A SHINING SILVER STREAM

The Stream of Life

If a shining silver stream had a mind like a human being it might lament, “Am I running in the right direction? Will I make it to the ocean? Why was I born a stream anyway? Why not a river? If only it would rain and rain, perhaps I could swell up and become a river. Then maybe my life would have meaning.” 

Meanwhile, the stream is just shining, just flowing towards the ocean. Meanwhile, life just goes on. 

The angels lovingly suggest that you jump wholeheartedly into the stream of your life. Trust that the stream knows the way, even when your mind does not. The stream of your life is intuitive, magical, intelligent, a bright and beautiful genius. Yes! It is a sparkling singing stream of light and wisdom carrying you where you need to be.

Doubt, fear, and self-criticism are blocks that keep us from flowing intelligently and enthusiastically with the stream of life. It pays to ask ourselves intelligent questions about the direction we are going. It pays to use the mind as a tool - not as a compass. The only accurate compass is the heart. 

When we let the mind take over, as though only it has sight and we are blind, we become prisoners of the mind. We get lost in the dark forest of ego. We forget we are a stream of light flowing through the dark forest to Light. We forget we can trust the heart. Instead of going within to find out what is true for us, we attach to and believe the vagrancies of the mind.

No matter. This is just what human beings do. Even getting lost in the dark forest of ego is not so dire. The heart knows the way. The heart lives in confidence because the heart is always connected to God. Into the heart flows a steady stream of intelligent intuition. 

You can always tap into this intuition. Ask God for help when you need it. Eventually, you will find yourself back in the flow. Maybe then you will realize you were never out of the flow - that every experience is just part of the stream of life. Maybe then you will be the ocean.

A safe haven

The world stands out on either side no wider than the heart is wide. —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Good Morning Nearest & Dearest,

You really are nearest & dearest to my heart and soul—because we can commune Together with One Heart—at the Soul level. In speaking to those who live only at the level of the world, have you noticed that at times it is as if you are speaking another language? 

You may remember this from the angels: Although angels speak another language from humans, they understand the language of the heart, so they can converse with anyone. The only language that really matters is the only language angels care about: The Language of the Heart. The language of the heart is the universal language of peace.

Some of you may know or remember that in January 2021, a Tuxedo Cat found me in a parking lot one icy cold night as I stepped out of the woods, where I had been walking (yes, I sometimes walk alone at night in the dark woods). I heard a cat crying and there he was, huddled in a ball of cold, as if he was waiting for me. He moved away each time I came near, and I gently followed him, pausing each time he did, around the entire parking lot, till we ended at my car and I was able to pick him up.

I stopped at a store to buy him food. He was nervous and slept somewhere in the living room when I went to bed. I was very aware of another presence in my house. And determined that I did not want a cat.

I tried very hard to find his home, but no one answered my posts, and I could not find him in any lost posts. And I fell in love with him. He had found a home where he would be loved and cared for—my home, which became his home.

He was very shy and would run and hide when anyone else came to my house. But he always trusted me. It was as if we were two souls who had reunited. I named him Emerson Charm. He was about 1 year or so old.

When dear sweet Emerson Charm came to me, he was at first afraid. He didn’t know how to respond to loving touch. His claws automatically came out and my hands suffered many scratches. I made a conscious determination to never be harsh with him. I continued to be soft and gentle and he transformed—or rather, he melted into his true being.

I wanted to give him a chance to be as he was, not confine him in a box of my definitions. I did it imperfectly because I am imperfect, but I did it. We had a close and loving relationship. He had the freedom to come and go and roam the woods and he always had a safe haven to return to. His home held no hostility or anger. I never spoke harshly to him. He died only a year and half later, from a fatal disease, though I tried hard to save his life.

I miss him greatly. He was so young, and so wise and true.

Can we create this same gentle loving home within ourselves, which I created for Emerson? Even when the world outside is not so loving? Even when people speak harshly to us? Even when it seems the world is speaking another language from us? Then you always have a safe haven to return to, no matter how harsh the world is. 

Much love, as always,

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John the Baptist, Leonardo da Vinci

 You must realize, my dear child, that not everyone in the world is like you. There are those who walk among us, who have NO HEART. They may look like you and me, but where their heart should be, is only a rusted-out, vacant hole, rimmed by ragged iron teeth.  

Most likely, their heart was torn out; stolen away from them, earlier in life. All that remains is an ugly, gaping wound. They are wounded, and in turn wound others. Get too close to them, and their jagged edges will rip you open.

Because they have no blood of their own, they delight in causing others to BLEED. Inflicting pain distracts them from their own desolation, and indeed, they often draw a strange delight and satisfaction from casting a spell of misery over those they encounter.  

YOUR PAIN is their food, and they will seek to draw you into their gravitational pull and DEVOUR the light within you. They are the empty ones, moving through this world like hungry ghosts. I do not tell you this to make you afraid, but only to warn you that such souls exist.  

You must learn to see past the smooth words and masks they will use to lure you into their grasp. Read the signs. Pay attention to your intuition, heeding the inward bells of warning. They walk among us, but they are not like us. — J. M. Green

Reviewing Your Lessons

When you go back and review a past lesson, you may see that lesson differently. This is because you are different. You are advancing on your path. Your mind is opening.

Your heart is a beautiful flower! A mandala. A perfect lotus. Your heart is the abode of all saints. Divine scents permeate your heart. Celestial music can be heard there. All wisdom, all compassion, and all love emanate from your heart. There the angels sing and worship God with their whole being. 

JOY

JOY

Where I go in this world,

I bring joy with me.

I don't ask for joy,

I ask, how can I

Bring joy to others!

Joy is abundant,

Don't seek it,

Bring it!

ParschArts 2022

— Tom Parsch

When Hearts Weep

WHEN HEARTS WEEP

The mind can be such a cruel hunter

It hunts for pleasure and not for hunger

It hunts to capture and control

It hates the beauty it seeks to destroy

It lives separate from all that is good

It does not know how to breathe One Breath

In Unison with all that IS,

And so it creeps into sacred places 

Cradling weapons of death

And kills and kills and kills

Over and over again.

Blind Belief

You are not asked to blindly believe or accept any of the ideas in these lessons. Blind belief leads only to sorrow and disappointment. You are simply invited to hold your heart and mind open to all things possible. You are invited to explore the possibility of the infinite. 

When you employ your own intelligence to find your own answers, false conditioning begins to fall away. When what is false dissolves, what is true begins to reveal Itself. You find out what you really are—and are not. You discover your true divinity. At the core of this divinity is Love. Love manifests through each of us in unique and beautiful ways. 

💙An Angel Box—free for you to give as a gift 💙

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February 14, 2022

Valentine's Day

Dear Students💞

Those of you who have been around

for a while know that I post an updated version of this lesson

every Valentine's Day. Today is no exception. It was once

Lesson 13; now it just appears once a year.

🐠 You swim in peace, as peace swims in you.It is only that you are not awake, and so you do not experience this peace. Your school helps you awaken to the peace that is eternally Present.

AN ANGEL BOX 

Today you are invited to create An Angel Box.

Or you could call it a Letting Go Box.

Your box can help you fulfill the following prayer:

The Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the Serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

The Courage to change the things I can;

And the Wisdom to know the difference.

What Is An Angel Box?
Even if you choose not to make an angel box, please consider reading this lesson. It contains angelic teachings for your life. 
  
👼An Angel Box👼 helps you align with your divine destiny and let go of what does not serve you. It's a place to give your problems, fears, worries, visions, and prayers into the care and keeping of the angels. If you are not interested in an angel box, just read the lesson in imagination. Some of you won't be interested —💙— but we have different students, with different interests, and some of you will be drawn to this.

First: 
Buy or make an angel box. Or use a folder, envelope, silk bag, or a medicine pouch. Your Angel Box can be elaborate or simple. It doesn’t have to be perfect, so long as it is perfect for you. Or use a box you already have and love.

Let go of your ideas of "perfect" and trust that perfection flows to you from a ↑Higher Source↑ 

If you'd like to create your own angel box, here are some ideas, if you decide to make one:

1. Use a cardboard box (angels love recycling). Shoe boxes and cigar boxes make nice angel boxes. Or use an empty tissue or cereal box. If you like round, try an oatmeal container. You can also buy a box, or build one from wood. Or use a big envelope.
 

2. Gather items to decorate your box: Photos, pictures from magazines or calendars. Pictures of saints, gods, goddesses, and angels. Wise sayings. Poems. Prayers. Inspirational words like truth, light, courage. Rhinestones, unless you have real diamonds and pearls you are not using (smile). Crystals, buttons, lace, ribbons, velvet, silk, satin, sequins, sparkles, tiny stars. Natural items like dried flowers, feathers, acorns, seeds, shells.

3. Set aside time for you and the angels. Brew a cup of tea or coffee. Maybe burn incense or candles, play music, or just sing songs to your angels. If you have children, you can invite them to make their own Angel Box right along with you. Angel Boxes are a great teaching tool for children of all ages.


4. Sit down with your items, including tape, glue, scissors, paints, crayons, (maybe gold or silver). If you want to varnish your box, have clear varnish on hand.


5. Give your box a lining: Maybe velvet, satin, silk, or pretty paper, carefully glued in. As you place this lining inside your box, contemplate your inner beauty. Inner beauty radiates ourwardly. Assure yourself that you are worthy of a beautiful box. Let the lining reflect the LIGHT within you.


6. Make an Opening, if it doesn't already have one. Think of the crown chakra, the Sahasara, at the top of your head. Be open and receptive to ↑The Light↑. As you create this opening, let it symbolize opening yourself to the messages of angels and higher inspiration. 

7. Decorate your box. Let intuition and creativity be your guides. Have fun. 

8. Admire your completed box. Smile your happy smile. Wriggle your body in delight like a child. Laugh right out loud. Dance a happy dance. Jump up and down. Let go of any concepts of what an "adult" should act like. Challenge your ideas of who you think you are.


9. Place your Angel Box in a special place, preferably where you will see it every day, maybe on top of a dresser, on your puja (altar), or in your meditation area. Keep a pen and some paper handy.



 WAYS TO USE YOUR ANGEL BOX



Use your box to symbolically let go of trying to control life and strong attachments you have to the way things 'should' be. Let go of problems and worries. When something troubles you, write your trouble on a piece of paper, date it, and give it to your angel box. Tell the angels that this problem is beyond your control and you are now turning it over to them.
 

Special note: If your worry returns to you during the day, ask, 'Is there anything I can do about this right now?' If your answer is NO, remind yourself that you have given it into the care and keeping of a higher power. If the answer has changed to YES, then take the action you need to take. 

Taking a small action is a way of controlling what you can and gaining confidence. If your worry returns, repeat the process. This helps discipline your mind so worries do not control and overwhelm you. It replaces unhealthy habits with  healthy habits. If you are going to have habits, they may as well be healthy ones that uplift and support your life.


When you have a question and cannot find an answer, write the question on a piece of paper, date it, and put it in your box. Now forget about it, trusting that the answer will come when it is needed, in God's time and design, not yours.


Special note: Date every piece of paper, so you will have a reference point for later.


When you want something (an object, a partner, anything at all) give it into the safe keeping of the angels with a prayer that God will manifest your desire only if it is in your best and highest interest.


Special note: This is surrendering your small will to a Higher Will.

I am sure you will agree that often what you wanted in the past turned out NOT to be the best for you. Giving your desire to the angels is a way of getting out of your own way and making room for the highest in your life.


When you feel afraid, angry, sad, hurt, or any other confusing or negative emotion, put it in your box.


When someone you care about, including yourself, is hurting or sick, write their name on the paper, perhaps with a prayer for God's perfect healing and give it to the angels.


Use it when you think you are in danger and need a Guide. Write your fear on paper with a request for Protection and Guidance.  

Use it to request courage, confidence, and clarity to complete necessary tasks.


Write messages of Gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is always healing.


Write down a Vision you long to achieve. Put it in your box and surrender the Outcome to the Wisdom of the angels, with the prayer that vision will manifest only if it serves your Higher Purpose.


Special note: Sometimes, we have the divine inspiration to do something — but negative beliefs and thoughts such as: I can’t do it. Why even try? It won’t work, block constructive action. Writing your vision down and giving it to the angels is a positive action. 


Take a positive action:
One way to get past limiting beliefs and negative thinking is to take a positive action. Even something as simple as writing is an action. Putting the message in your angel box is a second action, which includes the act of faith—faith in a power higher than yourself, which is an inner action.



Sometimes you really want something. You want a certain outcome. Your desire may block the outcome that God intends for you, which is always much greater than anything you can imagine. Write your desire on a piece of paper and put it in your box. Let yourself be open to possibilities beyond your own thinking.

Your job is not to make something happen. Life happens through us. The more you get out of your own way, the more creativity can flow through you. 


Show up! Play! Discover! Learn! Grow! Evolve!

When an idea, an inspiration, or a vision, comes to you, have fun with it. There is no need to get all heavy and serious. Find out where the vision is leading you. Your Angel Box can help you do this.


Be Open and Receptive

Once you have placed your dreams and wishes, questions and problems in your Angel Box, stay open and receptive. You will likely be receiving messages from the universe, the angels, intuition, maybe even dreams. These messages can come from anywhere, because the universe is a mystical, magical, spiritual place. Stay awake, open, and receptive so you won't miss those messages! 


Messages are always coming to you. Intuition is always speaking to you. We often don't receive intuition, inspiration, and words of wisdom because we have a preconceived idea of how things should turn out or how messages should come. 

When you are open and aware, even the words on a cereal box might contain a message for you. Do your best not to limit the universe by telling it what it should  do. This is like telling the stars how they should shine.


Later…


Once a month or when your Angel Box is full you — decide — take your papers out and read them. Which prayers, wishes, and dreams have been fulfilled? Which ones have you forgotten about? Which ones do you no longer care about? Which were only ego? What can you learn from what you have written and what has been happening in your life?



Give Angel Boxes & this lesson as gifts:


Make Angel Boxes as gifts and give them to people you love, along with "The Serenity Prayer." You are invited to give a copy of this particular lesson as a gift, if you like. Just be sure to include the complete lesson and copyright. This is my gift to you. Because I am thankful you are here as a student and appreciate that you show up here with devotion to your path.

Other ideas:

For wishes and visions which didn't happen, or you no longer wish for, you might: 1. Burn them in a small ritual. 2. Bury them in the earth. 3. Tear them to pieces and let them go. Breathe a letting go sigh of relief.

For problems solved, questions answered, and wishes fulfilled, you might: 1. Put a tiny jewel in your box as an offering of thanks to the angels, 2. String a  pearl or jewel for every wish granted, 3. Keep your pieces of paper somewhere, as a reminder of the good work the angels have helped you accomplish in your life. Or just burn these too.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this lesson. And perhaps you will enjoy making an angel box. You are welcome to put a picture of your angel box here in Your Open Classroom. Thank you for being here now in the present moment of Love. Here's an Angel Box that our classmate, Barbra, made. She sent me the picture, and I once saw it when I visited her lovely home.

 © Copyright 2009/2018/2022 Judith Ann Parsons, MSW aka Indira. All rights reserved, The Clear and Simple Way School of Higher Consciousness. www.theclearandsimpleway.com

THE OCEAN

My body is the ocean

Shining beneath the moonlight

I rise up to meet the shore

And back again

To meet my destiny

My mantra

Is the sound of waves

My meditation

Is upon my own sweet self

My passion flows like honey

My sighs are sighs of love

I sink into my own depths

And know that I Am God.

Sometimes all you can do is breathe...

 

Song of Solomon, Poetry for the Soul

 

Book of Hebrews

1. Song of Solomon 2:8-14
   Look! Listen! There’s my lover! Do you see him coming? Vaulting the mountains, leaping the hills. My lover is like a gazelle, graceful; like a young stag, virile. Look at him there, on tiptoe at the gate, all ears, all eyes—ready! My lover has arrived and he’s speaking to me! 

   The Man

   Get up, my dear friend, fair and beautiful lover—come to me! Look around you: Winter is over; the winter rains are over, gone! Spring flowers are in blossom all over. The whole world’s a choir—and singing! Spring warblers are filling the forest with sweet strains. Lilacs are exuberantly purple and perfumed, and cherry trees fragrant with blossoms. Oh, get up, dear friend, my fair and beautiful lover—come to me! Come, my shy and modest dove— leave your seclusion, come out in the open. Let me see your face, let me hear your voice. For your voice is soothing and your face is ravishing.

Keep Good Company

Photo Courtesy Thomas Leininger

Keep good company
invite your true friends in for tea
embrace each one
invite. them to stay for eternity

Listen, I will tell you some of their names
so you will know them when they come

Angels, God, Truth
Silence, An Open Heart
Relaxation, Now, The Present Moment
Compassion, Understanding, Freedom
Courage, Joy, Happiness, Peace
Acceptance, Patience, Receptivity
Light, Love, Laughter, Forgiveness
Intelligence, Creativity, Perseverance

Enthusiasm, Meditation, Discipline
Wisdom, Harmony, Empathy, Charity
Humility, Honesty, Integrity, Sincerity
Simplicity, Clarity, Kindness, Intuition
Divine Intelligence, Divine Mother,
Nature spirits, Unity, Oneness

Listen, you will know them when they come
they will speaking one language
the language of the Heart which is
the universal language of Love. 

acceptance of what IS

In this moment, I deeply and profoundly accept myself. All my faults, problems, and the greatness of my life.

problem:
 1. a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome.

• a thing that is difficult to achieve or accomplish.
• [ as modifier ] denoting or relating to people whose behavior causes difficulties to themselves and others (such as a problematic person).

2. Physics & Mathematics: an inquiry starting from given conditions to investigate or demonstrate a fact, result, or law.

Wonderland

Behind the thin veil of maya lies a wonderland of Truth. 

Dare to venture there!

Kind Words

“Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song which had lost its way and come to earth.” -Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)

Food For Thought

Hi Dear Students & Classmates, I am posting this because I find it interesting and because it provides a new way of looking at forgiveness, one I had not considered. How about you? Have you had to forgive someone who wasn't sorry, even though you they hurt you? Have you had to accept an apology that wasn't offered? It does make sense, doesn't it -- to let go of anger and resentment and move on with your life. Then you are free because your happiness is not dependent upon another person. You can let other people be as they are. This does not mean you do not see what is. You see very clearly. You don't step in the same hole twice, so to speak. And you do not need to be strong. You need only ask for the strength of God to help you. This is good news. It means you can be weak, feel weak, be vulnerable and still forgive, accept, let go, and move on. All my love, Judy aka Indira

Guardian Angel Message THE GOLDEN RULE

Dear One, Have you considered the meaning of  the word Dear with which we begin our messages, with which you often begin your own correspondence? So often human beings read and write, as well as speak, without awareness. Without being aware of the meaning of the words they use. Angels are poets. Every word has a meaning, a place. The definition of the word Dear is: Much loved. Precious. Beloved. Much valued. Highly esteemed.

Guardian Angel Message 13, Ajna Chakra

Dearest One, You are one, not two. You are one manifesting as many. Your true beauty cannot be seen with physical eyes. What your eyes see depends upon how you feel. How you feel depends upon what you think. Even someone surrounded by the greatest beauty cannot enjoy it when their thoughts are dark and depressed. When you see only with physical eyes, you see only the past and future, because you are looking through eyes of duality.

"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely on your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people." -Professor Thomas Davidson

 

Are you listening?

Are you listening to your intuition? Listening to the soft sweet sounds of the angels whispering words of love and wisdom to you? Listening to your heart? Or are you listening to the hard cruel voice of the ego that only causes more ego which causes more pain? Listen to Higher Consciousness and let yourself be Guided by Truth.