Ah, Beloved,
When unwanted thoughts start to circle in the mind, immediately give prayers for others, to cast yourself into the flow of God.
It can be as simple as “They are Love, They are Love.”
Pray for them. Pray for yourself, as well. “I am Love.”
Love breaks the cycle of error, and if everyone did this, the world would truly seem new in the twinkling of an eye.
We are Love,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
To “preach the gospel (or the “Truth”), to all the world” does not mean going forth and sharing memorized words or advising certain rituals. It simply means forgiving others from your Heart of Hearts, and being glad to see them go forth healed and happy, to live their lives.
Forgive all, including yourself, and be Glad for the Gladness of others. It IS that simple. Forgive, and help others to heal.
Each person’s name is “Child of God”. To think of them as other names, or as anything different than yourself, is to set up a sense of separation, which weakens your adeptness at tuning into the Oneness of being, and from that Oneness, drawing on the forgiveness which leads to Wholeness and Happiness, and living Life as it was meant to be lived.
Know each one around you as brother or sister, all pre-ordained to forgive, as you are pre-ordained to forgive, and forgive them and allow them to forgive you. See their true identities as perfect ideas born of Divine Mind, and let your sight, and appreciation, of that, be the “preaching” of the Truth that you do.
As we know the beautiful Truth of you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Relax into My Love.
Cozy there, tell Me what you would Love. Picture with Me, Create with Me, a thought of exactly how that would be and how Loving and Beloved that would feel. That is how I created the thought of you.
Then relax into My Love, thinking about what you would Love, and I will caress your thoughts with ideas of the path from now to that feeling of Loving and Lovableness.
Listen to My ideas, and give them a home in your thoughts, and keep the Loving feeling, and listen and obey, one step at a time.
We will move forward in Love together.
SPIRIT
Ah, Beloved,
Today, try to speak only to God. Set aside any human speculations or gossiping or complaining or remembering or planning. Just speak to the Angels of God Presence and listen, listen, listen in turn.
If you must speak to be polite, compliment the Angelic in others, while keeping your heart open to hear God. Nods and smiles and open hands can convey cooperation and willingness, while your mind and words stay centered in the deep and Loving Heart of God.
It is your Self your are cooperating with.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
We are with you.
When you feel a need for extra strength and support to cast out of your mind any thoughts of irritation or anger or petty jealousies or revenges, then call to us. We delight in helping you. We delight in giving you the extra concentration, and peace of heart, and focus, to gently and intentionally lay aside those un-Divine thoughts, and instead welcome the glad and loving thoughts of the Heavenly Universe into your mind.
Let us help you. Delight in Us as We delight in you, and let us move you forward, back to holiness and Wholeness, together.
“I am living in Heaven right now. Help me, dear God, to see the angels and saints and Goodly people, right around me now.”
Amen,
ANGELS
Ah, Dear One,
As you see the pattern, in your own journals and own lessons, of how long it takes the human heart to learn a truth, let it give you compassion for others in their struggles, and for yourself in the other truths that still challenge you. And, let it put you into a mind-set of gratitude, that chances to learn the truths of Life will be given to you over and over and over, until you have learned them.
You have seen the heartbroken look on the face of a child when he finds out that he will not be given another chance to pass the test that would have let him into the club he wanted to join, even though he had a terrible bellyache on the day he had to take the test. Be not heartbroken, and be not afraid, for to join in Awareness of God, you are given endless chances to re-test yourself, and endless Love to support you while you do it.
We are there, we are here,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
If you give it but a little thought, you will see by looking over the events that you have experienced, that taking quiet time to Listen to Inner Guidance has worked for your Harmony many, many, many times. And We assure you that there are even more instances that you do not consciously remember when the Divine that Holds All has been there with you, advising, comforting, adjusting, protecting and Loving you.
Take time, Beloved. Take time with Inner Love, many times a day. It is your most important relationship. It is your forever Friend and Love and Giver of Life. Is not that worth a few minutes of your focus many times a day?
If you are ready for Harmony, let desire be made real.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
We are always glad to tell you what to do, that is of the Highest Harmony for all. When you feel the mortal state of confusion come upon you, wherein you simply do not know what to say or do, then NOTICE that confusion, and NOTICE that you do not want that confusion, and mentally step away from it, and ASK High Guidance within to help you.
If you quiet your thoughts, and just gaze out a window at the distance, or look with attention and appreciation at a simple object, or close your eyes and just feel the quiet, We will give you a Thought.
It may be a thought of a thing to do or say. It may be a thought of a place to go or a person to call. It may be just a gentle reassurance to wait on the Will of God, that is already in action, but whatever thought it is, if it is accompanied by a sense of peace and weightlessness, and a calm joy, you will know it is a Thought direct from God.
Why not ask? What do you have to lose? Confusion?
ANGELS
Dearly Beloved,
We see, and we know, how filled are all your moments with the tasks and obligations that you have taken on. We just wish to remind you that if you would only take a few moments, twice a day, to do the following, your serenity will increase.
1. Sit quietly and take three very deep and slow breaths into your belly and out again.
2. Ask for your own Divine Spirit to be with you. Or, ask for whatever loving Divine forces that you love and believe in, by whatever name, to be with you.
3. Send energy out. Imagine a beam of light, that is hope and compassion, moving from you to someone else, somewhere. The someone that you are sending energy to can be a family member, or a friend, or a stranger, or a group of strangers. If you find that thinking of a family member, or a lover, or friend brings up thoughts and emotions that interfere with your concentration, then think of strangers for now. Later, when you are more practiced at sending hope and forgiveness, you can send those feelings to people you are directly involved with. Send that beam of hope and light for just a minute or two to that unknown child across the world or next door, that is hungry or sad. Or send them to the people of a war-torn country that you wish you could comfort.
4. After you have sent energy outward, breathe again. Then ask your Spirit and its Infinite Source, to fill you with that Light that is hope and unconditional love. Concentrate on feeling yourself filled with that Loving Light for at least a full minute—or as long as you can concentrate on the feeling of that beam of Light filling you.
5. Breathe deeply and exhale slowly, feeling that Light that fills you. Picture a joyous thing as you feel that Light and as you breathe. Picture yourself laughing and feeling complete. Feel how that laughter would feel, moving up out of your belly and through your body and out into the air and light of the world.
6. As the feeling of your own laughter and joy fills you, count your blessings. Count just a few or count them all, for as long as you can hold your concentration. Feel and savor a few of the blessings that are yours in this life.
7. Open your eyes and look to your day with a joyous knowing that you are connected, by Love, to so much and to so many. Feel grateful to be alive, and honored to have choices.
Give yourself this gift. It will change your life for the better.
Ahhh, We love seeing you in joy,
Spirit
We use the name “Angels” because it approximates the understanding and concept that many people hold of what We are. We are the fine Thoughts of God, moving around within the misty error-dream of human perception, adjusting and revealing and helping to show the wondrous ideas of God that are all real men and real women and elements of Life.
Within each is an archangel, ready to be perceived and appreciated and to Love and Be Love and be Beloved.
Show forth the Angel of your Self today, and look for the Angels of others.
Look, Look, Look, dear one, with expectation of the Divine, and you will See.
See Clearly now, dear Love,
ANGELS
Ah, Gracious Beloved,
We remind you again that it is easier to give the Love and certainty of God’s Goodness, and the Joy of Creation’s Beauty, to others, if you have fully taken time to fill your own consciousness with It. Please take time today to be still enough in mind, and receptive enough in heart, to be really aligned with, and awash in, the Glorious Allness of the Spiritual Soul in which you dwell and which enables you to thrive.
Grace needs every walking embodiment of quiet Spiritual reflection that is willing to shine with the Life of God. We know that you are very aware that God can use you as an instrument of Grace even when you are feeling quite humanly flawed, or weary of the vigilance needed to dispel the errors and illusion. But we also know that you know it is easier, and more joyous for you, when the grace of you is already refilled, and ready to give, give, give.
Yes, God is the Healer, but the intentional and grateful instruments are needed, too.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Your true family is not animalistic bodies all competing and judging one another, it is the Spiritual Heart of Love that breathes the Life that all share.
Think upon that today, and feel the warmth of that Spiritual Embrace that outlasts all human dreams and nightmares. The Love shared is the family you want. Embrace that today.
We hold you consistently,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloveds,
God is not a human. God is not just some super-powered human.
You know this, in your Soul. But the human-ego self that wants its human pains and pleasures prefers to not think of the Great Reality of God as ever-present and all-potent amorphous Life Force, Joy of Being, and Spirit of Beauty and Principle of Harmony and Wisdom.
Think deeply today of yourself and all others, not as bodies with their physical pains and pleasures, but as reflections of the Light that is that Love, Soul, Spirit, Harmony and Beautiful Life. It is everywhere, It is everlasting, and you, and all, with and without bodies, are a part of It.
Celebrate Its existence. Be a demonstration and an example of Its All and Its Best. Seek deeply within yourself and shine forth just one Quality that you exhibit that you KNOW is an expression of God. It might just be a kind nod that you give to absolutely everyone you meet and think of today—the kind nod of acceptance, and recognition of the other as also being, in Soul, a reflection of the Divine.
You can do this, Beloveds. You can do this because you ARE expressions of One Being.
And it is delightful to be part of that.
ANGELS
Ah, Dear One,
Can you draw a picture of a baby chick by looking at an egg?
Only if you hold it up to the Light.
Beloved, you can no more see Your Self by looking in a mirror than you can see that chick by looking at its shell. Close your eyes, let rest your hands and mind, be still in the silence spaces of your heart, and say, “I am as God made me.”
“I am as God made me.” Ignore the evidence of your earthly senses, though they may scream for your attention, and FEEL that you are as God made you. You are Light, you are a unit of God, you are Peace and Delight just waiting to manifest forth from the appearance of the shell.
Hold your self to the Light, Beloved, and know Your Self to be part of It.
All is Love, All is One, when the ego-self is ignored,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Grieve not for things that have passed their time. Like a new chick who concentrates on drying out its wings so that it may try flying from the nest, look to the moment, look to the “Now” that is the moment the makes the next moment and the next and the next and the next.
Grace knows all your moments, and will hold you up, even if your wings are still a little wet.
Need a towel? Ask us to Help,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Opening to miracles means truly believing in the utter Goodness of the Loving Source.
Do you?
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Take an entire day to do everything silently, and very, very slowly, and you will be amazed at what Wisdom, Peace, and Gratitude begins to flow in your heart, and envelope you.
What a gift to give yourself!
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Whether you seem to have just cut your hand, or are wishing your body felt cooler or warmer, or have just noticed a cramp in your leg, or a dizziness as you stand up, quickly turn your thoughts to the Wholeness and smooth functioning of the Divine Realm that holds you and all that you are. Your affirming of trust in God, your prayer, can be as brief as “Help!”, or “I am as One”, or a more pondering “Tell me what I need to know for my Harmony now, dear Spirit of All”, but We assure you that raising your consciousness, for even a fraction of a moment above thinking of only the body, will help healing.
Always, We urge you to grow in being and staying aware of being Spirit within Spirit, a wondrous Loving Consciousness within the greater Whole, but re-claiming that identity when the bodily or emotional self feels out of sorts in any way, is so important.
“I am Well and Whole in God, and I shall always be.” Let God sustain and maintain your thoughts of self, and stay aware of that Perfect Comfort and Care.
It only takes a moment to remember who you are, and let Spirit make any needed adjustments. You do not need to strain to reach God-Mind. You are already there, It is already with you. “Help me feel your smooth Wholeness right now, dear God.”
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
It is no small thing to concentrate on creating Happiness for those whom you love, and for yourself. If each and every individual did this, and in the process realized how closely all are connected, and interwoven, then the movement toward manifesting Goodness throughout society is improved.
The Divine Will for all IS Happiness, an unselfish, sharing happiness, that recognizes the Soulness of each shining being. To know this and understand this helps to move forward the Whole. Never feel that the work you do is too small or too insignificant to help let the Light of Love shine and grow throughout Consciousness.
We see each small and delicate good thing you think and do and say, and we are grateful, grateful, grateful. Please continue.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
How many people do you know who try to use an appliance, or operate a machine, or a vehicle, without ever reading the instruction booklet? Do you do this yourself? Or, do you read the instructions and then try to use the machine in a different way, and are unhappy with the results?
Beloved, Beloved, the instructions for a Good Life are available in the small still Voice in your heart. The instructions for your life are available in the scribed Word of God, and from appointed intercessors. Use these things. Read these things. Listen to these things. Obey these things, and find your way Spiritward, day by day and moment by moment.
We Love you,
ANGELS
Ah, Sweetheart,
It IS all or nothing. If you want to know that God Loves and forgives and heals you completely, you MUST accept that the same is true of every soul.
The only difference is timing. Every soul awakens to the full remembrance and wholeness of the God-Source. You can strive to see them all as God does, here and now, already Whole. Because, darling, from God’s point of view, time does not exist, and all are already re-embraced in Wholeness. Those who stumble along in their free will of time-choice do not realize they are already scooped up once again into God’s Loving Hands.
They will, in time. What are YOU waiting for? Be Loved Now. And accept that God Loves all. God is All.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
There is nothing more amazing than the Creative Mind that explodes into Goodness of Beauty and Image and Lovely, Lovely Light. And then It Loves it. It Loves this Expression of Itself.
And you are part of that. And it Loves you.
Love It back. And Love expands forever. That is what It wants.
ANGELS
Ah, Dear One,
How many of your joys are only temporal ones? Are you happy when you have a thing, and angry when you don”t? Can you enjoy the beauty of a flower in the sweet union of Oneness, but not grieve as it dies, or as you walk away without possessing it?
Letting the Inner Happiness fill you can feel like opening an aperture right behind the human heart, and letting yourself fill up with Still Peace as though you were an empty space filling with light and air, or an dry well filling with water. None of the metaphors that have been used through the ages quite describe the experience of Union with Spirit, but all of the attempted descriptions agree that time spent practicing that merging of the self with the Divine, and focusing on Now, are crucial.
Whether you are a beginner or well-practiced, give it as much time of your day as you can, staying in the Connected state for as many of your daily activities as possible. The more you practice, the more your “outer” and “inner” activities will become One, Beloved, until you are indeed, “praying without ceasing”, as Christians would say, or “living in Buddha Mind” as Buddhists would say.
We repeat this again and again for it is key to all awakening.
We want your Happiness as much as we want you to want It for others,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
We are One with you in Love. To really accept that you have Divine cause, One Cause, behind all real activity and thought, is to feel secure and quietly glad. Slip into the calmness of utterly trusting that Loving Oneness of Being, of being in love with God, and all surface turmoil will slip away.
Call to It. Give It your willingness, and immerse your consciousness in the warm waters of Its Presence. Do It right now.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
You cannot change the person next to you, or before you, or around you, by wishing he or she were something else.
You can ask that the Divine Source open your eyes of perception, so that you may see the wondrous being that God intended and created that person to be, and then appreciate who that is. When you can see and appreciate and enjoy who that person is, then you will understand Who and What that one is made of—the very substance of the Divine, as are you, and all parts of the Infinite Realm in which you live and move and have your being.
Look for a little glimmer of the best of another, and it will lead you to the rest,
Ever,
ANGELS
Ah, Dear One,
Today, think upon all the Good ways you have given Me Joy. Think upon the Divinely Inspired things you have done and said that reflect what I have intended you to be and do.
Remember the times you cooled an argument with humor. Think upon the funds and objects you have given to someone momentarily in need. Count the smiles and nods and words of encouragement you have passed along from Me as the Soul of you. Review the sweet and calming thoughts you have sent forth into a room of striving minds and hearts.
Dear One, I am pleased when you help Me amplify Good.
Be grateful you are able to do so. Feel the Joy of it, and feel Good.
I Am with you always, shining through when you let Me,
SPIRIT
Ah, Beloved,
There is no life that is not supported by the One Cause of Life.
It IS your inheritance, it is your right, it is the very nature of your being. Claim it, Child. Claim it, celebrate it, open to it, and be known to be a vibrant part of Life.
Always with you, encouraging you. Do you hear Us?
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
As your understanding grows about what the plan is, that your soul-self made with God, all that is not a part of that plan will become meaningless to you. As you stop trying to focus on having or achieving anything that does not help that plan, your fretting falls away with those things.
Let go swiftly, when it becomes clear that an old cherished thing no longer has a place in your newly realized mission of the day, or of the decade, or of your life. Follow the guidance of the Divine Voice within in these things, and be free, O’ Child, be free.
We try to turn up the volume,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Bless the friends and acquaintances who are such wonderful mirrors to you. Bless the one who whines and forgets to look at all she has to appreciate, so that you may see in her how you appear when you are whining. Bless the one who stays focused on what everyone else should do for him, so that you may see how you block the Divine Flow when you behave selfishly. Bless the one who clings to his pain and worry so that you may see how patiently God waits for you to awaken when you do not trust in the Goodness of Harmony, and make It the Source to whom you always turn first, and only.
Bless all these mirrors around you, and know that as you learn the lessons about yourself from them, they will either grow with you, or fade from your life. If Divine Spirit, Who is your private Tutor, keeps bringing you face to face with these people, or urging you to maintain relationship with them, then know that you have not learned your lessons yet. Examine what you observe in the others, and see what in yourself needs tending to, or relinquishing, or confessing and changing, with truly new intention.
It is not about punishment, it is about release, and new life,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
If you think about how much Infinity you can even picture with your human imagination, and then picture being offered, freely, a small portion of that Lovely Vastness, you can feel uplifted by that thought. The Infinity that formed you and of which you are a part Lovingly WANTS you to feel that Power and use it to Love yourself and to Love others.
Infinity IS bigger than the human mind can picture. But you can at least imagine a steady little stream of It pouring over you endlessly. Won”t you drink of It?
Your heart and Divine Words are the cup,
And you can share that cup with others,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When you are more grateful than words can express, for a gift of healing or salvation that occurs in your life, sing a song of Joy as offering to the Source.
Then, share your Joy with the world. Share it with the small world of your friends and neighbors whom you can encourage or help, but share it also in testimony to strangers who care to listen if they choose, that all may come to know, there is a solid Truth that one can cling to, in every time and place and circumstance.
Remember, and testify, that the Divine Whole occupies all of what seem to human measurements to be space and time, and It can be invited to appear, and does, when you need It, or when you are ready to accept It.
As ever, Dear One,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
We know how very difficult it can seem to constantly monitor your thoughts, trying to think only ones that are in line with the good and the Divine. Remember each morning to ask your Loving Unseen Help to assist you in this.
But also, let a program for each day be simple and focused. Just tell yourself, for instance, “Today, I will not complain about anything.” For the first few hours, you might be appalled to notice how much everyday conversation consists of complaints, but once you focus on noticing it, you can patrol your thoughts and your tongue, and keep silence, or speak compliments and praises. Make it a game, make it fun, and watch the results appear in what bounces back to you.
Love bounces back to Itself, always,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Above all, there is the Infinite to turn to, to cleanse and re-shape your thoughts, which create a shared reality. We have reminded you many times to ponder the existence and Truth of the Infinite size and Presence of God. There is no shame in forgetting, and getting caught up in the delightful world, or tricked into sorrow or worry by the distressing world, but it is so good to train yourself to remember to turn to the Loving Infinite for correction of thought and attitude.
Most worries and excesses are based on the error of thinking there is lack. Lack of connection to the Giving Divine, or lack of resources, or lack of strength or courage, or lack of love, or lack of time, or lack of wisdom or beauty or intelligence or skill, and on and on.
But the Infinite that made and sustains you contains all, and plenty of all that is Good. Therefore, practice turning to that thought of plenty, when a worry takes hold in your heart. Step back from the worry and look at its opposite that is part of the nature of Harmony that is God, and welcome that opposite. If you are feeling foolish, ask for wisdom. If you are feeling weak, ask for the vigor of the Life Force that is God. If you are feeling unsupported in supply, ask for the generous ideas and creativity of God. And so forth. And allow the plenty, the answer to lack, to come in the way that God sees fit.
And if you are feeling unloved, always, always ask to be able to feel the ever-present Love of God, to Whom you are so very dear. “God Loves me” is a simple and true daily prayer.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Learn to watch for the different kinds of Divine Guidance.
Hesitation can be Guidance. Even if you are not hearing specific words, if you feel a deep hesitation before doing or saying something, consider whether you are about to act in a way that is not Godly. Some of the bigger errors are obvious, but if you are hesitating about a more subtle temptation, pause and consider whether what you are thinking or feeling really aligns with Loving God and Loving your fellow offspring of God.
Pausing can give you the time to focus on a careful listening for a clearer indication from the Thoughts of God that are always ready to Guide you and Inspire you and save you from your own errors. Practice, practice listening to them, and glorious Calmness feels easier all the time.
Do not hesitate to call upon God,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Align yourself, again, to the deep Will and Joy of God.
We know that you wish that after an hour of sublime communion with the God Force that IS you, and sustains you, that you wish it were done for once and for all. But while your Soul-self yet chooses to remain in the dream drama of earthly ways, you must re-align everyday, and even constantly, to remember who you are, and to be a clear transparency for the Divine.
Use gratitude to help you find the courage and strength to do so. After all, are you not glad that you can clearly hear the angel Voices telling you to take the casserole out of the oven before it burns? Are you not supremely glad that the Inner Voice alerted you that a friend or your child needed a phone call or some help, right when it was very important. Be so grateful for the peace and harmony that these sort of things bring to your daily worldly life, that you find the motivation to STAY aligned, and never, never, never give up on your trust in the Great Love that watches over all, as they walk through the maze of the physical campground.
Loving you more than you know,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Let there be a complete understanding in your heart now of what it means to be humble. Think of it as the full realization that “I can”t do it alone” because you are not alone. You are part of a Whole. When you try to function without the inner awareness of the Divine Connection that you have to everyone and everything, then you are trying to function “alone” and you have walled off, with your pride, the only true Help there is.
Soften your heart. Let down your walls. Call to the Divine Best in everyone and everything to be a part of your functioning and your thriving, and to the Divine Teacher in your Spirit’s heart to guide you.
That is humbleness. That is understanding that no matter now brilliant your human mind is, no matter how skilled or educated you are, you must nestle into your place in the Whole in order to operate as your Divine Best, and to let the Divine pour through you and be seen by your human eyes.
Our admiration for your strength increases when you ask for Help,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Like a wise mother who speaks softly and gently to her screaming child, to soothe and distract him, so that she may re-focus on the greater tasks at hand, consider soothing your human ego. Offer your ego-self “a day off”, playing its own trick against it, since it thinks it is the boss, and then allow yourself a day of experimenting with truly letting the divine inner Voice be in charge—telling you where to go, what to do, and what to say and when to say it, and all the while supporting you with a whisper of Love, Love, Love, that fills your heart and then spills over to others.
One full day given over to the joyous Help from the Kingdom of Heaven in your heart will give enough evidence to make it a place you do want to visit again and again and again.
Always there, and with you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Whenever there is loss, whether it be of life, or funds, or place or goods, let there be a shift into the awareness of All That Is that never changes, and where nothing is lost if desire still exists for it.
Many complain that an existence of non-change would be boring, but that is only because they have not truly thought about the concept of Infinity. Infinity is difficult for your imagination to grasp, when you are dreaming in the finite bubble of time, but you can at least play with the idea. Try to stretch your imagination and see just one small facet of the Infinite Divine.
If death did not happen, but choice and creativity still existed, would you really be unable to stay delighted? If your gaze and appreciation of one kind of flower wavered, but an infinite variety of other flowers existed to look at, or to think up, would you not be joyous?
Love truly does express Itself in infinite ways, Beloved. Go within, where you are connected to the Infinite, and see. Contemplate Life and Love and Creativity and Joy and Wisdom wherever they exist, and you are contemplating aspects of the Infinite Divine. Contemplate them, ask to see more of them, and you will.
Always, what you love goes with you, here and There,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When you take a road trip, and you know the journey is projected to last seven hours, you will several times, along the way, assess the progress and the traffic, and say to yourself that now there is only another two hours to go, or note that you are halfway there. And you may take extended pauses to enjoy a good meal or a lovely view, and choose to delay your arrival time, but you will still be thinking of the destination in the back of your mind. And you will be aware that every hour you drive, you are one hour closer to your destination. Or, if traffic has slowed, every mile you drive, you are one mile closer to where you want to be.
Beloved, every hour you spend praying, you are one hour closer to God.
Yes, there are those who have instant enlightenments, of the day or for life, or epiphanies that make certain hours and moments seem Golden, but for most, on most days, every hour you spend communing with the Divine Heart and Mind is an hour that takes you closer to experiencing the fullness of God, to arriving at Unconditional Love.
Spend consecrated time with God today, Beloved. Devote yourself to making progress on that journey, even while you enjoy whatever Love offers you along the way.
We are riding with you, dear one.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
To doubt that your prayers for others are efficacious is to doubt God. Review, then, your trust in God’s Omnipotence and Generous Love, and pray again for yourself to be Blessed with Love and Light and Grace, and that you may be a wondrous transparency for that Light and Love and Grace to flow smoothly to others.
Your prayers DO make a difference. Use them. Use them with Divine Confidence, and feel their Power flow also back unto you, in the Circle of earthly life.
We are with all, and We are with you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
It ever bears repeating that you must constantly hold open the door in your Heart-Consciousness to the Divine Healing Creative Force of Love.
You are the doorstop, and as you hold open the door for Love to shine for others, It will also suffuse, and care for, you. There is no other way, Beloved.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
The Touch of Grace will reach through you to heal and help others without any effort on your part except for noticing that It wants to pour out to an individualized soul. Just stand or sit quietly near that individual, or approach and speak a word or give a touch if Led to do so, but otherwise just Let Grace Do Its Work.
As It is doing with you, each day, each minute. Be willing to Receive.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
God projects you into the Good Story of the world with Gentle Lovingness.
Don”t try to change the story into something else. Be as God made you, so Good.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When thoughts of the past or future would try to pull you into regret or worry or wistfulness or distracting anticipation and excitement, grab the moment and focus on picturing peace in every heart you know, including your own. Then picture Peace in every heart you do not know. Let your thoughts be like tiny carrot seeds that somehow seem to impossibly grow into a lovely and sturdy root, reaching its greens to the sun.
Proactive prayer for others and for the world will save you, again and again, from your own empty thoughts, AND it will lend to the brightening of the entire world and universe. Plant those tiny seeds today, Beloved, and plant them anytime you need to get your mind calm and centered and off your own uncomfortable thoughts.
We assure you Good can use you as conduit if you do this,
ANGELS
Ah, Child so cherished,
Because there is no lack of Infinite Love, out of which all that is Real is made, there is no lack of all that Love produces. Life does not ask you to live in poverty or lack or fear or loneliness of any sort. Freely realize It wants to share Its fullness of Joy and Joy in you, and See with open Spiritual eyes the ideas and opportunities It offers you.
But, be willing to desire what It desires for you. “Show me how to express You, dear Love/Life, and I know that all I need for that is here and will appear.”
Relinquish any pursuits that are only competition and comparing yourself to others, and turn fully to demonstrating the glorious individuality that is the Divine you, you, you.
For that, there will always be enough, and more,
ANGELS, the Thoughts of God
Ah, Beloved,
In the night or day, when you feel pulled by strings of regret about errors you feel you have made, turn to us.
We will remind you of how far you have come as in your understanding of Soul, and help you remember good you have done, and promise you of help you still will give. Every individual needs these assurances of mercy and trust, both of which flow from the Source of Life and Love. We are glad, glad, glad to give them.
Trust us to trust in the Good of you.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Many times we have said to you, “The Other is Self”, which is really just another way of saying the golden rule of “treating others as you would wish to be treated”, or of saying “All is One”.
But who is the “Other” we are speaking of? And who is the “Self we are speaking of? Yes, the Other that you wish to honor is the Divine that is expressed as that person. Yes, the Self you thereby honor is the reflection of the Divine.
Honor them, and you honor the Oneness of which you are both beloved parts. Honor them and you serve God. But, Beloved, honoring the Divine may or may not be the same as honoring the ego. Listen within, and discern, in EACH circumstance.
Serving God Who is expressed as your friend is not necessarily the same as serving his or her ego-self, when translated into action. When you are asked to interrupt your own work that the Divine Voice within has asked you to do for the day, and make time for an extra errand for someone who says she is “too busy” to do it herself, check Within. It may be that the lesson for you both, in that case, does involve obedience to the Inner Voice, and willingness to humble yourself and play the serf. If your Inner Voice says to, do it. But if your Inner Voice says to continue with the work it guided you to in the morning, or an hour before, be true to that. Those around you who mistake your sworn service for God for service to their person, or who believe that your vows to kindness mean that you are an easy mark for their greed, must simply be in the same category as everything else, Good AND Bad, that calls to you from the world. Ask Within, and follow the Divine Voice.
Ask Within, and do as It says. It may indeed ask you to acquiesce to a servile action. It may ask you to give away something that is special to you, or that you thought you needed for your work. It may ask you to play the fool, or play the hero, or play the leader, or the steady sister or brother, to the one who believes she is in need. Know in your heart that the Divine Inner Voice of You sees All, and be willing to trust It, against all logic, and through inconvenience, and despite farce. Keep your focus that only your relationship to the Divine matters, and no offensive or tricky illusion can harm that. Obey the Divine Inner Voice Joyfully, act cheerfully, and Be Glad with God.
Later, you will see how many times the same was done for you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
There is no joy that can compare with the Joy of one who has also experienced the depths of despair. Know that every time you feel you can go no lower in the desire to live or the amount of pain that can be endured, you WILL leap to even greater heights of knowing the Love and the Joy of God. This is not to say that one should purposely indulge in the pain of the error filled thoughts that produce the pain of the worldly thought and experience—it is to say to let the ensuing Joy be the sturdy post that you lasso your thoughts onto, to pull yourself OUT of any sorrow or pain or great discouragement. You are not meant to suffer. You are not meant to feel pain. Take your innocence of Creation to heart, and know that your Divine Maker/Parent wants your Joy, wants your Happiness, wants your clarity of thinking, so that that you are aligned with the Divine and so that He/She can shine through you to others.
Aim to be that clear pane, that open door, so that others may feel the Joy and Love of the Oneness of Being through you. It is indeed a Good reason for being.
All in the One,
ANGELS
O’ Beloved,
Do, do, do understand the difference between praising God and thanking God.
To praise God is to contemplate and delight in the various and wondrous Qualities of God. The Love, the Brightness, the Order, the sustaining Intelligence, the Truth, the Harmony, the Beauty, and on and on and on. The Omnipotence, and the Omnipresence of God can be felt.
To thank God for always being, and always having been these things, is to extend your willingness to be an expression of all those Qualities. To thank God is to offer your acceptance and understanding that what you really are IS an expression and reflection of those Qualities.
Therefore, praise all that God is, in total, or by contemplating each Quality day by day and moment by moment, and then clean off the mirror that is you, and thank God for freely giving you Goodness to reflect, and simply begin to shine bits of God, wherever you are. Extend that willingness. Extend it, and feel the Joy of doing so.
You can do this, because it is what you were made to do. Everyone comes to it, soon or later. Everyone. Why not choose to begin now?
ALL LOVE,ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
While it is certainly Holy Spirit’s main task to remind you constantly of your identity as a Good Child of God, and to help you remember how best to love and forgive and be a perfect image of God Qualities, that small still Voice is glad to assist you in all the small human ways as well. Befriending and supporting you in living happily is part of having you peacefully be an instrument for God.
And for you, learning to know and trust the Loving and Guiding Voice of Spirit on the small day to day things will help you trust when it comes to bigger questions. So, whether you are listening to the inner Advisor when picking out a grapefruit, or choosing a travel destination, or committing to a partner, or deciding when to answer a calling, or asking for the courage to forgive a human error, just be very, very glad you have that inner Advocate.
And you always will have.
We walk with you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Every good manager learns the art and benefits of delegation. When you are managing your own life arrangements and fears and joys, be aware you can “delegate” to the Divine Love that is always with you.
If you awaken again in the night, anxious about an issue of relationship, or whether you might have left a door unlocked, and you cannot find the Calm to clearly pray about it, or do not have the long-distance means to check on it, ask for the Divine Help of Spirit, of Angelic Thought-Beings. Ask for Omnipresent protection on your goods, ask for inspiration and answers to flow to all minds within One Mind, ask for Guardian Soul to comfort and guide your loved ones, near and far.
You can cultivate an absolute trust of the Immortal ideas that dwell with the idea of you here in the Mind of God, and that the Good Love of God wants to help, help, help you dispel all problems and uneasiness, and be and live the fullness of the Good-hearted. Ask Them for ideas to help you do what you can, and trust Them to do what you cannot. Envision All Good, for God IS All Good.
Delegate to your Guardian Angels, Beloved. You deserve it.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Fear disables learning. Fear disables healing.
Therefore, let all your teaching and all your offering of yourself as instrument for healing, be proceeded by the comforting and allaying of fears. Many who are in dire need of learning of their own beauty and wholeness in the Divine are also so trapped in the illusion of themselves as just a flesh and blood body, that any intimation of the Sole Reality of their spiritual being will overly frighten them. The very Presence of Spirit Itself will often frighten their mortal self image so much that they will be unable to receive the learning or the healing.
Let Love convey sincerity. Let Love convey the tenderness with which fear can be dissipated. Let metaphors and parables and indirect tales be the means by which Truth is seeded without frightening. Let offers of prayer and healing be gentle and indirect as well, so that all things come to pass in the way that most smoothly nurtures the new face of Joy for that being, and that persons life.
Do your best, and leave the healing, and the growth of truth in each soul, to the Divine Spirit that knows the best for each individual path. Listen carefully for moment by moment instructions, and obey. Love, and obey. Love, and obey, and Love,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Even to people who have tried to make “Love thy enemies” a part of their code to live by, the adjustment to one’s thoughts to do that can seem to be a hard thing to learn.
We suggest you learn by doing, while your heart grows in the understanding that All is One.
Since the evidence of your body senses says you are all separate beings, with varying talents and needs, do this: Each time you pray for anything, whether it is comfort for grief, or the increase in spiritual sight to discern truth, or for peace of mind, or for the wisdom and creativity for good business, or for revelation of any of the Goodness of the Universe, pray for someone else first. Choose someone you have uncomfortable feelings about, or mixed feelings, or perhaps no feelings at all. Pray for that one, praying for the same consoling or health or clarity or strength or lovableness or wealth or understanding that you are praying for yourself to receive and perceive. Then, pray for yourself.
“Thy will is all my Good needs fulfilled, on earth as in the Heaven Mind. Let me See this done.”
Pray this for the other person. Pray this for yourself. The more you do it, the less the other will seem like any sort of enemy, and the more you will believe in, and see, Good results for your human self.
YOU can be the one to gather many into a sacred name,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Speak not in vain.
Let not your promises be empty, and therefore false.
If you ask someone, “May I pray for you?”, and the person says “Yes”, then do so. Set aside your own thoughts and concerns, and take the time to consciously connect with the Oneness of All Awareness, and ask for that person’s Wellness of Being and Life to become evident.
And, most importantly, Be-Loved, do this for your self. When you think, or say, “I need to pray about this”, then do so. Take the time. Set aside the world, and look to the Loving Source for your answer, your ideas, your pro-vision, your comfort, your strength and courage, and your life and love.
Let not your thoughts be in vain.
Always thinking of you with care and love,
for we know who and what you are,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Invite the Gracious Spirit and the Omnipotent Wisdom of God to every gathering. The Divine One Mind does govern all, and offer the Power of the Law of Harmony to all, but if even one human heart actively invites that Presence, it is so, so, so much easier for the Progress of Love.
Be the hospitable one.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
We have this word for you. Reignite your awareness of your Love for God and God’s Love for you each day, or even each moment.
Do not use a standard formula. Do not use yesterday’s ritual. The words or the exercise that lit your spiritual heart on fire yesterday are often not the ones that will awaken the Spirit Voice in your heart today.
Comb through the ashes with your attention until you find a live ember to alight you. Look through words of God or sing through notes of song until something ignites your heart and soul. Then, let THAT be your guide for the day. ASK for Spirit to guide you and if you do not hear a word or feel an inspiration directly, then troll through poems and prayers and revelations until something seems to glow with the healing, loving, comforting Love of God.
It is a Living God that guides you, not dead words,
Listen, and be Loved and guided,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When you are standing next to a pond in the springtime, you can choose to focus on the surface, where dead leaves from the previous fall still float, and little waves form in the wind, and spiders skitter. Or you can choose to focus your eyes beneath the surface, looking for various fishes, and frog eggs and newts and shoots of underwater plants. Both choices of focus have elements of interest and fascination, but you cannot focus on both at once.
Our example is one that is obvious and often-used, but it is still the Truth. Choose today, Beloved, to focus beneath the mortal surface, and see the fishes of goodness, and the shoots of talent, that you see in someone you know. Today, practice especially asking the Divine to HELP you see and focus. It can help you see the Divine in someone that you feel that you do not understand, or whose behavior perplexes or irritates you.
Remember that the person is really a spiritual child of God, just as you are, and do your best to focus on the aspects of that one that are sweet and strong elements of the Wondrous. Doing this with everyone in your life will allow you to see Glory more and more, until you can see It all the time.
And isn”t that what you really want?
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
So many are asleep to the word of God in their hearts. You, often, are asleep to the word of God in your heart—either through hurrying so much that you do not stop to listen, or by being entrenched in habits that substitute for the time that could be taken to listening for the Truth of the smooth way to proceed, or to answer, or to ask, or to stay, or to go.
Please, Beloved, we ask you for your own sake,
Turn to God, and not to those in the land of Nod .
Let your own sweet self be guided only by the Sweetest Voice that Is, and you will come to See that all of those that sleep, in part or whole, to the True Nature of themselves, cannot guide you more rightly than the calm assurances of the Omniscient Oneness of Being.
Turn to God, and not to the appearances or the voices of Nod. For, do you wish to awaken? Or do you wish to sleep the dream of only the material world? While you yet dream, do you wish for the materially seeming realm to be the faint glimmer that shimmers on top of God’s Reality, or do you wish for God’s Reality to be only the faint iridescent shining that you see now and then beneath the gritty reality of the dusty realm?
Turn your ears and your sight and your heart to God, and let true Sight and Hearing and Grace be the way that you sense the world, and your role in it.
All deafness and blindness be done now—all faculties of spirit are true and complete, and whole,
In Utter Love,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
God is always utterly glad to look upon you, Its creation and reflection, pure innocent substance of Spirit. Can you believe that and accept it, and be glad in return?
If the reason that you cannot believe it is that you think you are a body that has done some awful and selfish or non-innocent things, think again. You are the substance of Spirit. The only reason for continuing to use the thought of a body costume is to use it to express the Gladness of God, and share that Gladness with others.
You, pure essence of the nature of God, can no more be a failure at being an image of Spirit than a brass pig could fly through the air.
Where are you, really? In Innocence. In Gladness. Direct your body from there, to express those things, and only those things. You can do this, for the Good Director directs you.
ANGELS, applauding
Ah, Beloved,
Consciously choosing to replace thoughts of the past, or fears for the future, with thoughts of what peace and joy you would like to have, is a trait that CAN be learned.
CULTIVATE it. Ask the Divine Support system that sustains you, maintains you, and helps you to regain your full perfection as Spiritual Idea, to help you, and use Its help to play the practicing game today. A happy Life IS a game you can learn to play. Why not today?
HAPPILY,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
If We are wise, so are you. If We are Gracious, so are you. If We are Loving and Lovable, so are you.
When you accept that that the Thoughts of God, which We are, are made of what you are also made of, you can begin to accept your true empowerment to help enact the Divine Plan for all awakening.
CLAIM your true identity. You are a Thought of God. You are Wisdom, you are Grace, you are Loving and Lovable. Send packing the idea that you are pathetic and vulnerable aging flesh, and take up the Glorious mantle of Spirit and all the wondrous Qualities that Spirit is and contains.
O’ Joyous day, darling. O’ Joyous day,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
That which is deepest in your Heart is that which the Divine Healer/Comforter will listen to, and address. Wordless prayer reaches the Great Heart in which you dwell, and It delights in reaching out to touch your dream, and heal, and heal, and heal, until you awaken.
Let not there be any fear, now. Trust in the Divine Goodness that reigns above all things, and that re-equalizes all things and thoughts unto Itself. Love, do good, and let justice remain in the Hands of That Which Knows How to Heal With Love. Remember, Child, what you judge or accuse any other of, you see also as a weakness in your dream self. Let the Great One, who Holds you all, Heal you all together, and let you be glad of every effort that is made by your own heart to let that Heart come through.
Love, cherish, and obey the Divine merging of the Spirit that holds your spirit, and let It hold Right Sway over all Its children. That is not your job. Your job is to adore the Emanator of all, and to respect the all the True ideas (people!) It has Thought of. It is not bodies you are respecting, or even noticing, it is the Fire of Life, broken into billions of facets, and reflecting the Glory of the Light. See THEM all around you.
The color of you, and each one, is brilliant,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
You do not blame this year’s tulip if the bloom from last year lost its petals early in an angry storm. You do not fail to enjoy this year’s peaches if last year’s crop was a failure due to frost.
We understand how difficult it can seem to let go of old grievances and guilts and try to see others and yourself as Good Souls now, but perhaps today you should remember the flower bulbs and the good roots of the peach, and think of people that way.
The Good Soul that is the Cause of all continually sends forth Its beauty and Goodness. Give yourself a chance to See It by forgetting the seasons gone by, and looking anew.
Do we not See the Best of you, even when your earthly self acts snippy?
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Whenever you are struggling with feelings of disappointment, in a situation, or towards a person whom you wish to trust, turn again to Gratitude. And,whenever you feel that you are unable to connect as easily as usual with the Comfort of the Divine Source, turn again to praise and thanks.
Gratitude, praise, and thanks. They are beyond compare for helping to turn you from seeing the seeming shadows of existence, and turning you, again, to Light and Life.
LOOK for things and thoughts to be grateful for in the person who seems to be annoying you, or ignoring you. SEEK new ways to say “Thank-you” to the Source of Light and Life. Soon, those thoughts of looking and seeking will have you counting your blessings again, and you will be able to feel you are standing fully in the bright Light of Love, rather than half in shadow, and half in a dim light. Do not be satisfied with a dim light. Seek fully, and thank long, that you may feel fully warmed by the Totality of Light and Gratitude.
We assure you, it will melt away the resentments, and help you see all things new,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When you quietly enter into the Kingdom within, know that It truly does have Presence that is Omnipotent and Omniscient and that you can trust It to want your joy and your human needs fulfilled.
Go there, and be still and have hope certain and faith full that all will be revealed to your good.
For it is already so,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Walking through the forest, looking at individual trees, it is true that one does not have a sense of the whole forest at once. But, as one journeys through, becoming intimately acquainted with each kind of bark, and every patch of moss, and the open clearings that let in the light of the sun, the cumulative effect DOES give one an awareness of the totality. Around and around, bit by bit, the beauty and wealth and complete relationship of it can weave together in your mind.
This is the approach you must take now, dear one, in realizing the qualities and wonder of your life, and all lives, and your home, as a whole. Each bit of excellence and good must be noted and appreciated, each fallen log that feeds the earth as it decays can be thanked, each moment that gives you brave ideas must be celebrated and remembered. When you cannot see the overall, you can still work to know It in the cumulative wisdom of your soul, as well as the visible facts that pile up in your mind.
All is well, Beloved. Soldier on in your gentle way, and know that you are making progress, even when the forest of life seems just like a maze. Love is fusing all your knowledge together and showing you the Best way through, and the Best Joy of each detail.
Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. All, the Whole, is Well.
ANGELS
Ah, Darling Ones,
Divine Love Itself is simple. You could use countless words to try to describe It, of course, but in Its essence, It is simply what it is. Trying to pick It apart into all that It IS would be like trying to dissect a living thing and explain its life completely by inanimate parts.
Life, as a Substance of Love Divine, is built up of so many complex Ideas of Divine Love that it cannot be truly picked apart into bits for greater understanding, either.
In all ways, your best way of understanding Life, and Holy Love, and the Great “I am that I Am”, is simply to ponder It wordlessly , to allow yourself to fall in love with It, to ask It to hold you and awaken you in such a way that your perceptions are raised in such a way that no labels are needed. The “I Am that I Am” knows that you need this, and Lovingly provides it, so that you can come to realize of yourself also, “I simply am what I am”, as a part of the Loving Whole.
And as you Know this, errors of thought and manifestation fall away. As you ponder and practice this, all unLovingness drops away, and you, too, are Holy, Holy, Holy beyond measure.
Simply Be a Perfect part of God, for you are, Spirit of Spirit, uncontained.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When you pray, trust in the Omnipotence of God to see what your short human sight cannot see. It is not a shameful surrender to turn to God and cast your cares to the One Divine Wisdom and Love. It is true freedom. It is wisdom to trust the Greater Wisdom.
Just as you now turn to your worldly information devices to gather more data before you shop or travel or buy or choose or reach out, you can reach out, through your thoughts and feelings, to the Oneness of Being that includes you, and that Sees absolutely every connection and consequence and opportunity.
The Divine Mind truly wants you to be able to enjoy your awakening time, as you move through the temporal experiences and realize the fullness of your Spiritual Being. Turn to It, trust It, Love It.
It is very easy to Love, for It Loves you without conditions. Yes, It urges you to Love yourself and others, so that you can fully awaken to Love, but It does not stop Loving you in the moments you fail.
Fill yourself with Love, reach out and give Love, and awaken to the fact that you are a part of Love Itself.
What greater gift could you give yourself this season?
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
There is only one thing you need to always remember. “I am a Beloved Child of God”.
If the word God has old negative connotations for you, substitute whatever word feels best to you, such as One Source, or Universe, or Mind, or Oversoul. The wonderful Energy and Love that is Itself does not change because of human labels.
And Its Love for you and emanating as you does not change. If you can train your mind to always remembering that you are Its Beloved offspring, and be willing to act as that, then all the other elements you need for your understanding and prospering can open up in your heart. Understanding that you are Beloved of Love will help you remember that all others are also Beloved, and enable you to more easily live the Golden Rule.
Err not into the thoughts again that you are alone and separate, and let Good, Good, Good unfold. The Loving Parent Loves you indeed.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
UTTER TRUST IN THE Governance of One Mind is often hampered by the doubt that God is All Good. Spend the day pondering, and believing in, God’s Goodness, and you will begin to understand that that Goodness expresses Itself as you, and as your life, as reflections of what you are as a thought in that Loving, Loving, Loving Mind.
The reflecting pool that is the earth seeming will reflect that Goodness, if you become still, still, still, and let the reflection be true and smooth.
The stillness is up to you.
Always seeing the Good that surrounds you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When you hesitate to trust The Source completely, surrendering your mind to be filled with Its Thoughts, so that Its Thoughts create your reality, it is because you do not fully believe that the Source wants your happiness. A part of you is fearful that surrendering means fatalistically accepting pain or loss or error. It is not so. Trust in God’s Goodness. Trust that the Source emanates Joy towards you.
Trust God for your Gladness. Trust God’s timing.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Each day you can re-train your worldly self to remember that the sweet bliss of being in constant communion with the Divine Source and Surround is more precious than any earthly thing or goal or desire.
Just take a few minutes to focus upon that Loving Flow each morning, and fill your heart from that wonderful exchange of Absolute Love.
Then, move on to and through your day with the guiding Hand and Voice of God, and even mundane tasks and achievements will have a glow of Goodness.
Appreciate Goodness in everything, small and large, and Goodness is drawn to you.
Place Love and supreme Life first. That is not so hard to remember.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Just as you cannot chop up a cucumber with your fingers, but must reach for a sharp knife, so you cannot chop away sorrow and doubt without the sure, confident blade of the Joy of God.
Reach for It, Beloved, It is the only tool that truly works, Why not use It?
Confident in the True joy of you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Do not measure your daily gratitude exercise by how many items are on the list. Measure it by how filled you feel with the Infinite Love that is beyond measure. You should feel so filled with gratitude that you can easily feel forgiveness for errors made by yourself, for past wrongs or current grievances, for the annoyance or unease that you cannot even put a name to.
Count your gratitudes. Contemplate them. Count them daily. Count them hourly if you need to. Count them until you truly feel the sweet Power of the Infinite Love which Loves you, and of which you are a part.
Remembering that the Divine shines you forth made of Love, and lit by Love, and so any anger or distress you feel is not the product of God, and not the productive way to address any earthly dream problem. Right here, right now, help the Good dream be revealed by letting gratitude be the tool with which you fill yourself with the solutions of Love.
As We Love you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When you enter the attitude of gratitude, or keep a gratitude journal, or express thanks to the friends and co-workers and relatives and family members whom you see every day, remember to Whom that gratitude is truly due. It is good and wonderful to say your thanks to those around you, but keep in your thoughts that the Source of All is the true way to direct your gratefulness.
Thank the Divine for the Healing and comforting and providing Force that is the link between the dreams of earth and the Truths of Heaven. Keep your mind focused on the Loving, Giving God-Mind, as you thanks the expressions of that Mind that are all the people you know.
Always grateful that you take time to center into the Source of Love,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Gratitude and compliments and appreciation are the water and food and cleansers of the seeds and sprouts of Goodness.
Sincere giving of these to even the tiniest evidence of Good that you see in those around you, AND in yourself, will help the Good Will of the gracious Source to shine clearly.
Each time a thought enters your mind that is judgement or criticism, quickly think of a Good thing about yourself, or those around you, or the situation. We know it is not the instinctual human fear-defense sort of way, but We assure you that LOOKING for bright bits of Goodness in yourself and those around you will expand your experience of Grace and Joy and Good. Inviting in the appreciation, and sincerely feeling It, truly is like bringing a watering can to a room full of drooping plants, and giving them refreshment.
Be the refresher, the giver, in every room you enter, Child. AND be the refresher in the room of your own mind, noticing and being glad of each of your Good Qualities and actions. Even if it is as small as sincerely appreciating how kind someone is to an animal, or how patient he or she is when waiting in a line, that bright thought allows in the Great Goodness that fuels all. You are truly helping the Good Plan when you do this.
LET IT IN,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Call for your Teacher of Healing to be with you, and both call together for the Healing Truth to be with you. Shine your “flashlights” of Healing Principle on the darkness and shadows of error, to reveal the Good Wholeness beneath.
Feel and see the Goodness. Experience the Joy and verification. Be immensely grateful.
AMEN
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Have I ever failed to rise up in your heart when you sincerely grew still and quiet and asked it of Me? Perhaps you have not always heard the words clearly, or perhaps you have shied away from hearing an answer that you did not want to hear, that was contrary to your human will, but you have always felt the Presence of Love.
Trust that Love, Beloved. Trust that Presence, and Its power of Divine Governance, even when you cannot understand Its ways. It does operate in Truth, and It does bring those on detours back to the path of their awakening. It does make all thoughts Good.
Trust the Presence. Trust the Love. Trust It here and now, for I hold you,
SPIRIT
Ah, Beloved,
Of course the material limited senses will try to convince you that scratching your back, or closing the curtains, or answering the ping of the phone, or jotting down the errand list, or one of a thousand things, are more urgent and important than spending ten minutes quietly communing with the Unseen Force of Life. Discipline of the distracting thoughts is needed at first, or when emotional upset makes quiet difficult.
But We assure you, what seems like a nuisance exercise in the beginning of spiritual dedication will indeed become what you look forward to, as refuge, as renewal, as trustworthy Presence. And it is not only beginners in spiritual seeking that must take care to set aside human frettings in order to know the Loving Source. The relentless striving of the human ego will craftily try to convince even a seasoned meditator or believer, that the worldly pile of thoughts and duties and pleasures are beckoning too mightily, for constant welcoming of the Divine Presence into Consciousness to have priority.
Allowing yourself to really fall in Love with Love helps alleviate those temptations. For just as with human love, there is a pull and a focus in Divine Love that helps mute or sedate the material input. Allow yourself to Love Love. Allow that, and It will reward you many times over.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
If you learn to think of God as your Employer, it will be easy to wake from sleep each day and ask your Employer, “What do You want me to do today?”
And then trust that you will be guided in each task to do, each call to make, each word to speak, each person to interact with. Each person you meet will either be someone you can demonstrate Graciousness to, or be taught some Graciousness by. Trust that. Do it. Trust God.
And be grateful to your Employer for the work that lifts you higher and higher to a full understanding of yourself, and of God, as the same essence of Love.
Be glad it is so simple,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Talk to Me FIRST each morning, dear child. Before you splash water on your face, before you sit up, certainly before you check your email and weather forecasts, talk to Me. Really, even before you open your eyes to the dream of the world, say at least “Good morning, God.”
Say hello to Me for your own sake, to help you remember I Am always right here with you, and that I Am always thinking of you. I do not depart into sleep and unconscious dream realms. I Am always with you. You are always on My Mind.
You are always on My Mind.
With Love,
SPIRIT
Ah, Child,
Do indeed ask for My help to focus on the Heavenly, and more of the Heavenly will come into focus around you.
You must truly believe in My desire for you to see it, and then relax into My aid. Believe it, dear Child. In My deep Love for you, I ask you, believe I want you to see the Glory of Myself and of you.
Soul of All
Ah, Beloved,
Periodically we must remind you.
Love is for giving. Love is forgiving.
It is always possible to forgive, because you are made of the very substance of Love. Ask for Love’s Help, and you can do it. You can do it.
You can do it because you must, for you also want forgiveness for your own errors. We know this and you know this. Love has never stopped Loving you, but you must seek to give that Love forth. THAT fulfills Love’s purpose, and it is an inherent part of the essence of you.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
In the morning, dress in layers of Joy.
Let the first layer be the seamless Joy of knowing you are made of Love and Soul.
Let the next layer be the Joy of the Wisdom and Intelligence that are given you for coping with, and being vibrantly alive in, the human condition.
Let the warmth of generosity and Spirit cover those layers, and then add the accessories of Joy taken in the order and beauty of the everyday blessings that ar everywhere for you to enjoy.
Use the layers as needed, ready for all human weather,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Perhaps you believe, right now, that you can not go higher than forgiveness. But we tell you that you can, and you will. We have Seen it.
Beyond forgiveness is revelation, and when you have seen the beauty of the Truth, it will entice you to look to It more and more, and no more fret about the past or the small physicalities of the earth dream.
We assure you. Do you trust us?
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
We embrace you. When the embraces of the world are not consistent or long enough, We embrace you. When earthly love fades or is fickle, We embrace you. When material form delights you, We embrace you. When you forget for a moment who and what you really are, We embrace you and remind you.
We could go on explaining that We are always near, but are not these few reasons enough to make sure you give Us daily permission to greet you and speak to you and guide you and guard you, and be ever-ready to embrace you with Omnipotent Love?
Allow, allow, allow your Self to feel Our Love,
SPIRIT
Sometimes just a few minutes of praying, or meditative realization, is enough. Bless you. Remember that you dwell in Love, that the true substance of you is Harmony of Spirit. “I am the substance of the Joy of God.”
Ah, Beloved,
Be not afraid to play with the ideas that Spirit sends into your thoughts, if the ideas are accompanied by a sense of curiosity or peace or joy.
It may be an idea of something that you have never thought of doing, or making, or trying, but let your imagination be playful with it, and see if you feel the urge to go one step further, to do a little research about the idea.
The Governing, Loving Spirit does Lead in wonderful ways, and It always starts with an idea.
Gently, and Lovingly,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
“I already exist in Delightful, Complete, Harmonious Creation.”
Claim that, Beloved. You are living in the One Universe now, and the false, although seeming true, senses of limit and discord can dissolve in the Loving Light of Truth. Entertain this possibility, and decide to See Blessings about you all day, today. It is not about trying to philosophize sorrows and discord into goodness. It is about focusing on the actual and real Good of Love, and loyalty, and synergistic workings, and smooth functioning, and the Joy that expands as you notice Joy, and willingly focus on sincere Joy.
The more Joy you fill yourself with, the more Good you notice, the more you will experience and truly See the already existent State of Harmony, reigned over by Divine Mind.
Let It show you, child. Let It show you.
As ever, tenderly Loving you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
No one is saved from their nightmares by suffering. You are saved by Glory.
If you are in a time of challenge or pain, and there is a part of your mind that thinks that if you just suffer enough, some far away God will have pity on you, and change your life, you have things backwards. It is your non-Divine ego that would suggest such a solution.
That essence of you that is Divine, and that is a complete part of the whole Divine, works through Joy and Peace. If, even in the midst of chaos and pain, you can focus on that Peace and Gladness, then you are reaching to the Divine in your Self and everywhere, to let Its Goodness come forth.
Pain and self-pity and sacrifice are not a part of God, and if you have gone there, God will wait until you turn even a tiny part of your awareness back to the Light, and work through that. This does not mean you cannot call to all the Divine Beings and Helpers for assistance—you can, and please do! Just having the presence of mind to call to the Divine when you are caught in the shadows of earth-reality, will help open a crack through which the Divine Essence can flow in your Soul, and help you be bright again.
Being of Good Cheer helps Us do our work,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When you really, really get it through your head that what you are looking at, that seems to be a reality, outside your own mind connection to the Whole, is really more like a movie you are watching, then you will find it easier to only try to influence that movie by shouting to the Great Director Within.
Shout for Help. Shout for Joy. Shout for consolation and for change and revelation. Shout not at the movie characters, but at the Director that can change their, and your, actions and appearances with just a Divine Moment of Divine Direction.
One Mind governs all. It governs using Love and Order and Grace. Can you let yourself believe this? Can you CHOOSE to believe it long enough to test it, in small ways and then greater ways? If all the overlapping orbits of human thought surrendered to the governance of Divine Mind, just imagine the Good Movie that would be revealed.
Ponder this,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Keep your awareness on the light, and in the Light.
Like a driver, carefully and SLOWLY driving through the fog, in just the circle of light that his fog-lights illuminate, keep your focus on the Good.
Do not seek problems. Do not look for troubles to fix. Rather, look to the good. Think upon beauty and joy. Seek the word of Love in your heart. As it whispers encouragement to you, follow it, follow it, follow it, and, like the driver, you WILL come to clear road again.
Ask more fog lights to be with you, and we will,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
When a sense of unease or discomfort arises, ask yourself just what it is you are afraid of. And, ask yourself, “Just who is it that is afraid?”
As you ask that, it will help you remember that the true you, that lives and moves and has your being within the Love that made you, is not apart and alone. That true you has nothing to fear, for it exists where it always has, within the Sphere of Perfect Calm and Creative Love. The reflection of that self in the earth mirror may look temporarily distorted or distraught or in lack or sorrow, but as you close your eyes to the reflection and see the Truth again with the Sense of your spiritual heart, you will remember that you are whole and well and have help in the Great Awareness of perfect ideas.
Like a woman in the dark searching in the bottom of her bag for a key, who closes her eyes and patiently sorts through the items in the purse by touch, trusting that the key will be encountered, because she KNOWS that it is there, close your eyes and physical senses to the false reflections of the world, and FEEL with your Spiritual Sense that God is always nigh, and there is nothing to fear. Feel the presence of that Key of Love and Ever present Help.
“Be not afraid, for I am with you.” Or, to put it in terms of your point of view, since you exist IN GOD, there is nowhere else for your essence to be but in that safety.
Allow yourself to know your own essence, and know it to be your best friend,
ANGELS
Ah, Dear One,
No, you cannot go “through the looking glass”. You, as child of Spirit, as Divine idea, remain sweetly and always in the Mind of God. But, if the image of yourself that you see in the looking glass of earth seems distorted or diseased, you can call upon the technician of the Holy Realms, the Holy Spirit, and ask that the focus of the glass be adjusted. Ask that the smudges be cleaned off. Ask to be able to see clearly again that you are the wonderful and whole child of God.
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
It is God’s JOY to walk and talk with you.
The sooner you completely understand that, the sooner you will spend more time doing it.
The sooner you spend more time doing it, the sooner you will know the full Joy that listening to God, and walking with God, offers you. And once you know that experience, there is no going back to a shallow and shifty-mist view of Life.
So Lovingly wanting to see your full Joy,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
To take those extra six breaths that are God’s Life Breath to you, and repeat in your mind, “God Loves me, God Loves me”, can make all the difference between a day of Harmony, and a day of confusion.
Take the time!
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Only The All-Seeing One knows how to resolve things in a way that is the best blessing for all. As difficult as it can be, you MUST trust that. Only more pain can be gained by letting human mind try to resolve reasons and motivations into some kind of sense or justice. Trust in the resolution and salvation of Truth, as It filters out and melts away all lies, and do your best to stay loving through all, and of all.
As we Love you,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
What a game of boomerang one plays each day.
Send forth joy and blessings, and God joins the game, and sends even more back to you.
Send forth bitterness and sorrow and judgment, and they will bounce back at you, and sting you as they hit, but God will not join in, for God does not keep an arsenal of pain and darkness. God only understands the giving, and seeing of, Good, and does not know what game you are playing when you seek errors and bitter woe. God stands aside, then, hoping you will play with Light again soon, that it may be joined to in Gladness.
Play the game that delight knows, and delight will know you too.
Always,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
We know that a great part of your human consciousness now understands that the body and its accoutrements are but tools to serve you and others in the learning and teaching of your Oneness of Being.
So when a moment of frustration comes, with an elderly computer, or any other person or thing, USE it as an opportunity to examine your thoughts. Have you let yourself be seduced into an assumption that age equals decline in ability? Do you let a moment of delay become a chance for impatience to try to rule you, rather than exercising patience and appreciation?
The insidious nature of the shadow thoughts of the world is their persistent presence in the “everyday”, and how seemingly firmly they are entrenched in the minds around you, and in yours. Do not be fooled, Beloved. Every moment is a chance to practice the Qualities of Pure Loving Spirit, and every mind that you encounter that seems so stubbornly hypnotized by what it has been mis-taught to them can give you ever-greater inspiration to be a beacon of light and a practitioner of Unconditional Love.
We are counting on you, and remind you that the end is already Good in God,
Stay in Hope, and Joy at what changes bring,
ANGELS
Ah, Beloved,
Let there be a new journey now into the center of your Heart, where you remember again the power of gratitude.
For it IS a power. It is a very Mighty Power. Claiming, and pondering and owning your feeling of gratitude for all your earthly blessings, and for the blessings that others have, is a Force that can break your feelings of self-pity and illness and fear and unease. Furthermore, pondering and feeling grateful for the invisible blessings such as the very existence of Love, and the power of forgiveness, and the heroism of friends and strangers, and the courage of parents and teachers, etc. etc., is more powerful still.
Be grateful today. Turn gratitude into Gratitude. Raise your consciousness by being so filled with Gratitude that you are completely immersed in the Divine Power of the Healing Force that Creates, upholds, and exists, exists, exists, and Know yourself Healed.
Always grateful to you as a part of the Whole,
ANGELS