Add more you to your life

Your lives, dear ones, were never meant to be a dance of survival, but rather a dance of expression in which you allow your light to shine brightly and therefore fit into the great puzzle of life here upon your planet earth. Each of you has certain gifts and talents that can be used at any time in your life, no matter what job you find yourself in, or even if you find yourself without a job.

It is an act of self love to express these gifts and talents. Maybe you are a good listener. Perhaps you give good advice. You might be a healer, an artist, a recycle, a bicycler, an athlete, a leader, a speaker, a writer, a mother, father, lover of life, traveler, etc. The list goes on! Take time to think about the things that people have complimented you on during you lives. Take time to think about what gives your heart joy. And then, dear ones, no more excuses! Start to do the things that give you joy. Start to explore the areas of interest in your life, if only in the smallest measure. Perhaps you are a mother with little time on your hands and yet you long to be an artist. Do art with your children! Perhaps you are a man searching for a job to feed your family but you care about the environment. Volunteer to clean up an area once a month. It is in doing the things you love that you create a vibration that says to the universe, "I am worthy of my own time! I have something to contribute. I have something that gives me joy!" In this joyous space you send out a beacon and the universe, by its very design will send more joy back to you!

Dear ones, do not deprive yourselves... of yourselves! Put more YOU into your lives. Put more joy into your lives, if only in the smallest measure. If you are a giver but can't afford to give, find people who can and match them with receivers. Or leave a penny in the grocery store and bless it. Someone in need of a sign of God's love may have hope inspired from that single selfless gift. It is not the quantity of your actions that counts, but rather the degree of authenticity with which they are achieved, for that is where you send an energy out to the world, and for that you receive the honest echo.

Dear ones, we love you! YOU. The real you. The authentic, wonderful, beautiful, cherished, and treasured you. Put more YOU in your lives this week and see how things begin to change!

Do not wait for the world

Love dear ones is ever present in all things. It is never a question of asking, "How much am I loved?" but rather dear ones, a question of asking, "How much do I love? How much can I embody love? How much love can I find for God, for myself, and then naturally for others?" We are not talking about the warm feelings of romance, but rather an acknowledgment of the goodness within all things.

You feel worthy of love when others love, and yet you are always worthy of love. You feel empowered by the validation of others, and yet God always validates your being. You feel that you have a place on this earth when others acknowledge your right to be, and yet with or without that, you have a right to be.

Dear ones, your value, your worth, and your ability to contribute to humanity in even the quietest of ways is always seen, loved, and acknowledged by the creator. Can you see it? Can you acknowledge it? Can you say yes I am good, worthy of love, and have contributions to make whether or not anyone else ever loves me, gives me this validation, or acknowledges my right to be?

Do not wait for the world to acknowledge you to shine your light! Shine your light and then the world will see who you really are. Do not wait for the world and others to love you. Embody love, and then they will love you in great measure. Do not wait for the world to validate you or your perspectives. They are valid in God's eyes and if you share them with love others of like mind will find you.

Bring God's love to the surface from deep within your being and give yourselves those things you want from others, for in so doing, you will become both a beacon and a magnet to which others of like mind are naturally drawn. Dear ones, you cannot be alone if you abide in God's love, and in that space, we reassure, many others will wish to keep you company as well!

How much love will you allow

The question, dear ones, is never "How much God does God love you?" but rather, "How much do you love and honor yourselves?" How much love are you willing to bring love to the surface in your lives? How much do you feel you are worth? How deeply do you believe that the power that created you sees your good heart, your pure intentions, and the love attempting to surface beneath your not so pure intentions? Dear ones God - the Love that creates you and sustains you - is present in every facet of creation, in equal measure, just waiting to be allowed to come to the surface, much in the same way the potential to be an oak exists within an acorn, and the potential to bloom into a rose exists even amidst cut branches and sharp thorns. You are the ones that will decide how much of that love you will embrace and experience.

In practical terms dear ones, there will be times when you are tempted to fall into fear and be unloving to yourselves and one another. Still there will be a light inside, a spark of truth that reminds you gently and sweetly, "It feels better to love. It feels better to be kind. It feels better to believe in the truth that you are loved, cared for and guided." It is only fear that causes you to negate your own hearts and thus to negate the love of God that is trying to make itself known in your lives. You all have a right to be. To thine own self be true dear ones because your true self is loving. Your true self realizes that in every feeling and thought you have, love is attempting to surface. When you are angry, ask yourself, "What love is attempting to surface?" When you are sad, "What love is attempting to surface?" Even when you find yourselves being critical, ask, "What love is attempting to surface?"

Love is always attempting to find its way to the surface of your hearts, and therefore to flow into your lives. When you can seek, find, and acknowledge this love within yourselves, you will share it, first with yourselves and then with others. When you find your truth, you can allow others theirs as well. When you see God in your own eyes, you can thens seek the very same in the eyes of others.

Dear ones, we never see you as anything less than the love of God made manifest. We see the light beneath the surface, striving to shine through the fears, upsets, and disappointments, striving to break through the facade of fear. We see the light in you, pushing at the boundaries of your preconceived notions, working every diligently until at long last it will burst free from deep within and thus transform forever your notions of self and the way you live your lives. This love is within you, burning brightly. This love pushes you, coaxes you, guides you, and motivates you. This love, dear ones, is the truth of your being. Set it free. Allow it to surface…. and in so doing, watch your lives become nothing less than a dance of love with all of creation.

The future is a function of now

Stop looking backwards in your lives dear ones. Stop looking at what you could have done, should have done, or what might have been. Stop chastising yourselves for opportunities missed, time wasted, or words either spoken or unspoken. The past is over. You live now. In this moment you have glorious opportunity to bring love to the surface in your lives and thus create magical futures.

Your life is not destined to be the sum total of your past thoughts, words, and deeds, but rather simply a consequence of the energy you choose to embrace now… and now… and now. God does not keep score. The universe does not hold you to account. Only you do this. Can you choose to set yourself free of the past? Can you choose to say, "What is done is done, and today is a new day. Now is a new moment. In this second in time, I can recreate my entire life simply by choosing to love myself, to surrender to where I am at, to look to the future with loving expectation, and then to trust God?" Dear ones, this is truth! This is God's glorious love. This is God's presence breathing in you now, beckoning you to return to Love, reminding you that your future is not born of your past, but rather of your present.

So right now, make a decision. Every time you try to look back to the past, simply look at what you have learned and choose the most loving thoughts, words, and deeds that you can choose right now, even if that is simply to love yourself in a painful or upset moment, or to simply to say, "The best I can do now is to have compassion for myself."

We will say it once again… Your future is not a function of your past, but rather a function of your present – the energy you bring to the surface right here and right now. Choose to bring love to the surface, in even the simplest of ways right here and right now, and you will change the course of your entire existence.

The universe responds to love

We have said this so many times and we will say it as long as we have voices to speak through, God loves you, dear ones, more than you can possibly imagine. God wants to assist you in your lives. And yet God has granted you, upon the earth, free will. The entire universe, by its nature, must respond to the loving vibrations you put out. Aspects of the universe will respond to other vibrations as well. We, the angels, only respond to love. It is in our very design.

The universe is not designed to respond solely to your words or your thoughts, rather it responds to the energy beneath them. This is why you can pray with all sincerity, "God I need help. I need the bills paid. I need to be healed," and see nothing happening, because beneath your words perhaps is an energy that says, "I have lack. I have ill health." Instead dear ones do what it takes to get your energy aligned with your words and your prayers. This is why visualization often works. In visualization you align your imagination with that which gives you joy. And when you find that vibration within you, you are by your very energetic nature, calling it back unto you. When you do anything it takes to feel abundant - smelling the roses, sharing of your gifts with another, etc. - then you are by your very energetic nature, calling abundance unto you.

God is not a parent who gives into your fearful pleas. God instead says, I will support your love, your joy, your growth into an awareness of who you are. I will support truth and only truth, and truth dear ones, is that you are abundant. You are well. You are pure. You are holy. You are loved. Can you find ways to feel those truths in your life, thereby creating them in ever expanding ways? We think you can! You can feel love by being loving. You can feel abundant by being generous. Any frequency you tap into in any way will bring more of that into your life. If you are only "giving to get", that is not from abundance, but rather from lack. If however you give from a loving, and abundant heart, you cannot help but attract those qualities back into your life.

You are creative, brilliant, and beautiful in our eyes. We are constantly whispering to you, "This path feels better. This path feels more loving. This path feels more authentic." We try to guide you in joyful ways. Sometimes you insist on painful lessons... but in time, love will rise up within you and remind you that in the eyes of God, you ARE loved, and you are perfect as you are - even as you grow into a greater understanding of the truth of your being.

And if by some chance you find yourself in fear, anger, or the darker spaces, dear ones, love yourselves. Be compassionate with yourselves. We can and do repsond to this love and amplify even the tiniest amount of love in miraculous ways.

God loves you. Ask for help.

Dear ones, God loves you. God steers the stars in the heavens and coordinates the entire dance of life. God and your angels want to assist you. You, however, have free will. You can try to solve life's challenges on your own, or you can ask for our assistance. You can allow a closed mind to deem solutions impossible, or you can open your heart and make room for miracles. You can do your part by bringing love into every situation in your life, thus allowing us to do our work, or you can create a cloud of negativity around you that interferes with our ability to assist. We must honor your free will and we must honor the energy that you are putting out.

When you do not know what to do next, try not to stress, strain, or worry. Pray. Trust that God and your angels hear you and will answer your prayers in the most perfect timing to the degree that you will allow. Use your free will to surrender then to what is in front of you and to bring as much love as you possibly can into the given situation, starting with kindness towards yourself and all others involved. This allows you to create a vibration in which it is very easy for us to assist you. In a vibration of love, transformations and miracles are possible. If you insist on remaining in fear, worry, or desperation, we cannot by our very design support those vibrations. We can and must, by our very design, support love.

So, dear ones, next time you find yourself with a challenge, don't try to solve it all by yourselves. You are never "bugging" God or your angels by praying. You are delighting us when you reach out for love. Pray with the expectation that your prayers are being heard. Live and love as if your prayers are being heard. We love you. We are designed to support every bit of love you are trying to create or share in your lives. We hear you and we never ignore you, but we must by our very design, honor only the loving energy you emit with your own free will. Do your part. Pray for assistance. Trust. And know that your willingness to love is the fertile soil for God's miraculous solutions to your life's challenges.

Release yourself from the bondage of expectations

By all means set your intentions for life, but then release yourself from the bondage of expectations. Acknowledge your hearts desires, then in the same breath let go of how you expect they will come about. Let go of how you expect yourself to be. Let go of who you expect others to be. Embrace who you are in each moment and who others are in each moment. Embrace life in each moment.

As you learn to release your expectations you free your spirit. You stop wasting precious time and energy complaining, looking for a validation of how things should be, or comparing life to your expectations. Instead you learn to dance with life. You learn to embrace each moment as it is, and then in the very next breath decide if it is or isn't consistent with your desired intentions. Because you are present you are able to simply say, "What do I do next? What do I say next. How can I love myself, the others, and life in this moment?"

For example, many of you expect to be treated kindly. You expect yourselves to be kind. You expect that if you are a good person you get rewarded and if you are bad you get punished. However, dear ones you live in a world with seven billion people, all of whom have free will, and all of whom are at varying degrees of their spiritual evolution. To hold others, or even yourselves to expectations of perfection is to set yourselves up for upset. Far better to say, "I intend to be kind but when I am not, I will at least be kind to myself until I get back on track." Instead of saying, "I expect others to be kind to me," say, "I intend to keep company only with those who are kind or with those whose unkindnesses I can avoid taking personally. I may not get to choose who crosses my path, but I can choose the company I will keep ." Instead of saying, "I have been good and I expect my reward," say to yourself, "I am good because it is my nature to be good, and I intend to have good things come to me as well."

There is a fine line between intending/creating, and expecting. Expectation hopes for an energy. Intention directs energy. Expectation wishes for calm waters and complains in the storm. Intention steers the ship around the storm, knowing it is already destined for calm.

See if you can live an entire day with no expectations of yourself or life. Say to yourself, "This is my intention for today. I will accept whatever comes across my path, and in the very next moment I will decide what to do to create a reality consistent with my intentions. I will not waste time complaining about life, others, or myself. I will simply say, "I am who I am. Others are who they are. Life is what it is. What's next?" Your intentions will be the compass that steers your choices. See how your life unfolds more powerfully, with less wasted energy, and with more joy when you let go of the bondage of expectations. As your saying goes, "Life happens." Will you accept it and move forward, or will you remain chained to the expectations you once held for it, with your mind moving in circles? Free yourselves dear ones! You hold the key.