Falling down happens to us all at various stages.  For the outside world, we may show our stage presence, but for those in our inner circle, we usually let it all hang out.  Trust in those around you is vital when you're feeling down an out.  We all need someone now and then to hang on to.  Someone we trust enough to know that when our core is feeling shaken, they will keep tabs on us and try to lend a hand to help us get back up again.

The holiday season is difficult for many, if not all adults in one way or another.  We've experienced losses of loved ones, memories that linger and the passage of time that seems to be expanded at this time of year, as though we were examining out lives under a microscope.

We're reminded to set those "resolutions" to improve, start over, revamp and get better.  But what if we just don't seem to have it in us?  What if we're feeling empty, scared, alone and lost?

There is no single way with the magical 12 steps to get there that works for everyone.  I can quote a number of ways that have worked for many I know, but they may not work for you.

What I can tell you is this...

If you're letting your emotions run you, and your emotions are down and out, you will be too.  Conversely, if you're letting your emotions run you, and they are high in the sky, so will you be.  My father was a grand and wonderful personality, although he had private moments just as any other where he might feel less than perfect.  His lesson for me that stands out in this instance is "Never let your emotions run you... you run them!"  There's a story that goes along with this and perhaps it will land in a chapter someday, but for now, that quote is sufficient.

Remember --- Your emotions are a gauge as to how you are doing.  Much like a thermometer, they will reflect back to you if you are on track or not.  It's not quite as some might think.  Our feeling is not always a result of our thoughts, it's often the other way around!  If we're thinking, hearing and being bombarded with negative stories from well-meaning friends, co-workers, loved ones and the outside world... our empathic senses may be in overdrive and our feelings barometer moves to the "down and out" reading.

When you're emotion arrow points to "what the heck" remember that you have the power at any point in time to change your feelings.  Put down the paper, don't listen to the negative stories (or at least keep your thoughts and feelings in a happy place while you happen to be listening to them)... and most of all, find a reason to be happy!  Just one reason, at a time, then another. 

I know... it sounds too simple, must be stupid, this silliness.  She's telling me just to find one reason to be happy, like a sunny day, a flower, a deer, a horse, a smiling cashier?  Like that's gonna help me?  Man, is she way off....

Just... Try... It... 
(and repeat)

RX

Find One Single Reason To Be Happy, 

and Repeat as often as possible.

The Universe listens indeed. When you truly awaken your life will take on a new dimension. You will know it as you are not absorbed in what others can do for you, but instead what you can do for others! 

 

 

I wish you Peace, Love, and Joy.
I pray that you find within the Strength and Courage
to realize that which you are here to do and the Faith in your abilities to make it happen!

May you notice the signs sent to you that will show you the way,

and feel the support of the Angels.

Remember...peace has to start with someone... why not you? 

Blessings In Spirit....

Karla

When I stand by someone I don't quit, they may, but I never give up on them. That's what love is....

I don't need to be with you to feel you, once connected, always connected...

So remember, I love you.  Whether you've crossed over, chosen a different road, or you're feeling low... you're special to me and I've got your back, whether you like it or not...

This is what love is....

Blessings

The power of gratitude is often underestimated.   Consider the fact that Quantum Physicists have proven that the power of thought is the most powerful form of energy known to man.  When you look at the power of gratitude in that fashion, it puts a new twist on it.

I'm not referring to the thank you's you give out as a courtesy, although they too have there own strength to be sure.  What I'm offering up for your thoughts to entertain, is those "Count your Blessings" statements you occasionally say.  Often, we say them to make ourselves feel better, whether we'd like to admit it or not.  We might say, I'm lucky to have a job, I'm lucky to be healthy, right after we've spent quite a bit of energy focusing on everything that is bothering us right now about some crisis that we're dealing with.

When we consciously affirm on a regular basis those things that are the most meaningful to us in our lives, those dreams that we still hold on to, in a positive way, we are sending thought-energy waves out.  Is this different than prayer?  I think not.  Prayer can be for someone else or ourselves.  When you're asking those unseen for help, are you sending out a thought that goes something like "I really need this?" 

Most of us do at one point or another, if we're honest with ourselves.  Let's face it, this life of illusion doesn't often feel like an illusion and a bigger part of ourselves might be on the other side, but that isn't helping us with the "stuff" life is handing us,  or is it?

Thoughts become things.  The very chair you sit on the made of particles, atoms and lots of other scientific stuff I don't totally understand.  I do know this though.  Someone, somewhere had a thought.  The chair you're sitting on is a result of that thought.  The design, the color, etc.  You share in their thoughts by accepting the result of their gifts, yes... their gifts, to the world.  Even a chair is a gift, no?  Life could be tough without them.

So why is it then, that we have to say what feels like a million bad things before we get to what we're truly grateful for in our lives?  What's more, when was the last time you said "Thank you for giving me this dream!" 


My daydreams are the source of inspiration, fuel, tenacity, love and are the very things that keep me going when times are tough, as well as when things are going quite well!  I'm thankful for the newest dream, goal, desire that popped into my head.   It came from somewhere didn't it?  You thought of it yourself, yes, I'm certain you did... yet, thoughts are energy waves, and many people come up with the same invention at nearly the same time.  It's the first one to get the patent that seems to win right?


I offer you this as my point as well as a little game to play with yourself for this month of December 2011.


Take seriously those thoughts that pop in that seem terrific.  The "wouldn't it be great if I had a thriving business working with alfalfa sprouts!" ideas.  Silly example, but I bet you'll remember it!  So say thank you for that idea and ask for the next step... and say thank you that the next step for you is on it's way.... 


Then wait... I assure you, it's worth it!

Blessings!

May those that need an extra Angel or three be sent them I ask. Some are feeling delicate and unsure. Please send them inspiration, the knowing they need, perhaps from the whisper of an Angel. Blessings and with great love I request this.

Easy Street...or in the ditch?

So often we see it.  Bad things happen because people made bad choices based on bad advice. Later on after life falls apart, they've fallen off their path and are feeling stuck in a situation that was caused by a bad choice they made years ago, then compounded by years of going along with other bad choices, they give bad advice to someone.  It's the easy way out.  The way to get what you want, they say.  

The person giving the advice has no idea of the ramifications involved in the choice.  It's just like pulling a card out of a deck and saying here, this is what you should do.  Yet, so many people fall for it and suddenly their entire life revolves around pulling the Queen of Spades out of the deck.  It's too late to blame anyone.  You're the one that took the advice.  It sounded great!  Easy Street!  This will get you where you want to go!

A long time ago I was taught by very prudent and loving people, that one should never take the advice of just one person.  You should always investigate all the options available.  Weigh the pro's and con's.  Search your true feelings as well as your motivation.  Get more opinions from good, reliable and successful individuals who have a proven track record.  Then, after much analysis, soul-searching and careful consideration, make your choice.

 A quick and easy decision is often the worst possible choice.  It's not that easy you say, because you worked hard on making that happen.  Now wait a minute.  I didn't say you didn't have to take logical steps to make anything happen.  I suggested that it was the initial "quick and easy" decision that was the worst possible choice to make.  Why?  Well, have you considered how it will affect everyone involved?  Have you truly and honestly searched deep within yourself to determine if this easy street answer was just a quick-fix?  Have you looked down the road in your mind and soul to visualize how it will affect your life if you do this?  How many truly successful people (and I do not mean all relatives and friends) have you run this thought by?  Did they endorse it?  Did you really weigh the pro's and con's fully, or are you just going with the one or two pro's because you want it so bad you can taste it?

This may seem like a truly non-spiritual topic, yet I assure you it's all about it.  Just because someone is spiritual does not mean they are incompetent, blundering idiots.  In fact, some of the most spiritual people I know are deep thinkers who care very much about how their choices impact people affected by them.  There is not a possibility of your choices not affecting others, they will and they do.  To assume your choices do not impact others is foolish and insensitive.

Integrity includes doing the best we can with the available options and then, pushing through to learn other ways of doing things, pushing out of our comfort zone and taking responsibility for our actions or our laziness.  We cannot honestly blame another for our refusing to pick up the paper on the floor when we were just to lazy to pick it up ourselves. 

My point is, that you always have a choice.  When you think you have no choices, go outside your comfort zone and get away from your usual acquaintances and knowledge base and learn how others live and why they have the lives that they have.  There is always a price.  Even lottery winners have choices to make.  Lack of responsibility with the winnings mean those winnings are wasted and gone before they can bat an eyelash and they are left right back where they started, in the salt mine, so to speak.  So take your decisions and work.  Work on yourself, work on learning and getting out of your easy chair.  The rainbow has the pot of gold at the other end for a reason.  

  Blessings...

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray that all the world is in peace. May the Angels watch over us all with care, and take us when our time is here. In the meanwhile may we share our love and also find peace from up above. While earthly tares may bring us down, it's sure that love will bring us home. *~*SD*~*

We are here in these individual bodies, experiencing our individual paths in a society where the individual is not seen or heard often, excepting those rarities in a celebrity status of sorts.

Yet, the reality is, that we are all connected, in spirit, from Source/The Great Spirit.  Regardless of the "religion" or "absence of religion" that our individual selves follow, our spirit connects with the energy of All That Is.

And so, I honor that which is in you, and me, and all of us.  We are so blessed to be here.  

When the individual self, the "you" that you've come to know in this lifetime, is unhappy, I wish you a magical thought that will feel better, and then another, and then another and another and another, until you come to find the Joy that is.

When someone else "causes" you to feel less than this, it is their ego/fear that needs to feel that way.  You can honor their need by sending them well-wishes.  They are truly unhappy if they desire to feel above any of us, as we are all one you see; or, they simply haven't awoken to the reality that this lifetime is a playground.  

 Enjoy the ride, each day is another adventure in the playground of life.  May your playmates play fair, May your games be filled with joy, and may you find love, give love in as many ways as you can.  I know of no finer game than to seek to do so.  No-one ever looses at this game, because love is never lost.

Blessings, with much love and light

Karla

 

The Other Side doesn't want you to do everything Perfectly, that's what they are there for!  If you wait until conditions are perfect, you'll never get "it" done.  You may have well-meaning friends give you constructive criticism.  All we can do is thank them for thinking of us, and then move on with our calling.  

No-one has a corner on the market in anything.  We're here to put our "two cents worth" in, and by gosh, the key word is OUR two cents worth.  Your light is shining so brightly that it would blind most people to look at it for any length of time.  I've seen the light in flashes and it's beyond brilliant!  

When things seem impassable and the bar is so high you can't cross it, crawl under!  The Other Side is supporting you, loving you and giving you inspiration.  People here are going to have their ego's in the way and most are not going to understand that your project, path, journey or calling may be the entire reason you are here!  Don't let their need to feel superior put you out of business, so to speak.  

As Jessie J's tune reminds us, she kept on going and on the other end of things she became quite popular!  I'm thankful for her message... it's a wonderful reminder that we aren't the only ones being put down because we aren't doing everything the way everyone else thinks we should.  If you don't fit in, it's because you were BORN TO STAND OUT!!!

And remember, there is more love here for you as well as from the other side than there is anything else.  Focus on that, brush off the rest and do your own thing!!!

Blessings...

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"We've got to give a little love, have a little hope, make this world a little better"... just love these lyrics! Fluffy? Perhaps it seems that way, but the reality of the hardened people struggling today proves that the other way isn't working! ♥ ♥ ♥

When you wish upon a star you feel good, right? You're not looking at that star thinking, this will never work, you're playfully feeling like it's a possibility! Hold on to that feeling! :)

When confronted we can choose to do something about it, wait and see what happens, or do nothing.  I've been told many times through the years that what I was doing was a lost cause... unless there was more support, more funds, more something... I shouldn't waste my time on that person, that problem, that tragedy.  I don't believe in waiting until the conditions are perfect or the majority have bought in.  There have been many situations that others have walked away from, while I dove right in and began the process of total involvement.  


I haven't won every situation.  Many are stories in chapters of the books of the lives of others.  My involvement was just a page or a chapter to try to help them keep their story going.  It's said that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.  To my way of thinking someone has to pay attention to that squeak before it's pointless to take action.  Thus, there have been some where I did indeed think I lost and was soon shown that there was a greater plan involved than that one situation.  Yet who are we to decide when it's won or lost?  Some situations involve faith. The Great Spirit can work miracles through the Hummingbird who shows the world that he still keeps trying, despite the losses and despite the odds against him.

Perhaps it is prudent to wait, yet perhaps your inner voice tells you that it is time for you personally to do something to help.  Only you can make that determination.


In the end when I have jumped into the fire,  I have always left  with a great sense of satisfaction knowing that I've done the best that I can do.  Whether it was too late to have the impact I had hoped or it was just in the nick of time, I did what I could.  It takes a great inner strength to do something that isn't popular when every fiber of your being screams that it is indeed the right thing for you to do! 


I find this video so synchronistic with my own viewpoint.  I hope you find it inspiring as well!

Remember, if you never try, you're sure to loose.  But if you do the best you can, you can look yourself in the mirror the morning after!   It surely is better to try than to do nothing.

Blessings

Never stop dreaming of your Paradise... and do what you can to make your life a Paradise. More often than not it's how you look at it! ♥

Choose to be sad, you will draw others who are sad to you.  Choose to be light and sweet and you will, believe it or not, find that there actually are some light and sweet people out there that are drawn to your energy.  Like attracts like.  From time to time... maybe have a bit of fun! 

You will find though, after a bit of time spent in the dregs of anger, seriousness and the futility of it all, that you are better fueled when filled with a bit of happiness!

Consider this....what makes YOU happy?  Then find a way to have some of that in your life!

May an Angel of Happiness be with you...  and remember... ask your Angels for help with this!  Skeptic?  The best way to prove I'm wrong is to try!

Peace!

Hold on, it's just around the corner.  What you see now was created in your yesterdays.  What you are creating now is just around the corner!  It takes guts to hold on.  When everything around you is storming, screaming and shouting remember this.... Let Go of that and Hold On to that which is just around the corner! Peace, Love and Light to you! *~*SD*~*

May we count the beautiful things more than those moments that are not beautiful to us.

Blessings to you and yours...

The Weekend Warrior's Secret

It's Friday evening where I am, and by now most folks are spent.  Tired of the grind, the 9-5, the week of whirlwinds and the pressures.  They yearn to get out into the world and do what they want to do, need to do, desire to do.  Spending the week in a controlled environment during the work hours leaves little time for ourselves with the rest of our "awake time" being used up for the necessities of life.

Deep inside us we have a secret.  We all do.  There is a prince or a princess in each of us that is just yearning to get out and sprinkle the light of our magic in the world.  Maybe you're a comedian, a techy, musician, writer, athlete, or another yet unannounced role that you keep mainly to yourself in your "down time".

Yes, you have a gift.  Something that you're inherently are good at and quite often don't even realize that you excel at.  Maybe life just didn't "test" you on that ability, that technique or that strength, and so, without a report-card,  or a bit of applause, you just go on with your life doing something else that you've learned to do. Perhaps you indulge yourself on weekends, and an occasional day off to enjoy the delight of your dancing, your meditation, your photography or other talent.

Then Sunday night rolls around and you tuck it away again.  It's time to be strong, to put up the front that the world wants to see... and on you go, with the greatest part of you tucked away, in secret.  After all, you're not really hiding who you are... you're just showing them what they asked to see, to the best of your ability!

Some Secrets are meant to come out!  Don't wait for the day when it's too late to do what your heart and soul yearns for!  Ask for guidance, read a book or three, find a mentor, work at developing your gifts and open up to the world!   It's been said that great talents should not be hidden, they should be shared.

With the state of the world today, doesn't part of you wonder what your special magic could do to help?  And... as someone I remember would say... who are YOU to decide who God is going to help with your gifts... leave that up to Him, you just do your part!  I have to agree!

Yet if you do not realize you have a talent, why would you share it? Here's an example:  I've had many, many precognitive messages come through in my lifetime as well as messages from loved ones on the other side.  It was rare to pass them on years ago because I was taught well to hide this ability... it was definitely a family secret! My Mom and I would think of each-other and were almost always right on the mark when the phone rang.  We learned to "trust our gut" to tell us when so and so was in trouble and call them to see how they were.  I was the one my Mom and Aunt would call for help with the Animals, because I had the ability to communicate with them.  But... it never went beyond that.  Sort of a playful family science.  I never honestly thought I was gifted, because I never talked to anyone outside of the family about it!

That was until... a few things happened, that made me wonder why I wasn't sharing my visions with the people they were about.  Tragedy might have been averted, a life changed, and so... as with most things in my life, the Great Spirit guided me and here I am, opening wide!

Here's to Secrets, and to allowing ourselves to come out from the darkness.  Let the Light use your talents!  Don't wait until it's too late to have time... there are no guarantees that you'll reach the average lifetime age, and there are no guarantees that you'll win the Lottery!

You'll never know how many people have been helped because you came out of the closet with your talents and developed and shared them.  Only the Great Spirit knows how many apples are in a seed!!!  What if you never plant it!?  No seeds planted produce nothing... such a waste when people are yearning for what you have to share!

What you can count on most, is yourself.  You know what it is, that secret longing to broadcast, to play up... your own feelings are your tuner, and all you need do is turn the dial a bit and tune in to your strengths, then share them!

"When there is a chance that sharing my secret strengths will help anyone... I'm obliged to try!"

Peace, Love and Light!

*~*SD*~*

Miracles and You!

It's really quite simple...

Reach out

It seems that it has gone out of style to truly connect with one another.  Some will feel comfortable when communicating via email, the Internet or other electronic methods.  Some might pick up the phone and do that old-fashioned thing, make a call and interact with voice!  A letter in the mail today is so rare that it deserves to be framed when written, signed and sealed.  It's as though we fear the hand-written note might leave an imprint that is irreversible, while we'll trust a public internet with our innermost thoughts, not realizing that they could be accessible to the world! Some will actually hide behind their cell-phones and pretend to be doing something serious or intense when in fact they are dodging the human next to them.  It's the newest way of putting up a wall to tell others you are not available to them. 

But why could we feel the need to hide, to disconnect from the soul next to us?  Perhaps we're tired, overstimulated from the incessant need of others to communicate with us.  Perhaps we just need to stop and go within.  Not knowing any other method to "get away" from everyone that seems to be hounding us... we shut them out in the most polite way we know in this modern world.  We pretend we're communicating with someone else!

We're in a fast-paced world with extremes in every corner aren't we?  We might be greeted by a human being as we enter a business and we just blow right past them... we're busy after all!  We have the digital commercials on the TV at the check-out stand.  We walk down the supermarket aisle or in the big-box stores and have commercials looking at us and talking to us.  We can even check out in the self-service line and never have to actually talk with anyone in the store!  

But wait, there's more!

• Take the transit system and hide out on your laptop, cell, electronic book. 
• Go to the Bank and do everything electronically, or even more-so, never go to the bank... do it all online and only communicate via e-mail, often to an autoresponder!
• Social networking seems one of the few ways we actually find friends today!  We're so busy with our schedules and the struggle that we can actually just sit back in whatever our circumstances are, and put ourselves out there and find like-minded people that we find comfort and joy in communicating with. 

Music, Periodicals, Communication in general has surely changed... but have human beings?  


We elect our governing bodies without taking the time to truly understand what they believe in, what they stand for and what, beneath the speeches so eloquently written for them, they might actually do on our behalf if elected.


We spend so little time with our family that we've become a world of individuals who happen to be related.  The holidays we used to share in generations past are now a work-day for many.  We cannot find the means to share a few days here and there "in person" with them throughout the year.  The days of Sunday afternoon dinners around the table and a good intense conversation covering whatever a loved one needed help with seem to be all too distant in my memory at times.  Good heavens if someone knocks at our door... we're probably not home because we're too busy trying to get by in the jungle... or... we're hiding behind the door because we're just too overwhelmed to feel as though we can interact with anyone today.


It isn't that we don't want to.  In fact... I believe...

• That you want, need and yearn for someone who honestly and lovingly cares for you to listen to your current stories and help you find your way through them by sharing.
• That I need to see your face, touch your shoulder and lend an ear to feel as though I'm needed by someone for real, for more than the $ per hour I'm paid from 9-5 Monday through Friday.
• That you deeply feel as though you are a loving soul with so much to offer the world.
• That I deeply feel your kindness, your consideration and your joy when I'm with you.
• That you really would rather be spending that special day off with a loved one, whether friend, family or kindred soul, than spending it catching up on everything you haven't had time to do during the week.
• That I miss you and know that you love me, and want to share some precious moments with you in this physical reality that we've come together in this time and space to experience.
• That we.... are together even when absent from each-other physically.  That we.... are truly one connected by the magic of the Universal energy that flows through our atoms, our energy bodies and beyond.
• That we all desperately feel the lack of compassion at times in our world.  We are stumbling into one another, over each-other and don't understand how it came to this.  Our society has required this of us to survive, as though the hunting never ends... and the rest never comes. 

We are tired.  Our bodies are even extreme today, we're sick-worn-out, and out of shape or... we're thin-lean-machines and our thoughts reflect this because every spare minute we have is spent on just that... our machines.  We kid ourselves by telling ourselves that we're balanced... but are we? 
 

Body.... Mind.... Spirit...

Love... Joy.. Compassion...

As above... So Below...

As about us... So Within us.

Balance.  


I believe in the Miracle of that from which we come.. and that to which we will return.  
I believe in your ability to look at the stupidity of the lifestyle that has been super-imposed upon you and say STOP!
I believe that when enough awaken to the reality that life is a temporary lay-over in the field of eternity... we'll be okay.


There are no guarantees that if you eat your sprouts, watch your weight, never smoke, drink, etc. that you'll be here at 101 years old.

There is, however a guarantee from me to you... that if you take time from your busy life with loved one(s) repeatedly... eventually they will probably believe that you really care.  You truly want nothing more than to share space, time and experience with them.  


You see... it's not about you.  It's not about me.  And yet... your life is totally about you.  My life is totally about me.  We're here to learn life-lessons, to experience, share, connect, overcome, overwhelm and delight in the total bliss that brought us to this playful playground!  


We need one another.  It's that simple.  When we get that... we're sure to experience the depth of each-others souls and the height of bliss when we share our joys!  


Until we see this and practice it repeatedly... we may not believe it is possible.

But I believe in Miracles... and I believe in You!

Spirited

The young, The old and The Restless...

Cast away the old and you risk stupidity; Cast away the young and you risk loss of excitement; cast away the middle and you have an oreo with no center!

Keep Going!

One of the gifts I am the most thankful for in this lifetime thus-far is a conversation my Grandmother had with me when I was about 12.  She was an immigrant who arrived here at age 15 at Ellis Island.  She spoke no English.  She came with her Mother.  They had family here and left the old country to get away from the Socialistic Regime, so to speak.  With wars raging in Europe and no hope of any future, my Great-Grandmother put herself and her daughter on a boat in 1915 for America.  There was hope for a safe and happy life here.

But that's really another story.... (yes, she became an American citizen and spoke mainly English the entire time I knew her)...

She pulled me aside as my father and I stopped over to visit for a bit.  While he had some things to take care of for her, she sat down at the metal kitchen table and pulled my hands closer.  Very seriously, she said that there was something she wanted to tell me and I needed to pay attention.  

She went on to tell me that there would be many times in my life that it would not feel like fun.  No matter what happens, we keep going!  She repeated.... NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.... WE KEEP GOING!!!

It stuck.  This was one of the rare times she had this kind of a conversation with me, and I paid attention!

Little did I know until well after her crossing over, that she indeed had had her share of losses, personal, family, more than I ever could imagine!  She was stubborn, strong and did not give in to others until her maker called her home.

I did pay attention and I'm very thankful that I did!  I've had my share of losses, personal, family tragedies beyond the average person's span of reality, and more.  And every time I heard her voice telling me "NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS... WE KEEP GOING!!!"

I share this very personal story with you now, as I wish for YOU, to pay attention.  You may loose a lover, a parent, a child.  You may lose loved ones in horrific ways.  You may have hungry times and lean times.  You may ride high and feel on top of the world.  (Hopefully you will share with those less fortunate than yourself).  But through it all.... remember this

NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS... WE KEEP GOING!!! 

Blessings,

Spirited

Beginnings to endings and the exception to the rule.

Beginnings have endings and just as everything must come to an end, there is one exception.  Spirit continues. Regardless of whether you are in physical form or not, you continue.  It is unending.  There are many who feel drawn to connect with a lost loved one that has crossed over.  (I prefer the term "crossed over" as to die is merely our physical existence in this lifetime.)  For skeptics, they may feel the need to have more validation and proof that is possible.  We can only provide what Spirit gives us as evidence.  More often than not it is something that the inquirer will recognize as being "it".  They know... and the connection is valid.

I will not tarry with a skeptic, other than to provide information given from Spirit.  There is always free will, and the inquirer needs to be respectful of the amount of energy that those on the other side use to come through to communicate with them.  Sometimes one needs to walk away, so to speak, to have the light come on...and then they understand the message.  Other times, they may choose to disregard it altogether.  It is ultimately their choice whether the conversation is valid or not.

Just as the mountains may crumble to an earthquake, any number of causes may be brought up to justify how that information was obtained.

There are many who may choose also to ask questions that the other side feels are not appropriate for them to answer.  The reasons are not ours to answer.  There may be a life-lesson for the inquirer to learn.  There may be something in the answer that could alter their life-path.  It could be any number of things.

Faith is required.  You cannot prove conclusively in the physical world, that the other side is communicating with you.  Just as you cannot prove conclusively in the physical world that I am speaking with you on the telephone.  Could it not be a voice-altered synthesization that mimics my tone, fluctuations and reponses?  Perhaps... and perhaps not.

You... do not NEED me to communicate with your loved ones on the other side.  They most likely already have given you the evidence you need that they have crossed over and are much more than fine!  The issue is, we do NEED closure.  We often need to know that these special ones, that shared such an important space and time in our lives, did not leave us to go into an abyss of nothingness.  I NEEDED to communicate with my daughter, and know that she held our furry angels (cats) in her view and the family was with her, and vice-versa.  I still NEED to hear from those most special elders that were my forming family-members and friends of the family, that treated me as though I was more than a number.

There is no substitute that equals the sincere communication of a message from a loved one on the other side.  They continue with their spirit in a realm we do not remember, and in reality the "space" they occupy may well be the same "space" that we do, just on another plane of existence.

The proof is in the pudding.  You either honor the possibility that someone you cared for might have the capability to send a message to you, or, you remain in denial.

Whichever the choice, it is my hope that you at least send a thought out to your loved one, or better, talk to them (yes... they can "hear" you!)... and tell them why you prefer to think they cannot communicate with you.  If you take that approach sincerely, more often than not you may have something unusual occur... and it may well be them knocking the plate on the wall, turning the electronics off and on... in an effort to let you know they are indeed with you.

Some prefer to think that when we "die", that is it.  We die, we no longer cease to exist.  It is over, and if it isn't over, there is no logic in believing that in another realm we can communicate to people here on earth that are living and breathing.

I submit to you that have this belief... that in the end, you will find out otherwise.  Just as a dear "Aunt"  still communicates with me today and sings songs to me, encourages me with "what are we going to do today!?".  You see, this very special "Aunt" (not really related by blood), did not believe there was anything after "this life".  Surprise!  She does now!!!

So you can wait, my friend... and find out for yourself, as you surely will.  Or... you can try to open your mind to the fact that just as men landed on the moon; just as we proved the world was not flat; there is a good possibility that "ESP" does indeed exist beyond a "woman's intuition".  But that is another blog-post entirely, as "woman's intuition" is an irrational term used by people who might think that only irrational women with mood-altering hormones might experience anything like a "feeling that something bad will happen to Johnny".

Peace to you, whatever your viewpoint on this.  It is a leap of faith.  Intelligence is required, as yes, there unfortunately are charlatan's, as with anything else, who will tell you anything you want to hear to get your money.  So you should indeed beware.  Just be open for the feeling...you will "know" who is the right one to help you.  If you do not... then... do not go there.