As you know, I don’t watch the news. I’m too busy trying to spread goodness, but when I need to know something in order to pray or for any other reason, it is brought to my attention. The recent bombing in Israel came across my desk in a way. I couldn’t ignore it. I immediately began praying for clients and their families in the affected areas.
Without thought, I wandered out into the yard. Azure skies, little green winter grasses, tiny autumn roses, and the cool 90-degree temperatures felt like heaven! A gentle breeze swayed in the cattails that sprung up in the garden, revealing a few ripened peppers that had grown in their midst. The fragrance of basil. rosemary and sage perfumed the air. I petted one of the eggplants and bent over to admire a little honeybee on the basil. As I told him I loved him and thanked him for pollinating the plants, he stopped sipping nectar, looked me in the eyes, and flew within inches of my face to do a little dance in flight right in front of my third eye before getting back to his bee’s-ness!
It is hard to wrap our minds around the stark contrasts on this earth. Here I am enjoying bees and basil while others are dying in bombed-out buildings and worse. It has always been this way on our planet. We. have lived many lives, had many experiences, and hopefully learned from them all. There have always been places of peace and places of abject horror.
“Why doesn’t God destroy the evildoers,” I am often asked. The angels often respond that a loving parent would never want to destroy their child, even if the child went in the wrong direction. The parent would remember the innocent baby and would much prefer that the child turn away from darkness and come back to their truth and light. So, too, the Divine constantly lovingly calls all souls home—even those totally disconnected and lost in abject darkness.
Meanwhile, God guides those in the light towards whatever it is they have asked to experience before birth and are still calling for now —vibrationally. It is hard to imagine, but some souls incarnate knowing they will die as children and that their death will touch hearts around the world. Some incarnate in a war zone to find inner peace. Some had creature comforts in past lives but want to find the love that goes beyond this. There are as many reasons to be in a certain space/time as there are souls, so there is never a “one size fits all” answer. However, if you look at the world and all within it as energy only, there is a vibrational dance going on that is more orderly and harmonious than we can fathom looking at it with our human eyes and minds.
So what do we do when we see these horrors? Of course, we pray, but more than that, we dig our heels in deeper and refuse to feed the darkness that fuels such abominations. We look to the light. We empower the good in this world with our appreciation, attention, and support. We refuse to fuel hatred with hate. We refuse to empower the fearmongers by giving in to fear.
In the smallest of ways, a thousand times a day, we ripple a vibration into the human pond, and this, in turn, affects its larger waves. We empower good with a focus on good. We fuel the darkness by allowing it to knock us out of our light. In a heartbeat, with awareness, we can return to the good.
For example, this week, a client shared a beautiful story of empowering the light. She was yelled at by a stranger. In the past, she would have engaged in the fight. This time, however, she went up to the woman and simply said, “Lady, in this crazy world, we need peace. We need peace.” The first woman stopped, breathed, and said, “You’re right.” They both left, touched, and stronger for the experience. The woman who chose love shifted her life and the others with a simple, kind statement of truth.
You can find or create light in the moment, no matter the darkness. Another young woman I talked to this week was in Israel visiting her family when the bombs went off. In the midst of the shock, destruction, and pain, she used every ounce of her willpower to focus on the love all around. She told me about the amazing people and families who immediately began to assist one another with no regard for the danger. She feels this focus got her through the intense, terrifying, and horrific situation. She embodies everything the angels talk about. She is safe now, and we’re holding her dear ones in our prayers.
Some things will never feel good. I started thinking about the horrors and quickly began to feel sickened and discouraged. I stopped that quickly and started to pray, “May the light of love rise up in all human hearts. May the lost, lonely, sad, fearful, hateful, disconnected souls feel your love stirring within. May they come to know the truth of existence, the truth of love.” I felt so much love flowing through me it brought me to tears.
Souls lost in darkness can kill others. They can destroy human buildings and lives, but they have no power over the eternal soul. Their darkness does not have the authority to snuff out love in a heart filled with light, no matter how hard it tries. We get to decide. We get to decide to amplify the light or feed the darkness. Let us be the ones who say “no” to that darkness and choose in whatever way we can to focus on what is good and loving in this world.
Here are some ways to pivot back into the light when you witness the darkness that wants your attention:
1. Flow love in any way you can
We can’t “fight” darkness because it feeds off the fight! It feeds on anger, hatred, and chaos. Instead, we can spread the light, share love, live in appreciation, and thereby starve the darkness of its lower vibrational fuel. “Fan the flames of love,” the angels like to say, “don’t dump garbage on the fire of darkness to help it burn.”
Whether I see something unkind or horrific I immediately use my willpower to think of all that is good and to flow appreciation. We can deprive the darkness of its fear-fest and anger-appetizes!
Try this with an angry individual if you ever have to face one. Listen to them. Don’t respond. Imagine light from heaven streaming in through the top of your head and flowing out through the heart. Ignore their words and energy, and instead focus on this flow of light from heaven through you to them. I’ve done this. It calms them or drives them away.
2. Turn away without guilt
Survivor’s guilt is real whether or not you have survived while someone else died. It occurs in much smaller ways every day, often in the most loving heart. When you see death and devastation and feel guilty for having a good life or for worrying about a minor inconvenience, that is a vibrational form of this guilt.
The angels say that you never need to feel guilty about feeling good, having a good life, or having an easier life than many. Each soul on this planet is where they are for reasons known only to them and God.
Instead, empower the light. Give thanks. Feel appreciative and blessed. Know your own heart well enough to know your love and pray for those in terrible circumstances. Ask to be of service and listen to your guidance, which might steer you to do something, give something, pray, or simply enjoy your life and empower the vibrations of joy in which darkness cannot live.br />
There is no need to feel guilty if you are feeling blessed. Give thanks and share the beautiful vibrational abundance you are experiencing through being a loving and kind soul.
3. Recalibrate quickly
There is good everywhere. Challenge yourself to look for it. Challenge yourself to find beauty. Challenge yourself to seek out good people doing good things.
The darkness wants us to feel hopeless and that the world is going downhill. It wants us to feel it has power over us, but love is the greater power. It wants us to fall into fear and anger to keep it company, but we need not becuase God is God, and life is eternal.
When fear or anger hits, take a breath. Acknowledge your feelings. There is nothing wrong with feeling them, but as soon as you are able, remind yourself, “I deserve to feel good. I deserve to feel. God. I know how to find good. I know how to find God.” Then, wherever you are, look around you and find something that you choose to love or appreciate. We go on and on about what upsets us. We can also recalibrate, and focus on what delights.
We may not be able to stop wars any time soon on this planet, but we can continue to live and labor in love, thus one soul at a time, elevating ourselves into a vibration that doesn’t fuel them.
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