Boston

Hello dear Students and greetings from Boston, MA. It is 6am and I am sitting in the Boston airport waiting for my next flight to Buffalo, where I will get a ride into Jamestown, NY. I slept a couple of hours on the plane, but I am wide awake now and have lots of energy. I just realized that I forgot my tiny modem that connects my computer to the internet via a phone line. I will have to have it sent to me. That means I will most likely not have any internet access until I get it. I am using the airport's highspeed connection right now. So you will not hear from me for longer than I intended perhaps. Well, you have your lessons to read, you have this Classroom, and you have your own connection to the angels who are always connected to God. You are always connected to God too....even when you forget it. To think upon the angels is to think upon God. God. That is a loaded word for many people. What does it mean to you?

More Angels!

Some people may scoff at the idea of believing in angels. They would rather believe in their human doubts and fears. Does that seem very logical or intelligent?

THE CREATION OF ANGELS

Dearest Students,  Please click below to read the special message. It is a Present from me to you for this Holy Season. May your hearts be merry and bright and may you accept yourself as you are, so that you might live in peace and happiness all your days.

Welcome!

I discovered a new student here. Very welcome to be part of a special group of people who are very brave and joyful in their growing towards light. What is your name ? Where do you come from ? My name is Monika and I live in Mainz, in Germany where it is pretty cold right now. Love to you and I am looking forward to our time together in this classroom. Monika

Angels

Dearest Students, for those of you who make the extra effort to click the button that brings you to Your Open Classroom, you will begin to experience more angelic energy slipping into your life. Every moment spent with the angels is a moment less spent with the doubts and fears of the human mind. What if you could track every thought you have during the day? Do you think your thoughts would be more harmful or more helpful, more false or more true? Well, one way to answer this question is by another question: "How do I feel most of the time?" Your feelings are in direct proportion to your thoughts. I will post more about this soon. Until then, may the love and blessings of the angels go with you now and always.

Coconut!

Dear Students, do you know that coconut is good for your body? Coconut oil is excellent for sauteing your food (angel students never ever fry, right? Because we don't want all those unhappy oxidants entering our lovely bodies!) Coconut butter is also healthy. And you can eat fresh coconuts and drink the milk. You can also use coconut oil or butter as a beauty product for skin and hair.

Here are just a few of the potential health benefits of eating coconut on a regular basis:

• Lower risk of developing heart disease
• Help prevent bacterial, yeast, fungal and viral infections
• Help regulate your blood sugar and prevent or control diabetes
• Help keep your skin smooth and soft
• Improve your energy.

Angels Appearing

Dear Students, After I published the message about Robin, below, and was reading it over in the Open Classroom, suddenly the blog posts disappeared, replaced by a picture of beautiful angels. I was stunned and knew this was a message of peace and comfort from the angels. The picture was one I had stored as an icon on my desktop, and I must have somehow touched something that made it appear....still...that is enough of an angelic miracle for me and I wanted to share it with you. It appeared very large, but when I add it here, it is smaller. Hmm. 

Thanks Annie G.

....for your beautiful expression of gratitude, warm and generous.

Goodbye Robin

Dearest Students, you didn't know her, because she was one of those students who sat way in the back of the room and never raised her hand, but I want to take a moment to honor Robin, who passed away last night after a long illness. In the last months of her life, she found the angel lessons and said they were "invaluable." I want to take this moment to honor Robin's path into the Light.  She wrote me these words, just before she went into the hospital for the final time, after reading her last lesson: "I just took my little poodle, Curly, for a walk in a very new way of trying to be present in the moment. I noticed a lot of plants I never noticed before as well as the wonderful smells of autumn." I am glad we have this beautiful classroom and each other to share the journey with. You are all invaluable in my life. With love, respect, and gratitude to each of you.

Poetry of the Present Moment

L

ove rises like a fountain or cascades into us like light or flows over us like an ocean until we drown in its fatal embrace. Yes! We must give up everything we are not if we are to become what we are. We must pull the beautiful sword Excalibur from the cold hardness of the dark edge where the dark angel waits with love to be released from all it is not, wanting to be released, waiting eternally only that we turn with willingness and total surrender into the tunnel of its dark eyes and see the light shining there.

Early Childhood Memories

What are your earliest memories concerning your concept of God and spirituality? 

M

y earliest childhood memories are of trying to find God so that I could understand the meaning of existence and where everything came from. I remember sitting quietly, willing myself to return to the beginning of everything, intent upon finding God, meditating before I knew the meaning of the word. I would have a sense of my body dissolving into nothingness and my consciousness expanding into sparkling space. Just when I was sure I was there, almost touching truth, I would disappear into a deep void. I would awaken from these meditations as puzzled as ever, wondering what had happened and where God was.

SCHOOL CONTEST!

Hello Dear Students, If you read the latest Clear and Simple Way Newsletter for December, then you noticed that I am offering 2 contests. All of you are welcome to enter the contest to receive the gift of my  

CD Gratitude for Your Body. 

Go here to enter: Gratitude CD.  

The contest to win a 3 month scholarship to the School is not open to past or present students, but you have your own contest! You can win a 3 month scholarship to give to a friend or relative as a gift. 

Here are the nice simple rules: 

Send me an email to: angel.lessons@earthlink.net saying why you want to gift someone with a 3 month scholarship. That's it! The Scholarship will be valid from January 7 to April 7, 2011. You have until December 21, midnight, eastern standard time to enter.  The winning entry will be judged on the basis of the sincerity and beauty of the writing, so write pretty!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

All the very best wishes for your birthday, dearest Judy!

Have a wonderful day full of joy, happiness, light and love!

I send you a pride of angels with the most beautiful flowers from Switzerland ;-)

Love and hug, Sandra

Being Grateful

Dear Judi, dear classmates,

I am thankful for being a student in your school, I am thankful for your work, your readings you gave to me and my friends…

and I am thankful for having a wonderful son, for living in a warm house, for having had delicious dinner tonight…and for having organic food and homemade cooking every day.

I am grateful for living in a place where I can dance, meditate and work – alone or together with others, I am grateful for being, I am grateful for being in love with life as it is…though not always ;-) , I am grateful for breathing and my heart pulsing, and I am grateful for my hips, who have been holding me in balance all the last years, even though the right one is very often hurting these days…may be it needs more gratitude?!
I am thankful for having a teacher who is present and shares this with me! I am very grateful for being able to be more and more in the present.

Love Light Laughter to you all,

Johanna

Happiness to Everyone!

Hi classmates! I haven't posted in awhile, though I've been stopping in to read what you all write on the "chalkboard." This classroom is where we learn, love, and laugh together. I like the new name "The Clear and Simple Way School." To me, this will always be the school of happiness, because it is making me happier. It's not making my ego "me" happier. My ego is kicking and screaming all the way to school! These have been intense times for me. I am having to let go of the old image of who I thought I was, which is both freeing and frightening. Thanks to all of you for being here for me to communicate with and hear what you have to say. It is gratifying to know that all of you are here. I can always enter the Classroom and find your friendly, open faces. I can always read some words of support and wisdom from our friendly teacher. I cannot imagine life now without this School and all of you. Happy Thanksgiving to you all, wherever you are. Love, Kevin

Monika

HAPPY 17th REIKI MASTER BIRTHDAY, Monika! And many more . . . with love!!!!

The ego is a very strong fighter!

     Oh yes, journaling is very self-revealing. Often I am astonished myself about a word or a sentence that I just have written down! It's amazing. However, my journaling has only just begun - and I do hope it lasts. In former times I often used the excuse that I had little time for myself (with work and kids and....) for my spirtitual work. These times I found out, that it is the ego that is very, very good in finding any excuses!! Actually, in the meantime the time that I have for myself has grown a lot! And I noticed my mind telling me all kind of things that need to be done BEFORE doing the spiritual homework! It is very interesting how the ego struggles for its existence.

     I also more and more become aware how strong my ego is! I have always heard your words about strong egos - and never really FELT it that way! Now, it seems to change slowly. It is very hard work to watch the own mind - even though I am trying to remind myself 1000 times a day. And the ego is very tricky, one has to be very alert not to get into the trap of the ego! So, with the awareness of all this, I am trying to stay diligently on my spiritual path! And I do ask the angels for help - and they do help :-))

my book & first poem

Hello Dear Classmates, I am happy to tell you that my poem book is now available in different online bookshops in Germany and Switzerland. With this link you can have a look at it. https://www.bod.ch/index.php?id=1132&objk_id=406127. And here is the first poem for my book, written in both English and German: (I wish you all a quiet, peaceful, bright November.  Lots of love, Ruth) 

Thanks, Ursula

Thanks, Ursula, for the beautiful Buddha card and for your gratitude. I am glad Lesson 27 came at just the right time and was just what you needed. The sincerity of your commitment to your spiritual growth is an inspiration. Receptivity and gratitude are two of our best friends to spiritual understanding. You have them both.

An Open Heart

Dearest Students, I have copied here a letter I just wrote to a student, whom I have advised to write about what it means to her to have an "open heart" . . .  since she feels her heart closes down. She says she has been following my suggestion, so here is my most recent response to her. It may also be helpful to you. I have, of course, left off identifying information:  I am glad you are journaling. I find writing to be incredibly self-revealing and self-healing. As you know, I write all the time...messages every day, a new lesson each month, poetry, to students. The more you write, the better you write, and the more messages can come through, from the angels, from your own heart and intuition. So keep writing.