Japan. Libya. Egypt. Chile. Haiti. A Call to Compassion

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Kim

The angels tell me that what’s going on in the world is a

Worldwide Call to Compassion.

If you’ve been lacking the compassionate gene until now, world events are tapping at the window of your soul’s awareness. Collectively, our world is in attendance of the Master Class on Compassion. If you’re willing to ace this class, the rewards are unparalleled. Compassion will open your heart to a level of fulfillment you may have not known was possible.

Our ability to be compassionate is essential to our evolution as a race. For too long, it’s been us, or them, me, or you. Now, here we find ourselves amidst a world experiencing war and devastating natural disasters on a regular basis. The opportunities to integrate the true meaning of compassion abound.

Through these big, planetary events, we have the chance to learn to become better human beings and get closer to our Source. We are learning that blaming, judging and distancing ourselves from others is pointless. That behavior won’t protect you from the inherent vulnerability that comes from being human. There’s no way around it, what happens to others can certainly happen to us. We are reminded through each event that we are One.

One Humanity.

There is no human, or area of our world that deserves devastation. What they deserve is the very same thing you’d wish for when water was beginning to come into your house—At the very least, you’d want to know that someone cares.

Please pause for a moment and allow the feeling of this example to permeate your body. If you just suffered a tragedy and received an outpouring of support from others, how would you feel? I’d be touched, grateful, uplifted—even if all they had to offer were their prayers, kind words and good thoughts. Their compassion would become a part of me, a source of strength that I could use to buoy my spirits rather than sink into despair. 

~Where there is struggle, there is also a quiet beauty of souls stretching, learning to become more of the One~ Kim Vazquez

 

Now picture the same situation, except in this scenario, a hero shows up. This hero asks you for nothing. He heard about your plight and out of compassion he’s honored to help you. Imagine, in your darkest hour, someone is willing and able to give you the help you so desperately need. How would you feel? I’d be overwhelmed with the emotions of gratitude, love and hope. I’d see God in this hero. The experience could change my life. I may learn to trust and believe in the good of others. I may be so grateful that I can’t wait to help others myself. I may finally comprehend  that life is a joint effort. We need each other.

When you receive compassion, it is heartwarming, touching, validating. It’s like someone looking deep into your eyes and saying- I see you, and you matter.

When you give your compassion, the act itself lifts your heart to such a level that from up there, up high, you get to see the big picture. This is why you’re alive. This is what life is about. Your fellow humans need you.

Are we being punished?

There will be others who will offer explanation, reasons for  what’s happening in the world. They’ll tell you that these world events are proof of an angry God who’s doling out retribution. They’ll suggest that the Creator seeks vengeance. Vengeance is a very dark energy. I ask you —do you think your Creator deals in darkness? Could there be such a thing as darkness for your own good? Darkness to teach you a lesson? Those thoughts seem very human, certainly not Divine.

Compassion is the energy of pure love. It illuminates.

To me, the world events fall under the Spiritual Law of Cause and Effect— Karma. In my last post I covered how many people misuse the term karma to imply punishment. When you consider that everything about our Mother Earth, her air, soil and oceans, has been tampered with, isn’t it more likely that these natural disasters are symptoms of what ails her? Mother Earth is just as alive as you are. She needs your compassion, too.

Raise it up. Raise it up!

The only way I know to deal with large-scale devastation is to honor those affected by calling myself higher. How can I honor the great many lives that transitioned to their new eternal world? How can I honor those left behind still dealing with calamity? Shall I become morose? Shall I show my respect by becoming somber? Shall I immerse myself in tormenting images so I can actually feel their pain?

It’s true that we honor others by showing that we care. But, caring isn’t the act of drawing in the energy of upset and holding it within us. A good way to honor those dealing with disaster is by holding the energies of hope, peace and love for them. I cannot hold those energies (and send them out into the world) if I am full of misery.

To take honor one step higher, look for the opportunity in the situation. The current opportunity? To break down the walls of our perceived separation and begin to see all residents of this world as people, who are exactly the same as us. We are unified through spirit.

How can you be unified with those in other parts of the world when you live here, not there? I invite you to work with the energy of compassion. Decide who or what place you’d like to help. Then sit quietly while building feelings of love and peace inside yourself. Avoid feelings of pity or distress. Instead, focus on uplifting feelings and thoughts. It can be a simple thought like “I care.” Now imagine you can turn those feelings and thoughts into a ball of compassionate energy. Visualize that energy traveling across the world. Watch it arrive and hover over the people or area you wish to comfort. Imagine it raising their spirits.  

Now, what about you? I feel compassion for you, too. There’s a lot of fear and anxiety sent into the non-visible realm of energy when disasters happen. Massive stress felt in another part of the world isn’t somehow energetically bound to just that area. It’s free floating in the ethers. (This can be neutralized with love.)

If you aren’t feeling quite like yourself right now, you may be experiencing the invisible world of energy. During days like these, I hope you’ll be tender with yourself. Seek what uplifts you, send love out into the world and give comfort and love to yourself, too. If you want to enrich your daily life, use your compassionate energy freely. It belongs to every living thing on this Earth.

You are the world. You are the future. Choose love and your future will be love.

Affirmation: ~I allow the Divine Creator to fill my body with love and light, and from my heart I send out the healing energy of compassion~

Peace & Love,

Kim

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Japan’s Tsunami: Blood Dolphins and Ocean Harmonics

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Kim

I was talking to my mom this morning about the tsunami when I heard a whisper in my mind.

Dolphins. Tsunami. The ocean’s harmonics.

The implication of those words settled into me filling me with awe. Could it be….? I wondered.

In the past the angels taught me about the astoundingly important, yet unrecognized role the dolphins and whales play in the ocean’s ecosystem. The simplest way to say it would be that they balance the energy of the ocean. It’s a job so important that it’s entrusted to only the highly evolved.

Because our lives are dependent upon the ocean’s balance, you might call the work of the dolphins and whales the most important energy work on the planet.

Last night while listening to the news I finally heard a scientist speak on the ocean’s energy. It was in comparison to a previous earthquake measuring 7.1. She said, “The earthquake in Japan was 800 times more energy.”

That’s right. This is about our ocean’s energy body. It’s always about energy. Even on the most basic level of understanding about energy, we know that it needs balance. Balance equals harmony.

Or else what? Or else, we suffer an effect. Just like when our bodies become out of balance, we suffer the effect of physical disharmony, like an illness. This alerts us that we had better get back into balance.

As the angel’s words settled into my consciousness, I then heard Blood Dolphins. I’ve seen the commercial for this show on TV numerous times. When it comes on I grab the remote to change stations. From the bottom of my heart, I thank the people who have brought this issue to light and continue to raise awareness with their show, but I cannot watch any part of it without it inducing a sick feeling that reaches my soul.

I’ve known, and grieved over the fact that dolphins are being killed in the coastal waters of Japan. But I didn’t know where in Japan. I grabbed my computer and did an Internet search quickly finding that they call this slaughter the Dall’s Porpoise Hunt. A total of 18,000 porpoises, dolphins and small whales are killed there ANNUALLY, off the coast of northern Japan.

That led me to wonder where the tsunami hit. I plugged “northern Japan tsunami” into the search line and hit enter. Links returned confirming for me that the tsunami did hit northern Japan, more specifically, northeastern Japan.

Back to my search, where I now typed in northeastern Japan + Dall porpoise and came back: Match. 

The porpoises are hunted off the coast of northeastern Japan— exactly where the ocean became unbalanced and issued its earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

Out of curiosity I took it one step further and found that it’s currently dolphin-killing season in Iwate and Miyagi, lasting through April 30th.  Beginning May 1st, the right to slaughter continues, but in an area called Hokkaido. All of these areas were hit.

I want to be very clear about where I’m going with this because I’m not calling this a payback. Many people speak of Karma, but I find it’s used in a “Karma’s a bitch” kind of way. Karma is a spiritual law, and spiritual law doesn’t seek revenge. It doesn’t place judgment on the people of Japan or even those participating in the slaughter.

Karma is the Law of Cause and Effect. In this case, if humans make the decision to kill the mammals that help balance the emotional body of the ocean, and kill them in large quantities, year after year, this causes the ocean in that area to be out of harmony. An earthquake is the energetic expression of this disharmony.

This isn’t the ocean punishing those who cause her harm. It just is what it is.

If this post has heightened your interest in protecting dolphins and whales, please Google and find the many sites and petitions dedicated to this cause. These mammals killed anywhere affect us all, everywhere!

You might also consider a prayer of gratitude for those mammals who are the unsung energy workers of this planet.

And of course, I hope you will continue to pray for the Japanese people. As a way to lend your energetic support build love and compassion in your heart and send it across the sea, soothing the sea on its way and arriving in Japan as a feeling of One Love. Trust that the legions of angels are already there, instilling peace into the stressed residents and assisting the souls who are leaving our planet at this time for their eternal life.

We are never alone.

Peace & Love,

Kim

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Thanks: My personal thanks to the Sea Shepherd for the work you do.  May the force be with you.

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Have an Angel Reading- Help a Charity

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Kim

Would you like to have an Angel Reading and help a charity at the same time? You can! Check out local Sacramento, best-selling author, Brenda Novak’s online auction held for the benefit of Diabetes Research.

Here are links to the items I’m offering in her auction:

Bid on Angel Reading for Diabetes Research

Bid on book Living in the Rear View Mirror

Bid on book New From the Inside Out

There are many other wonderful options for your bidding, including some once in a lifetime opportunities. To find out what’s available visit her auction site.

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Good luck to you, Brenda! I wish you great success.

Peace & Love,

Kim

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Trying to Control vs. Living in Faith

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Kim

While this message was something that came through a long time ago, I’ve been prompted to share it with you now.

It goes out to those who try to control life. Most of us know this behavior isn’t conducive to feeling happy and joyful. The more we try to control, the more anxious we become. Yet, it’s easy to slip into controlling behavior during times of stress or fear. The angels point out to me that controlling behavior is rooted in a lack of faith.

Trade the illusion of control for faith, they said. The following words they shared give me hope.

The Creator is unlimited.

Our lives can be changed overnight. Our Divine Source can change it in ways that we can’t even imagine because we’re limited by human thinking. We need to do the footwork by showing up in our own life and doing our best. But, that’s the extent of our responsibility. After that we need to just let go, and get out of the way.

When we fall into the behavior of trying to control our lives, we’ve left our state of faith and entered into the type of energy that will block the gifts that God has in store for us.

In other words, rather than trying to control, I can let go and allow the divine plan to manifest. Divine plans are always better than my plans anyhow.

Peace & Love,

Kim

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How to Recognize Divine Guidance & Start Working With It

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Kim

Would you like to let the hand of the divine reach into your life and point you where you should be headed? Here’s the good news~ Your creator has lined up a lot of assistance for you. 

Before I offer a suggestion on recognizing divine guidance, I’d like to interject that true guidance is harmless. Following true guidance won’t bring us harm. It certainly won’t harm others. Walking the divine path will enhance our lives, which ultimately helps others. If you receive “guidance,” for example, to be vengeful with your ex or to tell your boss to “shove it,” you might want to pause for a moment and check yourself. There’s nothing divine about that kind of guidance.

If you want to work with guidance, start by making note of the divine synchronicities in life. For example, if a subject seems to comes up at random several times in a short period, you might want to give it some consideration. 

Here’s what I do. I pray and ask what method I should use to find out more on the subject. Should I go to the bookstore? Should I call a friend? Should I go online? Check for your gut feeling, your intuition. Go with the first answer that comes into your mind. In other words, go with your hunch.

If you go with your hunch and fail to find some miraculous information, don’t automatically assume that you’ve wasted your time. It just means that, for now, you can let it go. Whatever you do, don’t dwell on it. Over thinking and dwelling block divine communication.

Your hunch may return. It may bring an additional lead with it. If this happens, follow your new lead. But it may not return at all. If that happens, all is still well. Sometimes we see the significance of things only in retrospect. You may not realize what the purpose of your “random” trip to the bookstore was until the very moment in your future that you need to put that knowledge to use.

I have learned to go with the flow and trust the process.

As an example of this in action, a while ago the words “food acidity” were put into my mind. I couldn’t have been less interested. Despite my lack of interest, however, like the message indicator on Instant Messenger—Bloop— the words “food acidity” continued to Bloop into my consciousness, seeking my attention. A few days later, I felt the desire to buy a book on the topic. After I selected The Acid Alkaline Food Guide, I bought it and read it.

Yawn. It was anti-climactic. Don’t get me wrong—the book provided good, useful information. But nothing in the book grabbed me as the reason I’d bought and read it. Were the angels trying to tell me something about my diet? I wondered. My diet does seem to inspire a steady source of input from my guides, though that’s a whole other story.

I did my part, then I let it go.

A couple months later, I had two clients come in back to back. The subject of acidity applied to them. The angels knew long before I did that these clients were headed my way, and they also knew what information I would need to present their guidance. I had to have a frame of reference which I would not have had without reading the food acidity book. It’s not the first time they’ve used books to educate me. It happens all the time. 

If something similar has ever happened to you, I’d love to hear about it. Look for the “comment” link below.

Peace & Love~

Kim

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Feeling Tired? Rest and Allow Yourself to be Healed.

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Kim

In my last post, the angels shared about what is going on in the world right now, energetically. We are in a transition phase.

As the powerful cleansing and purification energies of 2010 fade out and the new energies fade in, they are overlapping at this time, creating a feeling of unsettledness for those who are sensitive to their influence.

The new energies are restorative and healing.

They will bring a sense of calm and help us integrate the life lessons we all learned last year. The new healing energy should be settled by late February.

While we’re in transition, it’s common to feel lost, like you’re not sure which way to go or proceed. You probably no longer feel the rush of 2010, but instead may feel like you don’t know what your next step should be. If you feel like you should be doing something, but you don’t know what, there’s no need to stress about it. The angels keep prompting me to remind everyone that, you aren’t alone. You have a host of celestial support here with you.

If you are more tired than usual, allow yourself the extra rest. Be gentle with yourself. Now is an excellent time for you to be in self-nurture mode. This is not the time for competitive self-healing. This term “competitive self-healing” was coined by one of my life coach friends. (Thanks for the chuckle, Ellen.)

When I first felt the sensation of the transition energy arriving I was confused and found myself tempted to launch into “heal thyself” mode. I was told, Your help is not needed at this time. You don’t need to create healing. You need to allow it to occur.

The angels prompted me to share this visual~

You are in the middle of a small picturesque pond in a tiny boat. You can see the rocks that make up the shoreline. You can see trees and the splashes of color that are the blossoms on the flowers. You can even see birds moving from tree to tree.

You are without oars.

You could throw your legs over the side of the boat and try to kick yourself to the shore. Or- you can just sit there and take in the scenery. You can allow reflection. You can choose to ask no questions and just be utterly still and open to receive.

As you sit there, although you aren’t physically moving, is life really motionless? Or is everything simply divine?

Feel the serenity. You are being taken care of.

As we transition, many of us are in limbo. It can be a blissful state of limbo, if you choose to embrace it as such. It’s a divine state of reflection, not purposeful reflection, but free-floating reflection. Trust that guidance and knowledge will appear with exquisite timing. Until then, just be one with your faith.

You are peace and love.

Kim

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Feeling Rattled? Stretched? A Message From the Angels 1/11

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Kim

In my last post, I relayed a message I recently received from the angels. The time has come for many of us to BE STILL. As it came through, I just happened to be on my Facebook page, so I shared it there, too.

To those of you who regularly go to my author page on Facebook, know that I can feel you. I appreciate your presence there, and here, too. I knew the message of comfort applied to many of you. I also knew there was more to the message, so I asked the angels to bring through the rest of what they wanted me to share. Here’s what came through:

If you feel like you’re in limbo, disconnected, lost in life, or spiritually lost, you can relax. We are in a transition phase. Your life is being divinely managed. Before we talk about this transition and where we are heading, though, let’s talk about where we are transitioning from. It’s all part of the divine plan.

We are moving out of a purging and cleansing energy that has been here since early 2010 for an extended phase of purification. While we all experienced the cleansing energy in ways unique to each of us, there were themes that many of us can relate to. 

Some of us faced our biggest challenges. The purpose of this challenging energy was not, however, to cause distress; it was a catalyst meant to propel you into addressing the things that hold you back in your life. You were presented with opportunities to transcend what you believe are your limits. 

Long-buried fears came to the surface and caused emotional upheavals. While you dealt with fears, however scary they were, you were not alone. You were surrounded by the loving support and protection of many guides and angels. It may be hard to fathom, but there are millions of angels available to support you. And support us all, they did, around our clock, in what, to us, would have felt like working some serious overtime.

Fear wasn’t the only feeling that rose from the depths of our souls to be reconciled. Long-held emotional wounds also opened. For many, resentments and anger surged up, whereas depression and health issues challenged others. Our oldest self-sabotaging stories and unhealthy childhood conditioning charged right into our faces. These things had to be faced. When this happened, you were not alone.

The human defenses of denial, avoidance, and stuffing feelings weren’t viable solutions last year. That which needed to be faced and healed, circled around in a seemingly new scenario. It was a gift, a new opportunity to heal.

In this year of cleansing, many souls left our world for a better place, and some souls that found their emotional work too hard made the unfortunate choice to end their lives here in the earthly realm. When these events occurred, you, and they, were not alone.

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Why would such an intense energy come upon us?

This isn’t the work of an unhappy, punishing God. No. Our Divine Creator didn’t spend a whole year calling out our souls. This was about facilitation.

Quite simply, the time has come for you to be free.

Many of us prefer the path of least resistance. We’re human, after all, and we use diversionary tactics to avoid the darker shades of our inner world, the places we prefer not to deal with. We occupy our minds with the pursuit of the right man or woman, the pursuit of material things, or we become absorbed in political rhetoric, religious debates, and too much work.

Some of us purposely go around our fears, resentments, angers, childhood conditioning, and self-sabotaging stories instead of walking through them with our feet on the fire. Yet if we were to choose to go through them, we’d bring an end to their power over us.

The energy was here to help you free yourself. If the energy of purification could talk, it would say, You’ve carried your burdens too long. Let’s get it all out. Let’s get it out NOW so you can enjoy a better life.

This is how we honor our Creator. We let go of that which does not serve our highest good. We transcend that which holds us back from stepping into our full God-given power. You are meant to be free and clear. We are meant to remember and see the bright light of love that emanates from everything around us.

For those of you who are in the business of helping others create better lives …

For the healers, life coaches, and light workers of the world, your plate most likely contained an extra dollop of growing pain in 2010. Before you ever came to this planet, the angels say, you volunteered to go first so you could extend your hand back and help the rest come through. In 2010, you were also being “tuned.”

Energy shifts happening to the earthly realm crashed on us like tidal waves, rapidly, sometimes overwhelmingly, adjusting our energy fields while they tuned our frequencies higher.  There was nothing subtle about it. We needed extra rest to assimilate those shifts. Even if you felt rattled, s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d, and unsettled you were still doing the work of spirit.

Also for the healers, as we continue forward, if you try to hold onto behaviors that no longer suit your divine life mission, you will find it more uncomfortable to hold them than to let them go.

There are still many souls awakening that will need your help. For those who chose not to do the work last year, the seeds of awareness were planted. These are seeds that need your light to germinate. You are the beacons that guide the way. Keep shining.

So here we find ourselves in transition in 2011. Picture overlapping energies that are intense, but some that are healing and soothing. Because these energies are so different, together they create a feeling of unsettledness. During this phase, as one multidimensional energy pulls out and another one slowly enters, most of us are feeling compelled to take some action to get ourselves centered. Don’t sweat it. Just be still. There’s nothing for you to do … except stop squirming.

Please join me for the next post, as the angels continue giving their advice about how to handle the transition with ease.

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Peace & Love~

Kim

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Feeling Lost Right Now? You’re Okay. Just Be Still.

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Kim
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Are You Trying to Earn Joy Through Sacrifice?

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Kim

Lessons from Illness, Part Four

In the past few posts I’ve written about a recent illness and the amazing life lessons that came as the result of that one illness. Today I’m going to share Lesson Six. This one really shook me.

Six years ago, I had the material trappings of success, but internally I was dying. Somewhere along the way I’d embraced the idea that success came with a price. Here’s what I believed: You had to be willing to work yourself to death in order to succeed.

Because what you believe is what you create in life, I came close to dying as a result of that belief in action. And, I had no idea what I what I was doing to myself.

As far as I can tell, this life-sabotaging story got started back in my early twenties when I sought to validate my worth using the physical world. Not only did I think my value would be recognized once I had money, but I also thought I’d earn the admiration of others if I worked extremely hard.

When I was living “the lifestyle,” working twelve-hour days and creating more work for myself in each moment, I didn’t realize that there were internal stories running the show. They sounded something like this: “You have to be willing to work hard and sacrifice in order to be successful,” or “There’s honor in toiling,” or “Nothing comes easily. You have to earn it.”

Where do these stories come from? They can be the result of childhood conditioning. They can be the result of our own errors in thinking, conclusions we’ve come to on our own. They lurk under the radar of our consciousness, yet they’re powerful and require healing in order for us to break free from their chains.

I came to recognize this story inside me. First, I challenged it by asking myself, Do you believe that people can do work they love and get paid for it? Since my answer was yes, it was time to update my story.

When you do work you love, it doesn’t feel like work, so you don’t have to toil, and it doesn’t feel like sacrifice. The feeling of sacrifice comes from doing work that we don’t want to do so we can get paid.

Once I had diagnosed the story, challenged it, and decided to update it, I began to treat it with a new affirmation. I get paid to do work that I love. It was my intention to create my life using that new belief.

Fast-forward to the present …

During the last few months, I have felt an incredible amount of joy working on personal projects that I love. This joy has been a result of divine inspiration. I have an amazing spiritual checklist that I’m following that includes the production of this blog, writing a third book, creating meditation CDs, and developing a membership community. This is what I’ve been put on earth to do. It’s rewarding, fulfilling, and magical.

So rewarding, fulfilling, and magical that I’m easily overcome by  desire to get it all done quickly. I became obsessed and began to push myself. Surely if this is God’s work, I kept telling myself, he’d like it done as soon as possible, right?

Wrong.

Ego pushes. The work of the divine flows gently with love.

And so, because I was obsessed, I became very ill. The illness lasted two weeks before it showed any sign of yielding. More accurately, it took two weeks before I showed any sign of yielding to the illness.

After being completely leveled, I asked the angels to educate me. They taught me five lessons about (1) obsession energy, (2) not forcing things, (3) facing fears, (4) facing financial insecurity, and (5) why I’d become sick despite seemingly healthy habits. For Lesson Six, they said this:

You have experienced great joy recently and you have found a way to pay for your joy by sacrificing yourself. But know this, your Creator does not require you to earn joy. You are already worthy of it.

Ouch. Hello again! That darn internal story about sacrifice is still there! When I began to experience joy in my life, I thought I’d overcome the old story. Instead, it went dormant and waited patiently for the right conditions to be created in my life. How clever my ego was to align itself with my calling and tell me it would be honorable of me to push myself for God.

I’d taken projects that were filled with joy and begun to push myself until I’d converted the joy into honorable sacrifice. Oh, my! When I realized what I was doing, I became very reflective. I had to take a moment to give compassion to myself. That’s just so sad.

It’s not that I pity myself. The compassion I feel is for my human condition. The angels have taught me a little more about humanity by using my own challenges as their lesson plan. The conditions we impose on ourselves are heartbreaking. They have nothing to do with the divine plan, joy or love.

Following this latest lesson, I’ve seen people everywhere around me engaged in obsession and sacrifice. The angels have been extremely thorough with this lesson, which tells me that it’s a Universal Lesson, not for me alone, but meant to be shared. If you see yourself in this post, I hope you’ll go back and read the three earlier posts. Perhaps it’s time for you to reflect and surrender to change as I did.

Wishing you peace, joy and love,
Kim

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Answering the Call of the Divine: Financial Insecurity and Angel Messages

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Kim

Lessons From Illness, Part Three.

In my last post I talked about the first three lessons I learned from a recent illness. First, my body was the messenger of some very powerful messages, and then the angels jumped in and gave me “knowledge imprints” that offered a depth of understanding that has left me awestruck.

When we left off at Lesson Three, the angels had just informed me that fear/ego used my devotion to my calling to create the energy of obsession inside me. The more I did for my calling, the more that fear was winning an internal battle. Tricky, eh? How in the world did that happen?

Sometimes, I get confused about the best way to honor my calling …

I consider myself blessed. I’ve been given the gifts of inspiration and understanding of my calling. I’ve been shown a spiritual checklist of things to do to honor that calling. I use this spiritual checklist as a blueprint for what I should be doing with my life. 

As I work on every project on the list, I experience the profound joy that I’ve only known to come from being aligned with spirit. I love what I do so much that I wish I had the energy to work all the time. Yet it’s in that very feeling that I can lose my ability to apply the brakes. I tell myself that if I lose myself in a higher cause, it’s okay to want to work all the time. After all, I’m feeling joyful … but …

I’m only human. Humans need balance. We all have to work within the constraints of the energy we can safely expend.

Yet, I look around and see other people who get away with working all the time. I look at the humanitarians of the world who work tirelessly in their missions, and I ask, Why should I work less than they do? Because I believe that I work for my Creator, I want to do the most I possibly can for my mission, too. This gets me swept up in the obsession that I should be able to do more. 

Sometimes I get scared …

Lesson Four: Per the angels, the reason obsession energy is created in me is because of my financial insecurity. While I love what I do, it’s not about working, the angels tell me, because underneath it all, you are burdened with financial insecurity.

While I know better, I can still get triggered into forgetting that the feeling of financial safety doesn’t come from making a pile of money. It comes from the faith and knowledge that you will be taken care of.

Lesson Five: Also per the angels, the other reason you wish you could work all the time comes from the illusion that you can force something to materialize now.

Forcing God’s work?? How very spiritual of me.

I must admit that I’d like to do everything on my spiritual list— Right away. I often wish I could speed up the whole process. Then I remember the saying, “In God’s time, not my time.”

I choose to do the work I do because I want to honor the divine guidance I’ve received. My decision to honor that guidance has been spiritually rewarding beyond words, even though that decision has cost me a great deal money, rather than make me money. I’m no different from anyone else. A girl’s gotta pay her bills. 

I’ve been here before …

I remember a time in my life, when I felt broken, like I couldn’t go on, couldn’t handle the financial insecurity. I was thinking that the time had come for me to give up. That day, I turned on the TV and Oprah was on. Her show was about guests who’d held their vision during hard times and were now able to make a living doing what they’d been called to do. The show was about doing what you love to do, and the money will follow.

Would you believe that today, in my e-mail as I find myself struggling again, I received a story entitled “Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow?” That really happened! Doesn’t that just bring a smile to your face? That’s our divine Source for you. It seems that whenever I think I should give up on what I believe to be his purpose for me, I am reminded of who my true employer is.

No one ever said it would be easy to answer a calling. I’m lucky that I’ve got some loving angelic teachers who break it down for me when I get off track.

Peace & Love,

Kim

Would you believe there was a Lesson Six? It’s the biggie. Please join me for the next post.

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