time, “The anti-christ is upon the earth now and its name is…” Michael stopped just short of telling me the name.
In that split second my heart stopped. Did I want to hear this? Did I want to know the name of the anti-christ? I filled up with total fear. If I knew the anti-christ’s name, would the anti-christ come after me? I was almost paralyzed with fear until I got a grip on myself and said, “Wait a minute, with God I have nothing to fear.”
I asked Michael to reveal the name. Michael spoke to me a third time, “The anti-christ is upon the earth and its name is HOPELESSNESS.”
When something is right, when something is true, your whole body chimes in the key of you! I was chiming with God’s truth. The truth of Michael’s words rang through me as I realized that no one man or no one woman would bring about the destruction of this earth. That no one individual could take our power into his or her control but rather it would be up to us whether or not we would hand it over freely to hopelessness. The message was given to me to share in my lectures and in my writing as we are God’s messengers of hope eternal. When we give up on God, we give up on hope. This is why the Bible inspires us to take refuge in God, because with God all things are possible.
As you are reading my words, think of yourself as an earth angel of hope. You may find yourself in what appears to be a hopeless situation. It is never hopeless if you let God inspire you as the messenger of hope you are in this situation. It may be that someone in your family is trying to find a job. This person may have sent out resume after resume with no response. They may be at the point of giving up hope. You are there to uplift them and encourage them that they only need one job to open up for them. The same is true when people feel hopeless in finding a love relationship in their life. We sometimes allow statistics to set us off on a path of hopelessness. If you are looking for that someone special, just remember that it is just “one” someone special that you need to find.
The summer of 1993 I spoke at Kutztown University as part of Life Spectrum’s week-long conference. I presented a five-day workshop about the angelic kingdom. I worked with a class of 30 people every morning for about two hours. On Friday when I concluded my class I went around the room and said to my students, “Don’t confuse the messenger with the message. What I am saying is not to be confused by what my service is.
Think about it right now. What is it that you want to do in your own life? How do you want to incorporate the message of the angels and service to God in your own personal life? How do you want to use everything that has been shared this week with you by the angelic kingdom to make your life better and the world a better place? What can you do in service with the angels?”
I went around the room and one after another, each student indicated how he or she was going to work with the angelic kingdom. One woman in particular had a whole new outlook on her job. She works for a blood laboratory and has the role of seeing thousands of samples of blood pass before her every day as she processes them. She indicated that she was going to work with the angels in blessing each one of these samples. She was going to pray that the information that came from the blood work would assist them for their highest good and would provide a healing in their life. She had never seen her role through the eyes of empowerment, but the angels have given her that opportunity to see herself as a servant to God. She went away from the workshop realizing she was going to touch the lives of thousands and thousands of people and would be fulfilling a service to God in doing so. She was quite excited about going back to work on Monday morning.
Again, I continued around the room asking how the angels had inspired the class members to serve God in their lives. It was apparent that the angels had blessed each life and each person in turn was going to be a blessing to their family and their community.
One woman named Irina, who was visiting the United States from Moscow, stood up before the class and announced with conviction, “I’m going to take the hope of the angels to my people in Russia too. I am going to inspire them with hope in these challenging times of transition and I am planning to take Jayne to Russia, too, to bring her message to my people.” Needless to say I was as amazed as the rest of the class to hear these words. I was honored by her invitation. Irina was the editor of Urania Magazine, a beautiful spiritual publication that had been in existence for approximately three years and was published in both English and Russian.
Irina came up to me after the class and shared her enthusiasm over her service with the angels as an editor and in her life in Russia. She then invited me to participate as a workshop presenter at a conference to be held in November of 1993 in Moscow. Hearing her words brought back into my awareness an incident that had foretold this happening. It had been a few years prior and it occurred on Sunday, December 31st.
Every December 31st I participate in promoting and being a part of the World Healing Meditation. I wrote about this event and included the actual meditation in Commune With the Angels. On this particular December 31st, which fell on a Sunday, I came home from a group meditation and turned on one of my favorite television programs, Dr. Schuller’s Hour of Power. That particular Sunday was an extraordinary Sunday because Dr. Schuller had just returned from Russia. He was the first western hemisphere minister to be allowed by the Russian government to give a series of sermons over the Russian television network.
He had been instructed that he could not have a sermon that promoted Christianity, but rather, it had to be a general inspirational sermon to uplift the people and give them hope.
I remember that Armand Hammer had arranged for the Russian telecast to be broadcast to the people who were tuned into the Hour of Power in America. I was one of the people who witnessed this history-making sermon being given by Dr. Schuller. I stood in front of my television almost frozen, knowing that walls were being brought down by every word Dr. Schuller spoke.
We were transcending time zones. We were transcending past fears. We were transcending cold wars. The message of hope was being delivered to all of God’s people on the earth. He shared the words from Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
As I stood riveted to the television set, I heard the angels say, “And you, too, will be a messenger of hope to the Russian people.” That was the first time I had ever thought about the possibility of my going to Russia. I knew in that moment that sometime in my life I would be visiting Russia as a courier of hope carrying with me God’s message.
That became a reality on Monday, November 1st, 1993 when I flew from Dulles International Airport to Heathrow in London, England and then flew onto Moscow. As part of a week-long conference I gave my workshop with the assistance of a translator and, of course, the assistance of the angels. The theme of the conference was ‘Sophia Returns’. Sophia is a term for the Wisdom of God.
While I was in Moscow the organizers of the conference took a group of us to a local flea market. At the flea market I came across a painting of Archangel Michael holding a sword that was not a sword of steel but rather of fire. I loved the symbolism of the fire because so often God is depicted in the Bible as fire. One such example is Moses’ experience with the burning bush.
The painting was of Michael cutting through all darkness with the power of God’s energy. The painting was on a piece of wood. I purchased the painting and after I bought it one of my hosts commented that I might have a problem getting the painting through customs, as Russia’s customs agency was funny about artwork leaving the country.
When it came time for me to leave Russia and I went through customs, I kept the painting of Michael out in full view. When the customs officer asked what I had to declare, I showed him Archangel Michael. He asked if it was old. I told him I didn’t know. I had bought it at a flea market in Moscow and had paid $50 for it. I was totally stunned by what he did next. He took out a pocketknife and cut the edge of the painting to see what was underneath.
I heard the angels inspire me with the words, “Detach! Detach! Detach!” I knew what I had to do. I said to the officer, “Look, I am really homesick and want to go home. If you need to keep the picture, keep it.” The officer ‘s attention was drawn to the eyes of Archangel Michael. He never looked at me again. With his eyes affixed upon Michael he handed back the painting and said, “You take it with you.” It was as if he couldn’t give it back to me fast enough. I have been so blessed in my worldwide travels, to be guided by the angels to awesome works of art depicting Archangel Michael: the wooden Michael I found in Mexico; the painting of Michael with a sword of fire in Russia.
At the beginning of blog, I shared with you the opportunity I had to speak at the Conclave of Michael. Many of us serve alongside Archangel Michael. Michael’s name in Hebrew means “He who is like God”. So if you have made changes in your life recently that are inspiring you to commit yourself to live your life in fulfillment of God’s vision of you, chances are you are hearing Michael’s calling.
Calgary, Canada has been written about as an established location of Michael’s energy on earth and when I saw the magnificent Canadian Rockies for the first time I commented, “Michael, this is so you.”
The week before I left for Calgary I felt Michael’s promptings to release my job of 20 plus years with an advertising agency. I heard Michael’s calling: “Come to me free of spirit. Come to me without your job.” I was panicked by the very thought of leaving my job. How would I survive? I was scared. I was a woman alone and paying the bills was totally up to me. I could feel the vibration of truth in Michael’s words but my fears were too great. I just couldn’t do it. Michael did not judge me. The angels never judge us. They merely stand back and let us “chew” on their wisdom. They are in our lives to inspire us, not to live our lives for us. The decision would be up to me.
While in Calgary on one particular morning during a lecture, the presence of Michael came to me again. I heard him speak as clearly as the speaker on the podium. Again he said to me, “It is time to be free in spirit. It is time to leave your work and take your place serving God with the company of angels.” My dear friend, Paula Kyle, who was seated next to me, felt something going on. She looked at me and said, “You just got a message, didn’t you?” I shared with her what Michael had said and she asked, “Did he give you a date to leave?” I replied, “We’re negotiating on that.”
There was really no negotiating except in my mind. I knew Michael was right. It was time and it was to be accomplished on May 5, 1994. On this date there would be a trinity or three-times blessing of the vibration of the five, which is the energy of change, expansion, growth, moving forward. I was inspired by the angels to look up the message for two times five, or the master number 55 because the energy of 55 was also included in May 5, 1994. Master numbers are numbers that emphasize the quality of the single number and raise its vibration to a higher level of intensity or consciousness because of its being doubled; therefore 55 is a higher consciousness of the number 5 and 555 is a higher consciousness of 55.
I used Numerology and Your Future for my research. It is written by Dusty Bunker, whom I consider to be a master numerologist. Dusty shares the possibilities that there are Masters who physically walk the earth or hover above it and each of these Masters guides watches over a different department of life. Under “55” Dusty wrote: “Master Agents 55 are assigned to the department of communications and investigation. They must separate the true from the false…The Ace of Swords in the Tarot would be a good card to reflect upon.”
Could Dusty be describing Archangel Michael as the Master Agent of 55 who is inspiring us to the Swordbearers of the Truth for God? Since that time I have come to know without a shadow of a doubt that Archangel Michael reveals himself thorough the numerical vibration of 555. Interestingly enough, years later I would catch a public radio broadcast with a scientist who spoke of the geometric symmetry in a flower known as the Michaelmas that has some sort of 555 configuration. His words were over my head but not over my heart.
When I came home and went back to work I was rationalizing as I sat at my desk at the advertising agency that what had happened maybe didn’t happen, but in my heart I knew it had. It was all so scary and rationalizing was an easier path than taking the plunge. As I played mind games with myself I questioned, “Was it really Michael?” Almost like a Memorex commercial. Was it real or was it Memorex? I didn’t have to play the game for long. A beautiful necklace of Austrian crystal beads that I was wearing around my neck just exploded and the beads flew in every direction of the office. I heard the angels lovingly whisper, “Jayne, you know it is time. You are out of here.”
Later that day when I got ready to leave the office and reached inside my purse for my keys, which were attached to a key chain with my name spelled out in big letters, I realized that my name had separated from the key chain. I knew I was being given signs and signals that it was time to separate myself from my old identity.
There was no doubt I had to resign. I knew it. The angels knew it. And my boss was going to know soon, too. I was certain about my leaving but was still dragging my feet on the date. Was 5-5-5 the date for sure? That evening the confirmation came through loud and clear. As I finished a telephone reading, I turned on television and saw the final scene of a program. A woman falsely accused of being a witch in Salem was sentenced by the judge. His words to her were, “You have been sentenced to die on May 5th.” I knew May 5, 1994 was the death of my old identity at the advertising agency.
The very next day I gave notice. My boss, though somewhat surprised stated, “I knew it was coming. I just didn’t know it would be this soon.” I shared with him that it was now because now was the time.
My boss asked me whom I was going to work for. I stated, “God and the company of angels.” After I had this conversation I went to the post office as I did each work morning to pick up the office mail and at the same time picked up my own personal mail. There in my mailbox was a large package. When I looked inside I saw copies of a newspaper article. I had forgotten that three weeks earlier a reporter had visited my home and had written an article about my service with the angels. I opened the article and saw the headline the reporter had chosen for her article: THE COMPANY OF ANGELS IS HER EMPLOYER. So it was official – in black and white print – I was working for God and the Company of Angels.
I share with you the following personal ceremony to rededicate your life to serving God and fulfilling your role as an earthly member of the legion of Archangel Michael.
Light a blue candle upon your altar. It is symbolic of the Blue Ray of Michael and represents the Will of God – the Power of God – the Protection of God.
Say these words or put the thought into your own personal expression:
Michael, I kneel before you in humility and dedicate my life to the fulfillment of God’s plan for earth. I have answered your call to serve alongside you glorifying and exalting God in all my choices, my actions, words and deeds. I AM THAT I AM
Mastering my life and its experiences.
Intuitively responding to life with my inner God-inspired wisdom.
Caring for all that I am given stewardship and guardianship over.
Healing and helping others to heal.
Abundantly embracing with joy my identity as a beloved child of God.
Energizing my life with love.
Living in the eternal NOW.
Stretch out your arm and visualize your arm as a Sword. It is not a sword that serves as a weapon. It is a sword that cuts you free from all that is less than God’s will in your life. Your whole body is activated with the Blue Ray vibration.
Hear Michael inspire you with the message: You are God’s swordbearers on earth. Speak your God truth. Write your God truth. Own your God truth as your identity. Radiate your God truth. Dedicate your life to your God truth. Remember, you can use the sword to cut yourself free from all the illusions in your life. Cut yourself free from any bonds to the past that prevents you from fully embracing your highest good. Cut yourself free from anything that is no longer useful or purposeful in your life. You are the Sword of God’s Truth – and the truth will set you free
Accept this dedication as fulfilled. May God be glorified and exalted by this ceremony and may you be blessed for you are truly a blessing on the earth.
I wish to share the following prayer sent to me by Shelley MacDonald of South Attleboro, Massachusetts. She shared with me that by saying this prayer she is given strength and courage, especially during the times when she feels anxious or discouraged. Shelley is the host of an inspirational radio program and truly is a member of the legion of Michael. She is a blessing of God’s light upon all those who meet her.
“Come, come, O Michael, dear.
By thy faith my way is clear.
Sword of blue
Flashing through
Give me faith and protection too!
Shine within me, all about me.
With Michael’s faith will none doubt me.
Guard my way, right now, today
Casting all my fears away.
Within, without I see your flame.
Go forth in God’s own name.
Love in abundance,
Jayne
www.earthangel4peace.com
earthangel4peace@aol.com
Saturday, August 20, 2011
BE AN ANGEL DAY
History was made on Sunday, August 22, 1993 when thousands of people participated in a global heartlink celebrating the first annual BE AN ANGEL DAY.
Following the publication of Commune With The Angels in October, 1992 I was inspired by the angels with the message, “Do not rest on the laurels of a published book. There is additional service that needs to be done.” The message I received from the angels did not identify the service, but rather how I would begin to move towards recognizing what that service would be.
The angels must truly love reading mysteries because I have found that the assistance they give to me comes in the form of clues that they drop into my life. The clue I was given was to go to cemeteries to find and photograph angel monuments.
In the Baltimore area, near to where I live, I was able to find some very old cemeteries that had angel monuments from the 1890’s. Gifted stonecutters have sculpted incredible angelic beings from granite. As I looked into the faces of these granite angelic monuments it was as if they came to life.
I encourage you to seek out the cemeteries in your own community to see if there are similar angelic monuments waiting for you to discover them. The art seen in cemeteries is equal to the mastery found in museums.
I do not in any way consider myself a photographer, but the angels repeatedly encouraged me to go out and take photographs of these monuments. I would visit cemeteries and would be joyous over the discovery of angel monuments, which I photographed with black and white film. As I had the photographs developed I continued to inquire of Spirit, “What is this all about? What service are the angels guiding me to do that is mirrored to me in the granite figures?”
Often times we want to know what is the purpose of a particular activity in our life. Sometimes the answer is revealed to us in a holy instant. However, more times than not it is part of the journey and the activity quite simply is in preparation of the next step. So here I am in the midst of the activity of photographing angel monuments and wondering, “Why am I doing this? Where am I going with this?” And yet I felt compelled to do it.
One day I received from the angels this wonderful imagery. They said we should view ourselves as gold miners. So picture yourself having a little pan and everything that you do in your life is a sifting process. You are constantly sifting. Sometimes there’s nothing but the sifting of sand taking place and then one day you look down into your gold miner’s pan and you find a nugget right there shining back at you. The gold in the pan is that which has always been inside of you waiting to be discovered. It sometimes takes a lot of sifting and sometimes in our lives we almost throw our gold out with the dirt.
So the sifting in my life was tied in with my taking photographs of angel monuments. I am a person who loves to have focus in her life so I put myself on Angel Monument Alert – always on the lookout for angel monuments. When I would visit friends out of town, I would include them in the assignment and together we would find incredible granite monuments depicting angelic beings.
Now my curiosity grew as I sought information from the angels as to the purpose of the cemetery expeditions. In meditation I asked, “Am I going to create a book around the photographs…perhaps it will be called Angels of The Cemeteries…Guardians of The Grave. I even found a wonderful quote “Angels of the Tomb” which I thought would beautifully tie in with this book:
Immortal Hope dispels the gloom!
An angel sits beside the tomb.
This quote is by Sarah Flower Adams and comes from The Mourners Came At the Break of Day. The angels lovingly acknowledged my focus and commitment to the project and said quite simply, “Keep looking for angel monuments. Keep photographing what you find.” And so I continued my quest.
One day I visited Emmitsburg, Maryland where the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes is located. I happened to be in Emmitsburg because Mt. St. Mary’s College is the site where every Father’s Day weekend the Mid-Atlantic Region of ARE holds its yearly retreat. The shrine is only a few miles from the college and includes a beautiful grotto in a wooded area.
At the grotto I usually spend time in prayer and meditation. It is truly one of the most peaceful places on earth and I feel blessed that my home is only 45 minutes from the grotto so I am now able to visit it often. On this particular visit I came out of the grotto and realized that there is a cemetery nearby. I hadn’t even noticed the cemetery as I drove into the grotto parking lot. And more importantly I hadn’t even noticed an incredible pair of angels that graced the entrance of the grotto, standing next to the cemetery. The figures were identical - each depicted a guardian angel with a precious child by its side. The child looks up to the angel and the angel points towards heaven.
I remember taking the photograph and feeling that as I snapped the shutter I had “captured” an angelic Kodak moment. When I picked up the film at the local Ritz camera store I realized I had the missing piece of the puzzle. With this picture – which would become a poster – I was inspired with the thought to establish BE AN ANGEL DAY.
What the angels were doing by having me go to cemeteries was preparing me. They were positioning me to be on the lookout for angel monuments. The right one was going to be right in front of me…eventually…I just had to keep looking…and keep snapping. The monument at the grotto in Emmitsburg is symbolic in that the child is the inner child in each and every one of us and standing near to us – always – is our Guardian Angel pointing out for us the direction we should look for support, answers and strength – God-ward.
I want to share with you that 2012 is the 600th celebration of Joan of Arc's birthday. I truly believe, that just like the angels, Joan of Arc is inspiring each of us to be God-ward. To stay on course with God. I love her inspirational messages: "I was born to do this" and "Forward with God!"
For those of you who live in or near to Baltimore, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is doing a special performance with the 1928 Joan of Arc silent movie being shown in the background. The performances will be in March, 2012.
Getting back to the angels' inspiration to establish BE AN ANGEL DAY, I was given the date for the annual celebration of BE AN ANGEL DAY – August twenty-second.
There is a divine message in the selection of the date. August is the eighth month of the year. In numerology eight is symbolic of success, achievement and fulfillment. If you take the figure eight and rest it horizontally it creates the lemiscate – the infinity symbol. The service we send out from our hearts is a blessing to not only others but comes back to bless us as well.
The 22nd day of August was chosen because 22 is a master vibration number. It brings the message of the importance of our serving as an apprentice architect on earth alongside of God, the ultimate Master Architect. We are building a bridge according to God’s will and plan. This is a bridge that supports the message of the Lord’s Prayer: Thy Will be done; Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.
Even though we are inspired by God to be blessings to each other every day of our lives, the annual celebration of BE AN ANGEL DAY serves the purpose of raising mass consciousness on earth to the awareness that we, too, are here to serve God – just like the angels.
We, too, are ministering spirits to not only the human kingdom to which we belong but to all of God’s kingdoms. This celebration is a non-denominational, non-profit event. The whole purpose of the event is to encourage people to be like the angels – messengers of God’s love and peace.
While in meditation I was given a motto that was for the first celebration and for all future celebrations of BE AN ANGEL DAY: Be An Angel. Do one small act of service for someone. Be a blessing in someone’s life.
In preparation for the 1st Annual BE AN ANGEL DAY I distributed posters, flyers and bumper stickers around the world during my travels in promoting Commune With The Angels and being a spokesperson for the Angelic Kingdom. Following the celebration on August 22, 1993 I received letters from “earth angels” who shared how they had celebrated the event. I counted 22 countries from which people had written or called me and described their celebrations, quite an interesting coincidence with 22 being the celebration date in August.
The mayors of Baltimore, Maryland and Santa Cruz, California issued citywide proclamations, as did the Governor of Maryland.
Angel services and parties were held around the world. People sent me church bulletins, press releases and party invitations they had produced promoting the theme of doing one small act of service for someone. Angel food cake was served in abundance.
The Washington Post newspaper did a huge article in their Religion Section the day prior to the first annual BE AN ANGEL DAY. The Herald Standard in Uniontown, Pennsylvania included it in their Church Briefs Section on Friday, August 20th, with a feature article about the event published a month prior.
Saint Mary’s Parish of Rutherford, New Jersey promoted it in their community by announcing it in their church bulletin. Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship-Buffalo Chapter devoted their entire newsletter to angels and promoted BE AN ANGEL DAY. Lower Saucon United Church of Christ in Hellertown, Pennsylvania chose the theme of angels for their church service on August 22nd in conjunction with BE AN ANGEL DAY and began with the words: “Be still within and without and experience the angelic wonder of God’s love for you.”
Ann Marie Acacio, Minister of Unity Center for Positive Living in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, not only promoted the event in the center’s publication, but also spoke about the event at the Sunday service.
Michelle Stelmach of Dudley, Massachusetts sent me a photograph of how she got the Polar Corporation, a local bottling company that lists public service messages on their billboard, to promote BE AN ANGEL DAY, with a mention of it on that billboard two weeks prior to the event. Thousands of commuters passed this sign twice a day, five days a week, and saw the message.
Michelle’s meditation group got together on the afternoon of BE AN ANGEL DAY and had a group meditation. Michelle received a message that there would be a special sign from the angels showing that the angels appreciated all of our efforts in serving God as helpers to each other. Before the afternoon was over, the group saw a rainbow appear in the sky even though it had not rained.
A close friend of mine, Lucky Sweeny, who lived in Columbia, Maryland at that time, organized a picnic to benefit the homeless.
An Angel Day Celebration was held at the Westside Neighborhood Center in Santa Barbara, California with speakers, angel messages, arts and crafts and all of the proceeds went to support the Information Press, which spreads God’s light.
Jenny D’Angelo in Santa Cruz, California organized the California Angelic Alliance, which sponsored an afternoon event in which participants were encouraged to come and share in the angels’ love and radiant presence.
Sister Elizabeth of The Spiritual Center in Windsor, New York shared a story with me that clearly illustrates the message of BE AN ANGEL DAY. She and another sister were organizing a dinner for some 60 people on August 22nd. They had cleaned and cooked and were feeling a bit overwhelmed. Just as they started to ask themselves how on earth were they ever going to get everything that needed to be done accomplished, two people drove up and said, “It’s BE AN ANGEL DAY, and we’re here to be your angels. How can we help you? Show us what to do.” Sister Liz called me to exclaim, “It works!”
On August 22nd I presented a five-hour workshop at the Lily Dale Assembly, a beautiful spiritual community located an hour’s drive from Buffalo, New York. More than 60 people attended, some from as far away as Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the end of the day we wrote inspirational messages and affixed them to helium balloons and released them to be delivered by the angels to whoever needed to receive them. I was inspired to organize this activity because of a feature story I had seen on television prior to the 1st Annual BE AN ANGEL DAY.
It was the story of a young child whose father had been killed in an accident. The little girl’s birthday was approaching and this small child was asking her mother and grandmother if her Daddy in heaven would remember her…perhaps with a gift from heaven…as her Daddy had never forgotten her on her birthday. The adults didn’t know how to respond to her question but were inspired to take the little girl to the father’s gravesite and have her write a note to her Daddy and affix it to a helium balloon. The little girl sent her love note to her Daddy via the helium balloon and watched it head for heaven.
There is no doubt in my mind that the balloon’s flight was directed by God’s angels. The balloon floated for thousands of miles and came down by a lake where a man was taking a walk. The man read the note and he wondered how his own children, who were very close in age to this little girl, would be impacted by his death. He went home and shared the note with his family and they were inspired to make this birthday special for this little girl. They agreed that the note had been given to them for a reason. They contacted the little girl and her family and stated that since there were no stores in heaven, the little girl’s Daddy had guided the balloon to them and they had done the birthday shopping on his behalf. Their plans were to ship the presents to the girl; however, when the media learned of this incredible story of love, the media paid for the families to meet in person.
Kenneth J. Foreman shared the following story in the Presbyterian Outlook dated May 9,1960. “In grandfather’s time there used to be a song taught to little children:
I want to be an angel
And with the angels stand;
A crown of gold upon my head
And a harp within my hand.”
Kenneth invited readers of his article to imagine standing at heaven’s gate with the officer of the day, who is asking why you want to get in. “You might come up with the words of this song ‘I Want To Be An Angel.’ And then you might have to answer one more question: What experience have you had?”
How can we be like God’s angels? One of the ways is to have the attitude that everything we do we are doing for God and to God. The attitude with which we approach the world determines the world that we are in fact going to see and experience in our own lives.
By practicing simple kindnesses towards each other we are acting as messengers of love. No matter what happens to us in our lives, the angels encourage us to promote kindness, gentleness, tenderness, and compassion. Jesus taught us by example through his kindness to the poor and to the sick, the children, the prostitutes, the tax collectors that when you see with eyes of kindness there is no such thing as selective vision.
I encourage people that as BE AN ANGEL DAY approaches each year to look around their community with “Angel Eyes” – eyes filled with God’s Light - to see where service is needed and know that God has sent you.
I recently received a letter from Kena Leek, Publicist with The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. She shared that after learning about BE AN ANGEL DAY, we was inspired to write because the Foundation and BE AN ANGEL DAY share the same values. She proposed the possibility of the two activities find ways to join forces and work together for a kinder atmosphere and more participation in BE AN ANGEL DAY. I find it so uplifting that the promotion of the God ideals of kindness and service are bringing organizations together. Her letter conveys the message of looking for ways that we could join together to be an even larger blessing to more people.
There’s a precious poem entitled ONLY SEEDS SOLD HERE whose author is unknown. It goes as follows:
In a dream I went into a shop
Behind the counter was an angel.
I asked: what do you sell here?
Everything you want, said the Angel.
Oh, I said. Is that so?
Then I would like peace on earth,
No more oppression, no more hunger,
A home for all fugitives…
Wait a minute, said the Angel,
You have misunderstood me:
We do not sell fruits here,
Only seeds….
The Angels provide us with God’s “seeds” of inspiration. I was provided the seed for BE AN ANGEL DAY. I invite you to take this opportunity to still yourself and envision yourself entering a storefront. There is an angel behind the counter. The angel smiles at you and says, “Yes! It is planting time and the package of Godseeds designated for you are right here.” You recognize that, just as for all the Johnny Appleseeds who have gone before you, it is your turn to plant seeds here on earth so that trees of life may grow abundantly. You will plant the seeds, and watch over them as they grow into the fulfillment of the dreams and visions we have for making this world a better place for all of God’s Kingdoms. You rush to open the package of Godseeds and are surprised that on every little seed your name is written. You realize that every word you speak, every action you take – all the expressions of you are seeds of energy.
A book I have read and re-read is Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees. Jean Giono’s story is a modern-day parable. I love it so much I even purchased an audio book version. It takes place in France in the 20th century and is a story of a man who replants desolate areas with trees…one acorn at a time. It’s inspirational message reminds us not to underestimate the difference to the planet we can each make.
We are evolving into a community of angels – heavenly and earthly angels existing together and serving God. I honor and acknowledge each of you for your willingness to participate as fully conscious beings. Just imagine yourself as a human computer and you have clicked the “OK,” indicating to the Divine Power that it is OK for you to experience all the changes, all the energy, and all the acceleration at 100% capacity necessary for growth. And in agreeing to do this, you have joined the divine ranks of those whom angels refer to as Grace Seeds.
St. Thomas Aquinas in writing Summa Theological in 1271 described grace as “nothing else but a certain beginning of glory in us.” Even in these times of uncertainty, know with certainty that you are beginning or seeding glory to God. You have planted yourself here on earth to bloom and to “seed” others. Flowers are identified by a genus. Your genus is known as AMAZING GRACE.
As we look around us at all the things on the planet that reflect people’s fears, pain and separation from God, we may sometimes question the reality in believing it is possible for us to evolve into Super Beings…beings that fulfill Jesus’ message, “All this and more you shall do.”
It begins with a seed identity – the consciousness and acceptance of our very beings as seeds of grace. You may be experiencing dirt in every direction you look and even be questioning if you will ever see daylight. None of this changes your identity. You are seeds of the divine.
What does it mean to be Grace Seeds? The word “grace” originates from the Latin “gratia” or favor. A favor is a helpful act or service. As seeds of grace we manifest through our individual selves God’s light, love, peace and inspiration.
As we celebrate BE AN ANGEL DAY and it’s motto: Be An Angel, I encourage you to do one small act of service for someone. Be a blessing (grace seed) to someone. A grace seed is one who serves and in doing so anchors and plants on earth God’s helpfulness made manifest in human form. I recently saw a wonderful quote on a greeting card: “How many angels are there? One that transforms your life is enough.” You may be that one angel in someone’s life. Plant yourself in life!
How can we align ourselves to the energies and vibration of grace in order to be accepting of our identities as Grace Seeds? Using the letters in the word itself I would like to offer these helpful suggestions on how to embrace our identity as grace seeds and fill our every moment with Grace.
G R A C E
G = Grateful moments. Whenever I speak to an audience I encourage audience members to take time to have an attitude of gratitude. Give thanks for all the blessings in your life. Grace is a term for a small prayer or blessing before a meal. I say grace whenever I push my shopping cart down the aisle of a grocery store. We are so blessed with abundance in our country.
People often ask me, “What can I do to be closer to my Guardian Angel?” Your angel is never closer to you than when you are kneeling in prayer giving thanks to God for all the blessings in your life.
If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of 100 people, keeping the existing human ratios the same, 80 would live in substandard housing; 70 would be unable to read; 50 would suffer malnutrition. If you have food in your refrigerator; clothes to wear; a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of the world.
I also want to encourage readers to consider the vibration of “grace” in the word gratuity. People sometimes get all tied up in determining the amount of money for tipping – is it 15% or 20%. I encourage you to consider this as a solution: Give more than is expected of you. This is the way the divine operates in our lives. God gives us so much more than we ever expected and how blessed we are because of God’s infinite love.
R = Receptive moments. Live your life open to receiving all the blessings of grace that God bestows upon us each and every moment. These are truly moments of grace we are receiving and as they form hours and days, weeks and years we are standing witness to what the angels have identified as The Grace Age. I am reminded of a time when I first was given that term by the Angels to help me with an inspiration. I needed a term to replace “NEW AGE” for there needed to be a healing around this terminology to describe this time period on earth. Whenever I was a guest on a radio program, it never failed that someone would call in and attempt to label me “NEW AGE”.
This labeling even occurred when I called an angel store located in Pennsylvania, about a half hour from my home. Several friends spoke of the store to me and mentioned that every other week there was a gathering where people shared angel stories. My friends encouraged me to call the store and offer my service in speaking as they felt I would be a blessing to the gather. I followed up on their suggestion and when I spoke to the storeowner I offered at no charge to come and be a part of their wonderful inspirational gathering. The woman said to me, “We don’t want you in our store. You’re New Age.”
I asked the Angels, “Since everything began as a God-thought, and nothing is truly ‘new’, how am I to describe this Age?” I asked for a term that I could use and this is the angelic inspiration I received: “Call it THE GRACE AGE for it will only be by the grace of God that you get through it.”
A = Amiable Moments. I would like to divide “amiable” into three words: Am I Able? Am I Able to see myself as God sees me - full of infinite potential and possibilities. Additionally, amiable means being friendly. Through grace we befriend both ourselves and act as a friend to others. Life is meant to be a user-friendly experience. I’ve recently noticed that in an attempt to heal road rage, some states are posting signs encouraging people to be Driver Friendly to each other.
C = Compassionate Moments. Compassion inspires us to commune or unite with our passion energy.
There is a beautiful Sanskrit blessing that I say so often that friends of mine got together and bought me a tee-shirt with this message imprinted: SAT CHIT ANANADA. Translated it means “Be the fullness of your bliss or joy.” Compassion originates from the Latin words “Com” meaning together and “Pati” meaning to feel.
In being compassionate we give ourselves the experience of feeling together – together with the angelic heavenly host, with God, with Jesus, with the sacred inside of each and everyone of us. If you have moments in your life when you feel far from being “together”, allow yourself to think about what experiences you have had in your life that filled you with joy. What gave you bliss? Make time and devote energy to experiencing your bliss in this life. And make time for togetherness. Spend time together with God…together with nature…together with loved ones.
I have grown to love the word TOGETHER. I feel so blessed to be serving God together with the angels. I feel so blessed to have the togetherness of my sweet husband, Charles Feldman and the togetherness of family and friends and our two Jack Russells, Pinky and Riot. It is a healing word that when used can make miracles happen. When you find yourself involved in a disagreement with someone, try the healing technique of asking, “What can we do together to come to a peaceful resolution of this problem?” Together is a word that heals like a pair of angels’ wings as it makes people feel included.
In the Book of Revelation, the angel that appears to John admonishes him when John attempts to bow down before the angel. The Angel redirects John’s worship to God, whom together we glorify and exalt as the angels do.
E = Esthetic Moments. Take time to appreciate beauty in art and nature. Every child deserves to experience the arts. Food will sustain us as humans yet it is art that inspires us to be Divine. When you make time to appreciate art, whether it is expressed as music, dance, poetry, or literature, you make time to appreciate a part of you that is the “muse” or the spirit of beauty and inspiration. You take time to experience the creator essence of yourself. And when you commune with the creator inside of you there is a potential for you to be inspired to create something beautiful in your own life that will be an inspiration to others who witness or are touched by your creativity. We are all artists and the years of our lives are canvases on which we create our realities with words, actions and deeds.
This year - Monday, August 22nd, 2011 will be the 19th celebration of BE AN ANGEL DAY. May you be inspired to be do one small act of service for someone and be a blessing in someone's life.
Love in abundance,
Jayne
www.earthangel4peace.com
earthangel4peace@aol.com
Following the publication of Commune With The Angels in October, 1992 I was inspired by the angels with the message, “Do not rest on the laurels of a published book. There is additional service that needs to be done.” The message I received from the angels did not identify the service, but rather how I would begin to move towards recognizing what that service would be.
The angels must truly love reading mysteries because I have found that the assistance they give to me comes in the form of clues that they drop into my life. The clue I was given was to go to cemeteries to find and photograph angel monuments.
In the Baltimore area, near to where I live, I was able to find some very old cemeteries that had angel monuments from the 1890’s. Gifted stonecutters have sculpted incredible angelic beings from granite. As I looked into the faces of these granite angelic monuments it was as if they came to life.
I encourage you to seek out the cemeteries in your own community to see if there are similar angelic monuments waiting for you to discover them. The art seen in cemeteries is equal to the mastery found in museums.
I do not in any way consider myself a photographer, but the angels repeatedly encouraged me to go out and take photographs of these monuments. I would visit cemeteries and would be joyous over the discovery of angel monuments, which I photographed with black and white film. As I had the photographs developed I continued to inquire of Spirit, “What is this all about? What service are the angels guiding me to do that is mirrored to me in the granite figures?”
Often times we want to know what is the purpose of a particular activity in our life. Sometimes the answer is revealed to us in a holy instant. However, more times than not it is part of the journey and the activity quite simply is in preparation of the next step. So here I am in the midst of the activity of photographing angel monuments and wondering, “Why am I doing this? Where am I going with this?” And yet I felt compelled to do it.
One day I received from the angels this wonderful imagery. They said we should view ourselves as gold miners. So picture yourself having a little pan and everything that you do in your life is a sifting process. You are constantly sifting. Sometimes there’s nothing but the sifting of sand taking place and then one day you look down into your gold miner’s pan and you find a nugget right there shining back at you. The gold in the pan is that which has always been inside of you waiting to be discovered. It sometimes takes a lot of sifting and sometimes in our lives we almost throw our gold out with the dirt.
So the sifting in my life was tied in with my taking photographs of angel monuments. I am a person who loves to have focus in her life so I put myself on Angel Monument Alert – always on the lookout for angel monuments. When I would visit friends out of town, I would include them in the assignment and together we would find incredible granite monuments depicting angelic beings.
Now my curiosity grew as I sought information from the angels as to the purpose of the cemetery expeditions. In meditation I asked, “Am I going to create a book around the photographs…perhaps it will be called Angels of The Cemeteries…Guardians of The Grave. I even found a wonderful quote “Angels of the Tomb” which I thought would beautifully tie in with this book:
Immortal Hope dispels the gloom!
An angel sits beside the tomb.
This quote is by Sarah Flower Adams and comes from The Mourners Came At the Break of Day. The angels lovingly acknowledged my focus and commitment to the project and said quite simply, “Keep looking for angel monuments. Keep photographing what you find.” And so I continued my quest.
One day I visited Emmitsburg, Maryland where the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes is located. I happened to be in Emmitsburg because Mt. St. Mary’s College is the site where every Father’s Day weekend the Mid-Atlantic Region of ARE holds its yearly retreat. The shrine is only a few miles from the college and includes a beautiful grotto in a wooded area.
At the grotto I usually spend time in prayer and meditation. It is truly one of the most peaceful places on earth and I feel blessed that my home is only 45 minutes from the grotto so I am now able to visit it often. On this particular visit I came out of the grotto and realized that there is a cemetery nearby. I hadn’t even noticed the cemetery as I drove into the grotto parking lot. And more importantly I hadn’t even noticed an incredible pair of angels that graced the entrance of the grotto, standing next to the cemetery. The figures were identical - each depicted a guardian angel with a precious child by its side. The child looks up to the angel and the angel points towards heaven.
I remember taking the photograph and feeling that as I snapped the shutter I had “captured” an angelic Kodak moment. When I picked up the film at the local Ritz camera store I realized I had the missing piece of the puzzle. With this picture – which would become a poster – I was inspired with the thought to establish BE AN ANGEL DAY.
What the angels were doing by having me go to cemeteries was preparing me. They were positioning me to be on the lookout for angel monuments. The right one was going to be right in front of me…eventually…I just had to keep looking…and keep snapping. The monument at the grotto in Emmitsburg is symbolic in that the child is the inner child in each and every one of us and standing near to us – always – is our Guardian Angel pointing out for us the direction we should look for support, answers and strength – God-ward.
I want to share with you that 2012 is the 600th celebration of Joan of Arc's birthday. I truly believe, that just like the angels, Joan of Arc is inspiring each of us to be God-ward. To stay on course with God. I love her inspirational messages: "I was born to do this" and "Forward with God!"
For those of you who live in or near to Baltimore, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is doing a special performance with the 1928 Joan of Arc silent movie being shown in the background. The performances will be in March, 2012.
Getting back to the angels' inspiration to establish BE AN ANGEL DAY, I was given the date for the annual celebration of BE AN ANGEL DAY – August twenty-second.
There is a divine message in the selection of the date. August is the eighth month of the year. In numerology eight is symbolic of success, achievement and fulfillment. If you take the figure eight and rest it horizontally it creates the lemiscate – the infinity symbol. The service we send out from our hearts is a blessing to not only others but comes back to bless us as well.
The 22nd day of August was chosen because 22 is a master vibration number. It brings the message of the importance of our serving as an apprentice architect on earth alongside of God, the ultimate Master Architect. We are building a bridge according to God’s will and plan. This is a bridge that supports the message of the Lord’s Prayer: Thy Will be done; Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.
Even though we are inspired by God to be blessings to each other every day of our lives, the annual celebration of BE AN ANGEL DAY serves the purpose of raising mass consciousness on earth to the awareness that we, too, are here to serve God – just like the angels.
We, too, are ministering spirits to not only the human kingdom to which we belong but to all of God’s kingdoms. This celebration is a non-denominational, non-profit event. The whole purpose of the event is to encourage people to be like the angels – messengers of God’s love and peace.
While in meditation I was given a motto that was for the first celebration and for all future celebrations of BE AN ANGEL DAY: Be An Angel. Do one small act of service for someone. Be a blessing in someone’s life.
In preparation for the 1st Annual BE AN ANGEL DAY I distributed posters, flyers and bumper stickers around the world during my travels in promoting Commune With The Angels and being a spokesperson for the Angelic Kingdom. Following the celebration on August 22, 1993 I received letters from “earth angels” who shared how they had celebrated the event. I counted 22 countries from which people had written or called me and described their celebrations, quite an interesting coincidence with 22 being the celebration date in August.
The mayors of Baltimore, Maryland and Santa Cruz, California issued citywide proclamations, as did the Governor of Maryland.
Angel services and parties were held around the world. People sent me church bulletins, press releases and party invitations they had produced promoting the theme of doing one small act of service for someone. Angel food cake was served in abundance.
The Washington Post newspaper did a huge article in their Religion Section the day prior to the first annual BE AN ANGEL DAY. The Herald Standard in Uniontown, Pennsylvania included it in their Church Briefs Section on Friday, August 20th, with a feature article about the event published a month prior.
Saint Mary’s Parish of Rutherford, New Jersey promoted it in their community by announcing it in their church bulletin. Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship-Buffalo Chapter devoted their entire newsletter to angels and promoted BE AN ANGEL DAY. Lower Saucon United Church of Christ in Hellertown, Pennsylvania chose the theme of angels for their church service on August 22nd in conjunction with BE AN ANGEL DAY and began with the words: “Be still within and without and experience the angelic wonder of God’s love for you.”
Ann Marie Acacio, Minister of Unity Center for Positive Living in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, not only promoted the event in the center’s publication, but also spoke about the event at the Sunday service.
Michelle Stelmach of Dudley, Massachusetts sent me a photograph of how she got the Polar Corporation, a local bottling company that lists public service messages on their billboard, to promote BE AN ANGEL DAY, with a mention of it on that billboard two weeks prior to the event. Thousands of commuters passed this sign twice a day, five days a week, and saw the message.
Michelle’s meditation group got together on the afternoon of BE AN ANGEL DAY and had a group meditation. Michelle received a message that there would be a special sign from the angels showing that the angels appreciated all of our efforts in serving God as helpers to each other. Before the afternoon was over, the group saw a rainbow appear in the sky even though it had not rained.
A close friend of mine, Lucky Sweeny, who lived in Columbia, Maryland at that time, organized a picnic to benefit the homeless.
An Angel Day Celebration was held at the Westside Neighborhood Center in Santa Barbara, California with speakers, angel messages, arts and crafts and all of the proceeds went to support the Information Press, which spreads God’s light.
Jenny D’Angelo in Santa Cruz, California organized the California Angelic Alliance, which sponsored an afternoon event in which participants were encouraged to come and share in the angels’ love and radiant presence.
Sister Elizabeth of The Spiritual Center in Windsor, New York shared a story with me that clearly illustrates the message of BE AN ANGEL DAY. She and another sister were organizing a dinner for some 60 people on August 22nd. They had cleaned and cooked and were feeling a bit overwhelmed. Just as they started to ask themselves how on earth were they ever going to get everything that needed to be done accomplished, two people drove up and said, “It’s BE AN ANGEL DAY, and we’re here to be your angels. How can we help you? Show us what to do.” Sister Liz called me to exclaim, “It works!”
On August 22nd I presented a five-hour workshop at the Lily Dale Assembly, a beautiful spiritual community located an hour’s drive from Buffalo, New York. More than 60 people attended, some from as far away as Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the end of the day we wrote inspirational messages and affixed them to helium balloons and released them to be delivered by the angels to whoever needed to receive them. I was inspired to organize this activity because of a feature story I had seen on television prior to the 1st Annual BE AN ANGEL DAY.
It was the story of a young child whose father had been killed in an accident. The little girl’s birthday was approaching and this small child was asking her mother and grandmother if her Daddy in heaven would remember her…perhaps with a gift from heaven…as her Daddy had never forgotten her on her birthday. The adults didn’t know how to respond to her question but were inspired to take the little girl to the father’s gravesite and have her write a note to her Daddy and affix it to a helium balloon. The little girl sent her love note to her Daddy via the helium balloon and watched it head for heaven.
There is no doubt in my mind that the balloon’s flight was directed by God’s angels. The balloon floated for thousands of miles and came down by a lake where a man was taking a walk. The man read the note and he wondered how his own children, who were very close in age to this little girl, would be impacted by his death. He went home and shared the note with his family and they were inspired to make this birthday special for this little girl. They agreed that the note had been given to them for a reason. They contacted the little girl and her family and stated that since there were no stores in heaven, the little girl’s Daddy had guided the balloon to them and they had done the birthday shopping on his behalf. Their plans were to ship the presents to the girl; however, when the media learned of this incredible story of love, the media paid for the families to meet in person.
Kenneth J. Foreman shared the following story in the Presbyterian Outlook dated May 9,1960. “In grandfather’s time there used to be a song taught to little children:
I want to be an angel
And with the angels stand;
A crown of gold upon my head
And a harp within my hand.”
Kenneth invited readers of his article to imagine standing at heaven’s gate with the officer of the day, who is asking why you want to get in. “You might come up with the words of this song ‘I Want To Be An Angel.’ And then you might have to answer one more question: What experience have you had?”
How can we be like God’s angels? One of the ways is to have the attitude that everything we do we are doing for God and to God. The attitude with which we approach the world determines the world that we are in fact going to see and experience in our own lives.
By practicing simple kindnesses towards each other we are acting as messengers of love. No matter what happens to us in our lives, the angels encourage us to promote kindness, gentleness, tenderness, and compassion. Jesus taught us by example through his kindness to the poor and to the sick, the children, the prostitutes, the tax collectors that when you see with eyes of kindness there is no such thing as selective vision.
I encourage people that as BE AN ANGEL DAY approaches each year to look around their community with “Angel Eyes” – eyes filled with God’s Light - to see where service is needed and know that God has sent you.
I recently received a letter from Kena Leek, Publicist with The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. She shared that after learning about BE AN ANGEL DAY, we was inspired to write because the Foundation and BE AN ANGEL DAY share the same values. She proposed the possibility of the two activities find ways to join forces and work together for a kinder atmosphere and more participation in BE AN ANGEL DAY. I find it so uplifting that the promotion of the God ideals of kindness and service are bringing organizations together. Her letter conveys the message of looking for ways that we could join together to be an even larger blessing to more people.
There’s a precious poem entitled ONLY SEEDS SOLD HERE whose author is unknown. It goes as follows:
In a dream I went into a shop
Behind the counter was an angel.
I asked: what do you sell here?
Everything you want, said the Angel.
Oh, I said. Is that so?
Then I would like peace on earth,
No more oppression, no more hunger,
A home for all fugitives…
Wait a minute, said the Angel,
You have misunderstood me:
We do not sell fruits here,
Only seeds….
The Angels provide us with God’s “seeds” of inspiration. I was provided the seed for BE AN ANGEL DAY. I invite you to take this opportunity to still yourself and envision yourself entering a storefront. There is an angel behind the counter. The angel smiles at you and says, “Yes! It is planting time and the package of Godseeds designated for you are right here.” You recognize that, just as for all the Johnny Appleseeds who have gone before you, it is your turn to plant seeds here on earth so that trees of life may grow abundantly. You will plant the seeds, and watch over them as they grow into the fulfillment of the dreams and visions we have for making this world a better place for all of God’s Kingdoms. You rush to open the package of Godseeds and are surprised that on every little seed your name is written. You realize that every word you speak, every action you take – all the expressions of you are seeds of energy.
A book I have read and re-read is Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees. Jean Giono’s story is a modern-day parable. I love it so much I even purchased an audio book version. It takes place in France in the 20th century and is a story of a man who replants desolate areas with trees…one acorn at a time. It’s inspirational message reminds us not to underestimate the difference to the planet we can each make.
We are evolving into a community of angels – heavenly and earthly angels existing together and serving God. I honor and acknowledge each of you for your willingness to participate as fully conscious beings. Just imagine yourself as a human computer and you have clicked the “OK,” indicating to the Divine Power that it is OK for you to experience all the changes, all the energy, and all the acceleration at 100% capacity necessary for growth. And in agreeing to do this, you have joined the divine ranks of those whom angels refer to as Grace Seeds.
St. Thomas Aquinas in writing Summa Theological in 1271 described grace as “nothing else but a certain beginning of glory in us.” Even in these times of uncertainty, know with certainty that you are beginning or seeding glory to God. You have planted yourself here on earth to bloom and to “seed” others. Flowers are identified by a genus. Your genus is known as AMAZING GRACE.
As we look around us at all the things on the planet that reflect people’s fears, pain and separation from God, we may sometimes question the reality in believing it is possible for us to evolve into Super Beings…beings that fulfill Jesus’ message, “All this and more you shall do.”
It begins with a seed identity – the consciousness and acceptance of our very beings as seeds of grace. You may be experiencing dirt in every direction you look and even be questioning if you will ever see daylight. None of this changes your identity. You are seeds of the divine.
What does it mean to be Grace Seeds? The word “grace” originates from the Latin “gratia” or favor. A favor is a helpful act or service. As seeds of grace we manifest through our individual selves God’s light, love, peace and inspiration.
As we celebrate BE AN ANGEL DAY and it’s motto: Be An Angel, I encourage you to do one small act of service for someone. Be a blessing (grace seed) to someone. A grace seed is one who serves and in doing so anchors and plants on earth God’s helpfulness made manifest in human form. I recently saw a wonderful quote on a greeting card: “How many angels are there? One that transforms your life is enough.” You may be that one angel in someone’s life. Plant yourself in life!
How can we align ourselves to the energies and vibration of grace in order to be accepting of our identities as Grace Seeds? Using the letters in the word itself I would like to offer these helpful suggestions on how to embrace our identity as grace seeds and fill our every moment with Grace.
G R A C E
G = Grateful moments. Whenever I speak to an audience I encourage audience members to take time to have an attitude of gratitude. Give thanks for all the blessings in your life. Grace is a term for a small prayer or blessing before a meal. I say grace whenever I push my shopping cart down the aisle of a grocery store. We are so blessed with abundance in our country.
People often ask me, “What can I do to be closer to my Guardian Angel?” Your angel is never closer to you than when you are kneeling in prayer giving thanks to God for all the blessings in your life.
If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of 100 people, keeping the existing human ratios the same, 80 would live in substandard housing; 70 would be unable to read; 50 would suffer malnutrition. If you have food in your refrigerator; clothes to wear; a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of the world.
I also want to encourage readers to consider the vibration of “grace” in the word gratuity. People sometimes get all tied up in determining the amount of money for tipping – is it 15% or 20%. I encourage you to consider this as a solution: Give more than is expected of you. This is the way the divine operates in our lives. God gives us so much more than we ever expected and how blessed we are because of God’s infinite love.
R = Receptive moments. Live your life open to receiving all the blessings of grace that God bestows upon us each and every moment. These are truly moments of grace we are receiving and as they form hours and days, weeks and years we are standing witness to what the angels have identified as The Grace Age. I am reminded of a time when I first was given that term by the Angels to help me with an inspiration. I needed a term to replace “NEW AGE” for there needed to be a healing around this terminology to describe this time period on earth. Whenever I was a guest on a radio program, it never failed that someone would call in and attempt to label me “NEW AGE”.
This labeling even occurred when I called an angel store located in Pennsylvania, about a half hour from my home. Several friends spoke of the store to me and mentioned that every other week there was a gathering where people shared angel stories. My friends encouraged me to call the store and offer my service in speaking as they felt I would be a blessing to the gather. I followed up on their suggestion and when I spoke to the storeowner I offered at no charge to come and be a part of their wonderful inspirational gathering. The woman said to me, “We don’t want you in our store. You’re New Age.”
I asked the Angels, “Since everything began as a God-thought, and nothing is truly ‘new’, how am I to describe this Age?” I asked for a term that I could use and this is the angelic inspiration I received: “Call it THE GRACE AGE for it will only be by the grace of God that you get through it.”
A = Amiable Moments. I would like to divide “amiable” into three words: Am I Able? Am I Able to see myself as God sees me - full of infinite potential and possibilities. Additionally, amiable means being friendly. Through grace we befriend both ourselves and act as a friend to others. Life is meant to be a user-friendly experience. I’ve recently noticed that in an attempt to heal road rage, some states are posting signs encouraging people to be Driver Friendly to each other.
C = Compassionate Moments. Compassion inspires us to commune or unite with our passion energy.
There is a beautiful Sanskrit blessing that I say so often that friends of mine got together and bought me a tee-shirt with this message imprinted: SAT CHIT ANANADA. Translated it means “Be the fullness of your bliss or joy.” Compassion originates from the Latin words “Com” meaning together and “Pati” meaning to feel.
In being compassionate we give ourselves the experience of feeling together – together with the angelic heavenly host, with God, with Jesus, with the sacred inside of each and everyone of us. If you have moments in your life when you feel far from being “together”, allow yourself to think about what experiences you have had in your life that filled you with joy. What gave you bliss? Make time and devote energy to experiencing your bliss in this life. And make time for togetherness. Spend time together with God…together with nature…together with loved ones.
I have grown to love the word TOGETHER. I feel so blessed to be serving God together with the angels. I feel so blessed to have the togetherness of my sweet husband, Charles Feldman and the togetherness of family and friends and our two Jack Russells, Pinky and Riot. It is a healing word that when used can make miracles happen. When you find yourself involved in a disagreement with someone, try the healing technique of asking, “What can we do together to come to a peaceful resolution of this problem?” Together is a word that heals like a pair of angels’ wings as it makes people feel included.
In the Book of Revelation, the angel that appears to John admonishes him when John attempts to bow down before the angel. The Angel redirects John’s worship to God, whom together we glorify and exalt as the angels do.
E = Esthetic Moments. Take time to appreciate beauty in art and nature. Every child deserves to experience the arts. Food will sustain us as humans yet it is art that inspires us to be Divine. When you make time to appreciate art, whether it is expressed as music, dance, poetry, or literature, you make time to appreciate a part of you that is the “muse” or the spirit of beauty and inspiration. You take time to experience the creator essence of yourself. And when you commune with the creator inside of you there is a potential for you to be inspired to create something beautiful in your own life that will be an inspiration to others who witness or are touched by your creativity. We are all artists and the years of our lives are canvases on which we create our realities with words, actions and deeds.
This year - Monday, August 22nd, 2011 will be the 19th celebration of BE AN ANGEL DAY. May you be inspired to be do one small act of service for someone and be a blessing in someone's life.
Love in abundance,
Jayne
www.earthangel4peace.com
earthangel4peace@aol.com
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
LIFE IS A D-BOX RIDE
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
My husband, Chuck, and I have discovered a new way to experience movies showing at movie theaters. It is called: D-Box. At this time,I believe there are no theaters in Maryland that have D-Box. There are only two in Pennsylvania and one of them is in Hanover, PA which is about 30 minutes from our home. Hanover, Pennsylvania is my birth city.
When you purchase a D-Box ticket, you are assigned a seat that is connected to the action on the big screen. You have a dial on your chair that allows you to choose mild to extreme motion for your seat.
For example, for Pirates of the Caribbean, when the ship on the screen rocks, your seat rocks. For the movie Super 8, whenever there's an explosion, you have the sensation of being rocked by the explosion.
D-Box is a motion simulation system that gives you a motion feedback experience so that you feel you are part of the action on the screen.
I'm sharing this with you, because it's like being on an amusement park ride at the movies. Chuck and I are like a pair of kids and find ourselves laughing at our personal responses to motions of the chair. Poor Chuck. Whenever something scares me, I grab him.
So with D-Box, we are experiencing the movie, and at the same time experiencing our personal reaction to the motion of the chair. It's an absolute hoot.
Many of you know that I have an Aquarius Sun and also Aquarius Rising. So I love anything new in technology. Sitting in my D-Box seat, waiting for the chair to be "turned on" I am very conscious that I was born to be part of all of this. Waiting for the D-Box to start, is for me one of those "being at the right place at the right time" moments.
All of us are experiencing so many different things in so many different ways. With all the changes are taking place, it's very easy to feel overwhelmed at time by the new energies.
I would like to share ways to support yourself in this time of rocking and rolling. Because, quite frankly, everyday life is becoming a D-Box ride.
Be open to newness; open to new things. It's an amazing time on earth.
Keep a sense of humor. Laugh a lot.
Follow your instincts. Pay attention to your hunches or inner radar.
Take time to read, relax, unwind.
When faced with decisions, look at all sides. Have a panoramic view of everything.
Be flexible and adaptable.
Welcome adventures in your life. The word adventure means to enhance the becoming.
Stay awake. Stay alert to life.
Be sensitive to signs and signals.
Be creative and be innovative. Be inventive.
Listen closely with the ears of your heart. Have sensitive listening skills.
Continue to educate yourself. Be always learning.
Align with high divine ideals and the energies of the archangels.
Be patient.
Be thorough in your activities.
Take deep breaths.
Don't set unrealistic deadlines. Avoid putting way too much pressure on yourself.
There's enough pressure already on the earth.
Lift yourself up through art.
Make time for music.
Dance.
Don't be impulsive.
Participate in life.
Put your talents to good use.
Be a blessing to others.
Make time for celebrations.
Rejuvenate yourself. Regenerate yourself.
Take pauses.
Visualize possibilities and opportunities.
Help others; however, do not interfer.
Develop spiritual muscles, i.e. faithfulness.
Accept responsibility for your life.
Stay focused on your goals.
Rethink things. You may find your need to make adjustments.
Use positive language.
Do not energize fear.
Avoid drama.
Avoid gossip.
Be self-reliant and resourceful.
Be thoughtful, kind and courteous.
Encourage, uplift and inspire.
Be content.
Don't take things for granted.
Avoid scatteredness.
Avoid trying to do too many things at once.
Avoid overspending of time, energy and money.
See beauty in everything. Behold beauty.
Put forth the effort in everything you do.
Refuse to give up hope.
Recognize that life is what you make of it.
Release, let go, detach from what is no longer useful.
Trascend limitations.
Have a "can-do" positive attitude.
Believe in yourself.
Prioritize.
Brighten someone's life.
Be curious.
Explore, discover, grow in new ways.
Maintain integrity.
Get your life message across in the way you live your life.
Appreciate differences.
Be tolerant.
Make yourself useful here on earth.
Make people feel special.
Make the world a brighter and better place.
Share the highway of life with others.
Stay calm.
Practice self-discipline.
See things in new ways.
Rise above superficial difficulties.
Don't get pulled into other people's problems.
Add a touch of beauty to your life.
Enhance your life with beauty.
Avoid power struggles.
Hold doors open for others.
Say thank you.
Have a deep passion for your life.
There's no time like the present to live.
Use good judgment.
Motivate yourself.
Develop a plan for your goals.
Show appreciation.
Be thankful.
Be grateful.
Enhance your surroundings with beauty; plant a tree.
Make time for spiritual self-renewal.
Nourish yourself. Nurture yourself.
Transform ordinary moments into magical moments.
Dare to be yourself. There's no one like you.
Take care of your needs; don't look to others to do your job.
Do not give up easily.
Go with the flow.
Gather information. Be a seeker of wisdom and truth.
Spend time with God.
Pray.
Meditate.
Spend time developing your talents.
Align yourself with experts or masters in your field of study.
Honor your uniqueness.
Learn from life.
Ask for help if you need help.
Don't dwell on gettings things you don't really need.
Be creative, optimistic. Look on the sunny side of life.
Get rid of unnecessary excess.
Streamline. Refine. Clear. Clean.
Know that sometimes temporary setbacks are a good thing.
Pay attention to your environment and surroundings.
Be willing to start over when it is necessary.
Know that we outgrow things and people.
Study, contemplate, consider new things.
Improve your home. Improve your community.
Don't make yourself miserable over what you don't have. Enjoy what you have.
Believe in miracles. Believe in yourself.
Love yourself.
Actualize your highest potential.
Live simply.
Keep life uncomplicated.
Eliminate stress.
Count your blessings.
Be a friend to yourself.
Take naps.
Be honest.
Be fair.
Be truthful.
Use your gifts wisely and share with others.
Love in abundance, Jayne
www.earthangele4peace.com
My husband, Chuck, and I have discovered a new way to experience movies showing at movie theaters. It is called: D-Box. At this time,I believe there are no theaters in Maryland that have D-Box. There are only two in Pennsylvania and one of them is in Hanover, PA which is about 30 minutes from our home. Hanover, Pennsylvania is my birth city.
When you purchase a D-Box ticket, you are assigned a seat that is connected to the action on the big screen. You have a dial on your chair that allows you to choose mild to extreme motion for your seat.
For example, for Pirates of the Caribbean, when the ship on the screen rocks, your seat rocks. For the movie Super 8, whenever there's an explosion, you have the sensation of being rocked by the explosion.
D-Box is a motion simulation system that gives you a motion feedback experience so that you feel you are part of the action on the screen.
I'm sharing this with you, because it's like being on an amusement park ride at the movies. Chuck and I are like a pair of kids and find ourselves laughing at our personal responses to motions of the chair. Poor Chuck. Whenever something scares me, I grab him.
So with D-Box, we are experiencing the movie, and at the same time experiencing our personal reaction to the motion of the chair. It's an absolute hoot.
Many of you know that I have an Aquarius Sun and also Aquarius Rising. So I love anything new in technology. Sitting in my D-Box seat, waiting for the chair to be "turned on" I am very conscious that I was born to be part of all of this. Waiting for the D-Box to start, is for me one of those "being at the right place at the right time" moments.
All of us are experiencing so many different things in so many different ways. With all the changes are taking place, it's very easy to feel overwhelmed at time by the new energies.
I would like to share ways to support yourself in this time of rocking and rolling. Because, quite frankly, everyday life is becoming a D-Box ride.
Be open to newness; open to new things. It's an amazing time on earth.
Keep a sense of humor. Laugh a lot.
Follow your instincts. Pay attention to your hunches or inner radar.
Take time to read, relax, unwind.
When faced with decisions, look at all sides. Have a panoramic view of everything.
Be flexible and adaptable.
Welcome adventures in your life. The word adventure means to enhance the becoming.
Stay awake. Stay alert to life.
Be sensitive to signs and signals.
Be creative and be innovative. Be inventive.
Listen closely with the ears of your heart. Have sensitive listening skills.
Continue to educate yourself. Be always learning.
Align with high divine ideals and the energies of the archangels.
Be patient.
Be thorough in your activities.
Take deep breaths.
Don't set unrealistic deadlines. Avoid putting way too much pressure on yourself.
There's enough pressure already on the earth.
Lift yourself up through art.
Make time for music.
Dance.
Don't be impulsive.
Participate in life.
Put your talents to good use.
Be a blessing to others.
Make time for celebrations.
Rejuvenate yourself. Regenerate yourself.
Take pauses.
Visualize possibilities and opportunities.
Help others; however, do not interfer.
Develop spiritual muscles, i.e. faithfulness.
Accept responsibility for your life.
Stay focused on your goals.
Rethink things. You may find your need to make adjustments.
Use positive language.
Do not energize fear.
Avoid drama.
Avoid gossip.
Be self-reliant and resourceful.
Be thoughtful, kind and courteous.
Encourage, uplift and inspire.
Be content.
Don't take things for granted.
Avoid scatteredness.
Avoid trying to do too many things at once.
Avoid overspending of time, energy and money.
See beauty in everything. Behold beauty.
Put forth the effort in everything you do.
Refuse to give up hope.
Recognize that life is what you make of it.
Release, let go, detach from what is no longer useful.
Trascend limitations.
Have a "can-do" positive attitude.
Believe in yourself.
Prioritize.
Brighten someone's life.
Be curious.
Explore, discover, grow in new ways.
Maintain integrity.
Get your life message across in the way you live your life.
Appreciate differences.
Be tolerant.
Make yourself useful here on earth.
Make people feel special.
Make the world a brighter and better place.
Share the highway of life with others.
Stay calm.
Practice self-discipline.
See things in new ways.
Rise above superficial difficulties.
Don't get pulled into other people's problems.
Add a touch of beauty to your life.
Enhance your life with beauty.
Avoid power struggles.
Hold doors open for others.
Say thank you.
Have a deep passion for your life.
There's no time like the present to live.
Use good judgment.
Motivate yourself.
Develop a plan for your goals.
Show appreciation.
Be thankful.
Be grateful.
Enhance your surroundings with beauty; plant a tree.
Make time for spiritual self-renewal.
Nourish yourself. Nurture yourself.
Transform ordinary moments into magical moments.
Dare to be yourself. There's no one like you.
Take care of your needs; don't look to others to do your job.
Do not give up easily.
Go with the flow.
Gather information. Be a seeker of wisdom and truth.
Spend time with God.
Pray.
Meditate.
Spend time developing your talents.
Align yourself with experts or masters in your field of study.
Honor your uniqueness.
Learn from life.
Ask for help if you need help.
Don't dwell on gettings things you don't really need.
Be creative, optimistic. Look on the sunny side of life.
Get rid of unnecessary excess.
Streamline. Refine. Clear. Clean.
Know that sometimes temporary setbacks are a good thing.
Pay attention to your environment and surroundings.
Be willing to start over when it is necessary.
Know that we outgrow things and people.
Study, contemplate, consider new things.
Improve your home. Improve your community.
Don't make yourself miserable over what you don't have. Enjoy what you have.
Believe in miracles. Believe in yourself.
Love yourself.
Actualize your highest potential.
Live simply.
Keep life uncomplicated.
Eliminate stress.
Count your blessings.
Be a friend to yourself.
Take naps.
Be honest.
Be fair.
Be truthful.
Use your gifts wisely and share with others.
Love in abundance, Jayne
www.earthangele4peace.com
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
THINKS SPIRALS
Think spiral. Think spirals. Think spirals.
You've heard about things that go viral on the internet. Someone records something in their home. They post the recording on You Tube and it goes viral. It goes around the world. The person becomes an instant star.
I am here to give you the angelic inspiration: We are going spiral.
We are becoming instant stars radiating starlight. This isn't reality tv. This is divine reality consciousness. In a holy instant you are beaming with your inner star consciousness, vibration, energy and light.
I also encourage you to simply Google:
spirals of nature -
and click and see full pages of images of spirals in nature. Think of spirals. Look at spirals. Become conscious of spirals. Spirals serve as activation energies of divine blessings of evolution. Upward, upward, upward.
If you are at your computer and can take a short break and click on images of spirals. Allow yourself to have the images mirror back to you the energy you are embodying. Look for spirals in your life.
Be open to the spiraling energies in your own life. Just think about the shape of the new "going green" lightbulbs. Seashells, galaxies. Spirals in nature. The spiraling pattern of sunflowers.The spiral is the most dominant shape found in nature. It can be seen in everything from the tiny form of DNA molecules and path of subatomic particles to the cosmic form of galaxies and the paths of planets around the stars.
THINK SPIRAL ENERGY.
In your meditation, visualize a golden spiral beneath your feet moving up your entire body and out your crown chakra. Spiraling energies of light.
We are all experiencing the witnessing of hundreds of spiraling tornadoes. Spiraling vibrations moving across the earth. Storm chasers are capturing video footage of the huge spirals created by Mother Nature. We are seeing spiraling tornadoes on a daily - even hourly basis.
Spiral: Geom. Any plane curve formed by a pointed that moves around a fixed center and continually increases or decreases its distance from it. From the Latin: spira - spire - to coil.
Spirituality is spira-uality. The sacred path is the spiral path.
We are experiencing a spiraling upward energy surge within ourselves. We are lifting ourselves up and through blockages, illusions, old patterns to embrace our spiral essence and energy.
We are walking, talking, breathing energy spirals.
We are also experiencing the spiral energy in the news reporting of raising costs, i.e. spiraling gas prices.
Spirals, spirals and more spirals.
We are increasing our consciousness of our infinite identity; divine qualities; enlightenment.
"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals." - Madame de Stael
"The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, spirals." - John Hartford
"Progress has not followed a straight line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression of evolution and dissolution." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"For humanity we walk ever in spirals." - R. Scott Bakker
A spiral is a symbol of growth, devlopment and evolution.
We are all experiencing new energy within ourselves. Does it make you restless, nervous, anxious, unsettled - a little nutso? Yes. It's a new energy and we are getting acquainted to its vibration.
The comments I hear most often from people are: I feel overwhelmed. I feel exhausted.
If we can look to our past for a similar experience of new energy, it would be to look to December 2, 1942 when we created the first self-sustaining nuclear fission reaction. The splitting of the atom had occurred prior to this. One of the key terms the divine is emphasizing is "self-sustaining".
Recently I read an article by a scientist who made the comment on how things would have been different following the nuclear fission reaction breakthrough if at the exact same time there wasn't the pure evil of Hitler on the planet. The scientist raised the question, How different would things have been if the global science community had been able to unite and focus on utilizing the atomic discoveries for the advancement of humanity rather than for fighting evil?
Just as the nuclear fission breakthrough triggered an awareness of consciousness of the responsibility to new energies and the potentialities of the new energy, we are guardians to the new energies awakening within each of us. We are becoming conscious of the infinite potential of the new energies.
Embrace with love the consciousness of your inner starlight.
Angelic Blessings of Spiral Consciousness,
Love, Jayne
You've heard about things that go viral on the internet. Someone records something in their home. They post the recording on You Tube and it goes viral. It goes around the world. The person becomes an instant star.
I am here to give you the angelic inspiration: We are going spiral.
We are becoming instant stars radiating starlight. This isn't reality tv. This is divine reality consciousness. In a holy instant you are beaming with your inner star consciousness, vibration, energy and light.
I also encourage you to simply Google:
spirals of nature -
and click and see full pages of images of spirals in nature. Think of spirals. Look at spirals. Become conscious of spirals. Spirals serve as activation energies of divine blessings of evolution. Upward, upward, upward.
If you are at your computer and can take a short break and click on images of spirals. Allow yourself to have the images mirror back to you the energy you are embodying. Look for spirals in your life.
Be open to the spiraling energies in your own life. Just think about the shape of the new "going green" lightbulbs. Seashells, galaxies. Spirals in nature. The spiraling pattern of sunflowers.The spiral is the most dominant shape found in nature. It can be seen in everything from the tiny form of DNA molecules and path of subatomic particles to the cosmic form of galaxies and the paths of planets around the stars.
THINK SPIRAL ENERGY.
In your meditation, visualize a golden spiral beneath your feet moving up your entire body and out your crown chakra. Spiraling energies of light.
We are all experiencing the witnessing of hundreds of spiraling tornadoes. Spiraling vibrations moving across the earth. Storm chasers are capturing video footage of the huge spirals created by Mother Nature. We are seeing spiraling tornadoes on a daily - even hourly basis.
Spiral: Geom. Any plane curve formed by a pointed that moves around a fixed center and continually increases or decreases its distance from it. From the Latin: spira - spire - to coil.
Spirituality is spira-uality. The sacred path is the spiral path.
We are experiencing a spiraling upward energy surge within ourselves. We are lifting ourselves up and through blockages, illusions, old patterns to embrace our spiral essence and energy.
We are walking, talking, breathing energy spirals.
We are also experiencing the spiral energy in the news reporting of raising costs, i.e. spiraling gas prices.
Spirals, spirals and more spirals.
We are increasing our consciousness of our infinite identity; divine qualities; enlightenment.
"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals." - Madame de Stael
"The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, spirals." - John Hartford
"Progress has not followed a straight line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression of evolution and dissolution." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"For humanity we walk ever in spirals." - R. Scott Bakker
A spiral is a symbol of growth, devlopment and evolution.
We are all experiencing new energy within ourselves. Does it make you restless, nervous, anxious, unsettled - a little nutso? Yes. It's a new energy and we are getting acquainted to its vibration.
The comments I hear most often from people are: I feel overwhelmed. I feel exhausted.
If we can look to our past for a similar experience of new energy, it would be to look to December 2, 1942 when we created the first self-sustaining nuclear fission reaction. The splitting of the atom had occurred prior to this. One of the key terms the divine is emphasizing is "self-sustaining".
Recently I read an article by a scientist who made the comment on how things would have been different following the nuclear fission reaction breakthrough if at the exact same time there wasn't the pure evil of Hitler on the planet. The scientist raised the question, How different would things have been if the global science community had been able to unite and focus on utilizing the atomic discoveries for the advancement of humanity rather than for fighting evil?
Just as the nuclear fission breakthrough triggered an awareness of consciousness of the responsibility to new energies and the potentialities of the new energy, we are guardians to the new energies awakening within each of us. We are becoming conscious of the infinite potential of the new energies.
Embrace with love the consciousness of your inner starlight.
Angelic Blessings of Spiral Consciousness,
Love, Jayne
Thursday, March 31, 2011
BE THE BEHOLDER
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
In the Bible in Luke 2:10 we experience the word "behold" in divine dialogue from the angelic kingdom, when the angel says to the shepherds,
“Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people."
Just this week the Preakness promoters here in Baltimore released a poster with the headline that included the word BEHOLD. You don't see or hear the word BEHOLD very often, i.e. in the language of television commercials, etc.
The word BEHOLD has been crossing my path in a number of different ways over the past week. Whenever this happens, I know that spirit is communicating wisdom through being still and reflecting upon the word and its blessing for my life and sharing my inspirations with you in my blog.
It's funny, when I googled the word BEHOLD, one of the sites I was given referenced the furniture polish BEHOLD.
The definition of the word behold is to look at or observe.
I love the quotation, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
If we take the word apart and create two separate words we have the simple message: BE HOLD.
BE means: To have existence, truth or actuality
HOLD means: To take and keep close
Consider that the word BEHOLD reminds us to keep sacred or take close to ourselves the actuality, truth, existence of BEing. No matter what is going on around you, be holding onto your beingness. Hold the beingness.
Shakespeare gave us the inspiration: "To be or not to be, that is the question."
Are we living each moment with a consciousness that we are human beings who are gifted with a life filled with personally experiencing what it means to be?
We are here because God held the thought of our coming into being. God perceived us and conceived us as His divine creations. I love the Bible verse, "Imitate God as the child of light you are."
As I am writing my blog, I am remembering a poem that tells the story of the greeting message that the angels' give to each newborn baby upon its arrival. As the baby comes forth from the mother's womb, the angels' whisper one single word: BE.
Every day we have the opportunity to be...BEHOLDERS.
I asked the Library Angels to help with me this blog in offering a spiritual tool that would bless each and every one of you in understanding the holy gift and assignment we are each given in being BEHOLDERS.
The Library Angels never let me down and I was guided to pull off the bookshelf Joel S. Goldsmith's book The Art of Spiritual Healing in which he writes about embodying the beholder consciousness. Don't you just love it when you discover books you didn't even know you had? And even more amazing and wonderful is how the book contains information on the wisdom that spirit is emphasizing in our lives at this particular moment in time.
The copyright in the copy of the book I have is 1959. I was 8 years old when this book was published. Somehow the angels orchestrated it to be on my bookshelf when I needed it.
Joel shares that true prayer comes to completeness and perfection when there is no desire. It comes to full bloom in feeling communion when all sense of desire for anything has been laid aside. It is just as if it were Christmas morning and we have received all of our gifts. All of our wishes have been granted. Now all that remains is an all-encompassing feeling of, "Thank you."
When we lift our consciousness to this awareness of "Thank you, God," then comes the fullness and completeness of communion with God. We are resting, like a baby rests in its mother's arms. We have no desires, no wants, no needs. We rest in the knowingness that to BEHOLD is to allow ourselves to BE HELD in the arms of God.
Joel writes in his book, "We do not strive for supply. We behold supply as it unfolds infinitely from the one Source."
Additionally he offers this beautiful prayer which I share with you as a glorious spiritual blessing:
"The Father knoweth my needs, and I stand here as a beholder, not praying for opportunity tomorrow, but sitting quietly in this atmosphere of the Soul watching my opportunity come to me. Just as the rivers flow to the sea, their activity governed by some law of God because it is the normal and natural thing for a river to do - to flow to the sea to feed the vast oceans of our earth - so it is a normal and natural thing that God's grace flow to me. It has been damed up by desire, fear, doubt, and by my believing that God was something separate and apart from my being and was not aware of my needs. Now, I release all concern and stand as beholder of God's infinite goodness."
Isn't Joel's prayer beautiful? I love the inspiration his prayer gives to me. I will sit quietly in the atmosphere of the Soul...and watch and BEHOLD opportunity and infinite goodness coming to me.
Angelic Blessings of
being a BEHOLDER and
BEING HELD by
God's Infinite Goodness,
Love, Jayne
In the Bible in Luke 2:10 we experience the word "behold" in divine dialogue from the angelic kingdom, when the angel says to the shepherds,
“Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people."
Just this week the Preakness promoters here in Baltimore released a poster with the headline that included the word BEHOLD. You don't see or hear the word BEHOLD very often, i.e. in the language of television commercials, etc.
The word BEHOLD has been crossing my path in a number of different ways over the past week. Whenever this happens, I know that spirit is communicating wisdom through being still and reflecting upon the word and its blessing for my life and sharing my inspirations with you in my blog.
It's funny, when I googled the word BEHOLD, one of the sites I was given referenced the furniture polish BEHOLD.
The definition of the word behold is to look at or observe.
I love the quotation, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
If we take the word apart and create two separate words we have the simple message: BE HOLD.
BE means: To have existence, truth or actuality
HOLD means: To take and keep close
Consider that the word BEHOLD reminds us to keep sacred or take close to ourselves the actuality, truth, existence of BEing. No matter what is going on around you, be holding onto your beingness. Hold the beingness.
Shakespeare gave us the inspiration: "To be or not to be, that is the question."
Are we living each moment with a consciousness that we are human beings who are gifted with a life filled with personally experiencing what it means to be?
We are here because God held the thought of our coming into being. God perceived us and conceived us as His divine creations. I love the Bible verse, "Imitate God as the child of light you are."
As I am writing my blog, I am remembering a poem that tells the story of the greeting message that the angels' give to each newborn baby upon its arrival. As the baby comes forth from the mother's womb, the angels' whisper one single word: BE.
Every day we have the opportunity to be...BEHOLDERS.
I asked the Library Angels to help with me this blog in offering a spiritual tool that would bless each and every one of you in understanding the holy gift and assignment we are each given in being BEHOLDERS.
The Library Angels never let me down and I was guided to pull off the bookshelf Joel S. Goldsmith's book The Art of Spiritual Healing in which he writes about embodying the beholder consciousness. Don't you just love it when you discover books you didn't even know you had? And even more amazing and wonderful is how the book contains information on the wisdom that spirit is emphasizing in our lives at this particular moment in time.
The copyright in the copy of the book I have is 1959. I was 8 years old when this book was published. Somehow the angels orchestrated it to be on my bookshelf when I needed it.
Joel shares that true prayer comes to completeness and perfection when there is no desire. It comes to full bloom in feeling communion when all sense of desire for anything has been laid aside. It is just as if it were Christmas morning and we have received all of our gifts. All of our wishes have been granted. Now all that remains is an all-encompassing feeling of, "Thank you."
When we lift our consciousness to this awareness of "Thank you, God," then comes the fullness and completeness of communion with God. We are resting, like a baby rests in its mother's arms. We have no desires, no wants, no needs. We rest in the knowingness that to BEHOLD is to allow ourselves to BE HELD in the arms of God.
Joel writes in his book, "We do not strive for supply. We behold supply as it unfolds infinitely from the one Source."
Additionally he offers this beautiful prayer which I share with you as a glorious spiritual blessing:
"The Father knoweth my needs, and I stand here as a beholder, not praying for opportunity tomorrow, but sitting quietly in this atmosphere of the Soul watching my opportunity come to me. Just as the rivers flow to the sea, their activity governed by some law of God because it is the normal and natural thing for a river to do - to flow to the sea to feed the vast oceans of our earth - so it is a normal and natural thing that God's grace flow to me. It has been damed up by desire, fear, doubt, and by my believing that God was something separate and apart from my being and was not aware of my needs. Now, I release all concern and stand as beholder of God's infinite goodness."
Isn't Joel's prayer beautiful? I love the inspiration his prayer gives to me. I will sit quietly in the atmosphere of the Soul...and watch and BEHOLD opportunity and infinite goodness coming to me.
Angelic Blessings of
being a BEHOLDER and
BEING HELD by
God's Infinite Goodness,
Love, Jayne
Friday, March 11, 2011
COCOA BLESSINGS
Dear Angelic Blog Buddies:
For 19 years, I had the divine blessing of sharing my life with a sweet little Jack Russell dog named Benny. I gave him the name Benny, short for Benediction, because this dear little dog was truly a blessing sent to me by God; a heaven sent blessing.
Well, some of you may know that on January 4, 2010 my dear little Benny dog died. This year, days before January 4th, I found myself really missing Benny and thinking about him. After he died I had a work of art created from his ashes by a company called Art from Ashes. It's a beautiful little heart, which is so perfect because Benny will always have a special place in my own heart.
Now I am sharing this blog because something quite amazing occurred. Before I share this occurrence with you, I need to give you a little more background information.
During the end years of his life, Benny suffered from doggie alzheimer. He would at times walk in circles. When he went outside, he wouldn't make the connection of what he was to do outside; and so he would go outside and come inside and go to the bathroom. We turned our kitchen into his little bedroom with lots of cozy bedding for him; food and water. And since we were in the kitchen alot, he was always around us. It was our focus to keep Benny as happy and comfortable as possible.
Now as I mentioned above, even though we had a big backyard and would take him outside, he often times would just go to the bathroom in the kitchen. Sometimes at night, he would have such an accident in the kitchen, and the aroma would awaken me and I would come downstairs to find that Benny had walked in circles and had poo-poo all over himself and all over the kitchen floor.
My husband and I became very proficient at cleaning Benny and the kitchen floor. Believe me, I tried doggie diapers and that only upset Benny as he didn't like them and was confused by them. I don't want to dwell on the description, but trust me it was amazing how a little dog could make such a huge mess. Because of his continous movement he would cover the entire kitchen floor. Benny became an artist and the floor was his palette.
Now back to this year - 2011. As I shared, I was thinking of my little Benny and sending him love in heaven. On January 4th 2011, I also shared with Chuck my thoughts about Benny and reminding Chuck that this was the day that he died a year ago.
Chuck and I went out in the afternoon of January 4th. When we go out, we now leave Riot, our 15 year female Jack Russell in the kitchen; and Pinky the 5 year old is upstairs.
Chuck went into the kitchen ahead of me when we returned home. I heard him say, "You've got to come in here and see this; you are not going to believe it."
Now let me preface this by saying that Riot is a Diva Dog. She would never, ever think of making a mess. Nor would she destroy or tear up anything. She is much too prim and proper for such behavior.
In our kitchen we have a wooden cart with two shelves. On the top shelf was a box of instant cocoa packages. Riot (or Benny in spirit) had gotten into the box of cocoa packages; ripped open all individual packages of cocoa and shook the cocoa from inside the individual packages all over the entire kitchen floor. I am sure you are ahead of me already with the vision I am creating with my words. The kitchen floor was covered with chocolate brown cocoa. Wall to wall cocoa.
Chuck and I stood and looked at the kitchen floor in total amazement. Chuck looked at me and said, "I am pretty certain Benny had something to do with this." I agreed. I looked up to heaven and said, "Thanks, Benny. You knew I needed to hear from you."
Riot sat very daintily in her little doggie bed with absolutely no cocoa on her paws. True, she could have easily licked any cocoa off; but she had that look, "Don't blame me; I had nothing to do with this."
Chuck and I both laughed as we cleaned the kitchen up that this cleanup was a lot easier to clean than previous Benny cleanups.
I hope this sharing warms your heart and reminds you of how God knows the feelings of our hearts. May you have a beautiful day filled with heaven sent blessings.
Love and Cocoa Blessings,
Jayne
For 19 years, I had the divine blessing of sharing my life with a sweet little Jack Russell dog named Benny. I gave him the name Benny, short for Benediction, because this dear little dog was truly a blessing sent to me by God; a heaven sent blessing.
Well, some of you may know that on January 4, 2010 my dear little Benny dog died. This year, days before January 4th, I found myself really missing Benny and thinking about him. After he died I had a work of art created from his ashes by a company called Art from Ashes. It's a beautiful little heart, which is so perfect because Benny will always have a special place in my own heart.
Now I am sharing this blog because something quite amazing occurred. Before I share this occurrence with you, I need to give you a little more background information.
During the end years of his life, Benny suffered from doggie alzheimer. He would at times walk in circles. When he went outside, he wouldn't make the connection of what he was to do outside; and so he would go outside and come inside and go to the bathroom. We turned our kitchen into his little bedroom with lots of cozy bedding for him; food and water. And since we were in the kitchen alot, he was always around us. It was our focus to keep Benny as happy and comfortable as possible.
Now as I mentioned above, even though we had a big backyard and would take him outside, he often times would just go to the bathroom in the kitchen. Sometimes at night, he would have such an accident in the kitchen, and the aroma would awaken me and I would come downstairs to find that Benny had walked in circles and had poo-poo all over himself and all over the kitchen floor.
My husband and I became very proficient at cleaning Benny and the kitchen floor. Believe me, I tried doggie diapers and that only upset Benny as he didn't like them and was confused by them. I don't want to dwell on the description, but trust me it was amazing how a little dog could make such a huge mess. Because of his continous movement he would cover the entire kitchen floor. Benny became an artist and the floor was his palette.
Now back to this year - 2011. As I shared, I was thinking of my little Benny and sending him love in heaven. On January 4th 2011, I also shared with Chuck my thoughts about Benny and reminding Chuck that this was the day that he died a year ago.
Chuck and I went out in the afternoon of January 4th. When we go out, we now leave Riot, our 15 year female Jack Russell in the kitchen; and Pinky the 5 year old is upstairs.
Chuck went into the kitchen ahead of me when we returned home. I heard him say, "You've got to come in here and see this; you are not going to believe it."
Now let me preface this by saying that Riot is a Diva Dog. She would never, ever think of making a mess. Nor would she destroy or tear up anything. She is much too prim and proper for such behavior.
In our kitchen we have a wooden cart with two shelves. On the top shelf was a box of instant cocoa packages. Riot (or Benny in spirit) had gotten into the box of cocoa packages; ripped open all individual packages of cocoa and shook the cocoa from inside the individual packages all over the entire kitchen floor. I am sure you are ahead of me already with the vision I am creating with my words. The kitchen floor was covered with chocolate brown cocoa. Wall to wall cocoa.
Chuck and I stood and looked at the kitchen floor in total amazement. Chuck looked at me and said, "I am pretty certain Benny had something to do with this." I agreed. I looked up to heaven and said, "Thanks, Benny. You knew I needed to hear from you."
Riot sat very daintily in her little doggie bed with absolutely no cocoa on her paws. True, she could have easily licked any cocoa off; but she had that look, "Don't blame me; I had nothing to do with this."
Chuck and I both laughed as we cleaned the kitchen up that this cleanup was a lot easier to clean than previous Benny cleanups.
I hope this sharing warms your heart and reminds you of how God knows the feelings of our hearts. May you have a beautiful day filled with heaven sent blessings.
Love and Cocoa Blessings,
Jayne
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