Life with Angels

Love the angry ones

angelann — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:56:00 +0000

So many people are experiencing outbursts and upsets as of late. Everything hidden within us is coming up and out. Even mother earth is bursting at her seams as evidenced by the frequency of earthquakes and such going on these days. Growth is in the air. It IS time for a resurrection of our spirits and the death of old illusions as the angels said. It IS time to bring the light within us to the surface. It IS time to choose love - no matter what.

For some reason it has hit me lately how precious and truly how short our lives are, even if we live to be really old. It has hit me how ridiculous and a waste of precious time it is to stay upset for long. Better to fix a situation or move on, choose love or leave. Grow or Go, as the angels say. Choose love. Choose it again and again no matter what. It feels better. This is the blossoming of the soul - to release the sweetness of God's love out into the world without condition.

The reality is we are eternal beings. We come to this school called earth to learn about love. We play these roles for one another that can really hard at times. But in the long run, after we transition, we are thankful for our tough teachers, because they helped us find something deeper within ourselves if we take the lesson to heart. And they help us come to know ourselves as more loving beings if we strive to find the love. If we do our homework, they help us see ourselves as the angels that we truly are.

I know I'm going through a big growth phase lately because people from my past are showing up in either meditaiton or in my life. Its kind of like a mini life review and a completion. It means I'm growing into greater joy and leaving pain behind. I recently did a LOT of work to release old fear and tightness within my body (through prayer, energy work, etc.) because although I do not feel afraid in my mind or emotions, my body still had a tendency to scrunch up when around people I used to find scary. After one particularly intense prayer when I felt huge release and relief, I knew I had finally let something old leave me once and for all. The next day I got an email from a man I had not seen in 18 years. He apologized for sexually harrassing me at work when I was in my young twenties. He had found my website and wanted to make peace. I thanked him, told him truthfully I had let it go along time ago and cried my eyes out with gratitude and relief the love that now flowed once again between our souls. He was a friend before the hurtful behaviors. I'm not talking about feeling warm fuzzies, but rather feeling a respect for the difficult dance we shared and the lessons learned. I was glad for both me and him because it showed that he had grown and found peace, and I had grown and released the old fears.

We are all one human family. We all support one anothers' growth and even the hurtful souls (who are hurting within themselves) are helping us seek out greater love and compassion. They help us acknowledge and finally own that we are worthhy of kindness, and if we dig deep enough, they can also motivate us to find a love and compassion we didn't even know we were capable of feeling.

When Jesus said "Love your enemies" he didn't say you had to like them. Its not ok if people mistreat you or hurt you. You can walk away or create good boundaries at the human level, but LOVE them because they teach you. They teach you that you are capable of greater compassion for yourself. They teach you that you are capable of forgiveness. They help you if you allow for it, look deep within and ask yourself what part of you is in need of healing. They help you find greater love for yourself. And when this life is over you will appreciate the fact that they catalyzed your growth into greater light.

Life is too short to stay angry. If someone has wronged you, let it go. Move one. Make a resolve not to allow that again but let it go. Its time to say no to holding on to anger (ok to feel it, but then do something about it; don't let it fester), and to say YES to love.

Love is, after all, our deepest truth.

Happy Easter, Happy Mayan New Year, Happy Spring,
Happy Full Moon, Happy life!

Surrender to your natural rhythms

angelann — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:55:00 +0000

It never fails. When I surrender to the moment, the angel messages are so much easier to allow through me. This one hit me before breakfast on Thursday morning. I "accidentally" set the alarm clock an hour early and had more time. I was simply answering emails when it dropped in.

I have really learned, per the angels' teachings, to surrender to the natural rhythms within me. For the last many months I've been resting and resting. I told God that I thought I'd be ready to go back out in the world, this time according to His terms, after mid-Feb. I also told God that I wanted to share his love and inspiration with a lot of people in the world without burning myself out. Well, when I have more info I'll let you know but it appears that in the not too distant future I'm going to be on a radio show with over 3 million listeners :)!!! I am beyond excited. I get to share spiritual information with a lot of people without burning myself out!! I had a chance to be on this show, last minute, last Friday but I had an out of town friend in that I had promised to take out for dinner for her birthday and couldn't cancel on her so I've been told they'll get back to me with new dates. I will let you know soon as I know :) It could be a few months or a few weeks. I'm surrendered and excited.

All of the sudden as well I've had this surge of energy to start finishing projects I've started...thus the new CD, and yet one more book on the drawing board. I have no idea which book will be finished next - I cannot seem to write them in any order. I just go with the one that calls me when I sit to write. Sooner or later one emerges as the passionate project and gets finished. This is how I've cranked out four books and numerous CDs in the last few years. Sure it is a lot of work, but as I live according to my own rhythms, its happy work and doesn't feel like struggle.

I know we all have schedules. I have schedules where I see new people every hour several days of the week. There's not much room to give during those times, but it is in my unscheduled time that I allow the rhythms of my heart to surface. If the housecleaning doesn't get done on its usual day because I need rest, I rest. If all of the sudden I feel like doing a project when I had planned to do something else I change gears. My friends have gotten used to me being 'flaky' Ann and not always being able to schedule things till last minute, and the ones that need more rigid schedules have dropped away for the most part because we simply want different things.

This isn't the only way to live, nor the right way, but it is a way that makes life very carefree and guided because in a way, I've given my life and heart over to God and said, "Hey you drive!! I trust you'll get us where we want to go!" and sure enough, my life takes more wonderful turns than I could have planned on my own.

We are individuals and yet we are part of something so much greater - the entirety of God and his creation. And being made in his image and likeness, we are each perfect buds of expression waiting to bloom. Like the bee in the picture above, the more we allow ourselvse to BE who we really are, the more beautiful sweetness we find in life.

angelann — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:53:00 +0000

I was just about to go to bed on Wednesday night when the urge to run to the computer hit me and the angel message poured out. I love it when I can listen to that movement! The newsletter is so much easier to channel when I do. And when I don't, its a big struggle.

I've been really dancing with this issue as of late. I've been loving my life, relaxing, reading, and talking with God and my angels in my spare time. Although I have nearly ten books and several CDs started on my computer I have not been at all motivated to work on any of them! Instead I've been taking care of my body and refilling my soul. That was fine for two months and then all of the sudden old patterns hit... "Should I be producing something? Am I ever going to be inspired to teach or write again? Is God really wanting me out in the world and what should I do about it." The answer always is very loud. "RELAX!" Its been a theme for a lot of lightworkers lately too! Being human I go to my angel cards and pick a few... NATURE, PLAY, HONOR YOUR TRUTH... I get it. I'm supposed to be relaxing now before the next wave of activity hits. Never fails. I relaxed for a long time before "Love is the River" poured out of me. I relaxed again for a long time before releasing "Whispers of the Spirit." I can't wait to see what comes next. I started getting hints for one of the books I'm working on and got inspired for a little while tonight. We shall see what God wants from me, but for now it is to take care of myself and tune, exercise, and stretch my body to more gracefully receive the higher frequencies.

The wonderful part of all this is that I'm feeling everything even more deeply. The psychic stuff is coming in stronger. I feel the earth in fact as if she were my own body. Speaking of which, pray that she releases the pressure building up within her gracefully and gradually. There's a whole lot of movement deep within her, and I think we can all help release the pressure by making sure we don't blow up when we get irritated, and that we release our stresses and pressures with relaxation... oh, ok, as I type this I realize why the angels want me to sit still!! Earth needs our holographic support to keep from having her stresses build up to the point of sudden movement and change. She would rather do her changes more gracefully too but she is a reflection of our collective soul and we have to be kinder to ourselves as well.

That said, have a very beautiful week. I'm going to take some time to get outdoors again this weekend as I did last Saturday and enjoy the beautiful carpet of wildflowers in the desert while they last; it usually isn't long. There is such beauty in each moment. As the poet Robert Herrick says:

Gather ye roses while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
A world where beauty fleets away
Is no world for denying.
Come lads and lasses, fall to play
Lose no more time in sighing

Have a blessed week,
Ann

Peace and understanding

angelann — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:47:00 +0000

There is a whole lotta shakin' going on right now on this planet. For some reason everyone tells me about earthquakes or I'm motivated to check the web at times, and good grief, there are changes galore. Its no wonder everyone is coming in to my office with major life events as of late - dealing with deaths, starting companies, huge relationship shake ups or breakups - change is indeed in the air. Its SO important these days to stop, breathe, and remember love.

I've been challenged to practice more and more tolerance of differing opinions as of late. I saw a TV show on one of my favorite celebrities. As well as presenting all the people who loved her, the show interviewed a woman who ran a website for all the people that disliked this celebrity - and some of the posts on it were quite hateful. At first I got upset... "How could anyone waste their time running a website to cut down another person!?" I started steaming but the angels got on my case, and said, "ANN, Now would be a nice time to practice choosing love." I knew they were right. Not loving feels bad these days. Loving feels good. It is easy to love people you agree with. Its easy to love people whom you feel love and agree with you. But the real mastery is to love those you don't agree with, don't like, or don't understand. It bugged me that I couldn't find love for this woman with whom I disagreed. I usually can. In fact one of my dear friends and teachers whom I love and adore is someone with whom I have no agreement whatsoever on most any topic of conversation we could choose!

But how to love someone who promotes hatred and cutting down another person? I was at a real loss so I prayed. The angels suggested I write to her and ask her if she'd help me understand her point of view. So I did. I told her I was a spiritual instructor and always sought to understand people. I told her I was all for people allowing each other their perspectives and that I realized I would be a hypocrite if I didn't allow her to feel the way she did, but that I wanted to understand her, because I loved the celebrity she hated. I let it go - no judgment, no trying to manipulate her into changing her views, just a good old fashioned innocent and honest question. And to my surprise and delight, she wrote back, very kindly and shared her heart with me. She said she felt bad that the site had gained such huge attention as a 'hate' site - that it started as a joke because she was annoyed by this celebrity's mannerisms, and that she felt as long as the celebrity had no problem with her it was ok to share her views. I thanked her, blessed her for helping ME learn to be more tolerant and was able to find peace with this.

While this is a small example, God knows we are all presented with people whose points of views differ widely from our own. It is inevitable here upon this earth because earth is a one room school house with a diverse group of students. I have learned from interactions with people dear to me that agreement is not necessary as long as there is love. And if we can't love right away, we can at least seek to understand. After all, everybody wants to be understood and if you give someone the courtesy of listening to their perspective without trying to change them, they tend to soften up. If you share your own view with no need for agreement, but just as a way of sharing the God-light within you, people care to listen more.

We spend so much time upon this earth, battling with our wills, arguing, seeking attention, approval, and agreement, and yet the angels have taught me that this is a waste of time. Expression IS important. Speaking your truth with loving kindness and compassion, and allowing other the same makes for a peaceful world, better relationships, and deepend understandings.

Try it - next time you feel quick to judge, tell someone you don't understand them and would like to. Allow them to share, and just listen. Don't try to change them. Don't change your own perspective. Just seek out the common ground of the heart. Magic happens in these spaces. Wars are resolved within your own heart and within others. You may never want to be around the person you disagree with but at least then you can leave in peace with understanding and a degree of respect for their spirit.

This reminds me of a prayer that was attributed to St. Francis of Assisi....

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Be the love you seek and watch it come back over and over again. Love yourself first. Honor your own feelings. Honor your own heart. From that space you are full and can offer love to others. I keep making that choice in my life lately over and over, even when its hard, and as a result I feel good. Truly loving never makes you feel like a doormat or a victim or a martyr, if you include loving yourself. The hard but loving discussions are worth it. The times we put aside pride and come from the heart are worth it. The times we stop trying to please others and share our own truth with love are worth it. This is the real deep meaning of peace - to be who we really are, and to allow others to be who they choose to be as well.

Resist panic and life flows...

angelann — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:45:00 +0000

I was concerned this week about finding time to do the newsletter and yet I had no desire to force it to happen sooner than it was ready to arrive. It is nearly impossible for me to schedule these since the angels choose when they want to channel them and nothing I can do to force them makes them happen sooner. So, when a client cancelled at the last minute, it was not a surprise that the angels were ready to dictate their segment.

I have taken their words to heart this year. I have been literally watching my thoughts carefully and the minute a negative thought comes in, I tell it, "Go to your room! You're not welcome in my consciousness anymore. That is not my truth! Go into the light or go away!" No matter what. There is always temptation to buy into our worries, fears, negativities, etc. We are human after all. Feelings are neutral, neither positive or negative; however thoughts can truly ruin our day.

This week the thoughts that I was banishing had to do with urgency. Tuesday, I had a full day of clients, couldn't keep up with the emails, found out the artwork on five CDs needed to be changed because the publisher changed its specifications, and was asked to provide a new photo for a DVD cover on my lunch break! For just a moment panic set in! There was no way I could accomplish everything everyone needed me to do timely fashion. I started to stress out, then truth struck - God does not require me to rush, feel stressed, or even 'accomplish' anything. I decided I would have to be behind on the emails, I could fix the CD artwork that night, and offered an alternative suggestion for the photo if it was needed immediately, or offered to take a new one the next day. Miraculously everything fell into place once again. So what if the photo used wasn't my best shot, or if the CD covers got updated later than I had hoped? The world didn't end, all I needed to accomplish got done, and everyone ended up happy.

I used to run around feeling stressed, hurried, worried, overworked and living in fear that if I didn't accomplish everything on my almighty to-do list my life would fall apart or I would be so hopelessly buried in work that I would never catch up. That became the reality I attracted - I never did catch up. I worked all the time, but never felt focused. Now I rush a lot less, get a lot more done, and have time to enjoy life too. I have cut back tremendously on things I used to think I had to do to be happy and as a result, I am happier. I focus more on my own priorities and am able to serve others in a better way. I know that God cares about us so much that we are not required to sacrifice any one of our precious present moments in pursuit of an imagined future.

Urgency is just fear wearing another mask. It is the fear that if we don't hurry up and get something done we'll fail to get what we want in the future. It says, "Rush, hurry, hurry or you may lose out." Of course we have deadlines to meet, bills to pay on time, and commitments in our job. However, so much of our urgency is self-created. If we run around in a panic about the future we attract all sorts of insanity. If however, we arrange our priorities in the moment by slowing down and asking, "What is truly important to me NOW?" then our future seems to unfold with grace.

Wednesday after work, it was important to me to get some fresh air. I started out in one direction but my heart wanted to go another way so I turned the car around and ended up at a local mountain park wearing shoes and clothes that were totally inappropriate for hiking. Nonetheless the air was fresh, the clouds were scudding across the sky, bringing in a storm, and the desert was practically electrified with life. I got out of the car, grabbed my keys and camera and started to walk a little way along the trail. Pretty soon I got lost in the moment. It was so beautiful! I had to go a step further, and then a little further. I wasn't thinking about where I was going or how long I would walk. I wasn't thinking about ruining my shoes or clothing. I wasn't worried about getting caught out after dark or even whether or not I would end up in the rain. Instead, I was in a state of gratitude and awe, as I watched the dark clouds rolling in. The desert smelled like moist dirt and the red cactus spikes stood out in sharp contrast to the green grasses. The wildflowers that were getting ready to pop, bent and swayed in the breeze. The rocks crunched beneath my inappropriate shoes and the cool air filled my lungs. I didn't realize it but I was walking faster and faster, fueled by the joyous feeling of moving in such a state of grace. Before I realized what I was doing, I had become one with the wind itself. My mind was unhurried or unworried, and as the state of ecstatic union with everything overcame me, I realized I was nearly running. Something told me this is what the cheetah feels like when he dashes, or the wolf when he lopes, or the dolphin when she races through the oceans. I felt like pure energy moving amidst fields of energy all around me. The movement was fluid, graceful, and unrushed, even though I realized I was moving very quickly. I felt no fatigue whatsoever, only the ecstatic joy of being part of this beautiful moment. Feeling as if no time had elapsed at all, I realized I had hiked over a mile to a spot where I like to sit and pray, overlooking both the city and the mountains. I stopped, zapped back into normal human reality and realized my lungs were heaving in and out from the exertion that I hadn't even noticed. I sat on my favorite rock and sang God's praises. To my great surprise, although I haven't hiked that far in ages, I woke up the next morning with no soreness or fatigue whatsoever.

When we don't rush, we move faster. When we don't worry about the future, we get farther. When we enjoy the moment, we open up to magical surprises. Life moves more fluidly. It doesn't hurt. It gives way before us rather than rising up against us.

Try it. Try to resist that panic'd sense of urgency in your life. Try to be present in each moment. Try to focus on your own priorities rather than everyone else's. Yes paying your bills on time is your own priority! Getting to work on time is as well if you want a paycheck! But check in often and see if you are truly listening to yourself, or the tugs and pulls around you. Then, watch just how much more you can accomplish when you are in integrity with yourself one moment at a time :)

Have a lovely week - every single 604,800 seconds of it!!!

Heaven in the diversity

angelann — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:44:00 +0000

Every year I look forward to the Tuscon Gem and Mineral show with great anticipation. Its one of the hugest gatherings of rock, gem, and mineral vendors from all over the world, and only a short two hour drive from my home. There are people from all over the world, crystals bigger than I am, and thousands of happy people milling about in awe of Mother Nature's great and amazing splendors. There are men from Africa selling beads and drums, gentlemen from Pakistan selling green onyx vases and dishes, fossil vendors from Madagascar, Brazilians marketing their country's breathtaking crystals, Chinese and Indian vendors selling a host of beautiful beads, natives of Tibet selling bowls, and pendants, Egyptian vendors selling belly dance jewelry, Russians and Poles selling amber, and souls who travel the globe at the first news of a meteor shower, selling rocks from outer space!

There are more handicrafts from all over the world than I have ever seen in one place. The show is a delight to the senses - tastes from around the world, textues and textiles, sounds of music, and oh the sights of those giant rocks and minerals! However, the greatest wonder about this show is that there are people from all different countries and all corners of the globe, all gathered in one place - each of them somehow communicating with the others and with their customers in spite of the language barriers. They smile, wave, hugs, and greet each other with the universal language of love. Sure its business, but I've rarely seen so much joy when so much business is being conducted. Most people here seems to genuinely love what they do. Who wouldn't when surrounded with such beauty and great energy :)

Events like these help me imagine what heaven on earth would be like. A gentleman from India smiles gently at a Chinese woman who says in broken English, "Look around. Compare prices. Maybe be back." A Brazilian guy smiles at me and makes gestures to tell me I must be strong as I attempt to pick up one of the big rocks. We communicate without words. One year, a Pakistani gentleman gave me a dollar from his country - to rememer him next year, he tells me. I can't forget. Ed, the wonderful man selling amethyst gave me a big hug this year, and remembered my name from last year.

I pray that we can create such warmth and kindness and loving allowance for each. I make it a point to smile and share the love I am feeling in my heart with everyone I can lately. I take time to refill my spirit every day - telling God I am ready to receive all the love he wants to pour into my life. I feel warmth, tingling, and joy pouring in my being. My heart feels so huge it could burst. I have my human moments to be sure. Always have and always will, but the more I open to receive, the more wonder and magic I find all around me. ETs have been showing up in my living room giving me free chiropractic adjustments. Flashes of color and light are showing up more often, and I find such JOY in the smallest things in life - stringing beads to make a necklace, playing with the dogs, cooking a meal. I can't even describe lately how nothing has changed on the outside but something deep and wonderful is clicking into place on the inside. I'm learning to surrender to my heart in each moment, to live now and trust the future to work itself out, to love NOW, and give rather than waiting to receive, and in giving I do receive. I am learning to just find the bliss in BEing rather than always having to produce something. And as a result, I have more love to give.

Open to receive every day. Mean it and know you're worthy of it. Then prepare for miracle of joy in the moments of your life.

Peace in chaos

angelann — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:53:00 +0000

Before I share my article, my heart and prayers go out to the
victims of the recent tornadoes in the US south. I ask God to help
hold and comfort and care for all who have been affected. If you
are inclined, please pray with me.

Whenever opposing energies meet, there is great, sudden, and often violent movement. This happened in the case of the tornadoes. Unseasonably warm air clashed with the cold winter air and the result was chaos. Out of chaos, angels say, there will always be greater order and greater love. I cry too watching the news but at the same time the angels remind me that the ones we lose, they find and bring into the comfort and glory of God's love in heaven.

As above so below.

I didn't realize that there were going to be tornadoes in my own psyche this week. I have been in bliss ever since our prayers requesting that the asteroid pass by worked. After spending that entire weekend practically either out of body with the angels, or communicating with wonderful people about prayers, I felt my soul. I felt expanded and joyous and the only challenge was grappling with feeling so big and at the same time so human! Somehow the mundane stuff seemed less interesting after the profound love I felt moving through my heart and the hearts of so many in prayer, and there is always a little loneliness that sets in upon coming back to earth. The nearest thing I can describe is what Near Death Experiencers feel - one minute you're flying with angels in the Oneness of creation and the next you're on earth thinking about grocery shopping! It is quite the dichotomy. I managed to balance out again and felt better than ever.

Monday I had a fantastic, productive, and restful day. I finished work early, had time to goof off, do crafts, and even spontaneously jump in the car with my camera to chase rainbows around town and grab a few photos. I felt like I was in heaven and went to be giving thanks for my life.

So it was a total surprise when I woke up the middle of Monday night plastered with a nasty vibration that felt like electric shocks and static combined, after having horrid dreams of explosions derailing a train I was on, and various people betraying me and trying to throw my work off track. My stomach felt beaten, and my head was aching. I've been through this before, and I knew this was a vibration that seeks to pull us away from our good. This is an energy that tends to rise up when the world is stirred up. It feeds off chaos and is attracted to any tiny shred of doubt, fear, or upset that it finds within us. Like the opposing forces that caused the tornadoes, this is the dark that seeks to tango with the light within us. Dark energies don't know they're part of God and so they act independently trying to feed off the discordance they cause in others. They have no real power except what we give them.

Rather than doing battle, getting upset, or reacting (which only feeds it) I went within and asked the angels how I allowed for this. I knew that I've had a much higher vibration of love flowing through me than ever before, and I also know that this comes with greater accountability for my thoughts. Its easy to get off balance until you stabilize and get used to a new vibration and I knew that this increased flow was new to me. Walking in a stream is easy. Wading in a river requires more concentration and balance until you become accustomed to the current!

The angels pointed out that I had been having tiny shreds of doubt about whether or not it was ok to goof off in my spare time instead of beginning a new book. It was true! I DID have those ridiculous thoughts on Monday. Never mind that we steered an asteroid away from earth with our prayers a few weeks ago, or that I counsel several hundred people a month between readings and emails - nope, I forgot all that in a moment of doubt and felt like I should be doing more. That false sense of urgency - total spiritual insanity - allowed the world's chaos to creep right into my energy field during my sleep!

Luckily I've been through this before. I banished my doubts, affirmed that God blesses both my work and my play, and called in archangel Michael to clean up my aura. Flaming hot energy shot up my spine and my body instantly felt better. I took a salt bath, cleaned the house, and did laundry just to clean off the reside and went about having a very good day.

The world was stirred up this week, without doubt. The asteroid's ripples in the energetic pond are being felt, the tornadoes wreaked havoc in the southern US, presidential candidates were duking it out for positions, and the news announced we "are officially be in a recession." Many of my psychic friends and clients reported feeling a little 'off kilter,' cranky, and not quite right in their bodies. If you felt odd, you're not alone! And if you didn't, thank heaven!!

The good news is that we are in charge of our own energies and nothing can disturb us or keep us off balance when we stand in the truth of God's love, and in our own light. As I watched the news of the storms and saw the pictures, I was amazed that every now and then one house was left standing amidst total rubble and chaos of the others right next to it. Why that one? Maybe it had a firmer foundation and stronger walls. Maybe the vibration and prayers of those who owned it were powerfully faithful... Maybe both.

When you suddenly feel different than the day before, or when you feel off with no apparent reason, you may be feeling the world. In these cases, go within, reaffirm your goodness, banish any doubts about your life, yourself, and what you are manifesting, and refuse to believe in anything less than the truth of God's love for you, as you are now. Rest, eat right, meditate, and go back to basics. In no time, you'll be in charge of your own energy again and you can let the world do what it needs to do to learn while you live in peace.

Have a blessed week.
Love and hugs,
Ann

The power of our prayers...

angelann — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:26:00 +0000

Now that we are over the asteroid fly by, I feel compelled to share the bigger picture.

The short version of this story is this -- your prayers worked! With many other prayer lists and friends praying we averted what could have been one of the largest disasters on record. THANK YOU!!!!

Here is the long version of the asteroid story if you are interested. There is much to be learned from this adventure. It sounds like science fiction in parts, but it is the truth as I know and have experienced it. If it resonates take it in, if not embrace the truth in your heart. That is all God ever asks of us.

BACKGROUND INFO:

As I shared previously, I've been getting nagged by the heavens to learn about the effects of comets and asteroids for over a year now. I’ve been guided to read books on how comets wiped out civilizations. I've been awakened in the middle of the night and told to turn on the TV ony to see a lovely program on how a meteorite impact wiped out the dinosaurs, etc. I had no clue what this was about. In mid-January I started dreaming of tidal waves in the northwest, and the dreams were urgent. The pieces of the puzzle did not come together until a friend shared information from a reading he had with my dear friend Summer Bacon.

Summer, as many of you is a deep trance medium. A beautiful spirit - Dr. James Martin Peebles - speaks through her while she is in trance. Dr. Peebles was a naturopath, a medical doctor, a spiritualist minister, and a great orator among other things while he lived on the earth. When he died, his guides suggested that he become a spokesperson for the angels and he agreed and starting coming through trance mediums worldwide. After years of deeper surrender, Summer has become one of the clearest trance mediums of our time (www.summerbacon.com). The guidance and information from the angels, via Dr. Peebles, through her has been extremely accurate in both personal and global matters.

In 2005 Dr. Peebles explained to many of us through Summer that if NASA went through with its plans to blast a comet named Tempel 1, there was likelihood of serious repercussions in our world - fire falling from the sky, planes being disoriented as a result of disturbances in the electromagnetic fields, earthquakes, massive tidal waves, etc. We prayed but apparently not enough of us because the impactor did blast a 14 story crater in the comet. While NASA originally advertised that the purpose of ht emission was to learn more about the nature of the universe, later reports confirmed my feelings that they were also practicing to see if they could deflect a comet or asteroid, should one come too close to the earth.

All would have been well if comets were indeed hunks of inert ice and rock as they propose. However, the angels said through Summer that science would discover eventually that we live in an electromagnetic universe where all beings and things are interconnected and one change affects everything. Comets, said Dr. Peebles were the nerve signals in the cosmos and there were beings on this one that took our hit as a direct attack. The viewed our human actions as insanity - to them the strike was like severing a nerve in your own leg, or blasting out the power grid in your own city. When I first made contact with these beings in a deep meditation/out of body experience it was clear they viewed humanity as a collective consciousness. It was unthinkable to them, as it is to many other-dimensional beings that we humans can live on a planet and not ALL realize that earth is our home, and the universe our neighborhood. The beings associated with Tempel 1 were not pleased and were intent on teaching earth a lesson that what goes around comes around.

TU24 - THE ASTEROID FLIES BY ON TUESDAY MORNING 3:33 eastern time

Asteroid TU24 showed up on the radar only three months ago. According to calculations it was as tall as the Sear's Tower in Chicago and a lot wider. It was not scheduled to hit us at all but rather to pass by us at 1.4 times the distance of the moon. According to the angels it WAS fallout from the 2005 blast on Tempel 1 and it was populated by a group of interdimensional beings that were very upset with what they felt was humanity's unprovoked attack.

The problems come in with the fact that both the angels and insiders in government agencies felt that there was a 50/50 chance of this thing either getting sucked into or severly upsetting the earth's magnetic field. I asked my crowd of angels how that could be and they showed me it was like a magnet. If one end pointed towards earth's field, there would be no effect. If the other was, it could be attracted to our magnetosphere and cause a mess. The angels said something to the effect that this group of beings was not disuaded from their intent to teach us, cthey ould steer this thing in a direction that would wreak havoc on earth.

Even the angels said they didn't know if they could negotiate on our behalf in time to change their minds. David Sereda, producer of the Voice (www.voiceentertainment.net) reported on Coast to Coast radio that a senior scientist at Lockheed Martin risked exposure by telling him NASA was not sure they could deter it at the scientific level should it point our way, but was considering various means including some that might seem pretty far out. Thus, the angels called for our help, our prayers, and our willingness to apologize on behalf of humanity to the beings who exist on the asteroid.

And while God is certainly a higher power than any of us - human or otherwise - God does allow free will and God does allow cause and effect to teach us. Earth is after all a school, somewhat protected, but when we start trashing things outside of the school, we are allowed to suffer the effects of it for our own education.

THE EFFECT OF OUR PRAYERS

According to studies cited in Gregg Braden's book "The Isaiah Effect" only 1% of the square root of a population is required to PRAY in order to effect change. I did the math and that means today, if 8,153 people on earth prayed sincerely we can affect the course of history.

Only eight thousand, one hundred, and fifty three people are necessary to change the fate of over six billion! That is mind boggling. The angels have always said that if a small percentage of conscious souls prayers we can override the negativity of the masses. Between this list, your lists, and the lists and outreach of friends, we reached that critical mass. There were no massive tidal waves and earthquakes along the pacific rim, no devastating electrical disturbances, and very little of the mess that could have been. A US spy satellite started falling out of its orbit and is scheduled to fall to earth late Feb/early March, but there are no reports explaining this.

All I can say is God Bless you and Thank you!! I would have shared more earlier but I had a dream that said we'd be ok if we prayed, and the angels were quite clear that I was not to inspire fear but instead only request love.
I heard from several hundred of you who reported nearly identical experiences as you prayed to God and sent love to the beings associated with the asteroid. Our prayers were part of a group of prayers that just changed what could have been one of the biggest messes in recent history. I can't thank you all enough for participating. I know if God had wanted this to occur as part of HIS teaching, it would have, however it was instead a negotiation between humanity and other beings with free will. I think we ALL learned.

SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IN OUR DAILY LIVES

(1) Our prayers, if prayed with a deep sincerity, and coupled with intense love for the person or situation we wish to heal, or create, are SO powerful.

If we can negotiate with other dimensional beings in the universe to avoid disaster on our planet, we can certainly pray as fervently for the circumstances of our own lives and our own world. We need never remain victims. The angels always advise us to send love to those who wrong us, send love to those who would want to hurt us, send love to your finances, your debts, your ex's, your crazy co-workers, your neurotic bosses, your collection agencies, your hateful relatives, to world leaders who treat us like children and lie to us and to the ignorant people that trash the earth. Send love to all situations great and small that are in need of healing becuase it is our LOVE that is the only healer, our LOVE that can change the course of comets, asteroids, consciousness, and nations. It is our LOVE that can mitigate the ills and the wars and the diseases within families. It is our LOVE and our LOVE alone that is the power of God flowing through us. I know a dear woman who sends love to her debtors. When she does so, they magically leave her alone. I know another woman who sent love to a hateful ex. He calmed down and left her alone. It must be sincere. We must be able to work deeply within ourselves to find that spark of Divine Light within us, and sometimes we must work harder to search for it in another that seeks to hurt us.

I have sent love to angry individuals and they calm down and we have good discussions. I have sent love to problems I imagine might happen in my life and they do not come to pass. Sending love to a group of beings on an asteroid this weekend was one of the most profound experiences of my life as we dialogued and I felt their newfound respect for some of humanity as well. I was humbled by the immensity of the love that flowed through all of us.

You never have to be a doormat or suffer from abuse to simply pray from a distance with love and compassion. We demonstarted that this weekend. We can do it in our own lives. And don't forget to send love to yourself... attacking yourself is as bad as attacking another. You TOO are part of God's precious creation.

(2) We can show mercy and compassion to others even if they don't show it to us.

If a group of beings whose home comet was blasted into pieces, who suffered from physical attack, can show humanity mercy and compassion, WE too can show mercy and compassion, to those who attack us, and either stand our ground in a firm peace, or go our way in peace, allowing God to teach them their own lessons in their own time.

I was also brought to tears by the willingness of these beings to learn that we are not just a messed up collective consciousness, but rather a collection of souls at various levels of our spiritual education. I was humbled by their willingness to put aside their upset and the need to 'teach' us and to 'prove a point,' and to defer to God's kinder ways of teaching us instead.And these beings said that they were inspired by the outpouring of love shown to them by many of you. I believe they see us differently. I believe the universe sees us differently now.

I hope you see yourselves differently after reading this. I know I do.

(3) We can't pretend we're small anymore.

We are souls - each of us as much a valued and powerful part of the universe as any other. We are beings made in the image and likeness of God's light and love and we have a say in the fate of our lives and the fate of humanity. We are important and special, as is every bit of creation. We cannot use unworthiness, guilt, shame, lack of validation, lack of confidence or any other excuse anymore to pretend we are not powerful in our light.

I am applying this love to all areas of my life now and things are being handled very rapidly. I have sent love to my charge cards which are beig paid off quickly. I have sent love to some aches and pains and the angels are swirling in to take them away. I sent love to someone who was mad at me and we left things in peace and greater understanding. I send love and compassion to myself, for like all of us, I am a human being who is constantly a work in progress.

As you stand powerfully in the truth of God's love watch healing energy pour through your heart and your prayers into the darker areas of life where it was previously unable to flow. We are the streams through which the ocean of God's love is allowed to pour into our universe. We are part of this current ourselves.

God bless you. I love you all.
You have inspired me beyond my ability to describe this week,
BIG hugs and many blessings,
Ann

Special request for prayers

angelann — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:00 +0000

I debated and debated about sending this email but I finally decided to do so because I believe our prayers can affect change in ways we can't even imagine. If it does not resonate with you, please just delete it. The regular newsletter will be sent on schedule :)

As you know my personal focus in life is sharing the angel's wisdom in ways that affect our practical day to day lives - relationships, purpose, etc... however, everynow and then guidance comes to pray for something that could affect many on our planet and so I am reaching out and asking you to join me in prayer. This is certainly not intended to inspire fear; our prayers are powerful.

The pieces of a puzzle started coming to me over a year ago. I was guided to read a rather lengthy and boring book on how comets and asteroids affected our ancient civilizations. Six months ago I couldn't sleep and was told to turn on the tv and there was a special show on how asteroids and comets affected our planet. Two weeks ago I was dreaming of tidal waves. One week ago a friend mentioned a comet and asteroid that were flying nearby earth next week, and just two days ago it came together when another friend shared some information about TU24, an asteroid that is scheduled to bypass the earth at rather close range - about one and a half times as far away as the moon.

It is not scheduled to impact us but the angels say there is a 50/50 chance that it could cause mass disturbance and destruction. They did not elaborate. When I googled to read up on how this could be, there are controversial websites describing how the thing could be like a magnet, which, if lined up right would cause a lot of electromagnetic disturbance, to say the least. It passes the closest to earth at 12:33am pacific time on Tuesday morning 1/29.

SO, the angels suggest with love that w pray for it to pass by us without effect.

So (and I don't talk about this stuff much) I went into a deep shamanic semi-trance like prayer last night and flew out of body to have a chat with the consciousness of TU24. Whoever or whatever that is - it was very mad at humanity. It views humanity as an irresponsible collection of beings trashing their planet and sending destructive forces out irresponsibly into the universe (our scientists DID blast comet Tempel 1 a few years ago 'to see what it was made of'). It did not seem to understand our individual human consciousness very well. It sees us as "one" responsible group. It wanted an apology for the pain we are causing on our planet and at times, in the solar system. So I apologized on behalf of humanity, sang my prayers, and asked it to consider that there are many good people here too.

If you are inclined, please pray this passes without effect, and if you are as weird as I am and willing, see if you can connect with the consciousness that propels this asteroid on its path and apologize for the behavior of humanity. Share your heart and tell it there are good people upon the earth who care about the environment and not trashing space. I know this sounds odd but if you are inclined, I know the angels would be grateful. We have free will and there are certain things they are not allowed to intervene with unless we pray. Then God can direct them to act on our behalf.

Thanks for listening. If this does not resonate with you just delete it. I hear a lot of these things and ignore them but my dreams have been intense as of late, and now with my friends coming to me over and over I felt it was time to exercise our right to choose with our prayers :)

Listen and Trust

angelann — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:25:00 +0000

I've really been in integrity lately with my own heart and it has been impossible to ignore the urgings within. A few weeks ago I got off work on a Friday and felt the usual sense of need to go to the bank to make my deposits before running my usual errands. This was my pattern. However, that particular Friday I had NO urge whatsoever to leave my house. It was dark and cold out and instead, I had a desire to be cozy, fix a nice dinner, and rest. I listened to myself and stayed at home. The next day at the bank's ATM I overheard a conversation. Apparently someone was held up at gunpoint there the night before. I looked at the older gentleman who was repeating the news and told him I usually go there on Friday nights. He looked at me intensely with that look people have when God is speaking through them to me and said VERY strongly, "Young lady, you better never come here at night alone!!" I took his advice, changed my schedule and avoided what could have been a horrible situation.

God watches out for us on all things great and small. I was ready to run errands again just the other day, when I got a huge craving for a cookie, right before leaving the house. Having learned to listen to everything, even the smallest details, I stopped, put down the purse and keys, grabbed a cookie and some milk, then left a few minutes later. I passed a traffic accident that had just occurred. My cookie craving saved me from what could have been a big headache or least an upsetting too-close-for-comfort occurance.

You never know what God is up to when you get an urge to do something differently. Try it, just listen to your own heart, and trust.

You never know what is important

angelann — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:24:00 +0000

After my adventures last year speaking at conferences with famous authors, I've been daydreaming of ways I can continue to help the world without burning myself out as many before me have done. I've taken a LOT of time to let my mind wander and look at possibilities. I dream of a life where I help share heavenly wisdom with the world in a way that gives me an inspiring and balanced life too! As a result I've passed up numerous opportunities that just didn't feel right for me at the time they were offered. As a result of being honest with myself, I feel JOY that I'm living my life NOW, in balance and harmony with my own spirit, rather than sacrificing my joy in the present to get some mythical somewhere in the future. It has taken me a lot of internal work to get to this point, but it was well worth the effort.

As I daydreamed over the holidays I realized in my ideal life I live in a house without excess or clutter, and so I acted in alignment. I realized in my ideal life I do not eat the 'casserole of the week' as I've done for years, but rather have easy tasty gourmet meals so I got a toaster oven to cook smaller portions. I realize in my ideal life I am profoundly positive again so I've been on a mission to kill off negative thoughts by simply telling them, "Nope, that's not what I'm creating. Come into the light in my heart or leave. I am focusing on what I DO want," and then I proceed to daydream about something wonderful. I am finishing old projects, making time for hobbies, and having a life. And I'm trusting God to let me know what's next. Its SO much easier than trying to push myself, control my heart, wrack my brain for strategies, etc.

Well, God is up to something here, as I finish my cross-stitches, clean out my closets, and make healthy meals for dinner...

I just found out that the documentary I will be appearing in, although my part is very short, has been picked up by the producers of "What the Bleep" and will soon be shown in theaters nationwide, starting in Arizona, then distributed on DVD! This is HUGE! I'll give you details as they become available to me. The movie is right up my alley because it merges science and spirituality and I am so excited to be a tiny part of something so big! Whenever I do something for the love of it, love comes back. I cannot wait to see what comes of this.

There are times in our lives when we are simply floating on a raft on the river of God's love. As the angels say, we are not "paddling," but the currents of God's love are still moving beneath the surface of our lives. At these times I often find that people think they're not doing anything useful. Finishing a cross stitch project I started fourteen years ago doesn't sound earth shattering, but it is important to me. Cleaning out the closet may not have world significance... but if it frees up my time to do something better in the future when God is ready for me to act, it just may. Getting a toaster oven is so totally mundane, and yet a happy, well-fed Polish girl has a lot of energy to give others!!!

So when you don't think you're doing something important, think again. You never know what God is up to in your life. If your urges are grandiose, listen to them. If they are mundane, listen with equal reverance. Our lives are composed of many pieces of a grand puzzle - all equally important in the big picture, whether we can see that at the time we live them or not. If your urge is to clean out a drawer do it. It may be an energetic foundation for next step on your career path!

Spiritual Cleansing

angelann — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:47:00 +0000

Oh Wow, that felt good! Some days I sit down to channel and just feel so inspired as the angels words flow through me. I resolved this week to start channeling the angel messages during the week rather than doing them after work on Friday nights.Although I DO love the angels, there's a million other things I'd rather do with friends or even just resting on Friday nights! So much to my surprise, after an incredibly productive weekend and office day, right before I was about to make dinner on Monday night, the urge to sit and write this hit and hit hard! Their words just flew through! I love it when I am unplugged.

I've been heeding their advice this year very strictly. After cleaning out my excess I decided I needed to finish up some tasks that have been hanging over my head for a long time - things I put off because I don't like to do them. I spent over 22 hours updating my web store this weekend so it is finally PRETTY which makes me happy and organized, which will make my life easier in the future as I add new products (which weren't going to happen till I got organized)! The weekend turned out to be a lovely cold and rainy affair and after the web was done, I woke up Monday on my 'office day' and ACTUALLY felt like doing my taxes, at least as much as I could do without all the paper work. I hate this task. I usually have to wait until at least late February or early March before God blesses me with the urge to get it done, but today, as it poured rain outside, I got through it in record time! I stopped to moan about how tedious and boring it was and the angels were rather no nonsense. "Then take a break!" they said. Duh! I got up, got in the car, got a coffee, and ran all my errands in the beautiful crisp cool air, then came back refreshed and ready for round two. I even got an article written for a book that I had promised another wonderful soul.

It boggles my mind how much can be accomplished when we don't let the STUFF in life bog us down. I was SO exhausted last year I couldn't get off the couch much in my spare time during the last four months of '07. Now I sit on the couch voluntarily until I'm bored and then the energy gets cooking!

A few more work items to go then my body is getting in order next! I am loving life these days. Nothing like getting rid of what does not work!

Happy 2008!

angelann — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:47:00 +0000

I cannot believe we are in 2008 but I was never so overjoyed to ring in a new year! I spend New Year's eve in solitude with God and my dogs. I could have been with friends or family but this year I wanted to pray and spend time in silence. I truly believe it was my best New Year's yet. I went out under the stars wrapped in a warm coat and scarf, thanked God for my life and everyone in it, and prayed for everyone, me and the earth included. At 5 till midnight the TV went on, the champagne came out, as well as a plate of doggie biscuits for my furry kids. The dogs kissed me at midnight; the angels flew in and surround me en masse; and I cried for the miracle and joy of feeling alive and feeling loved. We are ALL loved that much.

I spent most of my break resting and clearing out my house, getting oraganized for the new year, streamlining tasks, and evaluating all my work and habits to make sure everything I do supports LIFE for me next year, rather than wearing me out, or draining my energy. I looked at areas where I had complaints and began to make changes. No more excuses, no more martyrdom, no more 'maybe someday I'll change." I decided to grow up and make changes now in all areas of life. I got rid of SO much stuff and pared back to the things I wear and enjoy the most. I organized everything to make sure I could find it without hassle. I got real about what I can honestly do in a day and created some changes to my schedule in order to make time to eat, exercise, and sleep every day. I'm prioritizing my well being even more this year because I know God wants me to give more... but not from an empty cup.

Taking time for yourself is never ever selfish. It creates the energy, motivation, and sanity to give from an authentic desire, and the clarity of mind to make good decisions and to life life efficiently. Clearing out stuff isn't always easy but it is oh so freeing to your spirit. So if you can, take a little time to rest once in awhile, and a little time to declutter and you will feel brand new!

Happy New Year and as the angels say, Happy New You!

Bringing light into the dark

angelann — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:20:00 +0000

The Christmas season for me, used to be filled with expectations. I had so much to do, and so many things to attend. This year, I have truly discovered that less is more. I have enjoyed the sweet peace of the season every step of the way. So it came as a little shock when a cold started trying to come in last Monday. Sure I didn't get much rest this weekend but I enjoyed the company of good friends on Saturday and spent Sunday baking quite a few dishes to get me through this busy week before the holidays. So when I woke up Monday with the little scratchiness that warns you of an impending stuffy head and cough, I decided I was not going to get sick before Christmas. Period.

I did what the angels always suggest - bring light into the darkness. I thanked the little cold vibration for remind me not to go nuts this week. I rested on a day usually spent furiously running errands and doing my office work and writing. I ate my garlic and spicy salsa, prayed, and asked God to help me get the gifts of this cold before it started to set in. By Tuesday the vibration was on its way out. I pretty much skipped it entirely! I ended up with a little cough that is not comfortable but I totally avoided the stuffy head, runny nose, or terrible scratchiness these things can bring - and I'm determined to get this cough out of me pronto as well. What a gift! Truly it was for me a reminder that there is never a need for a battle, but rather a need for love.

The lesson continued throughout the week. The pool equipment broke and started leaking. My heater stopped working perfectly. A doghouse I ordered arrived damaged. I suspended the urge to be irritated and sent love to all involved. The dear pool repair people came out faster than I could have guessed. The heater started working better even before the repair folks could make it and the doghouse company agreed to pay for repairs. Had I gotten upset it would have been a different story.

Challenges exist, always and forever. Life is life. But when we bring love into the darkness, as the angels say, into the challenges, into the vibrations of illness, into the situations where you'd rather holler, into the frustrations and upsets of life, it is amazing how quickly these challeges move on through your life.

Regardless of religious beliefs, Christmas is a celebration of light in the darkness, and Hanukka is the festival of lights. So no matter what you celebrate, celebrate the fact that you can bring the light of God's love into any situation and watch it transform. Call for that light to illuminate your heart in times that are challenging and to amplify in times of joy.

I wish you a blessed Christmas and a beautiful holiday. You are all in my heart and I am blessed to be on this journey with you.

Meaningful presents

angelann — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:19:00 +0000

I have always loved giving. I love seeing the smile on someone's face when they receive something thoughtful or something they've wanted. I love surprising people and letting them know that someone cares. And many years I've worked so much that I've been able to do that with material stuff. This year, I found balance. I worked less hours and wrote more. I took time to actually rest in off hours. And as a result I am richer in spirit but am not shopping much over the holidays! My friends and I all agreed to make presents for one another this year. We have enough stuff and instead we simply want to share love and experiences with one another, and things we can truly use or enjoy.

Last year we started gravitating towards this idea. I gave some friends a coupon for a meal a month for several months and I enjoyed cooking while they enjoyed eating. My friends gave me a dog-sitting voucher. Last weekend I spent hours in the kitchen making goodies I can't divulge because my friends read this list! We are sharing of our hearts, things that we can truly enjoy. And it feels good. It takes more time than shopping, to be sure. Its easy for me to get on the internet and place an order, or to run out to the mall that is ten minutes from my home. It takes hours to cook up a gourmet treat, but those hours are filled with intense love. I adore cooking - it looks good, tastes good, and smells good, and it nurtures the soul. I'm making other non-edible stuff too. I already gave my friends a slideshow of our Christmas's past that I made up on the computer. It made our hearts happy to remember all the good times - an instant upper that we can pop in the DVD.

I did buy something for my mom but instead of a traditional present I wracked my brain to think of what she'd love most, and (go angels!) I was reminded that my mom loves lemons. She can't get good ones out east, so Ann-ta Claus did get on the net and order my mom a box of delicious Meyer lemons. I didn't wait for Christmas; I just sent them. its a strange gift to be sure, but mom loves them like some of us love chocolate and they contribute to her health and well being. In this case, thinking inside the box worked!!!

Its been a really relaxed holiday season. I feel no stress, no rushing around in traffic, no need to 'worry about what to get'... I know in future years I may shop again, or not... but this year is special. I feel like I'm returning to some good old fashioned values and finding great solace in them. I've enjoyed decorating, baking, curling up late at night with a cup of cocoa and a warm fuzzy pair of socks looking at my Christmas tree, being with friends... I can't recall a holiday when I've been this honest about what I really want to do.

So this holiday season, enjoy whatever it is that really matters. If you shop buy only what truly feels meaningful, big or small. If you don't give from the heart. Even the smallest kindness goes such a long, long way.

Tugs from the past

angelann — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:19:00 +0000

Sometimes when I sit down to type I have an idea of what the angels are going to say or what I hope they'll talk about and other times, it just pours out of me and I find myself reading as I go. This message was one of them. It answers a lot of questions that my clients have been asking lately, namely...what on earth is going on? I have asked that very same thing. As I continue to feel more and more joyous my body has felt crazy to say the least - old tightness, old tensions, old misalignments, all coming up to the surface.

"These are your old patterns trying to hang on for dear life because you are coming into a time of more light," the angels told me. I see that. I'm changing how I interact with the world to be even more forthright, even more honest about where my heart wants to be and when, and to rest when I need it even more than ever before. I've been really happy lately, loving the creativity of the season and blessed with the people in my life. But OUCH, the old patterns tug and pull away.

I have felt SO able to love everyone lately, even the people I want nothing to do with, that it boggles my mind. I've prayed for this. I've studied to learn how to do this. I've listened to angels. And yet at the same time some old part of me tries to get me angry when people don't behave as I want. I catch the errant thoughts and tell them, as if I'm speaking to tantrum throwing kids... "Off to your room! Come into the light with me or sit in silence!" Then my body breathes deeply and relaxes again. Its a roller coaster lately as I strive to love no matter what, but boy oh boy does it feel good!

One old anxious thought and I catch my body tensing up. When I catch myself, stop, breathe, and unwind a bit my body relaxes. I have to do this over and over as a discipline to keep those old patterns from taking hold. It is exciting. It never fails that before you let go of an old habit or pattern, it makes one big last stand... attempting to stay in your mind and body. And yet if you keep making one good choice after the next, the old pattern finally lets go and you are free-er than ever before

Be the angel

angelann — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:18:00 +0000

I love the holiday season. It gives me an excuse to give without reason, to dress up the house, to go crazy with creativity, and to eat more than anyone should ever put in a body this size. But most of all I love that it is the season where people usually love more easily, act with more charity, and practice a bit more compassion.

So when I set out with a heart full of cheer to run errands Monday, I was shocked at the insanity, rudeness, and unkindness I witnessed all around. Drivers in traffic cut me off. Clerks at the office store ignored me. As I smiled at people they looked away. A clerk took 45 minutes to write up a supply order for me instead of swallowing her pride and asking a co-worker how to do it. I felt truly and deeply for the first time that I did not belong on this planet because so many people didn't know how to love. It was a passing thought, but then all of the sudden the truth hit and I realized, YOU ARE NEEDED HERE. I felt a FLOOD of huge, beautiful, angelic energy through my entire body and heard the words loudly, "Be the angel." "YES!" my soul cried out in response. I AM here to love.

Be the angel.

I started blessing the rude drivers in traffic, being kinder than ever to the rude people who didn't even see me as they ran into me in the shops, and prayed for the lady who was slow. I went back to the supply house to pick up my order and even though it wasn't ready as promised I enjoyed a delightful conversation with another lady in line. A lone honeybee started buzzing around me and proceeded to land on me and walk all over me - another joke from the angels. I guess I was BEE-ing who they wanted me to "be"!

It is more fun to love than to be irritated. It is more fun to know you can walk a higher path. It just feels better to be charitable, compassionate, and kind. I do not mean you should ever be a doormat or put up with abuse, but at the same time why return anger with anger, unkindness with unkindness, etc. Show people there is a better way. It feels good. It feels like playing Santa to give without reason. And it feels much closer to godliness. I felt powerful blessing the angry drivers and watching them slow down and be nicer. As Obi Wan Kanobi says in the movie Star Wars - "The force is strong on the weak minded" or in the terms of the mystic "Love is stronger than anger and hate."

So as you celebrate the season, "Be the Angel" and share your gift of prayers and blessings with those who need it the most. You'll feel pretty warm and fuzzy inside if you do this just for the sake of being who you really are. And the echo back from the world is pretty cool too!

Giving of our hearts

angelann — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:17:00 +0000

I hope all of you who celebrate Thanksgiving had a beautiful day. I cooked a beautiful meal for my friends and loved every minute of it. Unlike other years, I didn't rush, didn't multi task, and didn't even look at the clock in the days preceding thanksiving. I just gave thanks for every minute of time I was allowed to do this. I didn't focus on the cost but rather thanked God for the ability to feed friends. I didn't worry about who would show up and who wouldn't last minute. I just gave thanks for the ability to give whoever wanted to receive. It was the most relaxing ten course meal I've ever cooked. It was the easiest cleanup. It was tasty beyond belief. And I felt full with my friendships.

I didn't always have so many friends. When I moved to Arizona I was young, engaged, and knew no one. My husband worked second shift every two weeks and I was alone. I was very sad about it but made choices to work out, be healthy, and explore my spirituality. That alone-time sent me on my path. After I divorced, I dated a sociopath who ran off with my money. I was alone again. And yet it motivated me to learn to treat myself kindly, do things for myself without waiting for someone else to come make my life better and reach out to go to classes and create new friendships. I travelled, learned to cook well for myself, and to go out whether or not anyone was there to do it with me. Many times in my life I've grown, lost old friends, and had to recreate new circles. What I've learned, is that God wears many faces - love is always is present if we look for it and reach out to others with our hearts. Not everyone will respond but if you keep reaching out you'll find love coming in return.

I had to learn to give to myself first before I could attract these friend. It didn't happen over night and many times I whined and complained that I gave to everyone else but no one gave back to me...and yet that was only because I focused on the belief so strongly it became true. When I stopped whining and started focusing on the abundant love of God - after all He made sunsets, birdsong, and rainbows... then I started to receive the love of the universe in return, filled my cup, and was able to spill it over. As a result the cycle of giving and receiving continues. I have learned that it is only ME who blocks the flow of receiving God's love, or sharing it. As I get back in that flow, I feel the abundance of the universe, and I'm not talking about money here, but rather so much more... love.

I love the gift of giving of my heart. In the words of St. Francis, "It is in giving to all that we receive." So true... Give only from a full heart the angels say. First pay your own bills, feed your own mind, body, and spirit, and receive the gift of your own love. Then, and only then will you have the heart filled with God's love ready to give to others from a deep and authentic place.

Gratitude - everything is love

angelann — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:16:00 +0000

As I typed this weeks angel message, I felt so much love pouring through me it brought me to tears. I pray you can feel it as well. Do the meditation too. I did it and I felt all of you, and that made me cry even harder - tears of incredible gratitude. I know this path isn't always easy. So many of you have come to me or written to me saying you have felt alone at times. There were times in my life when I did too. There were times when I wasn't even sure God cared about me as I cared for everyone else. There were times when I felt that I messed up so badly even the angels would give up on me. And yet the truth is, they don't.

God and the angels don't love conditionally like we do. They love without reservation. They love us just as much when we're singing their praises as when we holler unto the heavens about the 'unfairness' of a situation in a deeply human moment. I'll never forget once when I went to my friend Summer Bacon (www.summerbacon.com) for a trance channeled reading. I was deeply pissed off at the angels for guiding me into some tough growth, and wanted nothing more than to rant and rave. Dr. Peebles, the dear soul who comes through Summer cut me off at the pass by saying, "My dear we love you so very much you can yell at us for the next hour. Your green eyes are so beautiful when they're flashing sparks at us." Oh how on earth could I remain mad in the face of that love? I was flooded by it.

I watched a movie a few months ago called "Evan Almighty" in which God reminded Evan that "everything He does He does because He loves us." I have to laugh... in retrospect it is ALWAYS true. But in the heat of a challenging moment, we don't always feel loved. We are. Trust that. This month, Summer Bacon's institute is all about giving thanks. The angels are reminding us through her to not only give thanks for the good things in our lives but also for the so-called bad experiences as well. Sounds tough, but really as I tried it, giving thanks for all irritations, upsets inconveniences, etc., I find they lose their power to upset me. As I give thanks I realize, there IS always something to give thanks for.

The rock that hit my windshield on the freeway the other night gave me an opportunity to brighten up the day of a precious insurance representative who went above and beyond to be cheerful and help me with my claim. The fact that my neck went off kilter this week from sitting at the computer reminds me to take some time to rest. The guy that cuts me off in traffic gives me a chance to practice my new found skills of temperance. And while this sounds like pollyanna psycho-babble at first, try it...try finding the silver lining in everything. Giving thanks for it, although difficult at first, sure has created the opportunity for me to see life more through my soul's eyes rather than through the short-term vision of my personality.

The Landscape of our Lives

angelann — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:16:00 +0000

Every week I drive past a house in my neighborhood that has some rather curious decor on the front lawn. From a distance it looks cluttered and mis-matched. Close up however, there are hundreds of tiny delights - flowers, stepping stones, lawn ornaments, etc. Another yard down the street looks well manicured and uncluttered from a distance, and yet up close, looks sparse and plain.

Both of these yards have their own unique beauty. The angels had a wonderful chat with me the other day comparing these two landscapes to what they called "the landscapes of our lives."

It all started when I fell back into worrying about what being in public more will do to my life. Right now, I am really enjoying some relative 'privacy' compared to what I experienced earlier this year. I haven't been teaching or out in public much. And yet I'm HAPPY in a big way. I'm focused on writing the six or seven books I've started in no particular order when the urge hits. I'm having fun with my creative urges. I'm cooking, exercising, and pursuing my own spiritual education, as well as spending time with furballs (dogs) and friends. The joy in my life, at present, is in the small, mismatched details. With my LITTLE human mind I don't see the next BIG step yet. Blissfully I don't care. I trust God enough to know that when He wants me to do the next 'big' thing He'll let me know in my heart of hearts. In the meatime, like the magical little cluttered yard, I will enjoy the many small moments in my life that bring great satisfaction. As the saying goes, "the present is in your presence."

There will come a time in the not too distant future, say the angels where I'll have to weed out the activities in my life and focus on those that create a bigger picture. I'll know in my heart what to do when those moments arrive, and at that time, when I and God are ready, the angels tell me I won't feel as if I have to sacrifice joy to focus on a bigger picture. As sanity returned during this discussion with the angels I stopped worrying about what I'd have to "give up" to serve the world in larger ways.

Most of us have both these 'landscapes' in our lives from time to time. There are times when we are just living, enjoying the small things in life and those are beautiful, precious, and magical times. There are other times when everything else falls by the wayside to accomplish a task that we are passionate about. Those are magical in a different way. Neither is better or worse just different. The trick is to enjoy whichever 'landscape' is present in your life right now.

The Riches of Nature

angelann — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:15:00 +0000

I love the earth. I love being outdoors and I do give thanks for the beauty we have been gifted with. The angels once said, "Ann look at the riches humanity has been given - the grasses, the trees, the birds, the waters, the blue of the night sky, the clouds, the passionate orange sunburst of sunrise and sunset. Look at the soft berries, the ripe fruits, the crisp vegetables. Look at the majestic mountains, the ever-changing seas. Look. Look around you and behold true wealth." I almost cried when they said that because its true. In our society we measure wealth by our bank accounts, our stuff, and hopefully by the people in our lives as well, and yet wealth is here the minute we arrive on earth.

It is so important to take time to be in nature, whether you camp, walk, drive, or travel out of body at night, because when you are there, you are reminded of God's love. You can't help it. The miraculous surrounds us. I'll never forget a walk in a meadow right after a rain. I looked down and could have sworn I saw a diamond sitting there on a leaf. The diamonds were all over. I was dumfounded. When I looked closer I was even more overwhelmed. The "diamonds" were water droplets from the rain that had landed inside these leaves with five little parts. The way the leaves reflected through the water made each little drop look like a multifaceted diamond. I could hear the angels in the background delighting in my discovery of nature's gems :)

Have you ever done this? Pick up a rock and look at it. Ask it to tell you a story about where it came from. Shut your eyes and connect with this rock in your heart. Watch its birth as it originally travelled out of the earth as molten lava perhaps, or was pressurized by millions of years of ocean pressing down on it, or perhaps it grew as a result of condensation forming crystals in the cracks of another rock. A simple rock becomes a tool for travelling outside of time and space. Learn it with this rock, and you can do it anywhere.

Pick up another rock, and ask a question. Look at the rock and see how it answers you - maybe its shape, or markings upon it, or colors, answer your question. God is everywhere, in every aspect of creation. A simple rock can train you in your psychic abilities.

Mother nature is awe inspiring and awesome. I love her. I love the angel messages this week. It explains my need to shift to environmentally friendly detergents, and to do ceremony again, and to sing songs to her when I am out alone in nature. It also explains the jitters that many of us have felt on and off for some time now.

Give thanks! We live on one of the most diverse and beautiful planets in existence.

My New Book is Out!

angelann — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:10:00 +0000

I am thrilled to finally release "Whispers of the Spirit" - my autobiography that describes how I went from being a rather angry and disenchanted avionics engineer to who I am now.

I wrote this book 11 years ago and finally decided to release it because I believe much of what I went through is common to the human experience, and if I could learn to listen to Spirit... anyone can!!

Description: Ann Albers graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in electrical engineering, got a job in the avionics industry, & was well on her way to 'having it all.' God had other plans.

Disenchanted in a life that was supposed to make her happy, Ann prayed for her calling. Join her on an amazing journey of awakening in which you will learn how to tune into the Whispers of the Spirit in your own life.

Discover how dreams, symbols, intuition, angels, etc. guided Ann to leave the life she knew and step into the unknown. As Ann shares her experiences you'll learn to recognize the signs of Spirit in your life. This is a glorious adventure of the soul that will resonate with your head & heal your heart.

Endorsement by Doreen Virtue (Ph.D., author, "Divine Guidance") "Ann Albers is an artist of emotions and spirit, & her canvas is her enthralling book. You will feel the stirring of deep memories & even experience healing, as you share Ann's spiritual journey in the pages of this book."

I hope you enjoy it!

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Watching the Grass Grow...

angelann — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:09:00 +0000

I was watching the grass grow this week... truly. In Arizona we overseed our lawns with "winter rye" grass. Unlike the coarse and crunchy summer grass, this grass is vibrantly green and soft. I look forward to the new carpet of lawn every winter. As soon as the seeds are planted I count the days and wait patiently for the first little green shoots. I celebrate when they come up. Day four, day five, day six... oh here they are! And then all of the sudden they burst forth into a beautiful furry little lawn that looks so happy!

That was me recently. I felt like I have been pushing through the soil to finish and publish the autobiography I wrote 11 years ago. I've been cranky with my angels, busy finding all sorts of excuses to distract myself when working on it, and dragging my heels every step of the way. I REALLY wanted to finish up the next proof copy yesterday so I prayed for assistance to get inspired and get it finished.

In answer to my prayer, Archangel Michael appeared to me and asked if I wanted to know what I was experiencing. "Yes please!!!" I asked him. "You are going to expose the sides of yourself you weren't so proud of," he said. "You feel vulnerable... and those pieces of you from the past are getting defensive!" "Is that ALL?" I asked. "That's it," he answered. I felt SO relieved! I didn't know why I was in such a bad mood this week, and everything he said rang true.

There ARE parts of who I used to be that I am not proud of. I was an angry, arrogant, self-righteous young woman before God started shoving me through the dirt and towards the light. And those parts of me were getting all upset about me-now exposing them and sharing them with the world. It was like having a mutiny where the present-version of Ann was being overthrown by all the past-selves!! I took charge once again and determined to finish the book.

"Well?" Michael looked at me to make sure I understood. "You're right!" I practically kissed him. As soon as I see a little light, I'm like that grass that starts to leap the light of God. That was it! Past parts of me were just afraid! Thus a book that has sat on the shelf for 11 years and probably could have helped a lot of people be kinder to themselves sooner is finally going to be published in a few weeks, God willing (and if I got the cover right!)

And guess what. I'm out of the dark and into the light again, happy, feeling grateful, and glad to be the ME I am in 2007 once again. The learning never ends!

Nature nurtures

angelann — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:47:00 +0000

I strive to live in the present as much as possible. And yet, at times, I go back to the past, project nonsense into the future, or worse yet pine away for something that isn't here yet. That is how I make myself miserable and attract the nonsense I went through last week. It is good to intend for your future, to have goals if they really arise from within your heart, and, at times, to analyze the past to understand it. That is useful. However, when we hang on to the past, rehashing it time and again, that is self-punishment. When we pine away for the future that hasn't arrived yet, that is self-torture. Better to live now.

After getting myself in a spiritual mess last week and attracing all sorts of energies that were glad to push me deeper into my own nonsense, I decided I better get back to the present moment quickly, and as the angels say "live now." I immediately went back to all my good habits - taking more time to pray and meditate each day. I sat for a whole hour asking my body what it wanted to eat and then planned the meals around that. I happen to be vegetarian this week! Next week, who knows... my body tells me if I listen. I got rest. I decided to take a wonderful weekend in solitude and allow my heart to guide me, and I had one of the best weekends of my life.

Saturday I hiked deep into the desert back to a wonderful swimming hole and ended my summer with a dip in the icy cold green waters of the northern, Arizona creek. It was bracing, and invigorating and my entire energy field sighed with relief after a sincere pounding last week. The desert sun baked away the rest of the clouds. Nature ALWAYS re-energizes me, even if I just sit in my own backyard. Sunday I drove up north to see the glorious golden aspen trees turning colors, and to enjoy the crisp fall air. We are lucky here in Arizona. Depending on how far you are willing to drive, you can pick your season.

It occurs to me that with our thoughts, choices, and perceptions we also choose the weather and the seasons of our spiritual landscape.

So, as the angels say, go easy on yourself ! I think I exist to prove that being human is just as holy as well, being "holy" the way we were raised to think of it. God's love is constant. The only question is this - how well will you choose to love yourself each day :)

Dark and light

angelann — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:46:00 +0000

This angel message rings so true to my heart this week. I have been working to release an autobiography of how I went from being an angry, disillusioned young woman in working in electrical engineering to the person I am now. I know this book will help people who are beginning to seek spirit feel the presence of the guides in their lives and it will inspire people to heal the pains of their past. In the book I share a lot about how I healed the illusions and pains that caused my anger and unworthiness. My work with angels was both an enlightening and uplifting, joyful dance, and a journey into my own darkness so I could clear my mind and come to know who I was. Part of my training has been to know myself well - both the dark and the light so I can distinguish my own thoughts from the voices of both angels and demons.

It seems the darker energies didn't want me to release that book. I was hit by an attack of negative voices that was so strong I almost lost myself in them last Sunday. "No one wants to read your garbage. God doesn't care about you. Everyone else teaches this stuff. You don't have anything to say. Your life isn't worth much." It was simply unbelievable. I knew the voices weren't mine. I said say NO WAY and changed my thoughts to positive and then got slammed once again with another round of attack. I know all this started because I had a moment of self pity when I was feeling tired and didn't want to finish the book. Give an inch of negativity and the denser energies on this planet will go the extra mile to amplify it!

Thank GOD for the training. I knew this wasn't my truth at all. I called in God and the angels in a big way, ate well, rested, cleaned house, and called upon friends. I was shocked when several of my psychic friends and I started comparing notes - we were ALL experiencing this same amplification of our of negativity.

It made sense a few days later when a friend wrote to tell me about the massacre of the monks in Burma. I imagine that the darker energies on this planet had a heyday, not only with the deaths of the innocents but with the anger engendered in the masses at this violation of human rights. It made sense that those of us who are in tune with the world would be feeing such an attack. Satan only gets pushy when he feels powerful. And the truth is, he is impotent in the light of God's love.

When I saw what was going on the light returned. I prayed for the world, prayed for myself, my friends, and even those energies that seek to make us feel worse, and then all was well again. Love clears out any lesser vibrations. I had the most productive and fun day I've had in ages.

It is much more fun to talk about light and miracles, and I am blessed with more than my share of these. Yet, if we're on the spiritual path we will have to face the small negativities within ourselves, and sometimes the amplification of the very same by forces that would rather we didn't grow into the light. As humans we have times when those forces tempt us to fall into despair, self-hatred, worry, fear, and lack of faith... along with the rest of the illusions that would have us convinced we are not loved. These are lies. We have to use everything in us at these tough times to resist the temptation to believe these lies.

When you are worried about finances pray to God to increase your faith. When you feel unloved, pray to God to experience his love. When you are lonely, pray to feel the angels presence in your life. When you are angry, ask God to remove the anger from your heart. And so on... these prayers are always answered if prayed with a sincere heart. You don't have to do it alone.

I got it together again needless to say. Between rest, eating well, praying, and talking to my friends, and cleaning house, I came back to life and light again. I feel stronger, more peaceful, more resolved to share God's love with the world, and more determined to expose these lies for what they are.

The book went to the publisher. I ordered my proof copy and God willing will release it within a month. No matter what happens in your life, trust in God's love. Whether you feel it or not, it is always there :)