YOUR OWN ANGEL BOX

Hello Dear Students,

Normally I publish this every Valentine's Day, but I couldn't get on the internet long enough to do that till now. This used to be Lesson 13, but now I post it here instead. To read the whole lesson, click to read more.

Roots and Wings

Your classmates are blossoming! Have you all seen your classmate, Sandra's, new website? Congratulations Sandra, and Godspeed for your new work. Switzerland is fortunate to have you. http://www.roots-and-wings.me

Snow in Amish Country

Right now I am out in the country -- Amish country. The Amish here are  very conservative -- old order Amish-- a sect of Amish that adhere very strictly to their religious beliefs and avoid modernization for the most part.. They wear only black and very dark blue. The women wear full bonnets and long skirts and white aprons. The men have beards but no mustaches and always wear hats. They drive horse and buggies everywhere. No electricity. Most of them have many children. The children only go to 8th grade. They marry young, usually. It is another sort of world. The Amish here speak a Swiss dialect of German, though they also learn English. There is so much snow here. The hills and fields are white and flowing with snow. So beautiful. So cold.

flower mandalas -a colorful hello to everyone

Flower Mandalas

A good reminder...

Mountain Forest Angels

Your classmate, Monika Meier, from Switzerland, who has faithfully attended -- I've lost count -- every seminar for years in Oberwil, wrote this lovely piece about angels of the mountain forests and gave me permission to use it. Monika and her partner were in Nepal this last September, so she did miss that seminar, but I saw her for a long angel reading. So many of you are healers. Monika is a dedicated and compassionate practitioner of Jin Shin Jyutsu. You can see more on her website here:  http://www.kleine-insel.ch/ It's a beautiful website with falling green leaves. Here is what Monika wrote about Mountain Forest Angels:

"At last I managed to write about the mountain angels. Here is what comes to my mind if I remember this specific day, end of September, when we drove in Nepal from Jomson to Pokhara."

Angels of the mountain forests:

"If I think of angels of the mountain forests I see big green pine trees, ferns, grass, and granite rocks and stones. Even a little house built of stones hidden in a cozy corner under big trees. They dance in this damp and lush area where rivers search their way through rocks and stones."

Thank you, Monika! And much success for your Jin Shin Jyutsu healing work! (I couldn't resist adding your photo. It is so pretty, so open and clear). P.S. her partner designed her website for her. It's stress-relieving just to visit and watch the falling floating leaves! 

The New Lesson--

The new lesson, for me that is Lesson 75, Living in Oneness, is exactly what I need, which doesn't surprise me. It always turns out this way. It has me thinking in a new way about Spirit and Soul Development. This is something I most appreciate about the school, that it gets me thinking in new ways. Sometimes I can feel new pathways being created in my brain, like I am an explorer in a new land, only it all happens inside me, I don't even have to go anywhere. I save on a plane ticket, but still travel to new planes of existence--all inside, like you say in the lesson. Thanks to the angels.

A favorite author

Author of A Wrinkle in Time, for young people, but also good for people of any age. She used the theory of Quantum Mechanics, which I write about in the latest lesson, #75, Living in Oneness. I love her books!

A like for the New Year's Message

Dear classmates,

have you read the New Year's Message for 2015:
http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/monthlymessages.htm ?

I like it and I'm glad I came across it, better said it came across me... (thanks Judy for writing it!)

As around most New Year's, I think around things... and so I couldn't help thinking about how my life should be like, how I or even we as couple or family should be like... I realized that in my questioning, I'm looking at others, comparing... and I did some writing about it. Actually I was asking questions and the pen had some answers. Basically I learned that almost all of my questions were based on judgement - of myself. Even when I felt sad about that it was another judgement.
I tried to understand how "things should be"? How can it matter (what I do) and at the same time be a matter of unimportance (no judgement, nor good nor bad, just be)?
I cannot comprehend now. When I try, my mind soon gets confused. But when I go into the silence of my heart... or into the universe, which might be the same, I know it is true. And the silence is comforting. And even when I can't find the silence at one time, remembering the silence is also comforting and a good way to come out of trying to understand with my mind.

So, happy silent new year :-)
Petra

Happy New Year 2015

I wish all my classmates a really spectacular year. Thank you for sharing this path with me. I feel a special love here and for each of you, even if we have not met, I know you are there, even if we have never communicated. I feel the communication in my heart.

I like how the Classroom keeps changing, just like life does. This background, which I recognize as our teacher's artwork, is full of life and color and enthusiasm.

I am only so sorry for the loss of Penny. There are no words to say and so I will not try. Only that her picture always brought a smile to my heart. She was/is a true being of light and love and innocence and wisdom all at once. Thank you Penny for making my heart lighter. Dear teacher, may your heart be comforted in God's love.

In gratitude, Kevin

Happy New Year 2015!

 

Happy New Year 2015! May you be open and receptive to the abundance of God's love. I wish you the softness of your heart to Guide you each moment. I wish for you kindness towards all beings. Thank you for being here in the school. May you feel the love of the angels that surrounds you now and forever.

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a Merry Christmas. Stay kind. Stay loving. Keep those small everyday deeds of everyday kindness going. That is what can save us. My deepest love goes with you now and always. And that of the angels whose only desire is God's desire.

New Student Enthusiasm!!!

Here is an email I just received from a new student, who begins her lessons January 8. It is nice to know that a new student is going through the archives here in Your Open Classroom and that the constant effort I put into the classroom is serving someone in a positive way. Be sure to welcome any new students, should they stop by to say hello! (This one will recognize herself when she sees herself here.) If she can keep up this same level of enthusiasm she will reap many benefits.

Email:   

"Thank you for sending the introduction. I am so eager to receive your Angel Lessons! Also, I visit the Classroom practically every day. I am reading myself through all the Messages/Lessons starting 2009...there is such a concentration of angel wisdom, so much to meditate about, that I only manage to advance very slowly. Thank you for being there for me!"

Mother Teresa

Prayers for Penny

Dear Classmates!

Judy's dog Penny is missing! Let us all pray for her that she returns safe and sound!
… and also for your teacher to be supported in this difficult situation.
All Love!

Are you a nemophilist?

How beautiful to be a nemophilist!

The mind

It is only if there is a mind that the question of making it one pointed will arise. When you investigate by turning inwards, you find there is no such thing as the mind. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Deep peace of the running wave to you…

Deep peace of the running wave to you…
This poem comes from The Dominion of Dreams: Under The Dark Star by Fiona MacLeod (1895).  Fiona MacLeod was a 19th century romantic and Celtic visionary and also, apparently the female pen name of William Sharp. This is a prayer is taken from the longer poem that follows:

Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the infinite peace to you.

And the full poem:

Nice to know...

Today I had this email from a student who'd had trouble opening her lesson. I sent her it again and everything is fine. She wrote this to me after: "It is so nice to know, you are on the other side of the words you send......"

and I wrote back to her that it is also nice to know that she is on the other end of what I write.

That is what is special about our school and the lessons. You are not reading a book written by someone you have no possibility of ever seeing or having a personal communication with. I love knowing each of you are there, and I mean it when I say I think about each and everyone of you as I write and rewrite the lessons and send them off to you. Sometimes I am thinking about one of you in particular when I write something. Thanks for being there!

This picture is of baby owls with a stuffed toy owl "mother"--after they lost their mother, they needed a new mother to cuddle with and feel safe. So they were given this soft new mother owl. May you all feel just as safe and protected in the arms of the angels.  Your devoted teacher

Why Do We Shout In Anger?

-Anonymous (probably a dog wrote it. Dogs really don't like shouting)

A saint who was once visiting a river to take a bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples, smiled and asked.

'Why do people in anger shout at each other?'

The disciples thought for a while, then one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout.'

'But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner,' asked the saint.

The disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples. 

Finally the saint explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.

What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small...'

The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they need not even whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'

He looked at his disciples and said, 'So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, do not say words that distance each other more, or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.'