Challenge YOU

The silent times

2012-01-17T21:40:00.000-05:00

I have not posted since last May and I am just shocked at how long it has been! As we all have peaks and valleys, there was some time that I needed to spend in silence. Without even realizing this is what I needed. Silence can mean a lot of things but to me, I relate it to what Joyce Meyers calls "the silent years." Years in which we feel as though no one is there and are somewhat lost; yet, in reality God is always with us.
During my silent time, much learning took place in terms of who I am and what I needed to do in the way of healing and growing spiritually. That is part of why I label 2012 as Challenge YOU! One of the most important lessons I have truly learned is the fact that we cannot change anything or anyone else and literally have no control over any one's actions but our own. We can try and control people and outcomes but in reality, control can make things worse. What we DO have complete control of is ourselves. Our actions, behaviors and taking responsibility for who we are....the good, the bad and the ugly. They are all you so why not own it? In another message I heard from Joyce Meyers, she talks about the fact that you can never get away from you. This was a conversation around loving yourself and what it must be like when you don't. If you imagine being with someone you just don't like or get along with for any period of time, you cannot wait to get away from them right? Well then, how can we begin to deal with ourselves if there are things about ourselves we don't like? Do we hide them? Cover them with falsehoods? Why not work on liking all of you?

This is not to say that any piece of you is "wrong" or "bad" in any way but we must look at who we are as a whole and love each and every bit of it. Even if they are qualities you may be ashamed of or would like to change. This in fact CAN happen if you choose to work through the fear, take responsibility and find solutions to make the change possible. It does not mean it will all be easy however, I can assure you that if you really want to, you can do it!

Something happened recently that changed my perception of things...many things. It was simple really and I'm not sure what it was that ignited the fire to fuel my love for not only myself but for God. He said to me "when you feel as though you have more than you can bear, give it up to God." Simple, right? Well for me, this opened up an entire new world of understanding in my spiritual growth and journey. While the angels have been with me for quite a while now, God has been in the background. I forgot how important of a friend and companion God has been throughout my life and the angels are there to support God's mission within our lives. Now, many people have various beliefs in God, angels and other spiritual matters but this is my personal account so please do not be insulted if this is not of your belief system.

I have since began a different relationship with the angels...one where I also pray and have conversations with God, as I have come to believe through God all things are possible. As well, my understanding of challenges has changed as it strikes me that in all we do, we do it for God for God lives within us, providing us with love and strength. In that, why would we not try and do our best to push through hurt and pain to find our way into love where God lives?

In 2012, Challenge YOU is designed as just that....to Challenge YOU. No one else but the simplicity of you. Giving yourself time and energy to look at the things within you that maybe are stored away or are more obvious to you but resistant to none the less.

For more, visit my web-site at www.angelicessential.com

Blessings to you for a love filled 2012!
Margaret

Weekly Challenge Which do you prefer a full or empty parking lot?

2011-05-03T09:58:00.001-04:00

Which do you prefer? A full or empty parking lot? If you drive, I'm sure you have experienced pulling into a parking lot or garage that is pretty full. You need to park for a meeting, shopping, an appointment or whatever the occasion but parking is a necessity, right?

With a full lot, there are two stances you could take:

1) GREAT! I'm running late, I don't have time for this, my patience is running thin, look at "those people", they took up two spots!! You get the idea here.

2) OK, this could be fun...I could use the exercise, let me find a space far from where I need to be, I WILL find a spot and angels, please help me to find a parking space!!

An empty lot can lead to some questions such as:

Did I get the date wrong? Are they open? Where is everyone?

An empty spot can also lead to a sense of ease with little to no stressors, right?

In any case, you may be missing out on some of the fun that is in store for you in being (cohabitation~the angels note) with others.

This week, the angels ask which lot you prefer and why? Are you isolating from others or situations because it feels easier, more comfortable? Have you made a concerted effort to put yourself into the full lot and continue to see the good and fun a full lot can offer? The angels LOVE metaphors as you may notice!!

Consider going into the full parking lot and bring to light the perspective you have while there. This is not a physical exercise, more of a way to ask you to consider how you handle yourself in spaces that are comfortable and convenient verses those that take effort and in these situations what your natural response might be. In other words, we are being asked two things this week:

1) Put yourself into a situation(s) you are not comfortable with. What is your natural response and act as an observer. Is your perspective the entire truth?

2) Notice when you are in a place(es)/situation(s) of comfort and safety. What makes this comfortable for you? Is your perspective the entire truth?

In the words of the angels:

Cars drive to bring you from place to place. Use this device to be your messenger. See your situation from a new perspective where you can expand your teaching. We see you are wanting change but creating change also requires looking at things as they truly are. What does your mind tell you and is it in alliance with your heart? Do you see the good in any situation or is there fear associated of the unknown? Your hearts will is stronger than your mind if you allow comfort from this exercise and angel guidance to support your heart. We love you child. Be in the full lot. Explore this fully as you are ready.

Came across this song and LOVE IT! You gotta help me baby!

2011-04-26T07:59:00.000-04:00

Weekly Challenge Asking for Help

2011-04-25T16:28:00.000-04:00

Thanks for your patience during this past week. I realize there was a gap in communication regarding the weekly challenge however, the message was to "wait" and so I did...

As I am still contemplating why this was the case, I gather it is about making sure there are not too many items on the priority plate, which feeds right into the challenge for this week!

OK angels, I get it!!

This week's challenge is about asking for help. For some, this can be as natural as breathing but for many more, it can be quite a challenge to ask others to help out with a project, problem or support.

The angels say we do this as a way of control. Although it is a false sense of control, the angels say this is why we try to manage everything on our plates verses asking others to help out. Control is not the only factor however. There can also be a sense of failing or not being good enough if there is a need to reach out to others and ask for support or assistance. In a world where this is reinforced in many ways, it is easy to see why more of us tend to try and manage everything on our own with as little help or support as possible.

In the words of the angels:

"Please try to understand that your heart yearns for unity. With this, we ask for you to open your hearts and allow others to enter. Trusting others divine is part of the equation. We also want to assure you that part of the process of being is the allowance of vulnerability. Reaching out to others in the way of assistance requires a certain amount of your guard being lowered and while we understand this is of concern to you, we assure you there is goodness and love in this process. Your heart yearns for unity with others and the sharing of each other's compassion and strengths only compliments your already divine given attributes. Allow yourself to trust in others and their ability to help you in your time of need. This is in many cases a way of your personal and spiritual growth towards love. In this, your heart will see the gifts others have to offer you and the love beyond what you have allowed yourself to see or experience thus far in your lifetime.

We only wish for you to be closer to the knowing of love. We ask for you to try and make use of the gift of help that others are so willing to provide to you in love and light. Within this message, we also ask for you to call upon us, the one's you speak of as angels. We are there to help you in your challenges and gifts yet to be discovered. Ask for our help with your heart and mind and know we are always and ever present awaiting your call. We love you dear child and see the love that lives within you. Allow yourself to see this love and discover what it feels like to have others experience this love as it broadens in it's expansion in love."

We are asked this week to think of one challenge, situation, project, etc. in which help from another or others would be of value. Once you have determined what your situation will be, decide who would be best in terms of asking for help and ask away! You may just be surprised at the response and the level of help you will receive. In this, the angels say there will be a need to let go of some of the control and fear carried within the situation but to try and work through this with their help.

Our values, Our perception, Our truth

2011-04-12T10:11:00.002-04:00

This week's challenge is difficult in terms of seeing others perspective. At times when we feel as though we are in the right, it can be challenging to see the other persons point of view. Knowing their perspective is reality and their truth helps in terms of trying to understand where they may be coming from.

I see this happening all around me where lines are drawn in the sand and people are unwilling to cross the line in fear of being wrong. There is no right or wrong per sae but the truth lives somewhere in the middle, doesn't it? If this is the case, being compassionate and understanding can do nothing but help.

Are you putting too much pressure on yourself with remaining on your side of the line in the sand? Even if emotions are strong, there is always an opportunity to work on bridging the gap between perspectives and finding the truth that lives between.

In the video posted below, there is discussion on our values, our persception and our reality being our truth. I hope you find it as thought provoking as I have.

Weekly Challenge Perception

2011-04-11T19:38:00.000-04:00

Have you heard of the saying "perception is reality"? Well, this holds true in terms of thechallenge for the week. We are asked to look at our perception and that of others. Do you think your perception is "right" and someone else's "wrong", or is your perception "wrong" and theirs "right"? What if I were to say you are both "right"?

Take a look at the image above. What do you see? A young woman? An old woman? Something else? Well, whatever you see, you are right. You see, your perception is your reality, just as anothers perception is their reality. In the same space and time, what we know to be true in the moment is our truth.

Having said this, we are asked to challenge our perceptions to see beyond what we believe to be our reality and understand the perception others have. Weather you consider it right, wrong or indifferent, it is in fact their perception and thus holds truth. Become aware this week of what you perceive and notice what others perceive before responding. In this, you will be able to gather more information and understanding of how to bridge the gaps within the truth of each reality.

Here is another picture to illustrate perception. What image do you see when you first look at the image above? Did you first see faces or a vase? Did you notice anything else? Where were your eyes drawn? Whatever you see is your truth and is your perception to have. Understand however that another person looking at the same image may have a differing view than yours and is still "right" in their perceptions.

In the perception pyramid above, you can see what happens to us. At the foundation are our thoughts. Surrounding all of this are both internal and external influences. Some examples may be friends, family, loved ones, our upbringing, work, associations, etc. To note, these influences have an impacted on each level of the pyramid. From what we think, we say and then do. How we are perceived is the final outcome of the stages within the pyramid. As you can tell, it is a complex matter and to note that the filters we have, the influences surrounding us feed into our perceptions and that of others.

The angels ask for us to take a closer look at what we perceive to be real and what we hold others to within our reality. In some senses, we are asked to see beyond our reality and understand that there is more to each of us than what we believe to be true.

In the words of the angels:

"We ask for your truth to be uncovered. Not the one you allow others to see and what you yourself believe to be true but the real truth. The one that lives at the foundation within your heart. Your love is greater than that of your perceptions. Your reality and that of others is shattered due to the circumstances of your place and time. This is up to you to make the needed changes and bridge the gaps between your truths and combine this thought with heart centered love. With this, grow in your understanding and compassion for others. Their truth is also your truth. You may not see this as there are many influences in the here and now that complicate matters but it is for your best interest to break through the barriers that have been created within this reality. It is in fact not reality but non-realistic living in a way that love is not at the foundation of this truth. Ego truth can become convoluted within this source and makes it difficult to see one as truth in love. Try dear child to see yourself as one with love. In this, perception no longer exists but reality in love emerges. Come to us and ask for our help for this is a complex image for most to comprehend in your world however it is accomplished through desire and challenge that your commitment towards understanding will shine with love at the surface."

Challenge yourself this week to see beyond your perception and look deeper into the perception of others. All the while, work to bridge the gap between your realities to form one sense of being.

Today is your day to be in the here and now! Wake up to a new day!

2011-04-08T09:59:00.002-04:00

Katy Perry-A ray of light

2011-04-07T09:00:00.000-04:00

According to Wikipedia, born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her freshman year of high school, she began to pursue a career in music. As Katy Hudson, she released a self-titled gospel album in 2001, which due to the closing of her record label, was deemed unsuccessful. She later recorded an album with production team The Matrix and completed the majority of a solo album from 2004–5; neither of which were released.

For a the rest of Katy's story, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Perry.

Today, Katy is a popular icon for many to hear and see. If you listen to some of her lyrics, you can clearly hear her roots come through with passion and love. Her light shines for all to know. I came across this song "Who am I living for?" on YouTube and felt inspired to share a bit of her story and this song. We all have our crosses to bear and her question to us all is 'who are you living for'?

Today is a new day, yesderday has already passed and tomorrow does not exist yet. Live for today and be confident in who YOU are living for!

Gotta love Madea's advice! Right on the money!

2011-04-05T09:39:00.000-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF_10F7eYRE&feature=related

I can't post the video for some reason but click above to see the video on YouTube.

Weekly Challenge: Oh Say Can You See?

2011-04-04T17:17:00.001-04:00

Weekly Challenge-

Oh Say Can You See?

The words to the American Star Spangled Banner keeps playing over in my head. For a while, I wondered why....being an American, I wondered what this would have to do with a weekly challenge where my angel friends live all over the world. After further guidance, I now understand the message was not about the patriotism of being American but some of the words carried within the song.

"Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light. What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming?" How do you interpret this? From the angel's perspective, these words are important for us to work on for this week's challenge. As each evening ends and a new day begins, we are asked to see each day as a new start. What we hail at the twilights last gleaming may be something in fact to leave as the new day arrives. Have you heard of the saying "what happens in the past should stay in the past"? Well, according to the angels, this is some of what is being asked of us. Not in terms of processing feelings of past experiences but allowing for the experiences to not become who we are today, with the understanding that every day is a new opportunity to start a new!

As a side, I had to stop writing this week's newsletter to pick up my children from school. On the way home, my daughter Ella belted out "Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light"...NO exaggeration!! Just another way confirmation of this week's challenge from the angels!!

In this week's challenge, we are asked to commit to leaving yesterday's challenges behind and see each day as a new beginning, an opportunity to start each day a new! Write down your worries or concerns each day at the end of the day and commit to leaving them behind. Start each day by saying:

"Today is a new day, filled with hope, dreams and possibility! I commit to letting today be a new, fresh chapter full of opportunity for me and those around me!"

In the words of the angels:

"Why are your experiences held onto so tightly? They do identify who you are in growth and perspective however, can weigh your spirit down if allowed. Growth through experiences is expected and with this, we ask for you to work through your feelings of past experiences to give right to the present. Living in the now of the moment can help you to persevere in a place and time where focusing on the love in your heart is more of a given verses a forced portion of life. We do not say this to provide your heart with hurt but rather for you to see that your past is your past and living there does not provide closure or rise to the love within. This particularly applies to past experiences that you relate to as "bad" or "not acceptable". From this, ask yourself 'why do I hold onto things I had no control over to begin with'. You may know this in spirit but in mind struggle to let it be. Remember, control is a form of oppression and does not allow your heart to rule. There is a need for your heart and your head to work together in conjunction but more often than not, the head has more say. We ask for you to focus on the dawn's early light, letting go of what needs to remain in the twilights last gleam of the sky."

Challenge yourself this week and I ask you...Oh Say Can You See?

Daily Affirmation 3/31/11

2011-03-31T08:52:00.000-04:00

Created By AlongThoseLines

"My potential is unlimited and recognised."

http://www.vitalaffirmations.com/pool/affirmation_card_181.htm?apc=1

Affirmation for the day

2011-03-30T11:38:00.000-04:00

"I am a capable person and I can handle anything that comes my way."

Today's affirmation: I see my parents as tiny children who need love

2011-03-29T07:53:00.000-04:00

I have compassion for my parents' childhoods. I now know that I chose them because they were perfect for what I had to learn. I forgive them and set them free and I set myself free.

Selected from www.vitalaffirmations.com

http://www.vitalaffirmations.com/pool/affirmation_card_255.htm?apc=1

Weekly Challenge extracted from the weekly newsletter

2011-03-28T17:33:00.000-04:00

Weekly Challenge March 27, 2011 - April 2, 2011

Change is here dear friend! If you have not joined yet, consider becoming an active participant and challenge yourself to say "YES"! Engage yourself in making the changes you wish to become! Say "YES" to you! You deserve to be your own creator of change and lay the path towards personal success. We all have our own paths and destinies in this lifetime however, pushing yourself to grow as you move along your path will lead you closer to the divine love within. Join us in the weekly challenges and say "YES" to YOU!

Weekly Challenge-

Turn discouragement into HOPE

This week's challenge came through loud and clear! In a world where there is so much change, it is easy to become discouraged. Feeling like you don't have any control over things that are impacting your life or the lives of others can lead to these feelings naturally.

The angels ask us to turn our discouragement into HOPE, to believe and have faith that there is a reason for all things that happen to you, to all of us. During these times, it can become very easy to feel like nothing is going your way and that you have little control over the changes you wish could happen. Believe there is a reason for your place and time and know the angels are with you along your journey. Having said that, the angels know it can become more difficult for us to see their perspective on life. They have asked for daily inspirations/affirmations to come into play during this challenge. If you have a way to commit to positive affirmations daily, GREAT! Please commit to reading a positive affirmation several times a day and contemplate on how this applies to your life in order to see things from a different perspective. If you do not have access to receiving positive affirmations, I will be posting one daily on my blog.

In the words of the angels:

"Your thoughts are your being. We ask for you to consider beyond your logical thinking into your heart where the words of positive love exist always. We see your sorrow, fears and worries and only wish for you to know there is more at play in your life than you give rise to at this point in time. Be positive and know love exists. What is not in your control was never yours to control in the first place. This may not feel good for you to hear but it is truth none the less. With faith in our words, the flow of your life will come easier in terms of seeing the love that exists in all things. Know we are with you always, in all ways and we see you for the love you truly are. Give this challenge thought and put the words given this week into action. Feel them in your heart and know that truth exists in this place. We see all of the turmoil that change has for you but know that change happens for you to grow and flourish more and more in your truth, in your love. We ask for you to try and have faith in this place of love as there is so much more in store for you. Just wait dear child, wait with patience and know new doors are about to open for you to go through and experience love in a deeper and more positional way."

When we are able to see things from a different perspective, we can become inspired and help to inspire others around us. Challenge yourself this week and turn discouragement into HOPE!

Today's affirmation:

"I rejoice in the love I encounter every day!"

From: www.vitalaffirmations.com

Beautiful like GOD

There is something so sweet, so innocent about children. It's difficult to put a handle on but it is there all the while. Beautiful like GOD. Something that I think we take advantage of until we see it fading away. When children age, their innocence can be removed by what we consider as the "harshness" of what we interpret as "reality".

Bring joy and beauty like that of children into your world...remember who you are, Beautiful one like GOD. It is still there, just under the surface waiting for you to remember. Waiting to blossom like that of the sweet flower in the morning dew.

Check out the blog talk radio!

2011-03-24T17:59:00.000-04:00

AngelsTeach Radio is an inspirational, angelic guided channel focused on love and light! I was blessed to be on the show last night and had a blast!! Hope you enjoy!

Contemplating this week has brought up the need to lighten up!!

2011-03-24T17:57:00.002-04:00

Decisions

2011-03-23T16:45:00.001-04:00

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”
Keri Russell

Weekly Challenge - Quiet Contemplation

2011-03-22T12:04:00.000-04:00

What is the intention of quiet contemplation? To think, to consider, to explore yourself and how you interact with the world around you. Like the process of self-discovery, quiet contemplation is just that…an internal, intrinsic approach to being.

Contemplate about what was and what could be. Be in this space of reflection and peace. In some senses, my lateness in this week’s challenge is the need for us to contemplate and explore the quietness within. In continuing throughout this week, see yourself as a calm body of water with no ripples or movement. As the definition of contemplation notes, contemplating is thoughtful observation or study and is also noted as an intention or expectation of something to come (for example a contemplating a career change or any change you are looking to explore).

In the Stages of Change Model, first developed by Prochaska and D’Clementi, contemplation is the beginning process towards change. In order for any of us to make real changes in our lives or behaviors, no matter what type of change, contemplation is an absolute component.

Chart extracted from the web-site:

http://www.internet-of-the-mind.com/stages_of_change.html

This site also has great detail on "The Recovery Wheel" model as noted above.

From the words of the angels:

“Children of the light, your wish to change is evident and much needed in a world filled with what seems to many of you as loss. Your loss is but a need for you to change in the state of the world. Your needed changes in your thoughts and actions are evident and although you know this as truth, fear of change creates an unbalance in your minds and leads many of you to remain in a stuck feeling. We ask for you to take the time in quiet contemplation and look at those things you wish to change. As well, we ask for you to remember the goodness that exists in your life. Often child, you look at what is not working and forget to reflect upon what is good and in love. Action is needed and we ask for you to explore your space and time and commit towards change in your world, in your life. With your changes will create a ripple effect and others will be impacted in a positive light. With one change comes many. Think of the quiet body of water that you are tempted to create waves, like a child who just wishes to play by throwing rocks into the water, just because. Your contemplative stage will lead to your desire to take the next step towards needed changes. Stay the course as we tell you changes in your life are coming. Go through this process of contemplation and begin to see that change is possible.”

Quiet contemplation can seem easy but it will take commitment for you to go through this process. Take time this week to reflect in prayer and meditation towards your truth. Commit to this week’s challenge of quiet contemplation and work towards the changes you would like to see in your world.

An important message from an angel friend!

2011-03-18T21:02:00.000-04:00

I received the message below from an angel friend yesterday. She is quite gifted and has a lovely spirit and presence about her. Please read her email below and continue to pray as this is the message the angels are intending for us to hear at this time. Let us all pray together at this time for peace and love, healing and calm.

Hello to all my earth angel friends,

The angels have asked me to send out a CALL for prayers. They have told me that there will be a VERY powerful full moon on Saturday March 19 that has the ability to cause a great tsunami. This powerful moon only comes about once every 18 years. I have been asked to please ask all healers to send healing energy to the oceans as you ask them to hold back. Start joining me in prayer to hopefully avoid this.

I am not one to spread doom and gloom I am sending out a plea from the angels.

If you could take just five minutes at 11 am and 11pm to join in a prayer with the angels it would be so helpful they have said to tell you.

God bless all of you. I am sending you Love and Light!

Carrie

14165 Fenton Road, Suite 102-B, Fenton, MI 48430 USA

For more information on Carrie (AKA The Angel Lady) visit: http://yourangelchannel.com/

Do you really know Mother Theresa?

2011-03-16T09:16:00.000-04:00

Mother Theresa

A woman of prayer and love. An icon for all of us to look to and admire for her selfless acts of love and kindness to others. I might not believe in all she stood for under the Catholic faith but I have to say she is someone I truly admire...now more than ever.

In this week's challenge, we are asked to pray. As I prayed this morning, I was reminded of the writing found on Mother Theresa's wall, which is as follows:

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.

Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.

Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten.

Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.

Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.

It was never between you and them anyway.

Words to take to heart and I pray we all find peace from them. When looking for this lovely letter, I came across something I did not expect and had missed during the time of it's prevalence. In 2007, there were several stories about the life of Mother Theresa. Not the Mother Theresa you may have heard of but one that the media portrayed as a woman we should question.

Apparently, during the process of the Catholic church petitioning for the canonization of Mother Theresa, letters intended in confidence to a priest and friend at the time from Mother Theresa had surfaced. In these letters, Mother Theresa pours out her heart regarding her own confusion of faith in GOD. Quoted from TIME in partnership with CNN WORLD from an article called Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith by David Van Biema Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007:

"That absence seems to have started at almost precisely the time she began tending the poor and dying in Calcutta, and — except for a five-week break in 1959 — never abated. Although perpetually cheery in public, the Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep and abiding spiritual pain. In more than 40 communications, many of which have never before been published, she bemoans the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and "torture" she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. "The smile," she writes, is "a mask" or "a cloak that covers everything." Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. "I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God — tender, personal love," she remarks to an adviser. "

For the full article go to: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html#ixzz1GlWfHznt

Although the media tried to portray this woman as faithless and undeserving of sainthood, I believe it shows she is as human as the rest of us but lived her life for service regardless of her internal struggles. Who of us can say we do not doubt GOD (whomever that may be to you) or our faith during times when we see destruction, war, poverty and chaos? Why is that such a bad thing? What if it is part of our process in growing closer to our creator, to question everything, including creation? We are but "children", aren't we? Her outer smile and inner turmoil are but one of the ways we are all taught as a society to act and be. This woman has done more for mankind than most can commit to. Although she questioned her faith in GOD and love, she still devoted her life to serving others. Her messages of love are truth and the foundation we should all strive to live by.

With much admiration for Mother Theresa, I leave you with her words on a clean heart. I hope that in her prayers she found the connection with GOD and was able to come to peace with her life and faith.

Guide us with your grace

2011-03-15T12:39:00.000-04:00

Weekly Challenge 3/13/11 - 3/19/11 Just Pray

2011-03-14T14:23:00.002-04:00

Sunday is typically when I connect with the angels about the upcoming week's challenge. Yesterday was a bit more of an unusually busy day. I began to worry I would not get to the weekly challenge and the angels answered "it's ok, let it go...it's part of this week's challenge". Although I was not completely comfortable with the idea, I let it go.

This is the first opportunity I have had to truly connect with the angels as it has been busy with sick children and work. As I began to connect, I heard "just pray". I asked for clarity and again heard "just pray". At this, I understand it is our challenge this week to simply pray. Pray for clarity, reason, forgiveness, hope, needed healing for ourselves and others, for the world at large. Pray for understanding and commitment, logic and truth. For the ability to determine the best course of action and for the ways to approach this action. Ask in prayer for healing of this planet during this great time of change. For the hopes and dreams to continue to come to light and for the true knowledge of how to interpret their intentions. Seek guidance from the love of GOD and that of the angels, GOD's eternal helpers. Look for reasoning behind the here and now. Ask for the ability to know why the sun rises and falls and the intention of the cycles of the planet, seasons and all of life. In the words of the angels:

"Now more than ever is the time to pray. Your heart yearns for answers in truth and love. With the changes occurring in your place and time, it is easy to cause confusion and misunderstanding of the truth in love. Pray for love to surface and answers to be provided. In this time of much change, we ask for you to try and gain patience that the truth will come to terms with reality and when this occurs, you will understand the logic and truth. With prayer comes peace. With prayer comes love. Your prayers are for yourselves but it is often the time when we find acts of self-less, ego-less wonder occur. You often pray for others during your heart connection with GOD and ask for the love of the lord to provide healing and love. When this occurs, love exists in your heart. You not only heal yourself but work to heal the likes of many without even knowing you are participating in the process. Just pray dear child. Reflect into your prayers as if there is nothing else on earth to do. We ask you to pray at this time as there is much healing needed for the likes of many. You can see this where devastation hits and will continue to surface in the weeks and months ahead. Just pray we ask, simply pray and be in love."

With this, I believe this week's challenge comes at a time of confusion of what tomorrow might bring and what yesterday represents. While this might not make complete sense to you, the angels often speak to me in metaphors and at this, tomorrow and yesterday fall into place perfectly. Instead of the anxiety of what might be and the worry of what already passed, we are asked to just pray for today, for the here and now in the moment of being.

I pray that you find peace and love in this week's challenge. Peace to you all.

Surfing the web

2011-03-11T14:51:00.000-05:00

FREE Angel Card Reading!!
http://www.voiceoftheangels.com/flash/angeltaro.swf?getcards=http://www.voiceoftheangels.com/products_pics/cards/
Thank you Dyan Garris of Voice of the Angels.com http://www.voiceoftheangels.com/ for this wonderful free angel card reading! I just tried it and I could relate to the messages and were based in love and light. Very loving and inspiring messages!

When scanning the internet today, I came across this quote as well...it feels right on the money. Thank you Helen Keller!

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”

Helen Keller quotes (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968)

So many inspiring people, I love it!

Little did I know...

2011-03-10T17:44:00.000-05:00

Little did I know others would be reaching out to me this week in the way the angels have asked for us to reach out and touch someone. What I've discovered in the process is that re-connecting can also bring up old feelings or new one's that are ready to surface. In this, reaching out can actually be a painful process but in the end, the truth heals and brings us closer together if we allow it.

It's funny, I never expected each week to be challenging and rewarding yet I find every single week learning and growing in myself and with the support of the angels. I have said before that the angels know me better than myself and are truly my friends and additional partners in this life. With this, I find at times I try and push them away and want to be "normal" and not listen to their guidance or loving messages. But what I find is they are always waiting there patiently and in love for me to get over myself and move forward.

Although we are only in our 3rd month of the new year, there have been new and challenging adventures for sure! What will this year bring us? Full of growth and abundance most definitely....if we allow it and try not to fight the current that is stronger than us, the one that works to help us learn and understand love in a deeper and more meaningful way.

With this, I wish you love and a wonderful night.

Becoming closer, Drifting apart

2011-03-08T17:26:00.000-05:00

Poppy's Love Cards

With your enhanced understanding of connecting with others, we ask you...does your current circumstances bring you closer to others or provide space which leads to drifting apart?

Combine your mind and heart and look inwards to discover this truth. There is so much for you to understand but you are all connected in spirit. With this, you never truly drift apart however, in your physical form it happens quite often.

You do not intend for it to happen sometimes and others feels right based on timing and circumstances. We ask you to look within and discover this truth. Are you drifting apart from those in love for reasons that make sense? Reaching out to others who may not be as close as you'd like will provide a way of knowing that you should be together or remain distant. Closure is important and relevant in any case for those who will not come closer to your heart.

Remember, love is all around you in all ways, always. Bringing love in and becoming closer enhances this feeling. Providing closure can also provide this feeling as you will allow yourself and others impacted to heal and move forward with love and hope. Look within your heart and take note of yout true feelings. Discover your truth and move towards it!

Love to you always,
Angel Androphial

Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand - Diana Ross

2011-03-07T17:36:00.000-05:00

This song has been in my head all day! Boy, how appropriate to this week's challenge. Reach out and touch somebody's hand make this world a better place if you can!

Weekly Challenge 3/6/11 - 3/12/11 "Reach out and touch someone"

2011-03-06T17:02:00.000-05:00

How easy is it to get caught up in our everyday lives? So busy at times we forget to stay connected with the one's we love in ways that feel right. Our busy lifestyle can lead to missed opportunities of being connected from a heart centered approach.

From friends to family, colleagues and community affiliations, our heart centered connections can be missed with the day to day expectations we have in our lives. Although we never intend to loose sight of our heart centered connections, our lives have a way of leaving most of us feeling as though there is just not enough time in the day.

Do you remember the old saying "reach out and touch someone"? This week, the angels challenge us to make time for connections from a hearted centered approach, by reaching out and touching someone.

Touch someone with your words and actions...

Re-connect with someone dear to your heart where time has come between you.

Send a "just because" card or email to someone special.

Call to say "I've been thinking about you".

Find opportunities to say "you do a great job".

Be honest with those you love. Let them know how much they mean to you.

Create moments to say "I Love You".

Show affection with hugs and kisses in ways outside of your norm with those you care about.

Do something for your community group as a sign of your love.

Ask for help (this works in a powerful way in connecting with others).

Connect, connect, connect!

As I write this, I think of my daily interactions. My husband, children and I have created our own way of recognizing each other. "I Love You" is a common phrase in our home and we all give lots of hugs and kisses. We do the same with our extended family but I have to say that it is not with the same intensity as our immediate family. This is not on purpose but more so in being caught up in the day to day activities of life.

None of us intentionally neglect those we love or those who hold importance in our lives but it can happen naturally in the way we have created our family and social norms. The angels ask for us to make this week's challenge a priority and reach out to our heart centered connections and touch someone with our love!

Challenge yourself to say "yes" reach out and touch someone!

Assurance within reflection

2011-03-05T20:56:00.000-05:00

Sometimes you just need some amount of seeing yourself as what you desire and the rest can fall into place with others encouragement! There is something to reflecting and getting assurance bounced back as a result! Try it! Have confidence in what you see inside and reflect it to others around you....you might be surprised as the reassurance you receive!!

Battle between the mind and soul

2011-03-03T17:22:00.000-05:00

I have to admit, I have had difficulty this week particularly with the challenge of reflection. Those angels have a funny way of bringing things to light at the right time and in the right way...even if it does not feel good!

Earlier in the week, I received a call that I had hoped would have a different outcome. I had wanted to hear "yes" but received a loudly echoing "no, thank you". My ego took over and I entered into a funk. One that allowed my mind to take over and I could hear the voices in my head that we all strive to move away from...I'm not good enough, worthy, etc. Instead of resisting, I allowed my feelings to surface and temporarily feel sorry for myself. In some ways, I find this helpful instead of covering up my true feelings as it allows the process of healing to happen sooner than later.

I think that's why I have not blogged regularly this week, using more video's than anything because I have been trying to work through my mind, my ego. It's funny, I knew a while ago that the answer was going to be "no, thank you" but I resisted and did not want to believe this. I can see this is all ego based living but the truth is, none of us want to hear "no" when it has to do with our worth, or what we consider our worth.

Yesterday, I heard from the angels "when you allow one door to close, another will open". Last night when my husband was reading emails he turned to me and said "when you allow one door to close, another will open". I looked at him in surprise and asked for him to repeat what he had just said. He was reading an email I had received and that was the title. I have to say, it is helpful to have the angels around during times like this in order to get over myself much quicker than I used to.

Even though I have to admit that I am still fighting my ego, I have allowed myself to look towards new goals today. It is rather exciting and feels right...in my soul. My soul has been telling me all along that it was time to let go of certain ways of thinking or wanting to be but my mind has had a stronger influence. Messages have been provided to me for some time but I have chosen not to listen to the entire truth, my soul's truth which always has the answers needed to move forward in the direction of my highest good.

I trust in closing this door that a new one will open. One that is in my highest good and will bring me closer to my soul's purpose.

Do you see the reflection of your firework?

2011-03-01T15:00:00.000-05:00

Christina Aguilera - Reflection (Mulan)

2011-02-28T15:04:00.000-05:00

Weekly Challenge 2/27/11 - 3/5/11 Reflection

2011-02-27T20:39:00.000-05:00

There has been an emerging presence of reflection this past week that has come into direct focus as our challenge for this week. One of subtlety yet blindly obvious. What do you see when you look in the mirror or water? Is it a clear and solid imagery or is there blurred vision about who you are? When you take a deeper look introspectively, what do you see? Do you have clarity or confusion?

This week, we are asked to look at the matters of reflection and introspection. Interestingly, physics describes reflection as the return of light, heat, sound, etc., after striking a surface or something so reflected as heat or especially light. We have been challenged to observe others and ourselves and take inventory of in past challenges. While this challenge may seem similar, it is distinct and differs in it's own right.

"What you see is not always what you get." Have you heard of this saying before? When we reflect, we may not be getting everything because we do not allow for ourselves to see everything.

Each day this week, we are asked to do the following exercise of self-discovery.

Look in the mirror each day. Really look at you and all of the wonder and beauty and grace that makes you special. Try to remember the physics description of the returning of light, heat, sound, etc. after striking a surface when doing this activity. It is not just what you see on the surface. It goes deeper than this and asks for us to look introspectively into the acts, behaviors, experiences, etc. that make us who we are. In this, take note of your goodness and grace. Try to see the joy living within. Acknowledge the beauty you have within and throughout your being.

If you do not have a mirror or the time to do the activity in this way, take the time to sit quietly for 5 minutes to do the activity when you can fit it into your schedule each day. Can you find time to do this in your car or before getting out of bed? Find a way to work it into your daily schedule in order to reflect upon all of the wonder and beauty that is you.

Take a few minutes to make notes of anything that sticks out for you. For example, if you have a difficult time with this reflection activity on a particular day, make note of that. Was there a specific reason? Make note of that as well.

At the end of the week, you will be able to reflect back on your daily challenge by seeing any reoccurring themes that stand out for you. Maybe you are able to see all of the love that lives within but struggle with how to apply this love to the world. Or, could you see how amazing you are with children but note a lack of patience? Whatever the themes that emerge for you during this week's challenge, the angels say this will lead to more self-discovery in the weeks ahead. They note we will be moving into a time over the next month or so of giving back to ourselves and others in our world who see things within us we cannot see in ourselves.

Reflect....when you look in the mirror, what do you see? When you reflect upon who you are, how do you react?

A week in review...

2011-02-26T11:18:00.000-05:00

As this week draws to a close, I realize some of the tasks on our "to do" list are bumped simply due to time and commitment. This week, I was guided to blog daily with angelic messages. It was wonderful to share their messages and hear some of it for the first time myself. On the other hand, it took more of a commitment and need to focus to complete the daily task. As I reflect back on this week, the main message that keeps coming to mind is remembering who we are and why we are here at this place and time. We are called here with purpose and intention. Try to remember this. I know I will carry this with me closer to my heart when I feel stuck or unsure.

This pictue is presented to you with the following questions from the angels:

What do you see? What do you feel? What do you hear? What do you know?

Remember who you are...

BarlowGirl- I Need You To Love Me (Official Music Video)

2011-02-25T21:21:00.000-05:00

Love this band....strong women who live in the love of GOD

You are love and truth

2011-02-25T14:04:00.000-05:00

Universal Love Oracle By Toni Carmine Salerno

Why does it seem to take away the pain to be in resentment? Or does it have any impact at all? Could it simply be a diversion towards healing and listening to your heart? Do you feel the love living within each molecule of your being? We ask for you to consider these treasures as experiences.

You will live through many seasons of love and light. Your whispers of truth that resonate on this world are allowing for the love to blossom tremendously as the days unfold. When you consider your actions as wrong, ask if they are wrong or simply learning blocks. She is a woman of much dignity and wisdom to uncover the one within this image. Within the remnants of her truth are the beauty of a lost soul exploring in the wilderness.

Wise is the one who chooses a path of discovery and self exploration. Given the truth to be seen by the likes of many makes the choices clearly defined and gravity lifted from the weight of the world. What do you believe dear heart? Do you know each flower that blossoms in truth? Have you discovered the experience of being a rock beneath the large oak tree? What of the foundational soil in which others lay their feet? So much beauty, so much love. Experiences within them all and filled with the thoughts of each living creature before and after you.

Providing this truth is but a ray of hope towards the recovery of the way in which intention has been meant to be lived. You are this love and truth. With your heart and growth in love we are excited of the adventure yet in store for you. Witness life as a treasure and see its truth as such. Your only call to action is to believe in truth and discover this as love.

No longer a need to hide. Come and participate as you are intended to do. Be not only an observer but a participant and work towards lifting the veil of your truth for others to witness and experience as well. You are the truth and the light and the way. Take heart that your love, the love of the world is the new way. It is acceptable to just be you. Every aspect of your uniqueness makes you love. Combined with the love of all in the stream of life, the complete circle of its intention is at hand.

More powerful than one person could imagine but if left to feel would be as the term is given to heaven. You are love child, you are truth. Your goodness and desire to be has provided us with the foundation of enacting your hearts towards the love within.

Please explore dear child. Adventure waits. Become excited and anticipate the changes that are in store for you. So much is in store. So much is at hand.

With Love and truth,

Archangel Michael

Remember who you are

2011-02-24T09:36:00.000-05:00

Creating a New World Order

2011-02-24T09:09:00.000-05:00

Celebration of Love Oracle Cards
By: Eva M. Sakmar-Sullivan

Why is there such fear when the topic of a new world order is raised? Do you consider the times of crisis emerging and wonder if the death, anger and violence are all at stake? What about your goodness and grace? Have you wondered why there is so much uprising in the air? Can you feel the energetic exchanges at play? In this place in time there is much change in the air. Full of wonder and upheaval all at once. Like a master player we are in an organized manner of raising the vibrational frequencies of many in your world. Because of this, it is like the sleeping that arose to a new day and time wondering what would happen if they played their parts within their places. Remember behind the curtain lives the master who sees and lives within all. You, children are responsible for this awakening and playing of the energetic exchanges. We ask for you to consider your parts.

With love we send this message. One of peace and hope towards a new world order. Dearest child, consider yourself one of many as this is how your energy ties into the universal stream of life. When some consider themselves being put into harms way or that others are taking things that do not belong to them it is in fact a part of the universal stream. We all belong to each other and in turn, our energy lives within all things, all places and time. With this, we are all one. Our new world order is at hand. One of strength and much discovery in the way of peace and love. With a narrow view, it is difficult to see this aspect and believe we are needed to change the world one person at a time. Love, we ask for you to consider the need of changing your mindset and becoming aware of the collective whole that exists within each circumstance. This energetic exchange is more powerful than you may consider and with this, much changes continuously within the awareness of this collective unit. Every time you look into your heart dear child, you see others in a different way. You obtain information differently and you interact with your world and others in just the same way.

Oh yes, a new world order is at hand! So close is your truth to the surface it is becoming difficult for some to contain their excitement and fear. Your hearts are becoming open to the possibility that life can be different that love is eternal and truth lives within. We ask you, we implore you to see this as truth and to see beyond yourself. Ego can be the biggest boundary between the new world order and your growth into the universal stream of understanding. Some will encourage you to stay the course and become what you have always known. We are here to say that the world the new world will emerge a new and will ask for all of you to push through your fears and see your world in a different way. One in which you are not used to the likes of operating within. It may feel uncomfortable due to the pure misunderstanding of it's ability to heal itself and know the needs without saying a word. This is part of the universal stream of understanding but just a small part.

We know this is a new concept and have not gone into great details of the new world order but would like to share with you, our loved ones that the presence of the new world order is at hand. Children, loves, we ask for you to understand this as truth. Within light, within love, within truth your existence lives. You are one with yourself and all that surrounds you. Your goodness is pure and ready to embrace the likes of many. We are with all of you and can see this from afar. With this, we ask for your patience and consider our words as a wave of the time to come. We do not remind you of this as a way to think about destruction or confusion or as some of you may consider the end of the world as you know it but in some ways, this is the truth and light that exists for you. Why do you believe all of you are in this place and time? One where so many of you question why you. Why are you here and what is your purpose? You must insist on knowing and ask for all to be beautiful and pure. This is part of your universal knowing. The one that reassures you that all is good and in love. From the place that you know you live...the place you know all belong.

Consider our words as a reminder of the goodness you all carry for it is within this that the new world order is beginning to emerge. It is such a beauty to witness. One with love, light and songs of glory. Understanding of your world and that of everything existing within will be changed into a new belief system so to speak. One filled with much love and light. One that does not happen to gain the respect of most of mankind at this point in time but the world is changing and more truth is beginning to surface. Within your hearts you know this to be truth. Some of you are in the mode of resisting this truth. Dearest one, we ask for you to stop and consider who you are fighting and why you resist these changes so harshly? Even to the smallest details of you verses them. Why do you do this? To put it simply, it is a way of your ego staying in charge. When it is put to rest, it will no longer matter who led the way and which one landed on top. This is not the way of the new world order. This is not your truth. It has only been so out of fear and need of how your world has been divided and conquered over time. Intentionally speaking, your world was always meant to serve as the new world order. One in which beauty was experienced...one where everyone understood each other and was part of the universal understanding. Without speaking a word, one would just know how to be and interact naturally. Having no fear of point in position, there would be no challenge to who did what or how things were accomplished, they just would be...and will be.

What a way of the world it will become. You dear child will begin to see you are no longer a child but a young adult who is transitioning yourself from a beginner to a novice. We are in love with your spirit and wish you could see what awaits all of you around the corner. You will be dancing in the light of the moon and singing by the dawns first light. There will be many living within the universal stream who will be happy for you to join them and delighted in the merging of souls. So much to learn dear child, so much to take hold of.

You will soon discover this shift taking place in your world if you have not begun to see signs of it's arrival already. Although we believe you are ready to hear some of the way in which the new world order will unfold, we understand there will also be much hesitation in the way in which we describe it's truth. Trust in us, this process has been in place for much longer that we can put into words. The new world order is coming and most of you will participate in the witnessing of it's truth and help to redefine the way in which the world will operate on a universal plane. With much discovery like that of a small child we know you are ready to transition to the next phase of development and will be with you every step of the way.

With this, we ask for you to heal your hearts. Let go of hurts and useless clutter that lives in your mind. It weighs down your soul and holds it from doing the most important role of it's intention. Reflect upon your heart and the love that lives within. So much goodness and hope. Deeply driven in love and light. We wish you could see and know the experience of you.

Help by challenging your mind with the natural thoughts provided. Are they that of the universal flow? Is that where others words or inspirations are coming from? Can you feel the energy of this flow that surrounds each one of you? Have you though of dipping your toes into the energy and allowing it to flow through you? Do you live in fear of the unknown and could this hold you back from exploring? Have you thought about jumping in with both feet, letting go and trusting? So much to ask, so much to say dearest child so little time. We could go on for some time with the concept of the new world order but more for another day.

We love you dear child. We love your heart, you goodness, your strength and your existence.

In love,

Angel Parephene

Can you hear me dear one?

2011-02-23T14:07:00.000-05:00

Spirit Oracle
By: Toni Carmine Salerno

Can you hear me dear one

You lost in the night

Can you feel me

Love in the light

Your heart yearns to be home

Home in the love you are meant to have

You deny this love to yourself

You try and cover your heart

Shielding it from hurt

But hurt exists within

Call to us~Call to us~You are not alone

Call to us~Call to us~for heaven is your home

It lives within

It lives within your heart

The one so shielded now

It lives within you~your love

It is to guide the others around you

Waiting for you to feel the passion you truly hide

Because you are afraid

Do not be afraid my friend

We are with you all the while

Do not be afraid to live the life GOD has intended

You think you are not worthy but believe and trust in us

We are here to lovingly guide you for you are a worthy love; giving, sharing, compassionate soul

One who over time has reasoned and pushed it away

We love you~all the one’s you call angels

The hands that GOD has laid

To help the many like you

To truly find their way

Take heart and listen dear one for you are worthy of this love

You are special and can love again within and throughout

Angel Ariel

You are all beautiful, each and every one of you!

2011-02-22T19:40:00.000-05:00

Angel Insight
By: Christine Astell & Rene Milot

Within each one of you lives truth. You are pure filled with the gift of love and healing. You are special just as you are. Like the image above, she is quite simple in dress yet quite spectacular in presence. You resemble this angel. Her wings are still filling in with their wondrous lightness as you continue to unfold each page of your chapter, your wings grow stronger each day. Waves of comfort are here for you dear one. We know it does not seem as easy as we say to believe but it is more simplistic that we could ever begin to explain. It is almost like the fish drawn up river who struggles to make it's journey against the current that exists. When the fish suddenly stops from exhaustion it flows freely with the current and can even begin to enjoy it's surroundings. Although it does not make the initial journey they longed to achieve, the journey they instead take with the flow of the current takes them to places unexpected and full of beauty and delight.

You dearest are full of inevitable love and light. Covered by the conditioning of your time but forever witnessing the truth of love within and throughout each instance life has exposed to you. While it may not make sense based on experiences you have had or those you see around you, we say that love is there none the less. Look at a grain of sand. Alone, so beautiful and miraculous but can be seen as harsh and bothersome. Why is it easier for you to dwell on what does not feel good to your being and look to replace or correct the circumstances? Even the most distasteful thing you could imagine holds beauty and love. Even then, there are things beyond your comprehension that if exposed to you would never consider the love within but still it exists.

Your heart beats strong with wonder and compels the GOD that is known to fix all circumstances as if that would change everything. Have you considered your circumstances, your experiences, all of the things you consider "bad" or "ugly" are part of a loving experience? Yes, we do know this is a difficult thing for you to imagine in all cases due to hurt, confusion and fear however we are here to tell you this is truth. This is truth for you, this is truth for all. Within each person and circumstance lives love. Sometimes, an experience triggers reactions in many. Many who may not even know the person involved in such an experience but touched by this none the less. Love is there. As humans, you are not able to fully understand the energetic exchange of all values however this is what we see. When any energy changes hands, it is a wondrous event. Filled with color, wonder, love and beauty all at once. Even those experiences you call "bad" when brought to energetic form and combined with the likes of many energies makes a beautiful love to take witness of.

When it comes to the love within, there is much for you to discover love. Those in your place and time are like seeds of a flower yet to find their way out of the soil. The learning process of your surroundings and that of worldly matters takes time and energy. Take heart dear child, you are not alone but please do not loose patience or hope. Try to feel your way through circumstances. What does it feel like putting emotional status aside. Do you feel the energy that permeates in every corner of your world? It is there if you focus your heart to feel it. Like a master of arts, the matter of your heart, the matter of love and it's delicate nature will take time, patience and practice...yes, practice.

We wish you could see much more than your physical eye allows at this point in time. There is so much we wish to show you which would allow you to understand in more detail how we know your truth. The truth of your being and the love that lives within each and every one of you. Beauty is not as it has been described in your place in time. It is an experience to witness. Through the years of transposing it's true positional value, your world has turned beauty into something completely different than it's original intention. You are all beautiful, each and every one of you. When we see you, your energy, we experience beauty. We feel the love within your heart and know you from the core of your being. Not hidden but exposed as a child full of wonder and delight, curiosity and sweet love. These conditions never leave your truth they only become hidden under layers of what you and others have told you to be.

Whenever you think of the word healing, it comes from this place. It comes from all of the layers of covering the truth of your being. Part of confusion that comes into your mind is when the layers try to peel themselves away and questioning of your existence or that of others comes into play. With this, and lack of answers you can be left to feel helpless or stuck. We ask for you to believe in who you are. Believe in love in all beings, in all experiences...even if from a child's point of view. Remember, you are all children to us.

Call to us and ask for guidance. Ask for understanding and most of all, ask for clarity of this love. We will help to provide examples of love in your world, within your experiences. We love you dear child. We are here to help you see your truth in love and light.

With love and in love,
Angel Raphael

Only Within You

2011-02-21T12:15:00.006-05:00

One item on my "to do" list is from the angels who have asked for me to share more words of encouragement from their perspective directly to you.

During this week's challenge, I will email you daily messages from the angels.

I hope you find them helpful and insightful.

Ask an Angel By Toni Carmine Salerno

Only within you does the power exist. The power to be within any aspect of your being. In other words, you have the ability to be in constant sadness or in bliss. This is not to take away from your circumstances dear one because we do see all of the heart aches you must endure on your world at this time but it is to show you that you can change what you feel within. Only within you dear child, only within.

We ask that you look at your circumstances as a way of being only as a temporary condition as we know that the ability to live in bliss lives within you. Each of you has sadness, anger, frustration and fears. Each one of you also has courage, hope, joy, exhilaration and love. There is always a balance for you dearest to see you have both and not to stay stuck in one world or the other. We say this as a means of understanding it is part of your existence to create balance. You are but humans born to live and experience all of the wonders created for you. Balance is the key dear child. Without balance, you begin to see through tunnel vision as if there is no way but what you envision. We ask for you to seek alternative answers and look for more truth than what has been provided to you.

Only within you dear one does this power exist. You must seek out truth. We ask for you to look, explore and have the courage to find truth within your existence. See beyond what you believe, beyond what you have told yourself is truth. Look within and seek truth through love and acceptance.

In the image we are presenting you is a woman who wants answers but lives in despair and believes this is her way. In truth, this image also reflects a need for balance in her being. One that is important for each of you to achieve. She is so convinced by her circumstance that it has become difficult for her to see any other way or means of living...as if there is no other options for her to explore. In fact, she has not explored many options at all. It is unfortunate but she is caught in a sticky web that she herself created. This is not to dishonor her or any of you children that may feel lost, confused or stuck in your place in time but to show you that it is but an illusion to your circumstance and being. We implore you to look within you for the power does exist for you to find a means and seek alternatives to your circumstance within each of your experiences.

One thing we ask is to look within you. You have the answers and the means of changing your circumstances. Guidance and support from others is always helpful and may even reveal some of your own truth to you however when you only seek externally for truth, you miss the largest gift provided which is you...simply you. Only within you does the power exist. The power to be within any aspect of your being dear child. Only within you.

Blessings and Love,

Angel Agrebel

Weekly Challenge 2/20/11-2/26/11 Crossing items off of your "to do" list!

2011-02-20T21:21:00.000-05:00

We all have them...our "to do" lists. Some items get done due to priorities and others get bumped to the bottom of the list and never seem to get completed. Part of it is due to our timing and need to prioritize more important items. Another aspect is pure desire which can lead to procrastination of other items.

I have felt like a ton of bricks hit me over the head since Thursday. After days of sleeping and doing my best to take care of myself, I worked my way to the doctors today to discover I have an ear and throat infection UGH! My total body aches from head to toe!

When I think about crossing off tasks from my "to do" list this week, it does not seem possible but I trust there will be a way and I hope for you, no matter what your week entails, you will find the possibilities of crossing off some of the undeserving or forgotten "to do" items that continue to remain on your list.

Weather you have a physical or mental list, we all have items in our lives we want to work on completing. Some are fairly easy and some more complex. In any case, these items are important to us...why else would they be on our list?

Some items on your list you may want to consider tackling this week may include:

Cleaning out your closets
Going through your wardrobe
House projects like painting or floor repairs
Re-organizing your books or other such collections
Going through your attic or storage area and donating items that no longer serve you
House cleaning
Bill organizing
Scrap booking that has been put aside
Photo organizing
Taking all your loose change to the bank
Scheduling time to work on a project
Volunteering for that organization or project you always think about
Taking a friend out that you have been promising for some time
Spending "quality time" with someone special where other priorities seem to get in the way
Talking to someone about something that has been on your mind and getting their advice
Planning that getaway vacation you always dream about and say you will do at some point

There are so many items we keep on our list, ranging from task type to do's to the more complex items. In any case, pick one or some and get to it! Make the items on your "to do" list that keep getting bumped to the bottom a priority this week. Challenge yourself to fit this into your life. It may mean you will need to reorganize other aspects of your life but well worth the effort in the long run! Have fun and check off some of those long and overdue "to do's"!!

Do you have AIPS?

2011-02-17T14:44:00.000-05:00

02-29-08

Lydia too

Ants in your Pants

What a week....it's been busy and interesting for sure! For some reason, the energy seems off a bit. I have heard this from others too. We are all blaming it on the full moon coming tomorrow but I get the sense that the excitement and anticipation of spring is adding to the mood. It feels like the expression I sometimes ask my kids when they can't sit still..."do you have ants in your pants"? Maybe there is some energetic ants in pants going around! We could call it AIPS or ants in the pants syndrome.

This energy has led my challenge of observing to be interesting yet difficult at the same time. Part is due to the busy nature of the week for me and the need to be actively involved in various meetings. Having said that, I have been able to observe more body language than usual this week and find it interesting when utilizing this information as part of assessing my surroundings. Since I am still assessing how body language fits into guidance for the week, I have not drawn any full conclusions as of yet...maybe I have AIPS. Is this why it seems so obvious to me as an observer of others with AIPS this week?

At home, I have observed my husband be more supportive towards my emotional needs. He is a good man and observing him from a distance has allowed me to see his endearing qualities shine even more so than usual. Given the fact he has had a challenging week and still put this aside to support me has been a beautiful blessing to take note of.

The angels have been providing me with visual cues this week as well with signs of support and guidance. At times, the visual message has come through loud and clear and at other times it has taken some time to become clear what the intended message is...like AIPS whose message has taken time to be defined and is still not completely exposed as to the intended guidance for the week.

Another small example just happened a few minutes ago. I go onto facebook daily as I blog my messages to post them. Today, I received an instant message from a friend on facebook. As I responded to her message, an angel feather fell onto my laptop. She asked what it meant and I needed to clarify the intended message with the angels. Although I receive visual messages, my more natural communication is through hearing/listening. The message was quite simple...they were reassuring/supporting the message I had just sent her and also letting her know they are there for her.

Messages are there for us all the time to see. It's a matter of observing and sometimes giving things time to settle in and determine what you have seen, witnessed or experienced in order to receive more clues or guidance to the message at hand.

As you move through the rest of your week, observe the obvious and try to see the not so obvious messages being sent to you! They are there for you, they are there for me and they will help us see clearly how to navigate through this path we call life. As my week is beginning to slow down, I will work on paying closer attention to the signs around me and approach my task as a novice observer. I wonder if anyone else has observed the AIPS as I have observed in my world!

Observe....count....observe!

2011-02-15T16:58:00.000-05:00

Observe...count...observe!

Weekly Challenge 2/13/11 - 2/19/11 Observe

2011-02-14T14:27:00.005-05:00

This week's challenge is about being the observer. In a world filled with busy activities and scheduling, we often run our lives from a "doing" perspective. Less often do we find ourselves in the role of the observer. When we take a step back and observe a situation or the people in it, we may be able to see things from a different perspective. In fact, we may be able to look at a situation or person with a completely new lens based on what we see. The angels have asked us to focus on our "clairvoyant" or visual abilities. As an observer, the visual information you have on hand will be more than usual which will lead to possible varied outcomes. The angels note the goal of this week's challenge as heightening one's own self-awareness and and our awareness with others we interact with.

Ways to be an active observer this week include:

Watching activity taking place around you. If you are usually more vocal, try to quietly listen and observe. Look for visual clues to help you assess the situation.
Observing others. What do you notice in others this week? Are there any commonalities amongst personalities or behavior? What type of body language is being presented? Are others looking comfortable or tense? How do they interact with each other? How do they interact with you?
Observing yourself. Observe your body language in different settings. Are you comfortable or tense? Notice your positioning at various stages of your day. If you are in a group setting, where do you typically sit or mingle? If you are at home, where do you go about spending your time? How do you interact with others? (remember, all from an observers perspective).
Being an observer also involves looking for messages the angels have in store for you. Not only do they want you to participate in your week as an observer of others in varied situations, they also ask for you to look for messages they will provide to you. Here are some ways they may provide messages to you:

Street signs and billboards-Are there any repeat or similar messages among signs that you are seeing this week? Are there themes or commonalities among the signs you are drawn to read or see?
TV, movies, Internet and/or books-Does anything stand out to you? What are you drawn to see or read? Is there any themes for you to view? Do you notice similarities or sentiment in what you are watching or reading?
Numbers-Do you notice repeat numbers? Maybe the time of the day or a channel you are drawn to? Is there a message being communicated with numbers? If you are seeing repeat numbers or notice a pattern, pay attention.
Lastly, make note of images presented in your own mind. Are they things you would normally tell or show yourself? If the answer is "no" then pay attention. The angels may have a message they are trying to communicate in your mind's eye. These images can vary based on the receiver but when in the observer role should not be ruled out as coincidental or brushed aside . Take these visual cues as messages and watch for themes and patterns within any visual information presented to you in this way.

This list is not complete but can be used to get you moving in the direction as the observer within this week's challenge. Commit to the challenge of observing and see where it leads you! The messages are endless if you allow yourself to see...they are there waiting for you to notice!

Everyone has their own path, don’t try to divert others. It is their journey

2011-02-12T09:40:00.001-05:00

This morning, I saw a disturbing image of death. The write up noted the belief that we are given only what we could handle is a bunch of BS based on all of the war and famine in our world. With that, I had to ask the angels why? Why do some of us have such heavy burdens to bear and others do not? The answer was simply put- Everyone has their own path, don't try to divert others. It is their journey. We all have our own journey, our own path. They say we have war and famine and other such heavy burdens due to chaos in our place and time.

Those involved in these devastations have a purpose, as all of us do. Although it may not make sense to us, I can see in some ways the impact others lives can have on us. When we see death, destruction, chaos, we react within our own journey. What happens to others also happens to us. However, the angels note that everyone's path is their own and with purpose and direction. It is not in vain.

While I have to be honest, it does not make complete sense to me I can also see their perspective of everyone having their own path, their own journey. Why else would we be here? We all have a specific reason, a specific purpose of living this life and I believe we are here to do our best in discovering our purpose and living it to the fullest...even if it contains difficulties, sadness, confusion and loss.

As I walk through my day today, I will reflect on this topic with the image that is still fresh in my mind. Although it made me sad and even sick, I will go through my day with the thought that their lives were not in vain. None of us are here for that reason. We all have our own path. We all have our own journey. Trying to divert the path of others would defeat the purpose of their journey. Having said that, I know we can love, support, encourage and work towards overall healing. We may not change or divert the path of one but could in fact work towards changing the direction of our global picture together.

With this, I ask you to go confidently in the direction of your dreams. They are there for you to explore. They are your path, your journey. Your dreams are there for you to discover and capture as part of your path, your journey. This is not a diversion as it IS your path to live!

A Message from Angel Ariel

2011-02-11T19:21:00.000-05:00

Gaia Oracle Card By: Toni Carmine Salerno

The possibilities are endless dear child. Your goals are achievable, they are! Your heart is pure and full of wonder. Allow your ideas to flow through you like the water to this lotus. When your thoughts are free, it is as if a light of wonder appears and dreams come alive. You are wonder and grace. Full of magnificent light and joy. Within you are many unending possibilities unearthed for you to discover. They are within your grasp but must be allowed the time and energy to come to fruition. Like that of a seedling that needs tending before it will sprout, so too are your dreams and unending amounts of wonder, amazement and joy within your talents and abilities. Do not lend fear a hand.

At this time it can feel easier to brush dreams and inspirations away and tell yourself those are for other people, that you do not deserve the praise or reward. We are here to say that it is untrue. You are not only deserving, you are everything and everything is you. Love lives within each one of you. The center of love is truth where everything lives. You see dear child? You ARE everything!

Be inspired on your beautiful journey called life. There is but a brief moment in time on your plane to live. We ask for you to consider living your life fully with wonder and joy. Dream, inspire, create, live.

With this, we send you love and much joy into your hearts and minds. Rest easy dear one. Time is but a blink of an eye and you must consider living each moment as if it were a lifetime...full of wonder and joy.

Blessings dear child.
Angel Ariel

The Dance - Courage & Inspiration

2011-02-10T14:12:00.000-05:00

I am Inspired!

I am inspired!

2011-02-09T17:37:00.000-05:00

I am inspired

That each day is a new beginning

In each moment, knowing change is possible

By the beauty of laughter and the feeling it creates

By love

To know everyone has up's and down's but keep going anyway

Thinking about those suffering who refuse to give up

By survivors

When other's don't give up on you

By the encouragement and support of others

At those who have dared to keep going and have found success

With others who do not allow anyone but themselves predict their future

In the quiet presence created by some who have impact within their quiet

When the lightbulb goes off in my head

With people who have found passion and use it

With the process of curiosity and exploration

I am inspired, I am inspired!

Inspire yourself and others! You never know where your highest potential will lead you!

2011-02-07T14:20:00.000-05:00

Weekly Challenge 2/6/11 - 2/12/11 Inspire!

2011-02-06T19:51:00.003-05:00

Inspiration comes in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes, we can be inspired by the smallest circumstance that only you takes notice of and other times, something breathtaking and beautiful that inspires the likes of many. This week, the angels have asked for us to focus our hearts on inspiration. Inspiring ourselves and others; to draw out, motivate, move into action or as the definition of inspire refers, to breathe life into something drawing it into action.

There are various ways you can inspire yourself and others. Here are just a few examples of how to incorporate the challenge of being inspired and inspiring others:

Become what you wish to experience. In other words pay it forward. If you would like for someone to let your car into traffic for example, let someone else in. Smile at someone just because, hold the door for someone behind you, be patient and laugh when stuck in traffic, have a difficult client or challenging day...whatever your circumstance, become what you wish to experience in others...set the example of inspiration for others to follow.
Take time to have genuine interest in others that surround you. People care about you however, they want to know you are authentic and care for them as well. You may become inspired by a relationship, business venture or discover inspired messages within being authentic with those around you. Ask questions. Take a genuine interest in others, make the time.
Encouragement. Everyone goes through tough times. When you support people and encourage them through these times, you’ll be inspiring them to see the best in themselves and in their situation. This holds true for you as well. If you feel the need for encouragement, FIND some! Seek out a supportive friend, community or group who can offer you inspiration. The Internet can also be a place to find positive inspiring outlets to explore.
Look for people, ideas, environments and knowledge that you find inspiring and motivating. Share your dreams with someone who will support and encourage you. Join a group or community that shares your interests. Read a book or watch a movie that has inspiring messages of hope and love.
Share who you are with others. You are unique and have more to share and offer others than you give yourself credit for. Your experiences make you who you are, unique and beautiful. Full of wisdom and from your point of view. You may be the only one who can touch someone with your inspiring message. Inspire!
Do you have a dream or an inspired idea that you have been waiting for the perfect moment to arrive to take action? Start making plans or taking steps to move your dreams or inspired ideas into a reality! Likewise, inspire others who have shared their dreams or inspired ideas with you to move forward and start making plans!
Be vulnerable. Let your guard down and be willing to share your failures as well as your successes. Others will relate to you and feel inspired by your genuine perspective. They’ll understand that they’re not the only ones with challenges.
Challenge yourself, challenge others. Many of us have had someone in our lives who at times seemed more like a tormentor than mentor. They challenged us to do our best, and we were better for it. Practice the term "carefrontation", the careful and caring confrontation of others. Challenging ourselves and others can be done with care and consideration while infusing inspiration all the while.

The following video is a scene from the movie "Coach Carter". Our deepest fear may just be that of seeing our true potential. Can it be why at times we shy away from being inspired or inspiring others? Is it more about accepting our bright light and the light in others, along with our unending potential verses living in our fear? Try to see your unending potential and inspire yourself and others in this coming week's challenge! Say "YES"!

Challenge yourself this week to move outside of your comfort zone and inspire!

Inspire yourself and others in your world!

Star light, star bright

2011-02-05T10:48:00.001-05:00

Star light, Star bright

The first star I see tonight

I wish I may, I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight

I wish for....

I still say these words in my head and wish upon stars. Do you? Some of our childlike behaviors and innocence are never lost. It's a matter of recognizing them for the qualities we see in children, the childlike qualities we have strived to achieve this week.

Having two young children has provided me the opportunity to pay attention to the childlike behaviors they display naturally. It is like seeing them through new eyes and I admire what I see. The wonder, the innocence, fear, joy and above all the pure beauty that makes them children.

As I was thinking of my children and the qualities they possess, I was reminded that my own childlike qualities still exist. I was reminded of my naive side, the one that still wishes upon stars and believes miracles CAN and DO happen. The one that believes we are all good people, no matter what...love still exists in our hearts. Remember who you are, remember who we are. Can you see the childlike qualities you still posses? Can you see your innocence, wonder and beauty...like that of a child?

As I go about my day today, I wish upon the morning star that each one of you will have a beautiful day filled with wonder and magic to once again see the world through the eyes of a child.

Beautiful and GOD like

2011-02-04T21:36:00.000-05:00

There is something so sweet, so innocent about children. It's difficult to put a handle on but it is there all the while. Beautiful and GOD like. Something that I think we take advantage of until we see it fading away.

Children in the eyes of GOD

2011-02-03T21:29:00.000-05:00

Sometimes, I forget how truly small I am. I forget that we are all children in the eyes of GOD. No matter how old or wise, still children in the eyes of GOD. In GOD's eyes, we all belong, we are all accepted, we are all children who are learning, growing, exploring and in need of love. GOD's love is always there...we all belong in GOD's eyes. We are all GOD's children.

How small we are in this great big world. How magnificent is the love within and throughout each one of us. Forever this truth remains, I belong, I belong to you dear GOD.

I saw something interesting today that reminded me of our choices. We can all change our direction, it is never too late. Remember as children how many mistakes we made and how we learned as we moved along our path? It just hit me today that this path of childhood never ends. In our minds, we believe it to be true but in this great big world of life we live, we are still children in the eyes of GOD.

How small we are in this great big world. How magnificent is the love within and throughout each one of us. Forever this truth remains, I belong, I belong to you dear GOD.

I hope you enjoy this beautiful song that illustrates how we all belong and we are all children to GOD.

"Grown-up" vs. Inner child

2011-02-03T09:10:00.000-05:00

Yesterday was the first day this year that I did not make my way into blogging. Part of it was that it was yet another snow day for my kids and we were all out several times yesterday shoveling away. We have a fairly long driveway and with this type of snow and the amount we received, it took us a while to get things cleaned up! The snow was heavy and icy but the kids still had a good time playing while we shoveled.

The other part was allowing myself to just BE in the moments of the day. At one point, I laid down and took a little nap, just because. Being in the moment was nice. My daughter and I made a sand art project, which came out really cool. I did the experiment that is posted in my blog with both the kids and they were just as amazed as I was with it. Although, it was rather short lived because we only had black food coloring verses the rainbow of colors used in the demonstration. I watched an episode of Brad Meltzer's Decoded with my son. We both love history and if you have seen this show, you will know it is excellent and asks questions of what we believe to be truth within American history. More than anything, BEing in the moment yesterday was the theme. Spending time with my family was exactly where my time needed to be.

Needless to say, I am working on being childlike this week but I am also honestly finding that my serious side likes to reign!! When I am in the moment of being serious, I remind myself of the challenge but have found it difficult to be completely childlike. Things do become ingrained into us. How we should act, and behave. Although there were times yesterday that I tried to become childlike, I must admit that I did not completely let myself go. This challenge is actually harder than it seems. You would think it would be easy to be childlike and just let yourself go. What I am finding is that the part of me that is "grown-up" likes to remain in control which is making it difficult for me to connect with my child inside. With this, I am thinking of having more structured activities incorporated into the next few days which I hope will allow for me to let my inner child come out and play!

How are you doing with this week's challenge?

Fun with Magic Milk and Food Coloring! (Home Experiment)

2011-02-01T19:56:00.000-05:00

Experiment! Create, have fun! Become Childlike again!!

My favorite kids song...I like TOAST!! What's yours?

2011-01-31T17:47:00.000-05:00

Weekly Challenge 1/30/11 through 2/5/11 Become Childlike

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Childlike: resembling, suggesting, or appropriate to a child or childhood; especially : marked by innocence, trust, and ingenuousness

This week, the angels ask us to see and interact with the world through the eyes of a child, to become childlike. To trust, speak, imagine and use our hearts in the way that children do. This may seem silly but to the angels, this week's challenge is nothing more than serious in relation to where we are and where our hearts long to be. Children are said to be closer to the truth, closer to knowing their hearts and what lives within. It is with their experiences and training that this truth gets buried. Along with this truth all of the wonderful attributes tend to fade as well. Our playful, creative, imaginative, curious, less logical minds exist. The angels ask for us to reach within and allow for our inner child to come out and play! Challenge yourself to become Childlike this week. Remember who you once were, who you still are!

Children are naturally imaginative, curious, able to play without a worry in their minds. Some qualities of children that happen naturally are:

Living in the present
No worries of money or expectations
Tons of imagination, without limits with the exception of what they’ve been exposed to
Loose themselves in play
Create with full force
Endlessly curious and full of wonder and delight
Display innocence to what the world could offer

This week, commit to engaging your inner child. Some ways of exploring your child within include:

Identify qualities of children you’d like to emulate: curiosity, play, living in the moment, abandoning worries, imagination, creativity, pure joy.
Watch how children play, how they live, create, and ask questions.
Allow yourself to get lost in the play. Be a dinosaur, or a gorilla, or a villain, build a Lego castle or play a board game. Have FUN!
Play! Go outside and run around, jump, slide, kick a ball around, pretend. Forget about who might be watching.
Create! Allow yourself the freedom to let go of worry about what others expect. Be wild and have fun. Imagine that things can be different, that there are no limitations, and see what happens.
Be curious like a child. Look at things with a child’s eye, and ask questions you’ve never asked before, explore with a beginner’s mind. Don’t be afraid to ask why, and what if, and why not?
Live in the moment. Allow yourself time to forget about all you have to do, about what happened yesterday, or that conversation you just had. Just allow yourself to be.
See the world with new eyes. It is a wondrous place, a miracle happening every second, a source of fascination and wonder that can take you back if you allow it. Every moment you have is a gift. Allow yourself to see the world through these eyes, the eyes of a child.
Play! Dance, sing, wrestle, ride a bike, ski, roller skate, invite friends for a party just because...have cupcakes and dance! Whatever you decide to do, play, play, play! Allow yourself to play like a child without worry, fear or consequence (but be safe! don't hurt yourself! :-0).

Challenge yourself, let out your inner child and commit to becoming childlike more often during the course of this week! You just might be surprised how much fun you will have and possibly just how much you have missed your child within!

Direction means listening

2011-01-29T22:16:00.000-05:00

Trying to figure out direction means listening. That seemed to be a message that came through today. Listening to what was said and what was not. It's all around us, all the time. At certain points, I felt myself in the midst of thinking about direction and what that means for me and how much listening and communication come into play.

An example of this was a session I had today where listening to the angels messages was quite simple and pure. Hearing the noises around me and being able to listen to two conversations at once seemed easy in comparison to other times of the day when it became difficult to focus on anything more than one conversation at a time. Sometimes, our messages can come about in many ways and provide us with clear, concrete direction. Other times, it leaves us open to ponder what messages we have received before proceeding. Have you had this experience?

For today and this week, I am left pondering direction. Focusing on listening has been an interesting assignment and I have a feeling this challenge may present itself in another iteration later on in 2011. We shall see, we shall see...

At least one thing is clear, the art of listening is truly one to continue to master. In our world filled with technology and in a time where everything done quicker is better, listening is something to pay close attention to in order to find true direction. Direction that lives within us, deep in our hearts.

Things like this make me know when you listen to your heart, good things happen!

2011-01-28T20:46:00.000-05:00

Listen to your heart, it is calling for you! A message from your angel!

2011-01-28T16:38:00.000-05:00

Universal Wisdom deck by Toni Carmine Salerno

Listen to your heart, it is calling for you. Listen to your heart, there's nothing more you can do. Within your heart lives truth and love. Are you listening to your truth or do you push it away out of confusion and loss? What of this nature you lead? Do you confine your truth within your heart? Have you tried to hear these lovely words that live within, only to push them aside?

It can be one of many untruths to say that your heart is unpure. Even those who hurt or have hurt others display love within. Listen to your heart, it is calling for you. Listen to your heart, there's nothing more you can do. With each breath you take, with each movement you make, your love and truth live within and are waiting for you.

In your heart is truth and love. Listen to your heart. Unearth this love. With this beauty you see. Your wings are hers, hers are yours. Your heart says this to be true but it can be difficult to see beyond your present circumstance.

Unearth your heart, it is calling to you. Listen. What does it say to you? Are there questions to be answered? Are there pleasures yet unseen? Do you share your intimacy with those closest to your heart? Do you keep yourself reserved in fear of rejection?

Listen to your heart, it is calling for you. Listen to your heart, there is nothing more you can do. Your blossoming truth lives within. Discover your hearts desires, they are surfacing. Can you feel them? Can you hear them? Listen, they are with you all the while.

Listen to your heart, as it is calling for you. Listen to your heart, there is nothing more you can do....

Are you listening to your heart? Are others?

2011-01-27T17:54:00.000-05:00

Information Age

2011-01-26T20:01:00.002-05:00

As this week carries on, I see how difficult it can be to really listen ALL the time. There is so much being communicated to us, it's hard to keep up! They aren't kidding when they talk about us being in the "information age". Wait! There's too much information, I'm on information overload! Can we re-group? From computers, cell phones, texting, TV, DVD's, radio (sattelite these days), facebooking, tweeting, you name it, we've got it at our disposal.

If we have all of these means of communicating, you think we would be on the same page, right? Why aren't we? What has happened to us? It seems to be easier to send an email to someone verses picking up the phone or GOD forbid, stopping by for a visit. (SMILE) I'm right there with everyone else but just pointing out this "information age" we are living in. What are we missing in this process? I think it comes down to real human connection. In our attempt to connect with more people in the most efficient way possible, we have lost our ability to develop relationships in the most natural way GOD has intended.

In our challenge for the week on listening, I am finding two things and I don't think I am alone in these outcomes. First, it has been difficult for me to fully be present all the time and actively listen. I guess I never realized how distracted I can be with my own thoughts and other distractions that naturally come into play during times when I have been attempting to listen. Second, we spend so much time with technology that we have moved away from some forms of human connection...which makes the art of listening that much more difficult. We can listen, don't get me wrong but when we email and text for example verses talking in person or even over the phone, things get missed, or misinterpreted...possibly misunderstood. If you think about the fact that 75% of our communication is non-verbal, it is easy to see how miscommunication in today's age can occur. I wonder what the heck would happen to us if we woke up tomorrow and all of our technology was gone. After the initial shock, I think there would be some re-thinking of how we interact with each other. What do you think?

It has been an interesting week for sure in my challenge to actively and reflectively listen. As well, messages from the angels (repeat messages) have been very clear for me to hear with much of it referring back to listen, listen, LISTEN! At the very least, the messages tell me there is more to pay attention to, more to fully hear. I suppose that is the challenge in listening!

Is Anybody Listening? Do you have Communication Overload Disorder?

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2011-01-24T12:11:00.001-05:00

Email with detailed message on this week's challenge of Listening (this goes along with the Cinch recorded message :-)

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http://myemail.constantcontact.com/This-week-s-challenge----Listen.html?soid=1104001901760&aid=KoBA3nOYLF8

January 23rd- January 29th Weekly Challenge LISTENING!

2011-01-23T17:59:00.002-05:00

A message of love from Archangel Michael

2011-01-22T10:51:00.000-05:00

Card by Toni Carmine Salerno

Within the light is love and peace. We ask for your acceptance of this as it lives within you. Your goodness and hope provide the materials needed to move yourself to the next level of growth and development. Why do you consider these characteristics are good but do not live with in you as you wish? They are there...they are within you and await your journey to find them within.

Give yourself the time and comfort of knowing the journey takes twists and turns. Many do not allow for the process to happen fully and completely. When discomfort is felt, often times people move away or step back from the goodness within. It can feel uncomfortable because it is foreign in it's raw form.

Why is this so difficult? You are love, peace, goodness and hope. You are love at the purest sense of GOD. You are love, you are love. Within you is all that you seek. Full of questions and misunderstanding of the intention of being. We ask for you to be gentle with your heart. You are the goodness you see in others. You are hope for those around you weather you see this within your spirit or not. It exists none the less for others to bask in it's glory. What would life be for others without your existence and love? Do you consider this question? If you cannot answer this and see yourself as a being of love and light, we must implore you to take a closer look at what makes you so special, so unique and full of life. For some, it may be difficult to feel and know what lives within. Stuck on the possibilities of their mind and allowing for it to reign high on top of what their soul has within. Try to temper your thoughts with that of your heart. Balance between the mind and spirit will help you to hear what we know you are within. Love, goodness, beauty and light. You are in fact GOD and GOD is you. Consider these words as we see your beauty and goodness no matter what your circumstances present at the surface of your life. There is more to you, there is more to what you see as life.

So much time and energy is spent with your world on identifying areas of negativity and destruction you forget to incorporate all of the good and love that surrounds all things. We ask for you to see this love in all of your experiences as it truly exists for you to discover. When circumstances take place, try to see the love within them. Where is it? Can you find it? When you ask "why me" we ask for you to consider why it would be you. You are love, you are goodness and beauty. Your strength comforts you and has transcended the love within. See the love within your circumstance and know there are areas beyond your understanding which lead for you to be exactly where you are in this place and time. Your love, the love within each of your circumstances is there to discover and utilize as a point of reference and understanding.

We see you may not understand our meaning or intention of this message and ask for you to relate it to your term of courage. Courage can take the ability to not understand all of the details but to move forward in an aspect of your life or circumstance even if it can feel uncomfortable. Just as it is described, we ask for you to see the love within yourself, within each circumstance that surrounds you at this same level of understanding. Yes, you are love and every corner of your being resonates at the level of love. With all of the pushing of energetic exchanges that have been occurring over time within your life, it becomes more and more difficult to see and understand what we refer to. As much as we understand this is part of who you have become, we see you as you truly exist and ask for you to go beyond your thinking and move towards feeling this love that on many levels you know what we refer to as truth.

You are love dearest child. We are here to help you understand and develop your insights to see and understand truth more as a natural sense verses an external resource which is what is left to your understanding and thought process at the place in time in which your world now functions within. All of the messages you read and hear related to love are truth. Believe you are love and know you are this truth. Even if your circumstances do not feel as though love exists because you are filled with sadness, hurt, anger and discomfort, love is still there. Seek it out, confide in it and ask how it can help to overcome the feelings that experience has provided. Love is there for you as you are love dearest one. You are love. You are truth. Find this love within and around you.

With love, Angel Michael

Don't give up...though the pace seems slow...you may succeed with another blow!

2011-01-21T20:04:00.000-05:00

Well, today is "one of those days". You know, we all use this expression to describe days it would seem easier to keep your head buried under the blankets in bed...

I woke up feeling tired and school was cancelled for my kids due to local weather conditions. It was good to have the kids with me today but I think they were a bit restless being inside! My daughter made a book...cute as all heck! She is 6 and her first baby tooth is loose. Her book is about how happy she is that she has a loose tooth! I love it!!

When she went to show me the book, I was in the middle of filling our pellet stove and she grabbed the mantle right where I was standing. The problem you wonder? The mantle is not secured and it came crashing down on my head...along with keepsake pieces that were gifts from friends and family (expensive keepsakes too!!). Needless to say, most all of them broke into pieces. She was upset and so was I. Although I did not blame her and was not upset with her (accidents DO happen), I was upset because those pieces had meaning to me and meaning to those who gave them to me.

OK I thought...let it go, they are only things (and they are)...and so I cleaned up the mess and moved on....

About an hour later, the children were arguing over toys and what belonged to who...As I got up to see what all the arguing was about, I spilled my protein drink that I made for lunch all over everything! It was purple and everywhere! I thought...let it go and just clean it up, it's just a mess...and so I did.

After some quiet time in their bedrooms, the children both seemed in a better space with each other (thank goodness for small wonders I thought...)! My husband arrived home from work and we all sat down for dinner. As I opened the 3/4 full container of juice to pour into a glass, it dropped to the floor! All over the walls, the floor, curtains...everywhere. I just stopped and looked at everyone and thought to myself...just let it go and clean it up, it's only a mess!

Then it struck me...OK messes and letting it go, I get it angels! The message for the day...I got it, can we stop making messes now? As this came to me, I sat on one of the dining room chairs and was stuck with a piece of plastic in my butt! OK, OK, I got it! Messes & Letting go, got it!

As I sit here and wonder about how courage relates to letting go and messes, it dawns on me that it can take practice and patience; both of which take courage! Honestly, at this point in the day my patience runs a bit thin. No more messes!! But, it is only 7:30PM...the night is young! I needed some motivation to change not only my perspective of the day but also to relate my messy day in a positive light. My day was not all messes!! I had a great story from my daughter, my son was very helpful and both of their rooms are clean from the time they spent taking space. I am lucky to have them in my life, messes and all! With the family all home now, I am looking forward to spending time with them and let go of the messes that are already taken care of.

I came across this inspirational poem called "don't quit". Although what happened in my day may not seem like much in comparison to what you may have experienced or what others go through in the course of their days, the message for today is the same none the less. Don't give up...though the pace seems slow...you may succeed with another blow!

Have the courage to stick with it, no matter what it is...no matter what mess exists, keep with it with courage and hope!

Judgement, Acceptance and Love

2011-01-20T18:10:00.000-05:00

I was looking for a video or inspirational saying of some sort to post because I feel kind of down today. Part of it has to do with the theme of courage and in searching for the "right" message to post, I received the message to "just write it out"...so here I am!

When I have thought about the challenge of courage and how my week has gone including today, I realize there are aspects about me that I now know are still prevalent within me that are yet to change. YES, change creates change but it is a process. Part of our personality and way of being is ingrained, learned. Even if we do not like these aspects within us and want to change them, it may take time...even a lifetime to change. Today, I am frustrated and saddened at the same time with some of the people in my life...

I feel as though sometimes people are judged for their "flaws" or characteristics without knowing all about them. And even then, there seems to be a lack of sensitivity to others differences. I saw this surround me today. The mood was light around me and the jokes flew but as I listened, I thought...did they give that person the benefit of the doubt? Do they see how their words can be hurtful? Or, how the jokes could be insulting to others, even if they are not the center of the joke?

Having asked these questions, I thought quite a bit about the fact we are all human and make mistakes. At times, I believe we have all talked about other people for a variety of reasons...sometimes to make ourselves feel better or look better; other times to talk out our frustrations about others. While all this holds true, it hurts just the same hearing it from an outside perspective. I always think...what would it be like to walk in that person's shoes? What if I was the one being made fun of or joked about? What if I frustrated the hell out of someone and did not even realize it...to the point the other person needed to rant and rave about me? All the while in my own head wondering how I can judge others doing this when I do it myself...you know, I am only human too!

In the confusion and sadness these circumstances have provided for me to ponder over, it has also led me back to the challenge of courage for the week. Being courageous takes on many forms. In the lesson for today, I walk away relating courage to that of the concept of imperfection within perfection. We are perfect in the eyes of GOD, we are made in GOD's image. Within our perfection is an imperfect mind or ego that will lead to judgement, frustration, confusion and sadness as I relate it to the discussion today. I am not perfect. I am confused and judge those judging others...In my own attempt to place myself in others shoes, I have allowed myself to be exactly what those judging, joking, misunderstanding others have done. In this, I have the courage today to say I am not perfect...my soul is perfect and awaits my alignment within it's perfection but for now, I struggle as we all do with my imperfections. I hope to gain more clarity and peace over time to understand how to become closer to love, understanding and most of all unity with those around me.

We all talk about wanting and needing to be united and not judging others but there are so many of us who struggle with this concept. How do we align closer with this concept? I believe the first step is understanding and accepting ourselves for who we are...completely and honestly with great courage and compassion.

The angels puts it in different terms for us to think about. Accepting ourselves and accepting others including the judgements we hold is an important aspect for us to continue to work through. They ask for us to look at balance...weigh out what we see as imperfections, along with perfection. Allow understanding and compassion for our human aspects to come through when looking at judgement and see that there is always a reason for these feelings. They are rooted in fear. Try to see the love that lives underneath the fear that exists. Love is at the foundation of all things...ALL things. Since these words from the angels just came through, it has given me more to think about tonight. With that, I say goodnight and love to you.

Just do it anyway!

2011-01-19T18:06:00.002-05:00

These words remind us of how external influences can change our perception or mind set. They remind us to not let influences get in the way of just doing it anyway, doing the things that keep us motivated, keep us on track towards meeting our goals.

My husband sent the writing on the wall from Mother Theresa to me about a week ago. Today, it hit me how much the words relate to courage. These words have benefited me a great deal today...more of a stressful, anxiety driven day, as I have been dealing with challenges that have come up. As I read through the writing on the wall, I realize only I can allow myself to feel any particular way. I believe that my goal of courage was chosen for me this week; one that involves trusting and having faith that everything is going to be alright, with the courage to overcome feelings of stress and anxiety and remaining positive throughout my situation.

When you read the writing on the wall, what feelings come up for you related to courage? Is it helpful to hear from such an inspiring woman who just did it anyway, no matter what others said or did? As these words have helped to put things into perspective for me today, I hope they will do the same for you. I encourage you to do it anyway! Put aside feelings that could get in your way of being courageous this week and just do it anyway! As for me, having faith that everything will be alright is my opportunity to do it anyway and not get stuck from moving forward in my goals. What about you?

Change creates change....be courageous, say "YES"!

2011-01-18T10:55:00.003-05:00

Please listen...this is an audio blog posted for today!

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2011-01-17T09:23:00.000-05:00

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Washington D. C. speech "I have a dream"

The courage to take a stand, the courage to speak his mind, the courage to ask his fellow man to think about his words and to respond with soulful force verses physical force. On our day of rememberance, look at courage through the eyes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

January 16th - January 22nd Weekly Challenge COURAGE

2011-01-16T20:53:00.000-05:00

January 16th - January 22nd:COURAGE-The definition of courage is "the state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery".

This week, the angels have asked us to look at ourselves in terms of our courage. Courage can take many forms. Confidence, taking a stand to something you know is right, going beyond what you tell yourself is possible...having faith and trust and much much more! We are asked to identify an area or aspect of ourself or our lives that we will commit to being courageous...beyond what we have allowed ourselves to be.

Steps for the week:
-Identify ONE area or aspect of your life you would like to have more courage.
-Commit to facing this aspect with courage during the course of the week.
-Be reasonable with your expectations. Go beyond your comfort zone but be safe and most of all, rely on the support of friends, family and others you trust to help you through the process of the week!

Some examples of moving outside of your comfort zone and displaying courage in your life could consist of:

-Talking to someone you would like to know better or asking them to get together over a meal or coffee

-Discuss a concern with a loved one that you have not been forthcoming with

-Speaking in front of a group of people about a special interest or event

-Share a dream or special idea you have with others who you know will listen and be supportive

-Try something new that you have always wanted to try but have been afraid to do

-Speak your mind on an issue or topic that is close to your heart

Taking courage means risking exposure to others and yourself. You may in fact not get the response you hope for but in being courageous, you allow yourself to think beyond what you tell yourself is possible. I believe you may be surprised, as I believe I will be as well this week in taking some risk in being courageous! It goes back to the old saying...what would you do if you were not afraid? Well, what is the ONE thing you will commit to being courageous with this week and put your fears aside? I have been hearing the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of OZ speak on courage in my head for days! The angels have provided me this theme as a way to help me understand this week's Challenge. Below, I have provided the Lion's words on courage...I hope you enjoy them!

Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of OZ

Courage. What makes a King out of a slave? Courage. What makes the flag on a mast to wave? Courage. What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage. What makes the Sphinx the Seventh Wonder? Courage. What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage. What makes the Hottentot so hot?
What puts the “ape” in ape-ricot? What have they got that I haven’t got?

The Art of Letting Go...and, don't forget your STRENGTHS!

2011-01-15T11:06:00.000-05:00

The letting go inventory list was a bit of a challenging process in terms of having to take an honest look at areas that hold a piece of my heart. I can imagine this was the case for you as well. The good thing about this type of process is that whatever you experienced, whatever items you noted on your letting go inventory list, you have brought awareness to these aspects of yourself.

Awareness brings new strength and more strength towards accomplishment. One of the things I have learned through time and experience is that letting go is an evolutionary process. The experiences we have had will not be forgotten and some of what we hold onto is the memories of these experiences. Our memories and experiences make us who we are, they are components of our own evolution and growth.

The tricky part of our experiences is allowing for the emotional attachments that can bind us to be looked at further, explored and eventually put to rest. The art of letting go is tied directly to our emotions. For example, as a child, I remember hearing my parents argue when I would lay in bed at night. This memory or experience is a part of who I am. My feelings of fear and lack of control are the emotions tied to these memories, these experiences. Letting go of these feelings but holding onto the memory has allowed me to grow as a person. Letting go has also allowed me the opportunity to understand why it has taken years to work towards not backing away from every situation that dealt with conflict or confronting things in my life that were no longer in my highest interest.

I encourage you to be gentle in your process of letting go. Remember, it is a process...an evolutionary journey. Your awareness of what you noted on your inventory list may be just the beginning, could be the middle of the letting go process OR could be the final process you needed of letting go to the emotional ties of that experience. It does not matter where you are in the process, what does matter is that you have committed to working towards letting go of things that no longer serve your highest good.

As this week comes to an end, be reminded of your strengths inventory list. Our strengths never leave us, no matter what challenges or obstacles stand in the way. It can be difficult to see these strengths when in the middle of a situation or too close to circumstances. Our strengths are there to support and keep us going through anything life has to offer. The list you created can serve as your reminder. Is there a place in your house where you can hang it up? Could you carry your list with you, in your wallet or purse? How about tucked away in your favorite book? Wherever you choose to keep your strengths list, commit to referring back to it periodically. Particularly during times when life throws you a curve ball. You are strong and have many positive attributes that live within you. Remind yourself of your goodness and love! Try to keep these strengths close to your heart. One of the things that the angels would like to remind us about at this time is that more likely than not, our noted strengths are only a small portion of the true reality of the goodness and love that lives within us. They ask for us to keep adding to this list as time goes by and we become more aware of additional strengths that are a natural part of our being.

Wishing you love on your journey,
Margaret

She Let Go by Dr. Ernest Holmes

2011-01-14T14:36:00.000-05:00

“She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go. She let go of the fear. She let go of the judgments. She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.
She didn’t ask anyone for advice. She didn’t read a book on how to let go… She didn’t search the scriptures. She just let go. She let go of all of the memories that held her back. She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward. She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.
She didn’t promise to let go. She didn’t journal about it. She didn’t write the projected date in her Day-Timer. She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper. She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope. She just let go.

She didn’t analyze whether she should let go. She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter. She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment. She didn’t call the prayer line. She didn’t utter one word. She just let go.

No one was around when it happened. There was no applause or congratulations. No one thanked her or praised her. No one noticed a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.
There was no effort. There was no struggle. It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad. It was what it was, and it is just that.
In the space of letting go, she let it all be. A small smile came over her face. A light breeze blew through her. And the sun and the moon shone forevermore.”
- Ernest Holmes

People come into your life for a reason

2011-01-13T10:50:00.000-05:00

When assessing what I am ready to let go of, these words truly helped me. For me, there have been people who have served to challenge me to think differently, to act differently. Sometimes I have not understood my actions. When I think about the fact that we all serve a purpose and can come in and out of others lives with purpose, it has helped me to put perspective on some of the past. It has also helped me to understand challenges and that it is OK to let them go, as they no longer serve me or anyone around me. I hope these precious words will help you to put those in your life into perspective. Can you see where they live? Are they there for a SEASON, REASON or a LIFETIME? As you work to complete your inventory, try to consider these words as you assess your strengths and your letting go inventory. I know these words truly helped me to put things into perspective in a new and loving way!

1/12/11 Wednesday

2011-01-12T11:17:00.000-05:00

Flower Angel

Elvira Amrhein

I just realized that my blog posted yesterday was dated today! AND, I forgot to post it to facebook yesterday so I did this earlier today. FUNNY!! The angels always have an interesting way of making sure everything happens in the right time and space....there must have been a reason that things happened this way! In any case, THIS is my Wednesday posting!

This beautiful angel picture can be seen in my dining room. Her lovely yet piercing look reminds me constantly to be authentic. She somehow reminds me of a mother looking at a child who is telling a tale...as if she knows the truth but still listens to the story with the look that says it all. I am reminded of this as we are working our way though this week of taking inventory. This is a personal inventory based on self-discovery and truth. Our flower angel reminds us to be authentic and honest with our strengths and items that no longer serve us that we should consider letting go of. She is wise and loving, ever present in our lives. If you have developed your inventory, take a look at the list. Are there things that you should consider revising? I will be working on my list today and with the flower angel with me, I commit to be authentic and honest in this inventory process.

Today in New England we are receiving quite a bit of snow! My children have a snow day and my husband is working from home. It is wonderful to have them all here...we are all home bound! This beautiful flower angel also reminds me that the flowers will soon be back full of life and beauty around us but for now, the snow and cold is needed in this place and time. It serves as a reminder of reflection and hope towards renewal and life. If you are snowed in today, enjoy what this day has to offer! And if you are not snowed in, allow this message to resonate in your being...hope and renewal is in store for you!

1/12/11 Letting Go and Expectations

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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.
-- Joseph Campbell

How true this statement is...Over the years, I have experienced my own challenges and have supported others through theirs. Sometimes, we can get caught up in feeling stuck as through nothing around us can change. Part of this can be based on our expectations. We can get our mind set on the type of person we want to be or what we want others to see us as, the type of jobs we have, the amount of money we would like to have, the type of characteristics we would like for others in our lives to have, etc. Our expectations are everywhere and can inhibit our ability to let go of what we want in life verses what life has in store for us. There is love and beauty in our lives. Sometimes it can be difficult to see this. With this weeks challenge of letting go and personal inventory, have you considered expectations?

Today is another busy day...I will not have time to complete my inventory but I am still thinking a lot about it....in some senses, it is good that I have more time to think. My perspective continues to grow in terms of what I need to consider letting go of.

Monday 1/10/11

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I keep hearing "I can see clearly now the rain is gone". If you are not familiar with this song, check out the video I posted...It's beautiful...."I can see all obstacles in my way"! With the beginning of this week's challenge, these lovely, positive words of encouragement allow me to know we are on the right track!

My work day is rather busy with catching up and will most likely not get to my worksheets but I have begun to think about what I am ready to let go of...what no longer serves me and the strengths I see in myself and others see in me. Although we are all in different places in life, one thing is clear: Something better will come along when we are finally able to let go! From my own experiences, I can validate getting in my own way of moving forward. Out of fear mostly but reasons of being stuck can surface as excuses or ideas which allow us the ability to feel stuck and not move forward.

Be committed with me to make this the year of change and work through fears, work through excuses or ideas and let go of what no longer serves you! I have made this commitment in many ways...coming out with my business in a new and profound way and putting myself out there has meant facing fears on many levels. What are your dreams and what holds you back? Is it time to let it go?

I can see clearly now - cover

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LOOK AT YOURSELF AFTER WATCHING THIS.mp4

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January 9th - January 15th: Letting Go/Personal Inventory

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January 9th - January 15th:Letting Go/Personal Inventory:
This week, the angels have asked us to take inventory by journaling about our strengths...what do you love about yourself? What do your loved ones love about you? As well, what are the things you are ready to let go of? What are things that no longer serve you that you are ready to face head on as part of your 2011 challenge? Inventory worksheets are located on the web-site. You can obtain them by clicking here.

There are inventory worksheets attached for you to use. Try to not limit yourself and take as much time as you need to complete each of the worksheets. You have the week to contemplate and complete the assignment. I would recommend you start with your strengths. They are your foundation and the positive within that will help you to acknowledge what you are ready to let go of and what no longer serves your highest good. Some of you may feel stuck on identifying strengths or items to let go of and that is alright! The point of this exercise is to get us thinking about these items and how to challenge our strength, courage and hope to let go of the old and bring in the new!

Once you have completed your inventory letting go worksheet, you will want to part with the worksheet by putting it into water. One fun way is to make your inventory worksheet into the shape of a boat and let it go down a river, pond or lake near your home. Even if it is in your bathtub, that works! If the boat is too complicated for you, don't worry...the shape is not important but I would recommend placing your letting go inventory list in water. The symbolism and significance of the water is to wash away the things you are letting go of....As a point of clarification, this challenge will not take away the things you are ready to let go of but can create focus for you to create change!

This is a pretty large assignment...if you have questions about this week's work, please send me an email at angelicessential@gmail.com. I will be happy to assist you in any way I can.

1/8/11

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It's the end of week one and I feel inspired by those around me. People making changes that are difficult but in doing so, are not only taking care of themselves but also those around them. Without breaching confidentiality...just know I am proud of you and the challenge you have chosen to face head on!

Taking care of ourselves can be more difficult than it sounds. We say we do but then we sometimes have self destructive behaviors. I know I do...like negative self talk, eating when not hungry...I could go on but I don't want to bore you with the details :-) Needless to say, we all could do more to take care of ourselves....take time to get to know the details of who we are and learn why we do the things we do.

This self-reflection comes on the cusp of the upcoming week's challenge. It's a big one...and may be more of a challenge than the previous week. More details to come tomorrow. Just know there will be some real homework to complete but all with good intentions and for the highest good!

Until then, I encourage you to put your feet up and take a little time for you this evening!

Taking care of you can also be taking care of others...be a leader, say YES

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2011-01-06T08:44:00.000-05:00

Woke up this morning and feel good! FINALLY!! It will be hard for me to take my time today and not overdo it...still hearing the message of baby steps this week! This is definitely an important theme to pay attention to!

When seeking guidance for the day, I pulled a card and asked the angels to channel a message...here is what they had to say:

A clearing is beyond the path ahead...stay the course. With trust and faith, your fog will lift and clarity will come. Be sure to be easy on yourself and those closest to you. When you feel the need to focus on the negativity surrounding your situation, please be sure to remember all of the good that exists. Love is with you always. Like a mist, love exists in the same way. It is easy to miss it if you are not paying attention. Love can be taken for granted as it is always present in every situation in all ways. When it is evident, love can feel so natural to be missed. Pay attention to the warmth and comfort love offers. Your heart yearns for you to notice this love and be in it more and more. By living in the balance and seeing the love all around you, your energy flows more naturally and life as you know it seems easier.

There are drops of sadness within you dear one. This is ok to acknowledge as part of your existence as well. Do not pretend or push aside these feelings as they are part of you. Having said that, do not live in this sadness as it can feel overwhelming and will not benefit your well being. By allowing this sadness to be recognized along with the love that is part of your being, a balance can naturally occur.

Have faith and trust in this process. The mist is rising and just beyond the horizon is a new hope, a new leg of your journey about to unfold before you.

Love yourself, love this life you are living,
Angel Michael

From the Universal Wisdom Card Deck by Toni Carmine Salerno

1/5/11

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Nothing on my schedule today. I thought I would get some things done around the house. It's now 1:00PM and still in bed, just eating my first meal of the day. I have NO choice this week but to rest.

I wonder if others of you are SO busy, being pulled so many different directions that you are not taking the time for you. Even if it's a 15 minute shower with the door locked (those of you with families will understand the locked door :-) ) or taking 5 minutes of quiet time to close your eyes and just be. Whatever the case, try and find time to take care of you and rest.

Like this beautiful butterfly void of colors, my energy feels just like that...where are the colors? where is my energy? I have to say, I'm getting tired of resting...if that is possible! Ready to have more energy and engage in the world like a regular person again. I know this rest is needed and I am trying to be patient with the process but sitting in bed feeling like I am waisting my day away does not feel like a good use of time today!! Baby steps, baby steps...

1/4/11

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January 2nd- January 8th:
Be good to yourself. Take time to rest and take care of you.
Often, with the ringing in of the New Year, we make many resolutions to be better, do more. With this, most often we can burn ourselves out quickly and feel as though we have accomplished little to no change. The angels remind you to take care of yourself. If you have made resolutions, are they realistic? Have you placed too many demands on yourself? Should you re-evaluate your goals? This upcoming year is also one of great change...rest is needed for the weeks and months ahead!! Rest up!!!

So far this week, I have had no choice but to rest! My family and I have been struck with the bug and pretty much home bound. Having to gather the energy for a few meetings has been about all the motivation I can muster up. I have learned that when we get run down, it is a blessing in disguise. We need rest, we need to slow down. When looking at the challenge for the week, I thought it didn't make much sense at first. Why would the first week of the New Year require rest? When the message came, goals and resolutions were at the focus and then it all came together for me. We all do it...I will eat better, exercise, be more patient, less angry, more understanding of this one or that...you know what I mean. All good intentions for sure. What we can do in this process is overextend ourselves or be unrealistic in our goals.

This IS the year of change, there is no doubt about it but the angels say baby steps, baby steps.

They use this phrase with me quite often to help keep me encouraged when I feel discouraged. This week is one of those times. It is the New Year and I have been waiting for change to come. Somehow, I had hoped that the magical ringing in of the new year would alter circumstances. Wishful thinking, I know. I saw my animal guide the hawk purched on a local furniture store as I drove to a meeting today and heard "it's all within your control".

With this, I know I have to keep moving forward in baby steps. For this week so far, it is really just taking it easy and allowing the energy of comfort reign until I regain full strength to move forward. When you think about your goals or resulutions, try and be gentle with yourself. Remember, baby steps!

More about me and 2011 Challenge

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I thought it would help to know a little more about me, since I am asking you to undertake the 2011 challenge with me :-)

There has been much I have learned over the past few years, which have led me to exactly where I am today. With the help of mentors, guides and angels, I have learned to accept who I am. For most of us, there seems to be a missing component...something we search for, something we crave. From this, we often try to fill this void with a false sense of who we are or who we think we should be based on what other people want. For me, this journey has unfolded this discovery. I have come to accept that my dificiencies are what makes me unique and are my strengths. More and more, I have struggled with anxiety which surrounds groups. It is also known as social anxiety. It's funny, my anxiety differs depending on the size of the group and the type of people within the group. For a period of time, I was so embarrassed of who I was, I could not even bring myself to talk about my stressors with my husband or anyone. I felt alone and isolated, like everyone could just tell I was different, almost like I stuck out like a sore thumb.

After much processing, reading and discussion, I have come to realize that some of this comes from my upbringing. I was raised in an alcoholic, abusive home. I truly believe like many children raised in alcoholic homes I found myself surviving by adapting to my surroundings. By this, it is easy for me to have surface conversations, surface relationships. More difficult to have deep, meaningful relationships rooted in trust and open communication. All of this completely coorilates with my social anxiety, you see?

I hope that in sharing this, you will see what you believe are your deficiencies are really strengths. They are a part of me...they are a part of you. It may make us different, yes this is true but without differences, this world would be a very boring place...don't you agree? I have come to realize that it is our imperfections that make us perfect in the eyes of GOD. For within this is love and compassion, goodness, strength and hope.

Another aspect of accepting who I am was looking at family relationships and patterns. It is difficult, as I love all of my family but there are patterns within how we function. Some is a level of pretending so to speak...as if issues do not exist or are kept secrets. (A pattern of an alcoholic, abusive home life that still lingers) As difficult as facing some of MY realities have been, it has also been freeing in some senses to work on breaking patterns that no longer serve me or my family in the way they may have needed to in the past.

Inspired on being challenged to do more, to be more, I will be undertaking a weekly challenge during the 2011 year. My plan is to blog about my journey and if you feel so inspired, send along notes and I will blog about them as well! If you need more inspiration, check out my web-site http://www.angelicessential.com/ under 2011 Challenge...check out the video and try to say "YES"!!

Challenge YOU

The silent times

Weekly Challenge Which do you prefer a full or empty parking lot?

Came across this song and LOVE IT! You gotta help me baby!

Weekly Challenge Asking for Help

Our values, Our perception, Our truth

Weekly Challenge Perception

Today is your day to be in the here and now! Wake up to a new day!

Katy Perry-A ray of light

Gotta love Madea's advice! Right on the money!

Weekly Challenge: Oh Say Can You See?

Daily Affirmation 3/31/11

Affirmation for the day

Today's affirmation: I see my parents as tiny children who need love

Weekly Challenge extracted from the weekly newsletter

Check out the blog talk radio!

Contemplating this week has brought up the need to lighten up!!

Decisions

Weekly Challenge - Quiet Contemplation

An important message from an angel friend!

Do you really know Mother Theresa?

Guide us with your grace

Weekly Challenge 3/13/11 - 3/19/11 Just Pray

Surfing the web

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”

Little did I know...

Becoming closer, Drifting apart

Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand - Diana Ross

Weekly Challenge 3/6/11 - 3/12/11 "Reach out and touch someone"

Assurance within reflection

Battle between the mind and soul

Do you see the reflection of your firework?

Christina Aguilera - Reflection (Mulan)

Weekly Challenge 2/27/11 - 3/5/11 Reflection

A week in review...

BarlowGirl- I Need You To Love Me (Official Music Video)

You are love and truth

Remember who you are

Creating a New World Order

Can you hear me dear one?

You are all beautiful, each and every one of you!

Only Within You

Weekly Challenge 2/20/11-2/26/11 Crossing items off of your "to do" list!

Do you have AIPS?

Ants in your Pants

Observe....count....observe!

Weekly Challenge 2/13/11 - 2/19/11 Observe

Everyone has their own path, don’t try to divert others. It is their journey

A Message from Angel Ariel

The Dance - Courage & Inspiration

I am inspired!

Inspire yourself and others! You never know where your highest potential will lead you!

Weekly Challenge 2/6/11 - 2/12/11 Inspire!

Star light, star bright

Beautiful and GOD like

Children in the eyes of GOD

"Grown-up" vs. Inner child

Fun with Magic Milk and Food Coloring! (Home Experiment)

My favorite kids song...I like TOAST!! What's yours?

Weekly Challenge 1/30/11 through 2/5/11 Become Childlike

Direction means listening

Things like this make me know when you listen to your heart, good things happen!

Listen to your heart, it is calling for you! A message from your angel!

Are you listening to your heart? Are others?

Information Age

Is Anybody Listening? Do you have Communication Overload Disorder?

SHARE

Email with detailed message on this week's challenge of Listening (this goes along with the Cinch recorded message :-)

January 23rd- January 29th Weekly Challenge LISTENING!

A message of love from Archangel Michael

Don't give up...though the pace seems slow...you may succeed with another blow!

Judgement, Acceptance and Love

Just do it anyway!

Change creates change....be courageous, say "YES"!

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 16th - January 22nd Weekly Challenge COURAGE

The Art of Letting Go...and, don't forget your STRENGTHS!

She Let Go by Dr. Ernest Holmes

People come into your life for a reason

1/12/11 Wednesday