Read more about near-death experiences here:

http://beamsandstruts.com/bits-a-pieces/item/1173-near-death-experiences

Guardian Angel Message #4 Relaxation

Dearest One, We commend you who show up here to read our messages. We know which of you are here for we feel your heart vibration and send ours back to you. Do you feel our heart vibration? When you show up and read our words, the energy you feel is the energy of the heart. We, as angels, can expand and increase the energy of the heart. What you give returns to you tenfold. Use your time in Your Open Classroom to become sensitive to the vibrations and energy that you feel while you are here. Every moment is an opportunity to grow closer to the great Oneness. As you read our words, allow yourself to be very relaxed. 

Angel Message #3 LOVE

Dear One,

From the great Oneness, the Unity that heals all separation, I, your Guardian Angel, come to you. Angels live and move and have their being in the Oneness. Our actions come not from ourselves alone, for we are Guided by the One whom we love and serve. We are eternally centered in the Stillness, where there is no separation, neither from the One, nor from each other. Here we are nameless, even though we have names. Our true name is the same as yours, which is Love. 

An Appeal by the Dalai Lama to the World-published 2015

A metaphor the Dalai Lama likes to use goes like this: The difference between ethics and religion is like the difference between water and tea. Ethics without religious content is water, a critical requirement for health and survival. Ethics grounded in religion is tea, a nutritious and aromatic blend of water, tea leaves, spices, sugar and, in Tibet, a pinch of salt.

"But however the tea is prepared, the primary ingredient is always water," he says. "While we can live without tea, we can't live without water. Likewise, we are born free of religion, but we are not born free of the need for compassion."

Angel Message #2 NOW

Dearest One,

In the great Oneness lies a great Stillness, which is Peace. In this peace there is endless patience without an opposite. If you have been wanting something for a very long time, striving and clamoring in your thoughts to get "that"--whatever it is--then you cannot have peace. You can have only an endless clamoring which tells you that what you have now, what you are now, is not enough, and so you must have "more" of something, even if you are not sure what that "more" might be. You have endless thoughts telling you that now is not okay. How do you think now feels when you endlessly tell it that it is not okay? That you do not love it? That it should be something different?

FANTASTIC

Yes--FANTASTIC-is what I have to say about the new angel messages you are leaving us in the school everyday, my Teacher. Just when I think our school cannot get any better, it does. I find I don't want to miss anything, not one day--because if I do, something new happens, and I have to get caught up.

Angel Message 1, January 1, 2016

In this new year, special messages from the angels will be posted each day. Read each message as though it is your own Guardian Angel speaking directly to you. Imagine that these words are being written just for you. They are.

Beautiful words from my favorite contemporary poet....

When I am Among the Trees

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks, and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness,
I would almost say they they save me, and daily.
-- Mary Oliver

Niagara Falls is in NYS where I am now

Niagara Falls is beautiful being frozen, but our hearts are never beautiful being frozen -- it just makes us -- cold --

This is actually viewed from the Canadian side. There is no snow in Jamestown, NY where I am now, just rain. Lots of rain. And it is cold today. Last year at this time there was SO much snow. Global warming? I remember green Christmases from when I was a kid growing up in this area.

Church of the Living Spirit, Lilydale, NY

Near-Death Experiences

I have had a near-death experience. Have you? It really does change your life in many ways. More and more research is finding that these experiences are real and result in profound changes for those who have had them. Here you can read more about them: 
https://www.idexpertscorp.com/Healthcare/toolkit.pdf

Happy Christmas and may we - in the New Year - be open for the help of the many angels around us...

One of your classmates sent me this, and said I could share it with you. 

As the days grow darker, may your heart grow lighter . . .

Merry Christmas

As usual, I dig all the posts on this page. It is my favorite place to stop by and drink a cup of coffee and browse and rest from the world. Inspiring and positive, no matter how often I visit. I want to take this chance to wish you all a Merry Christmas as we celebrate the gifts of the heart. Love, Kevin

"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

 

Normal?

church photos made in to mandalas

http://blog.tagesanzeiger.ch/zoom/index.php/69090/69090/

FULL MOON RISING CHRISTMAS DAY 2015

This Christmas 2015 the full moon will rise for the first time since 1977.  It was called THE FULL COLD MOON by Native Americans, who named moons to mark the seasons. This is the month when the winter cold locks in and the nights become longer and darker. This full Moon is also called the Long Nights Moon by some Native American tribes.

With the winter looking to be warmer this year, even in colder climates (like New York State where I am right now) perhaps it will not be such a cold moon. Hopefully the nights will be clear and we will be able to look up (looking UP is always good advice) and see The Full Cold Moon as she grows round and fat with the light of the sun reflecting against her beautiful body, peaking at around 6:11 EST (in the USA).

Wherever you are, this is a good time to turn within as winter officially begins December 21, 11:48 P.M. EST. Just as some animals are set to hibernate during the winter and awaken hungry, so can we use this time for inner meditation and awaken even more hungry for spiritual Truth.

Much love to you.

poem

I Am Not Old

 
I am not old…she said
I am rare.
I am the standing ovation
At the end of the play.
I am the retrospective
Of my life as art
I am the hours
Connected like dots
Into good sense
I am the fullness
Of existing.
You think I am waiting to die…
But I am waiting to be found
I am a treasure.
I am a map.
And these wrinkles are
Imprints of my journey
Ask me anything.

- Samantha Reynolds

Photo: Riitta Ikonen,
Norwegian photographer Karoline Hjorth