Guest post from the Angels via Ann Albers
It is the human mind that makes you feel separate from this light. It is human fears and anxieties that make you forget that you are eternally connected to the source of all creation and that this love WANTS you to feel at peace, WANTS you to feel in harmony with the universe, and longs for you to know the love that created you and guides you. What the mind wants however is entirely different. It wants the illusion of control. It wants certainty, predictable outcomes, and assurance that it will be the boss. As you learn to surrender your mind and to listen to your heart however, you find a divine balance between the two. The mind was intended to serve the heart, not vice versa.
So when when you find yourself in fear or in challenging times, know it is a human tendency to start strategizing, reacting, figuring out ways to manipulate the universe. Far better however, to stop, breathe, sit in silence and ask yourself, “What do I really want out of this situation? What is my heart trying to tell me?” Ask, “Heart, what do you want? What are you trying to tell me?” Invite the presence of God within you to speak clearly through your heart. And then, listen, not so much with your ears, but with your inner knowing. Be willing to ‘hear’ things your mind might disagree with.
Suppose you want desperately to get a new job . In every minute of your spare time, your mind says, work, work, work! Send out resumes every moment. Make those calls! But your heart says, I want to go outside today and relax and read my spiritual books. I want to reconnect with myself and God. And during this quiet time you realize there is something else entirely that you want to do with your life. You want to go back to school or change careers. Now dear ones, now that you have gotten in touch with your hearts, now the universe can and will support you. Now doors will open. Now you will receive inspiration and guidance.
When the mind is trying to control the heart, you can only be guided into situations that force you deeper into your heart. When the mind is honoring the heart, you can be guided easily towards the heart’s goals.
Only when you are at “one” with your true self will God guide you in your outer world towards your goals. Suppose your earth said, “I do not wish to revolve around the sun now! I want to go in a different direction.” Well my dear friends, she would not receive any help and assistance in that endeavor because she was created to go around the sun. And so guidance would be withheld until she said at long last, “Ah it is in my heart to revolve around the sun as gracefully and beautifully as I can.” So be it! Guidance would be immediately forthcoming.
Suppose you want a relationship to make your life more interesting, or to help you feel happier. If you insist, we can guide you toward one to do just that, however realize you will attract someone who wants YOU to make their life more interesting and to make them feel happier as well. And this will drive you deeper into your heart and you will say, “But I want a relationship with someone who is happy with themselves, and feels good about their own life.” And then the realization will follow, “I want to feel happy with myself and good about my own life.” Then dear ones, you will receive guidance as to how to go about realizing this truth, and in this deeper truth you will attract healthier and happier relationships.
Suppose you say, “God I want more money! I want to be able to pay my bills more easily.” Well dear ones we could guide you there in a heartbeat, but many times we do not because what you really want, underneath these desires is, “God, please show me that you really love me, support me, and care about me.” Far better to ask for this, because it is a deeper truth and in this deeper truth you will be guided in many ways that show you how much God loves you. You will develop faith, trust, and an awareness of greater truth, perhaps even in different directions than you might have chosen had the money come easily, and then… the money will come as well.
There are always very deep desires beneath the more human ones. Dig deep into your hearts, find them and ask for them, because these are the prayers that are answered in beautiful ways that you might not even imagine. In asking to feel your light, the light of God’s love, and the universal support for you, you are admitting to yourself you are worthy of it (and this is truth). You are admitting that you are a valuable part of the universe. You are allowing the Divine to guide you as was originally intended, and you are surrendering to a grander vision of your life than one you could ever dream for yourselves.
So by all means, pray the very human prayers for we care about your human life, but don’t forget to dig deep and see what prayers the heart is trying to pray underneath these human desires. You all want to know God’s love. You all want to feel safe and secure in that love. You all want to feel that your life has purpose. And we can easily guide you in these endeavors, for a life centered on love is one in which your material needs will truly be satisfied, your desires for connection will be upheld, and a joy that is natural to the soul will be allowed to shine through you to others on this school called Planet Earth.
– The Angels
Guest post by Ann Albers copyright 2010
Joy is a true power. Joy is God’s power. It is his energy and his energy is love, for God is love. With this power, you have the ability to create anything good, including the life you really want. Joy is not just a happy feeling or a good feeling; this is the myth that you have been taught. No, joy is a power, that when expressed, does much good in the world. By letting this power or energy of joy be expressed, you help yourself. This is why it is so important to find the joyful things in life, and to stay in a joyful state, because in reality, joy is love energy being expressed. Joy contains intelligent creative energy, and like water flowing downhill, it will find it’s true purpose and destiny. You do not have to direct it. It will direct itself. In so doing, it will bring you like a river to where you need to be. It is like riding a lighting bolt. It can help you solve all of you problems. Love also is not just some kind of feeling or feel good thing. It is God’s pure energy. When we learn to love, we are remembering that we are like God, and in the process, becoming closer to God. This is very important; because this is why we are here: to become like God by remembering how to love. One way to love is to create something beautiful out of love and to share it with the world. When you create in this way, you’re expressing love. And when you express this type of love, you feel an incredibly joyous happy feeling. But this is not just when you create something, it is felt whenever you express love. You just may not be aware of it. We tend not to be aware of what we are feeling when we create, but a good deed done out of love can also give you this feeling. There is an infinite supply of this “love” energy as God is infinite. This energy has intelligence and is the way you co-create with God, because as you express this energy God is with you. With this energy, there is no fear. It is important to find joy in your life. However, many people tend to write off joy as just a “good feeling” that has no real power. They think, ‘Yeah, that’s nice…but now I have to get serious about life.” This is totally incorrect because love and joy are where our true power and creativity lie. Want to accomplish something? Want to get something done? Want to have a real effect on others? Find your joy and express it. Just open the door of your heart and let it out. Don’t judge what the joy expression is. Just find it, and feel it, and it will express itself though you. It will then affect all those around you. This is the power of joy, and it will guide you to exactly where you need to be.
