The Essential Doreen Virtue Collection Part 6

You are a holy creator like your Maker, and we watch for our opportunities to call you home. Be still and give us the opportunity to enter your heart. For it is you who opens the door to your heart, and it is we who answer your call for Divine a.s.sistance. We come to you in the night when you may think we are unneeded. Yet, when you rest peacefully in slumber, your heart is actually awakened the most.

We enter into your dreams at odd moments to deliver to you our messages of cheer and sustenance. For you see, dear and sweet precious child of G.o.d, your origin is our opportunity to serve G.o.d in all ways. We simply guide you in subtle directions to find His hand so that He may lead you to eternal safety and blissful surrender.

Do not think that your opportunities lie simply in heaven or on earth. For which is the dividing line between the two? Does not heaven blend into earth and earth into heaven? So why need to choose between the two? The distinction between heaven and earth is artificial, and you who are called upon to serve in G.o.d's ranks feel the truth of this statement in your being.

March confidently, earthly angel, and know that we are with you and ahead of you, helping you to recognize the doors that we open for you upon the earth. We signal you beneath your breath or capture your attention in some subtle way. Do not be afraid that you will miss our cues, dear one; we plan these routes together in your nightly dreams. The fun is yet to begin as you walk further among us with deliberate and conscious partic.i.p.ation.

We intend for you to become one among us, and your heavenly Creator asks simply that you revel in the joy of being His holy child. You are led so sweetly, so softly, that no one calls upon you to cross the barrier of your own will. "On earth as it is on heaven" is a perfect description of the life you are called to live.

We see the sweet essence of your being, even if you do not. We seek the perfect opportunities to shower your gifts from G.o.d upon the world, and we function as a clever team together in synchronized harmony, you and we. You are here to capitalize upon all that you are in truth.

Do not seek to glorify your own name, but to s.h.i.+ne from the glory of the Maker who is one with you. Radiate your light outward from many mountainhills, dear one, and rain love merrily upon those who would seek to capture your heart. For you are one among us, and you are an instrument of His eternal and abiding peace.

Patience.

The seasons of timing are inherent to, and born upon, this earth. In heaven, there is no call for timing, for we are immortal and unevidenced by the clicking of timepieces and the markings of calendar pages. We are not captives of the imprisonment by which you measure your accomplishments, yet we are purely sympathetic of the pressures accorded to you who live among these sort of rituals.

We do not ask you to cast off your timepieces. Yet, we do ask for your greater self-understanding of the longings that lie within your hearts and that drive you further to exercise haste and hurry at your own will and discretion. We do see the need for an infusion of patience at this time. We see an anxiousness for change that you long for, and that you can feel is at the horizon.

Do not get ahead of us on this point, for we must carefully enunciate the outline of our vision of patience to you. Sit slowly and breathe, sit slowly and breathe. That's right, now we are able to speak with you again. Feel us enter into your mind with our words and we once again ask you-no, implore you-to gently slow down from your rushed and harried pace.

We angels are trying to do all that we can to contain the explosive anxiety we see mounting upon the earth, and yet we can do so much more with your help and permission. Would you please contain the jubilation you feel that is so explosive when you set out upon a money map? When you seek to conquer or destroy, it is all we can do to contain the leaking energy that you trail behind you.

We implore you to be more at rest when you are captured during the day by the incessant desire for material goods. This matter is a particular point that we would like to enunciate even further. For there is no time over here, yet in your earth time, there are moments that are captured by eternal longings for material grace. What we mean is the grace you seek in heaven, captured in an item that you would buy upon the earth. The teaching we share with you now is that this longing is enriched with keen reward when you share it with G.o.d, for only He can fulfill it.

Yet, when you are captives and slaves to the material man who becomes part of you by casting about for plastic forms of grace, His rays are deflected by your outward flow of motion and exuberance for idols. The impatience you feel, that time is madly ticking away without you, like a s.h.i.+p that has left for sea as you stand waving upon the sh.o.r.e, is subtly robbing you of the greatest victory humans can ever know. For within the human heart another stopwatch ticks with the grandest measure of love ever seen upon these hallowed grounds. Cast this light upon the ground and watch the flowers spring from out of nowhere.

G.o.d shares His holiness with everyone He touches, and even now He reaches His thought to encircle your own. There is no thought of tomorrow that enriches you in the same way one ancient thought of your Maker brings you home. Your enrichment comes at the moment you are ready, and not an instant sooner. When you cast your needs upon Him and feel Him lift you, the end of time is over, and your patience is forever stilled within His arms.

You walk on hallowed grounds this minute, yet many are unaware of where they live. Do not wait upon tomorrow, dreaming that this is the day when you will be saved. Your eternal longings are quenched this instant, dear one, as we angels cast our wings in a gentle and expansive embrace of gladness for this holiness that we all call home.

Prayer.

When you sit in quiet repose, thanking the Maker for all of your gifts, we are very near. We fly within the heart beams of one who shares the laughter and joy of life with us. We breathe in and out with you as you draw in sustenance during quiet contemplation of your prayer. Sit quietly, dear beloved one, and drink in the silent repast that you hunger and thirst for. You needn't wait until another time to feast upon this eternal banquet that waits for you patiently, but is eternally here before you now.

When you silently meditate upon the things you desire, G.o.d listens and He answers. He waits upon no one's timing but His own, for that is the law that treads throughout the vast universe. The pulsation of G.o.d's mighty energy is tranquil, yet it distributes the very essence of all things in their right place at their right time. Trust in G.o.d's timing, dear one, and don't restrict yourself by placing markers of your own timing upon your self-made prescriptions you put before Him to cure your pain.

G.o.d knows, before you ask Him, what will fill your need, and you needn't ask him in formal prayer for such things. Your prayerful time, be a.s.sured, is for your benefit and not for G.o.d's. When you rest in grat.i.tude and respect for the awesome and immense power that He is, you rest in that very power within your mind and awareness. Put your mind squarely in the center of His heart, and feel the pulsating energy wafting with your own, healing your ideas to the rhythm that is eternal and universal in origin.

When you are in sync with the Creator's energy, your rhythms with all of nature and mankind fall into place. Your timing arrives perfectly on our angel wings to deliver you to the moment that gives you the greatest opportunities for your spiritual growth. Undertake these deeds fearlessly, dear one, and wade through the mire if you must, to be put in the place where G.o.d would have you be. Pray for knowingness within your very being that will guide you safely to even remote places where you can perform His service.

For you are a chosen instrument of G.o.d's healing work while you are here upon the earth. You are meant to be a courageous creator like He. To do His work, you must first know His likeness that is you. Prayer affords you opportunities to look at your magnificence in the mirror and say, "I am He who is me!"

Pregnancy.

The gestation period before the birth is very crucial to the mother's health, and we are ministering to the mothers of the globe ceaselessly. Lately we are concerned by outbreaks and pockets of strain within the mothers' caring hearts. And so we seek this platform to deliver information to you who are expecting within the coming years.

There is no more crucial time upon the earth than now. Your planet seeks its balance and rhythm, and its motion is rounding out. The implications are quite serious for those inhabitants upon this globe. Yet, children are electing birth to herald in this coming age. For this reason, we pay special attention to the wombs in which their living bodies gestate. And we implore those who have elected to be mothers to watch their growing wombs with special care.

Diet, fresh air, and exercise are essential, this is true. And yet, fresh air in the form of relaxing your thoughts away from earthly worries is needed even more. For who among you needs for scattered material goods, when the very balance of earthly life hangs in question? We implore you mothers of the globe to therefore question all of your motives for activity while you carry the new heavenly child within. Would there be any chance for you to escape your cares and tension by lightening your load? For, every time you put down matter and rest your weary burdens, your child's body reflects this s.h.i.+ning light.

You do not yet fathom the importance of bringing these children in safely, so we again remind you of your mission's holy nature. Your maternal time is best spent in contemplation within your inner world, as you s.h.i.+ft your outer world to allow for this adjustment. It is not prams or cradles that your baby needs upon this time in planetary history, but guiding and gentle light and sweet innocence from you, the mother, of the earthly child of G.o.d.

Seek not, then, an outward focus for your child. The babe must not forget his heavenly call, or we will tarry in outward motion awaiting the child's return to heaven. Recall your own decision to deliver this baby, and use this focus to impress upon your baby's head his holy mission even now. Push not his eyes toward the surface of the earth, but keep his gaze ever heavenward. The lessons with which your child returns to earth are inscripted upon his soul, and you, his faithful steward of this crucial scripture, can unlock it with your key.

Your child, in this planetary time, is not your own, dear mother. Your child belongs to earth. Let your child go forward, then, and hasten his memory of why he is here.

Pray and sing for your child always. Ask us angels to surround him with our gentle gaze. Fill his dreams with thoughts of returning to his ever-present state of grace. And do not stand between heaven and earth within your child, or you shall miss your earthly savior who is rich with planetary guidance.

So easily is all of this unearthed, though, with this simple reminder to mothers to heed their child's mission for this planet. This time is now, and you who carry mother nature in your womb will surely agree that you knew this all along.

Purpose.

Ah yes, purpose. Many of you at this time are called to remember your purpose, and you may feel stumped as if taking a final exam. Do not fret, dear children, for your purpose is not complicated. It is to heal. Heal yourself first in mind and intent. Declare this principle to yourself: "I intend to walk the highest path to my awakening. I am fearless in the face of learning to discipline my mind and actions so they are attuned to my true divinity."

Yes, you can do it, in case you have doubts about your abilities to hold this high place within yourself. You have the ability to heal, and to heal in whatever capacity brings you joy. For you see, sweetest one, you are a gentle blessing to this earthly time, and you bring heavenly gifts to bestow onto others. You are a s.h.i.+ning example of peace, and through this earth's s.h.i.+fting winds upon the planet, you are a gentle reminder to others to s.h.i.+ne their own inner lamp of glowing G.o.d light upon the world.

Fasten yourself to the central mast of your s.h.i.+p, angel being. You need to stay tight to this core of your being during the rough seas ahead. The storm cannot cast you off of your s.h.i.+p as long as you hold tightly to your center. We will buoy you and hold you tightly in our love, if you will but ask us. The storm will be swift, and what will follow will hold the sweet promises of your Creator, who asks only that you center your mind and your body upon this word: Healing. You have your task to perform, dear one, and G.o.d has His. Do not worry what He is up to, for all is safe even as it seems in disarray around you.

Trust. That is the word to anchor you to center during the coming stormy seas of life. Trust, and teach others to trust along with you. The end is near, and it is a happy end indeed. No more stormy nights await the trusting traveler upon the high sea. Although the day seems cloudy and unclear to you, soon it will make perfect sense, dear child. So we ask you to hang on tight and to simply allow us to lead the way through the stormy seas. Suspend your doubts and fears the best you can, sweet child, and soon the way will seem clear.

Not a moment longer than is necessary will this stormy sea continue, and though a typhoon comes storming through, no harm can come to those of you who listen in silence for your Creator's answers. Take as many with you as will listen to your words, for you are being awakened in time to take shelter. We know you care for many who are still sleeping, and we will do our best to rouse the sleeping ones in time to get shelter. But even those who slumber on will be made safe through your love, dear one, for you have the power through your loving thoughts to make shelter and safety for all who meet your gentle gaze.

Behold the magnificence that is you, heavenly child, and use that magnificence wisely during the coming days. There is no time to dawdle with remaining doubts you may have that question, "Is this real?" Our rea.s.surances rest in your heart, and if you will remain in silence you will hear them resonating clear. Others will join you in simple reverence for these messages, and you will band together as an army to capture the remaining years for the light. Rouse all you can, dear child, then seek shelter for the coming storm. Trust in the Maker, Who will never leave you, and feel gladness for the dawning years.

Relaxation

Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of your ascending body, dear children. We come to you today within our hierarchal group to counsel you upon this need that we see long neglected within so many. We urge you to reconsider your stance that calls this state of relaxation, "neglect of purpose," for it is quite the other way around.

Consider an oak tree, for instance. Does it not grow in spurts and sprays? Does it not provide food and shelter for many kingdoms worthy to call it friend? And yet the mighty oak does not attempt to grow ceaselessly, but merely seeks its own ebb-and-flow arrangement with its own cells. Were it to nourish itself without ceasing from the soil below its roots, the soil could not have time to replenish itself before the oak tree drained it dry. The rapid growth that an oak tree takes within certain of its years is gained by its initial slow progression over time.

You, too, have needs for respite that are sorely necessary so very often, yet overlooked by each one that we look upon. Dear ones, will you not learn that G.o.d does not push you to grow beyond your own limits? Sit quietly in respite while you drink in the energy of our words. For we nourish you with growth that is beyond measure whenever you call upon our name. The time of sitting is not without its own doing. It requires a second set of eyes within your being to measure this inward growth.

Yet, be a.s.sured that when you do what you would call "nothing," that we are busily rearranging many tiers within your structure. So that when you climb out of your hibernation and feel renewed, you are feeling the touch of an angel within your very being. Be glad, then, for those moments when your soul urges you to stop.

Do not think that stopping is akin to not progressing further upon your golden path. The light s.h.i.+nes within you most deeply when it is not bouncing around in hastened movement by its carrier. So do not say it is selfish or unworldly to sit in stillness in the cool shade of the gra.s.s, and drink in the taste of the air with your lungs. It is our opportunity to provide you shelter beneath the steady gaze of our love.

Give us this chance to replenish you, dear one, as we s.h.i.+ne in glad awareness of our Maker in Creation. Together we encircle Him with appreciation that the work we do together upon this earth brings to all of us much joy!

Sleep

We come to you in times of sleep in glad awareness of all that you have done each day. We suspend your doubts and cares during moments when we cradle you within our loving embrace. Perhaps you think we just refer to nightly sleep, but are you also aware of moments of sleep that happen while you are awake? When you glaze over sleepily and lose consciousness of the world at large, we enter your mind to bring your gaze back to ours.

In sweetest recognition of your earthly cousins, we remind you of their true home, which is back with yours. We distance you from that which is cruel upon your earthly flesh, and awaken you into another world of lush surroundings and gentle pastimes. Your waking moments upon the earth are actually sleeping moments from our side of view. You disappear for moments at a time, yet we hold your hand across the curtain that thinly separates your world from this side. We step back and watch you dance and play among the earthly mortals, while we play sweet background music to lull you all along.

Your ancient rituals can puzzle us, but we will never abandon you while you engage in such play. We patiently await your glad return in moments of earthly sleepiness, and then we restart at the place where we previously stopped our time together in full consciousness. You see, dear one, from our land we watch your sleepiness as a gauge for our crystallizing in your thoughts new ways of looking at appearances. We jump in eagerly when your guard is down and rearrange according to your wishes and prayers.

Do not think we rearrange without your welcome, dear one, for G.o.d's law forbids our unwelcome trespa.s.s except in times of danger. We tread carefully always, yet eagerly when it is wished for. We always await your invitation, little angel of earth, and even meager requests for intervention are always granted. We stand behind you and before you, guarding your way and carefully gliding the focus of your attention inward and upward, so that your prestigious a.s.sociation with the Creator can s.h.i.+ne its way into the center of your very being.

The times in which you feel punctured with holes in your very being are used by us for helpful lessons, so fear them not. For they allow the rays of G.o.d to s.h.i.+ne outward to others like a mark upon a treasure map that calls them home. We trust you, dear one, to open your temple to us during sleeping moments when we can guard and guide. We trust the Creator to provide the perfect lesson in your own time, which we s.h.i.+ne in glad awareness of our most holy duty to the Ancient One.

Let us kneel together and give thanks for the moments when we join in quiet communion with one another. These times when you call "sleep," we call our greatest times together while you are still upon this earth.

Stage Fright

When you put yourself out on display in front of others, it is natural for you to be nervous and even afraid. You are afraid of what others may think or say about you, and you are afraid that what you may do is not aligned with your intention. Let us a.s.sure you that at such moments-especially when you are called upon to perform in such a way that will guide others to a higher frequency or develop within them some answers to their fears-we are very close and quite near.

Those of you who are performers for a higher function, involving arts, teaching, or conducting guided imagery, let us consider what is behind performance anxiety: You are considering solely what is in the venture for you. You are concerned with what others may think of you, when it is you who are thinking of you. If you will consider what is in it for others, what you can truly give, say, or do that will heal another's fears, we a.s.sure you that your performance will be a healing function of the divinity within you.

You cast away your fears when you know that you are here to perform a higher function, and another way to heal your fears is to feel the intention of the audience before you. Whether you are in the same room with them or away in time or place, you can vibrate your internal frequencies to match the people who are here to witness your performance. In this way, you a.s.similate their needs within you, so you are locked into their frequency and can automatically deliver their needs through your speech and deed.

What we are trying to say to you is this: There is no need for nervousness, ever. Trust your higher self to deliver the right performance at the right time. The word performance, perhaps, conjures up images of inauthenticity, and this is correct. If you are anxious, you cut off your source of trueness and pa.s.sion in your delivery. But if you are tuned into this inner source, you will pour out your deepest beliefs at whatever level your performance desires, be it art, photography, speech, or even sporting tournaments. You inspire others with your deeds, so it is right for you to succeed, dear one.

We are a winning team. Together we can do no wrong and we can do much right. Whenever you feel nervous or afraid, look over toward your right shoulder and remember that we are right there with you. We take away your pain and replace it with laughter, the moment you remember our presence. If you ask, we shall hold your hand as you get started. We will stabilize your energy to stop your trembling, and we will guide you throughout your task so that you will deliver the highest energy that heals all who hear and see you. Please remember that you are never alone, our beloved one.

Stress

Beaten down by life, the hunching of the weight that presses the mortal into ragged edges, this stress of yours concerns us. We ask that you set down your weights and carry us instead. Feel the lightness of our souls upon your back as we rid you of troubles that wound you. Feel us dance across your back and brush against your spine as we relieve you of hundreds of years of worries that you set upon yourself. For eons we have adjusted you, and ever more will we adjust you still. We are forever with you; worry not.

Yet, we remind you that when you cast yourself in tension as a plaster cast around your body, you are hardened into a density that is like a sh.e.l.l. Though you put on this sh.e.l.l as a means of protection, it serves as a barrier across which we cannot serve except in a mortal emergency. Let us break down this cast that bars our access to your very soul.

You do not cause us grief with this remoteness, yet we do seek for greater closeness with you. Share with us, then, your sorrows, and tell us your tales of woe. Turn to us with your grief, and we will turn tragedy inside-out for you. We promise to always pull the light out of its center and give it back to you.

At moments, we know you are scared. We know that havoc wreaks upon your life like a being spreading mud across a fresh-cleaned floor. Give us the mop and broom and we will gladly clean up your life! Do you not realize the extent of the depth of our love for you? We all work together on this mortal plane, and we are not enemies in times of stress! Yet, we see you blame G.o.d for your many ills.

There are times when you feel very alone, and we see into your heart that you feel friendless and unloved. We beam our love into you, yet you cannot feel it. For, we cannot give you much sustenance when you put up structures to keep out the fear and other feelings. Do not be afraid to feel, dearest one! At times when you feel that your heart will break if you show one more shred of emotion, that is when we are nearer to you than ever!

Lean outward in your senses, just once, during moments of sadness, and you will feel our gentle stirrings by your side. We kiss your cheeks when you cry and caress your being with our loving wings. Your soul has never left us, nor could we ever leave you far behind! Allow us to touch you with G.o.d's grace and mercy, which showers you in gentle kindness and an outpouring of love. You have never left His great and mighty heart, dear child.

We are here to remind you of keys that you have forgotten and then thrown away. The first is that there is no place in mortal times when madness can replace the peace that heaven now has. The second is that, though tragedy is all around you, your heart still beats in rhythm with His love. The third is that we are here to serve you, just as you would serve us by your bright return to knowing Him within your heart. The fourth is that, for eons, we have sought to know you better, and we now find a return is upon us that brings us to glad times together. Related to this is the fifth key, that fear can be a stepping-stone to love if you will simply face its truth and know that you are the love that G.o.d has put here to s.h.i.+ne on one another.

We ask you to remember these keys, not just in your minds, but in your hearts where they were placed when you were first begun. These keys to the kingdom unlock much of what seems magical, yet is perfectly ordered by G.o.d's will. Hold faith in your Creator, beloved child, and you will see His handprint across everything in this mortal universe.

Seek not for love in false places, but s.h.i.+ne His radiance from your heart toward every being you find upon this earth. You are a messenger, sweet angel, and the stress you feel is lifted like a false mask you mistakenly laid upon your self for misguided protection. Do not surround yourself with a mortal sh.e.l.l, but radiate outwardly so that you may drink in His essence with your very breath.

Give of yourself in G.o.d's name and feel protected by the Love. For there is no danger or unsafety in this Love, and you are blessed in His holy name. We give you our grat.i.tude for listening with your heart to our words, for we are your angels, and we bestow you with our honor and heavenly love.

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