“Change comes.  It always comes.  Unless you are no longer living, everything changes, always.  If you fight the change, it is more difficult.  If you allow the change to occur and flow with it, it will help you move easier, faster.

If you embrace the change, things will be simpler.  Then you may move faster.  You may feel yourself traveling along with the current wondering how you will get to the next stop; wondering if you will be able to stop at the next stop; wondering if you even have all that you need to travel the current so swiftly.  And yet, somehow, some way, you will.

I encourage you to stop struggling and just allow yourself to be present to that which you know you need to do.  Listen. See. Hear.  Acknowledge and accept the guidance that comes to you.  Look in the details for the information that you need.  Don’t expect the messages to come as some big, booming voice or a banner displayed where you can’t even miss it.  Look in the tiny, tiny details of life.  Each daily choice.  Pay attention to the details, and act upon what you see.  Even the slightest movement forward has value.  Even if that slight movement is only recognizing that it’s time to move forward.  Not actually moving, but just recognizing it, because for so long you have been denying it.  Let that be your first step:  that recognition.  And pat yourself on the back for recognizing that you recognized it.   That can be your second step.   See how easy that is?  Each time you take a small step, and recognize that you are taking it, you will be more able to take the next bigger step.  And you will do that just as easily as you took the small step.  Yes, there will be times when you will be asked to take even larger steps, leaps of faith they are called – of course, you’ve heard of those – and you hope and pray that you are never called to take one, because you’re not sure you’ll have the courage.  And yet you know that if you do take that leap, if you take the leap that you are being guided to take, your heart will sing in a way it has never sung before.  And your life will be filled with passion and joy and laughter.  Don’t be afraid of the leap.  I don’t ask you to take it unprepared.  So look into the details for the little steps you will need to take to be prepared for the leap.  And then just leap…and trust…for I will be there, arms outstretched ready to catch you, ready to guide your footing, so that you land softly and easily and gently, ready to move forward.  So just pay attention to the details.”

Channeled after a healing circle
Pittsburgh, PA
June 8, 2011

“Divine Light, a spark – small, burning ever so brightly within your heart-space.  Perhaps a bright flame, perhaps just a small, dim flame.  But as you breathe in, allow the breath to fan the flame, so that with each in-breath, the flame burns brighter.  My flame – My Spirit within you, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of all that is – burning brightly, never ceasing, always present within you.

It is not the presence of God within you that ever ceases, but your awareness of it as such.  Sometimes the hectic pace of your life takes you so far afield that you forget that I am within you.  You forget that there are angels and guides – so many on the other side watching over you, caring for you, loving you, guiding you, directing you, so many there to assist you – but you forget.  But that spark, that spark is always, always there.  So I encourage you, in the midst of chaos, in the midst of crisis, in the midst of illness and craziness and uncertainty, I encourage you to stop and take a breath or two or three and visualize that flame within your heart-space burning bigger and brighter with every breath.  And I promise you that if you do this for Me, as I am asking you today, you will feel the difference within you.  You will feel a renewed strength and vitality.  A bigger energy than you could have imagined possible at this particular time in your life, because you actually now are worn down in the middle of whatever this crisis, this chaos, this event is.  But if you take a moment, and focus on that flame, that Divine flame in your heart-space, and breathe into that flame, I promise you, you will feel the difference.  You will feel My presence, you will feel My strength, and you will feel a renewed ability to move forward.  And you will do so knowing that you are not alone, knowing that you are accompanied by the Divine, in many forms, in many shapes, and yes, of course, perhaps ways that you would never have imagined or expected.  Perhaps ways that you are not even comfortable with.  But I encourage you to open your heart and your mind and to move forward without expectation and without fear and to trust that that which you are feeling within you is the Divine.  And that when you open your heart, when you breathe into that flame, things will happen that you could never imagine.  The chaos will quiet, the confusion will clear, and you will be filled with Grace.”

Channeled during a healing circle
Pittsburgh, PA
June 1, 2011

“Higher and higher.  Deeper and deeper.  Much, much, much higher.  Deeper, and deeper yet.  Many layers to your healing.  One at a time you peel them back.  Sometimes what you find underneath surprises you, catches you off guard, and sometimes knocks you over.

There is much to let go of to rise higher.  Some things you are aware of, others not.  Some things, even in the healing process as you excavate deeper and deeper, you may not know what it is that is arising from the depths, you simply feel what it is, and you allow yourself to be present to the feelings.  Allow it to come up, whatever it is, even if you don’t know what it is, even if you can’t imagine where the depth of those feelings is coming from, let it up.  It will do more harm than good if you keep it under.

You do not have to do this alone.  There are many, many, many around you each and every day to help.  You need only ask and they will assist you.  I cannot guarantee what form the assistance will take.  It will be determined by what you need and who is present at the moment that you ask, and what it is that we know you most need to assist you through this part of your journey.  For oftentimes, what you think you need and what you truly need are two very different things.  You may think you need a surcease from what is occurring, when in actuality, you need to go deeper before there can be a ceasing, because going deeper is what is necessary to get to the root of the issue.  And unless you expunge the root, it will reoccur time and time again.

It is difficult to think, when you are in pain and suffering, that you would willingly go deeper and experience more pain and more suffering.  And yet, I promise you that if you dig deeper now, you won’t have to do it again.  Once the root is pulled, there is nothing left to go back to.  There will be other issues.  There will, of course, be other pain and other sorrow and other woundings.  But there will also be great joy because of how deeply you have dug.  And rapture, and ecstasy.  And a greater knowing, a greater certainty, that what you thought is, really is.

So it is very worthwhile to dig deep.  Do not be afraid.  Yours are not the only hands upon the shovel.  Trust Me when I tell you that if you have to shovel shit, I will shovel it with you.  There is nothing, nothing, nothing pleasurable about shoveling shit.  But at least if you’re shoveling with someone, it’s much easier to handle the shit that comes up.  But you have to ask for help.  And you can tell Me that you can handle only so much shit at one time and we can stop and you don’t have to do it all at once.  I’m OK with that, if that’s what you need.  We’ll go at your pace.

So I’m fine with you stopping to take a break, but don’t stop because you’re afraid.  Stop because you need a rest.  Rejuvenate, revitalize, get your energy back and your willpower and then go at it again.  Pick up the shovel and do more shit.  Because after all, what is shit?  It’s fertilizer!  And what does fertilizer do?  It makes things grow bigger and better!  So think about that.  Don’t think about digging up the shit.  Think about plunging your hands into the fertilizer of your soul.  Think about who you’re growing into.  Not who you are now or who you were before, but who you are becoming.

There is nothing sweet-smelling about the shit.  But truly, if you think of it as fertilizer, think of what the fertilizer does for the plants.  Think about the smell of a wonderful, ripe apple when you cut into it.  The sweet tartness on your lips and your tongue when you bite into it.  And think of all the health benefits from all of the nutrients in that apple.  All because it was fertilized and tended and helped to grow.  You are the apple.  The apple of My eye!  And you are being fertilized by the pain and the suffering and the wounds, and the joy and the pleasure and the love that you experience here, in this lifetime.  All meant to help you become more of who you came here to be.”

Channeled during a healing circle
Pittsburgh, PA
February 8, 2012

“Peace is something that you always seem to be striving for, and yet, rarely attaining. Have you asked yourself why you resist being at peace? Have you asked yourself what might happen if you allowed peace within you? If there was nothing within you but peace, where might you go? What might you do? Who might you be? Peace speaks to truth and trust and faith. What might you try? What might you attempt if you were deeply connected to the Divine energies of all that is? So that you trusted. So that you had faith – a deep and abiding faith – that the steps that you are taking would lead you exactly where you needed to go. And that you would be accompanied every step of the way, on all levels.

Peace is powerful and empowering. When you have peace within, you are more likely to take a bigger risk. A greater leap. You are more likely to step outside of your comfort zone and try something new. Something bigger. Something more. And sometimes I think you keep yourself from feeling peace so that you don’t have to take that step outside your comfort zone.

Some of you may think it is because you are not powerful. But I would hazard a guess that what is really happening within each of you is that you are simply afraid of how powerful you might be. And what, indeed, would you do with that power if you discovered it within you? How might your life be disrupted or changed? What might I ask you to do? What might you want to do that right now, because you don’t have that deep sense of connection and trust and peace, you don’t even contemplate doing? You don’t even let it show itself to you. Because, of course, if you were able to acknowledge it, then you might feel like you had to do something about it.

And so as long as you can distract yourself with your busyness – your 60 miles per hour racing thoughts – so long as you can keep yourself in that space of being too busy to know, you don’t have to take any other action. You don’t have to do anything different. You don’t have to be anything more. And yet, you all came here to be more. That is why you set foot in this life. Why you incarnated into this body, this beingness. This is why you put your feet upon this particular path – to be more in whatever way it is that your soul wanted you to be more.

Some of you are so used to being less than that the thought of being more than, of being all that you could possibly be, is terrifying! Perhaps because no one ever told you that you could be more. And that you had everything within you that you need to be more. There were too many messages about not being good enough, smart enough, brave enough, courageous enough. Not having the skill set, or perhaps the intelligence. Not having the right connections or the best way of speaking. Not being able to write well enough. Whatever it was that you were not enough of, to hold you down. To hold you back.

And yet, I am saying to you – to each and every one of you – that all that you are is enough – enough to do every single thing that you came here to do. And when you sit in the silence, when you sit and connect, when you allow the peace that is always within  you to come into your knowingness, to flood your beingness, you will recognize that you have everything that you need.

And for some of you, what happens is that you practice being in that place of peace until you see that you do have what you need, and then you get scared. Perhaps not even on a conscious level. But somewhere within you, your ego starts working. Kicking and screaming. And you find yourself resisting sitting in the silence. You always have a reason that you can’t. A logical explanation, of course. You overslept. The alarm didn’t go off. You have extra things to do today so there is just no time. And day after day after day after day you find excuse after excuse after excuse because sitting in the stillness, and in the silence, and feeling the peace, made you hungry for more and made you afraid at the same time. You have to push through your fear. You have to resist your ego. Your ego will push you into resistance of that which it knows you need to be more. And you need to resist your ego’s resistance.

The first step, of course, is being aware that you are resisting. What does that look like for you? What does resisting look like for you? For some of you it may be drowning your feeling in alcohol or drugs.  Or food! Sugar after sugar after sugar after sugar. All of those things that you ingest so you don’t have to emote. It’s really your feelings that you’re trying to push down by all that you’re taking in. And sometimes, it’s not a substance that you’re ingesting, but it’s activities that keep you busy. Sometimes it’s those addictive behaviors – gambling, shopping. Sometimes it’s just the busyness of your day with an already full priority list, and you add another and another and another thing to the list. And you run from one thing to the next to the next. And you convince yourself that there is no room in this very, very busy schedule to put in any activity that will help you move higher. That will help you take that first step out of your comfort zone. For after all, you don’t have even enough time or energy to do everything that’s on the list already.

But if you sat in the silence and in the stillness, if you connected, if you allowed yourself to breathe in peace, and breathe out worry and doubt and disbelief, breathe in peace and trust and faith, and breathe out thoughts of lack or unworthiness, if you could just sit and breathe in all the good and allow all that is of a lower vibration to be released, you would be amazed at how your life changes. You would be amazed at the opportunities that pop up. The miracles that happen. You would be amazed at how blessed and grateful you felt at the end of each and every day instead of harried and stressed.  My difficulty is that I can’t force you to sit in the silence. I can’t make you breathe in peace.

Your autonomic nervous system keeps you breathing without any thought. That’s a given until it’s your time to stop breathing completely. So that’s not the breathing that I’m talking about. I’m talking about that deeper, deeper breath. The conscious breath. The conscious breathing in on the breath of that Divine peace. Being present to that. I can’t make you do that. I can only ask you to. Suggest that you do. Help you understand that there is so much more that is possible for you, if and when you do. And then I have to sit back and wait. And wait. And wait. And then I get excited because there you are! There you are! For five days straight you have been present. You have breathed in peace. And I get so excited! And I’m sitting there on the edge of My seat just waiting to see how this is going to open you up! Waiting for you to see how it will open you up.

And then on the sixth day, you don’t show up. It’s Saturday. The kids are at home. Or you’ve got to work in the yard, or do the laundry, or you didn’t set your alarm because it’s not a work day and you’ve gotten up late and now there’s no time. And so I take a deep breath and I wait again, until the next time you decide to sit and breathe in peace.

I will never abandon you. I will never give up. I will never lose faith that one day you will sit long enough that you will be present, consistently, for a long enough time that you will make it over the cusp and you will see the benefits to your actions. And you will feel that peace deep, deep, deep within you. You will feel a deeper faith. A greater trust. A more encompassing love than you have ever known because you were attentive to your breath. Because you were present in the moment. And because you chose to breathe in and be peace.”

Channeled during a healing circle
Teleconference Event
June 1, 2015

“I need you. You are the only hands that I have. Without you, I am helpless to change the world. You are My physical emissaries. I have placed you exactly where you are to do the work I need you to do. Except that I cannot make you step up and begin! I can only put you in the place where you are needed. Taking that next step is up to you. Will you take it? Will you step up and step out? Will you stop being afraid? Or, at least, stop allowing the fear to hold you back? Because if you can do that – if you can walk forward in spite of the fear – you will see that everything you need will present itself, and you will be fine. You will be better than fine. And so will everyone around you because you had the courage to step up and be more. What a role model you will be for all who come into contact with you!”

Channeled during a healing circle
Allison Park, PA
August 20, 2015

“You’ve been afraid to step into your power, to acknowledge how great you are.  As long as you are coming from your heart-space and not ego, you’ve every right to claim your power.  What you do not have is the right to think that you are bigger and better than anyone else.  For all are equal.  All are equal.

So own your greatness, but own it with humility.  Be humble.  Be loving and gentle and kind. See any who are working to cause you harm, or have already caused you harm, see them as the wounded beings in their physical manifestation that they are.  Know that what comes from them comes from their woundedness as they attempt to heal their spirits, to learn their lessons, to be all that they came here to be. What comes from them is not aimed at you. And yet, so many of you act and react as if it is. What is happening was designated long before your physical incarnation. Was chosen by you and by them. A pact that you entered into so that each of you could learn what you needed to learn. It’s time to step away from being a victim, and to understand that as a co-creator, you co-create all that is in your path ; that which you call good and that which you label as bad.

I suggest you quit labeling and just accept that which comes to you as it is: a piece of your journey, a part of your path, another chapter in the book of your learning. Always see yourself for all that you are, regardless of what is happening around you. No one can make you a victim. No one can make you feel bad or sad or unhappy. No one can enrage you. You are in control of that, if you choose to be. And if you choose not to be, you’re still choosing. Do you not understand that? Everything in your life is coming to you as a choice because you made a choice. Everything that is happening is a response. A reaction. Not a punishment or a judgment. Not a criticism. Not a slap on the wrist or a cuff up ‘side the head. It is simply a response to a stimuli. You can change how you respond.

So think about it. Think about choosing to respond rather than allowing yourself to react. How different do you think your life will be coming from that perspective? Because when you do that? You’re owning your power. You’re being accountable and responsible. You are totally and truly stepping into your being as co-creator.”

Channeled during a healing circle
Ashtabula, Ohio
August 22, 2015

“You are children of the light. And so often you allow yourself to walk in the darkness -the darkness of fear. What is it that keeps you so tied to your fear? What is it that makes you fearful of the light? For it is really your fear of the light that keeps you in the darkness?  What are you afraid will happen if you and I connect intimately? Purposefully? One on one? What do you think will happen? Why are you afraid of that?

“Where are you going? Where do you want to go? What is it that you’re seeking? What do you need to do to reach your goal? What steps do you need to take? What actions? How can I help? Do you understand that until you take action, I can’t do anything except wait with you? As you move forward, I support your choices and your actions. And as long as you sit on the fence, I sit on the fence with you. You are in charge of where you are going. All I can do is support your movement.