Starve the fear, feed the love | Ann Albers

My dear friends, we love you so very much,


You have an old saying on your planet, “Starve a cold and feed a fever.” We would borrow that and say instead, “Starve your fears, and feed your love!”


The viruses on your planet live off fear. They starve with love. Fear creates a chemical cocktail in your body that weakens your healthy cells and creates imbalances that allow these parasitic energies to take hold. You might say to us, “Wait a minute… I get sick when I get tired and worn down, not when I’m in fear!” We would lovingly point out that getting tired and worn down is a result of fear, vs. faith in a loving Source that would support you if you more freely supported your own well-being.


Likewise, the greed, corruption, and misuse of power on your planet feed off fear. If others can lord death or doom over you, your fear gives them power. If you stop worshiping false idols and make God your God and love your life, then these individuals cannot manipulate your minds or your lives a minute longer.


There have always been viruses on your planet. There have always been wars. There has always been corruption, misuse of power, and a variety of other human behaviors less than loving. However, there has always been love. God is still God. Light is still light. Truth is still truth. Always.


So, in the face of epidemics, untruths, and other unpleasant realities how do you find your peace? Our answer is simple. Reconnect with love, one moment at a time.


In a space of love, you become a vibrational catalyst and a force for positive change. If more people were praying for a solution to the recent viral epidemic, than fearing it, a vaccine would be found within weeks. Fear feeds a virus. Love starves it.


If more people were praying for the world’s corrupt and wounded leaders, than hating them, they would transform in ways you cannot imagine and become a force of love. Fear feeds greed. Love starves it.


Dear ones, when fear threatens to infect you, possess you, or take control over you inherently loving being, stare it in the face, breathe deeply, and say to it, “Be GONE! Love is my power. God is my power. Truth is my power. I am safe in the arms of the Loving Presence that lives in all things! I am Love. I am LIGHT. I am safe. I AM.”


There is no greater immunity to the worlds ills than to know that the light of the living God lives and breathes within you, and indeed IS you. Rest in that truth dear ones. Within that reality no darkness, disease, or destruction can harm you.


After all, a single candle illuminates the darkness and yet there is no darkness powerful enough to put out that light. You are that candle.


God Bless You! We love you so very much.


— The Angels

By Ann Albers|February 29th, 2020|Messages from the Angels

About the Author: Ann Albers

Ann Albers is a popular Author, Spiritual Instructor, Angel Communicator, & Modern Mystic. Enjoy her free weekly newsletter, "Messages from Ann & the Angels," her Internet TV show, Live Events, Books, CDs, Recipes, Poetry, Photographs, and more at www.VisionsOfHeaven.com! Ann delights in helping you create a heavenly life on earth!

Ann Albers: Emotions & your inner compass | Messages from the Angels

Ann Albers: Emotions & your inner compass
| Messages from the Angels

Be kind to yourselves. You are all going through a period of re-birthing. It is a time upon your earth when that which lies deep within you, and your planet, is coming up to the surface for your consideration.


Just as the molten lava flows from the volcanoes – carving new channels and pathways in the land and even creating new earth itself –  your hopes, dreams, fears, and unexpressed feelings are coming up from your depths as well.


The thoughts and feelings emerging from within you are trying to guide you to make positive changes in your life, to live more in integrity with your own spirit, and more authentically with others. Love itself – the heart of the Divine, that has been lying dormant within you for eons – is making its way to the surface of your consciousness in ways you might have never experienced before.


Pay attention to your fears, your upsets, your joys, and your inspirations. Your feelings are talking to you, telling you where your energy is aligned with your desires and where it is not.


Excitement, joy, passion, and inspiration, or even subtle feelings of rightness and content tell you that you energy is aligned with your dreams. Focus on that which feels like love. Entertain the thoughts that give you joy. Pay attention to the dreams that make your heart stir and indulge in time to fantasize and feel their reality within you. Listen to the subtle inspiring urgings to act when they arise from within.


Honor also your upset, fear, anger, jealousy, discontent, and other unpleasant feelings for these are telling you where your life and your thoughts need to change. If you don’t know how to change yourself or your life, start with a prayer, and a commitment to sit with your angels asking for help while you sit, breathe, and receive. Start by envisioning a better reality and allowing yourself to feel its presence within you.


Don’t push your feelings aside because it is nearly impossible to do so, given the energy upon your planet earth. Instead look at them, listen to them, and learn from them.

• Joy what are you trying to tell me?
• Anger, what are you trying to tell me?
• Sadness what is it we need?

Talk to your feelings as if they are little beings because indeed they are little people living energetically within you.


If you like you can even ask, “What does my joy look like? What does it have to tell me?” “What does my anger look like? What does he/she have to tell me?” Use your imagination and soon you will begin a dialogue with your own feelings that is as clear and real as the guidance you will receive from the angels. We will help and assist you if you ask.


Dear ones, your feelings provide valuable guidance as to what works for you in your life and what does not. They tell you which thoughts, words, and deeds are aligned with your dreams and which ones are not.


Use your God given right to change your thoughts and feelings when they don’t uplift you. If you do, you will begin to create new opportunities and new life as surely as the lava flows which emerge from the depths of your Mother Earth are carving new pathways and laying down new land.

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By Ann Albers| June 30th, 2018|Messages from the Angels

About the Author: Ann Albers

Ann Albers is a popular Author, Spiritual Instructor, Angel Communicator, & Modern Mystic. Enjoy her free weekly newsletter, "Messages from Ann & the Angels," her Internet TV show, Live Events, Books, CDs, Recipes, Poetry, Photographs, and more at www.VisionsOfHeaven.com! Ann delights in helping you create a heavenly life on earth!

Ann Albers: The Heart Has Its Reasons

The Heart Has Its Reasons

a message from Ann Albers

Saturday, 11 March, 2017  (posted 16 March, 2017)

 

My dear friends, we love you so very much,


While there is nothing wrong with being a “creature of habit,” it is your habits that either enliven you or slowly cause your energy to withdraw from life. Life is meant to be lived openly, as an adventure and an exploration of self.


Life is a never ending series of present moments in which you get to choose your experience, based on your God given guidance and soul-level desires.


Your desires inspired you to grow. Your guidance tries to help you grow gracefully and kindly.


For example, say you desire a relationship. That is wonderful. The desire itself begins to draw life force through you. Suddenly your mind starts to take over. “It must be this kind of person and not that. He/she must look like this and not that,” or sometimes worse, “Forget it. Relationships hurt. Better to avoid them!"


Then you meet someone. Your instincts tell you that you want to get to know them better, but the mind starts chattering, “They don’t look like what we expected. What if they’re not ’the one’? You know relationships hurt, just give up!" You talk yourself out of your natural instinct to get to know them better. In doing so you rob yourself of the gifts life has to offer.


There could be a whole variety of reasons you are guided to get to know this person. Perhaps they could help you with career. Maybe they would become a friend who would help you feel safe in the world. Possibly they would be exactly the type of person you've been with in the past and this would give you a chance to trust yourself, and leave, when you see the warning signs a few weeks into the relationship. Maybe they're a potential love. The possibilities are endless.


Perhaps you have a desire to try something new - a class, a food, a career, or a hobby. Your heart feels excited. Your mind starts to offer all sorts of reasons why you should ignore the heart, “You’re too old. You don’t have enough time. You read an article on the Internet that says this isn't good for you. What makes you think you could that?” Your mind make excuses and you give up before you even give your heart a chance.


Maybe you would not have liked the new food, but you would have learned something useful from someone in the grocery store or restaurant. Maybe you wouldn’t have maintained the hobby, but you’d meet a dear friend along the way. Maybe you're guided into a new career and then fired, only to discover this is a stepping stone to your dream job.


If you don’t listen to the heart, you may never discover its reasons. If you don’t remain open to life and your instincts in each moment, you might miss the fullest life you could be living.


Dear ones, we honor your need to grow on earth but we always attempt to guide you to grow in the most kind and loving way possible. We attempt to guide you to grow in ways you wish to grow when possible. We attempt to help you grow in love.


Use your minds, by all means, to review the past, but always pay attention as well to how you feel right here, right now. While the mind may argue against the heart, the heart always knows the kindest and most loving path... in each moment.


God Bless You! We love you so very much.
-- The Angels

Message From Ann 

This has been the year I’m challenging myself to “Try something new.” When a thought doesn't make me happy, I remind myself to "try something new." For example, earlier in the year when I created a health challenge, I caught myself saying, "How many more times do I have to do this to learn!" The thought didn't make me happy so I changed it. "Thank God I've learned and I'm done with this!" I could feel my energy rising immediately and my entire body relaxed.


I caught myself one week, dipping into a very, very old whine, "No one cares about me," and immediately changed it to a better thought, "Life loves me!" I got the sweetest outpouring of thank you notes and kindnesses shown to me within days!


I've been challenging myself to give up old stuff in the house that is past its prime and treat myself to upgrades. I've been trying new foods that appeal, new books... and it has been fun!


Change breathes fresh air into our minds, hearts, homes, bodies, souls, and lives. But it isn't always easy. I may want new towels, but giving up my old ones was like giving away old comfy friends! I may want new thoughts but giving up my old ones requires some willpower and dedication. I may want to try new foods but that meant I have to branch out a bit and risk a little failure here and there. Change requires letting go.

I was pondering the joy of being like a child and "trying something new” on Monday, while making hard boiled eggs for snacking this week. They're really yummy with a drizzle of olive oil, a dab of Dijon & Dill, and a sprinkle of Hawaiian black salt!


Back to the point, the eggs were cooked and I was carefully dumping them into a strainer in the sink, trying not to crack them prematurely, when I heard the most delightful voice in my head…


“See how gladly the eggs jump out of the pot, releasing themselves from the boiling water, joyous about being cracked open and released unto their new life!”

The language was quaint but the message was clear and beautiful! The angel in my head was reaffirming my desire to release old patterns, habits, etc… to leave the "shells" that had both protected and confined! Sweet!


See how gladly we can leap from situations that are behind us, and no longer work. See how gladly we can release the shells of our old past programming and release ourselves into delicious new thoughts, new circumstances, and new life. See how gladly was can embrace change!


I felt the familiar angelic warmth embrace me and radiate from my heart with an exquisite tenderness. To the angels every single moment is new, never before experienced, and never to be seen again. Change is exciting, an opportunity for a new experience, a new joy!


I smiled, thinking of all I wish to create this lifetime, all I wish to experience, and all the change that will required. Gladly, in God’s time – just like those eggs – I will jump!


Here are a few tips to help you "gladly jump" this week...



1. Pay attention to your loving desires


When you feel a desire in the moment to do something, say something loving, or try something that appeals and feels wholesome (because your guidance is always loving), say it, do it, try it.


Pick up the phone and call that person you are thinking about. Write the email. Sign up for a class. Get outside and take a walk. Take a ten minute nap. Look at that new career online. Go up to that stranger and compliment them! (You know you want to!) Get the food that sounds appealing and healthy. Politely bow out of a conversation that is annoying or boring you.


I rarely call clients because I have a wonderful assistant, but once I had an urge so strong to call a particular person that it was positively urgent. I picked up the phone and dialed... and interrupted a suicide in progress. This person is still alive today due to that guidance.


When you feel something that sounds loving, wholesome, appealing… say it, do it, try it. Trust. The heart has its reasons.



2. Use Your Mind, but Don’t Let it Rule You


Sometimes we’re disconnected from our hearts. We’ve ignored them for so long we can’t hear our true desires. Instead you hear secondary desires that don't really satisfy.


For example, say you’ve ignored your desire to eat food that nurtures you for so long that you are now low on energy. Now your body wants sugar, carbs, and things your mind already knows from past experience don’t feel so good. Thank the mind for reminding you. Now sit quietly and ask your heart… Heart what does my body really want right now? You’ll get the answer.


Suppose you have ignored your need for joy. You meet someone. Your heart really wants this person to be “it” because you're lonely. The mind tells you, “You’re seeing red flags, things that aren’t right. Be careful.” Thank your mind for pointing out the warning signs. Next, ask your heart, “What do I want in life for my own joy? What do I want in relationship.” Listen. Then use the mind to see if your true desires are being met in this current situation or not. Be honest with yourself. Askyour heart, “What next?”


Your mind is a useful tool for analyzing current situations against knowledge, past experience, and desired outcomes. Used correctly, it can inform you and let you know whether or not something is in alignment with your heart.



3. Every now and then have a little “heart time”


In this age of so much information, we all need a little time to get back in touch with our hearts. We know when we’re disconnected. We feel stressed, tired, angry, upset, ill, etc. At these times it is important to spend some quiet time alone.


Journal, ponder, walk in nature, listen to beautiful music. Ask your heart, “What do you need? Where am I listening? Where am I ignoring you? Given my desires, what next?”


Have a beautiful week listening to your beautiful hearts, and may you “Gladly jump” when the time is right for delightful change!


Love you all!


Ann

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Keeping it Real... ~ a message from Ann Albers

Keeping it Real...

a message from Ann Albers

Saturday, 21 January, 2017  (posted 25 January, 2017)

My dear friends, we love you so very much,


Celebrate! There is great movement upon your planet earth. You are finding your hearts, your voice, your dreams, and desires. Just as the sun thaws the ice of winter, so too Divine love is thawing those energies frozen in human hearts. It is nearly impossible anymore to "stuff" or "hide" your feelings. It is very difficult to deny your dearest dreams.


This is a time on earth where it is imperative to keep the energies within you in motion. It is as if waves of love are washing over you, trying to move the heavy energies through you, trying to wash more love into your lives, and move you towards you dreams. You can allow this energy to create movement within you, or you can resist it. Resisting it, however, is becoming increasingly painful. You could no longer hold back the movement of the ocean, than you can hold back thelove seeking to wash into your life. If you try, it is exhausting.


Start with the simplest act. Admit to yourself how you really feel, right here, right now. If you are upset, stop trying to pretend you are not. If you are sad, stop trying to "get over it" and make peace with this moment's sadness. If you have a dream that you don't know how to achieve, admit that you want something in your life that seems unreachable. If you are tired, admit you want rest and an easier life. If you are lonely, admit you want companionship.Admit your feelings of fear, resignation, frustration, and hope. If you are happy, admit that you want the goodness in your life to keep on growing and going. Stop judging your feelings dear ones, and simply acknowledge them.


When you judge yourself you push love away. When you accept yourself, exactly as you are, you allow love to move you.


Then, breathe. Imagine you can give us your denser feelings for "recycling." Imagine you can share your joy with us to help light up the earth. Imagine you can give us your dearest dreams and allow us to assist. After all, all these feelings and dreams are energies. Together, we can breathe love into the denser ones and turn them to light. We can share the lighter ones with all of humanity. We can broadcast your dreams to the universe to aid in their fulfillment!


By giving loving expression to the feelings and dreams within you, through the simple act of acknowledgment, you keep these energies in motion. You make room for transformation. You avoid becoming stagnant and stuck. You open up to receive assistance.


While we know it is always wonderful to have a human being understand your feelings, if you can't find one you trust, tell us! We are with you dear ones. We love you. We hold sacred space for ALL that arises within you and want to help you transform the dense energies, celebrate the energies of light, and assist in making all your dreams come true.


God Bless You! We love you so very much.
-- The Angels

Message From Ann 

Have you ever seen someone struggling, for example, to open a door with an armful of groceries, and when you offer to help they say, "No, I'm fine." Or has someone ever asked you if you wanted help, when you were struggling and you politely turned them down... even if you really wanted help?


If you've been in either scenario, you know there's very little movement, no assistance allowed, and just the same old unnecessary struggle going on. It comes from a very human notion that we have to "be strong," "handle things ourselves," and that we're not perfect exactly as we are in any given moment of time.


The problem with that thinking is that it is flawed. While being strong is good, accepting help doesn't indicate weakness. While handling things ourselves can be fun if we like what we're doing, there are times we don't. God knows too, quite literally, that we are perfect as we are – expressions of Divine love no matter what is going on at the surface of our minds and lives – and there is never, ever a need to be ashamed of our own humanity.


We pray for love and yet, we push it away when we are unwilling to acknowledge our own feelings to ourselves and trusted others... or at least to the angels.

I used to come to the angels trying to be perfect. They helped me to a degree, but they also told me I was blocking them. "But I'm not supposed to be angry!" I'd say angrily. "You are," they reminded me. "We can't help you if you are ashamed and afraid to ask for help." "I don't want to be sad," I'd cry. "You are, why don't you admit it and ask for comfort?" "I feel stupid asking the angels for help fixing mydishwasher!" "Well ok, but if you were to ask, we can help you." The list goes on! Over the years the angels taught me not to be "perfect" according to some arbitrary human standard, but rather to be real.


It in acknowledging our feelings that we receive help and healing.


Years ago I had a twisted ileocecal valve. I had ballooned out to twice my size and was in wracking pain with contractions and spasms that felt as if I was trying to give birth but a baby wasn't moving. It was horrific. I got an emergency appointment with Summer Bacon, a dear friend who channels in in deep trance.


I started the conversation with, what I call, "sugar coated drivel." "I know I caused this. I know I blocked my feelings. I'm trying to be positive." The angel interrupted me. "Would you stop it please and be real with us." I got mad. I was supposed to be positive! I was a spiritual teacher! You want real? Ok, here it comes!


"F-IT! I hurt! I want help. I don't give a #!*% how I created this. Just help me! Please." I broke down into tears. Suddenly I felt waves of warm energy, love, and compassion, and actual relief in my body. Now the angels were able to help me. My shame and embarrassment for getting myself in this predicament had been energetically blocking their desire to help.


Since then, I'm very real with heaven. If I'm frustrated I ask them to recycle my upset and turn the dense energy to light. If I'm sad, I sit still and ask for a hug. If I'm joyous, I sing God's praises and ask them to amplify the joy. If I need help I ask for it.


Just last weekend my gazing livestreams were challenging, so during my lunch break, I told the angels I was frustrated and needed a tech angel to help me. I got some suggestions and the streams worked much better in the afternoon! People received spontaneous feelings and reported swirling with divine love.


There is nothing heaven can't help us with... if we are willing to set aside being ashamed of being human, and just be real.


Here are a few tips to open up to heaven's help this week...


1. When you first wake up, admit how you feel to your angels.


Just admit, "I'm happy, sad, frustrated, not sure if I can achieve what I want to," or whatever it is you honestly feel. The censor hasn't kicked in yet so its easier to "be real" first thing in the morning! If you don't like speaking out loud, or telepathically, write in a journal. There's no need for eloquence here. Be as you are.


2. Next, Admit what you'd like help with that day.


You should hear the "honey-do"list I give my angels every morning! I sound like I'm talking to a personal assistant! I need help making sure my readings are loving and beneficial to my clients. Help me remember to check the sprinklers, fold the wash, call so and so, get the emails done, remember the Facebook posts, wish a friend happy birthday, and oh yes, please help me find time to eat too... and on it goes!


Don't sort through your needs to see which ones are "worthy" of heaven's help. Ask for help with everything!


3. Remind yourself you are perfect as you are... even as you expand into more


There is never a time when you need to hang your head in shame and feel you've failed God or the angels. You may have not lived up to your own or someone else's human expectations, but no use wallowing or beating yourself up. Resolve to do better, ask for help, and remind yourself of all the things you've done right!


Have a blessed and beautiful week... Remember to "keep it real!"


Love you all!
Ann<!

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Love Doesn't Hurt ~ Ann Albers

Love Doesn't Hurt

a message from Ann Albers

Saturday, 14 May, 2016  (posted 17 May, 2016)

My dear friends, we love you so very much,


There is a mistaken notion upon your planet, that love hurts. Love never hurts dear ones! Love heals! Love transforms! Love uplifts! Love makes you feel like the most beautiful, amazing, being that you can be! Love connects you with your very essence.


Why then, is it so hard to love upon your planet earth, and why do so many of you feel you must hurt in the name of love?


We hear this question all the time and the answer is rooted in a deep misunderstanding about the nature of love.
Humanity believes love is something you "do," and while we celebrate expressions of love, we know Love is a state of being.


Humanity teaches you that love is something you "earn" and yet we know that Love is already there for you, living within you, in every moment of every day. It is the very essence of creation, available for all of you without condition. You are all worthy of love.


Humanity believes that love is something that requires reciprocation, yet here in the Heavens we love unabashedly whether we are loved in return or not. We know Love is the energy that lives and breathes within us and needs nothing in return. Love is our nature. Love is your nature. Loving feels good. Withholding love hurts.
Love is the state of being in which the Light within you sees and acknowledges the light within another.

So how do you apply this upon your earth, dear friends? We know, that beneath any hurt and pain, you truly desire to love! You truly wish to experience your own light, and your own innate goodness. In your deepest truth, you want to see and appreciate the light and goodness within others.


However, you also want to feel good, and if you do not work to love yourself and grant yourself a life that supports your joy, you will look to the outside world for love and you will "fall" in love with anyone or anything that makes you feel good.


Now, there is nothing wrong with this. It is human and it is still a form of love. Nonetheless, whenever you worship false idols, whenever you give your power to be happy to another person or thing, you also grant them the power to take it from you. You love them when they make you feel good and you stop loving them, or worse, hate them when they can no longer do so. This dear ones, is what human beings call love, but is in reality a small projection of the true, deep, and abiding Love that is available to you all, right here, right now, in all of creation.


Take a breath. Ask yourself, "Do I love me exactly as I am right now, or do I tell myself I must earn my own love... by being prettier, more handsome, smarter, kinder, wiser, etc.?" Take a breath and accept yourself and your answer with compassion and without condition. You have just begun the journey to self love.


Ask yourself, "Do I treat myself the way I would if I were with a lover who adored me? Do I care for myself, maintain my life, and seek to be joyous, interesting, happy, as I would if I had someone to impress? Am I maintaining myself as if I am a person who is loved and adored?"


"Am I talking time to connect to whatever I consider to be a higher, more loving force in the Universe?" "Do I ask my angels for help frequently and sit in reception of their love?"


"Do I take time to listen to my own heart and care for its longings," the way I would hope a lover would listen to me? "Do I nurture my dreams," the way I would want someone else to do? Am I giving myself the Love that I seek, or am I waiting for someone else to do that for me?


These question apply whether or not you are in relationship. These questions will show you the areas in your life in which you can choose to love yourself more deeply, and therefore where you will free yourself from the bondage of expecting others to provide for you, what you will not. There is an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent Creator that wants to help you. There is a Love so vast and all encompassing that you could never possibly be alone. Angels wait "in the wings" to assist you.


Rather than waiting for another to love you as you wish, whether it be the fantasy "love of your life," or your spouse sitting in the other room, make a decision right here and right now, that you will treat yourself as if you are the love of your life. Rather than waiting for life, or others to behave as you wish, find the good in the here and now. Challenge yourself to love yourself and life exactly as it is, and then from that present moment of acceptance, challenge yourself to make the next moment better.


Then, from this fullness of Love within yourselves, truly loving another becomes possible. Then you can accept others exactly as they are.


If you learn to cultivate your own joy and your own well-being, then you can accept the gifts of others when they are offered, but you can also bring love from your depths when others cannot. You will no longer need to feel a lack of love, because you have connected yourself the eternal, endless Source of Love itself.


This Love is a true, deep, and real state of being in which you allow yourself and everyone else to be exactly as they are and simply decide if you want to "dance" or not.


Love dear ones, does not hurt. Love accepts. Love trusts. Love heals and transforms. Love is who and what you are made of... and no one has the power to take this from you. Love yourselves. Fill up your cup... then you will be able to truly love.


We love you always, without condition or expectation. We experience our eternal abiding connection to the Source of Love itself and so whether you love us or hate us, we love you... simply because we know that is our nature, and that kind of love is what feels good at all times.


God Bless You! We love you so very much.
-- The Angels

Message From Ann 

I'll never forget a time in my thirties when I was sobbing, talking to my angels. "I love him! I love so much I hurt..." sniff, sniff. "That's not love!" The angels were very firm with me. I got offended. "What do you mean?" I protested. That's not love, they said. That's longing. Love feels beautiful. They were right. I was crying that I loved someone when in reality, I was pining away for this person to love me back. The angels told me to stay away from this person completely and work on myself instead. It was tough love on their part, but it was love. They saw the light within me and didn't want me to torture myself looking for a cheap substitute in another who couldn't offer it.


And thus began my exploration into self-love... which in truth is an exploration into the true, beautiful connection that we have with the Divine as it lives and breathes within us. Now, finally, a few decades later I truly know how to love. And it doesn't hurt. It feels amazing.


Just a few days ago I felt compelled to comment on a string of nasty comments under a YouTube video. I gently but firmly reminded others that all that matters is being loving and kind, more so than being right. A rather angry gentleman responded to my comment by saying, "Shut up you stupid $!*!!" I won't repeat the word. It was too vulgar. I felt only compassion for this man. Only a hurting soul could make such a childish and wounded attack. I wrote back, "Thank you and God bless you." I meant it. I didn't accept his pain into my soul. I sent love. "Thank you for showing me you need love. Bless you." He didn't know what to do. It changed his energy. I felt it. He wrote back more kindly and even with a bit of humor.


The more I enter the mystical realities, the less I want to do anything other than let love flow through my being. It hurts to withhold love. It hurts to expect or long for others to love me back if they don't. It feels amazing to create love in my every day life for myself and for others. It feels amazing to simply accept life as it is and myself too and make my decisions based from that very uncomplicated reality. I fill my own cup by doing simple things I enjoy every day. I share when I feel full because it feels good. I hold my head up high whether others like me or not. As Rachael Ray, the famous cook once said when an interviewer asked her what she thought about a "hate site" dedicated to bashing her, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions." The less attached we are to others' opinions of us, and the more true to our own heart we strive to be, the happier we become.


I no longer absorb, or feel the need to change or even stay around unloving behaviors. I can love someone without liking their behavior. I can love someone with whom I want no more interaction. I am loving the light withing their being, respecting their right to act as they do, while also respecting my desire to spend personal time only with those that uplift my soul. It is a balancing act. It took many years working with angels before they convinced me that honoring my own heart could be loving even if meant someone else might not like my choices. I took awhile to truly believe that when we love ourselves, and honor ourselves, everyone grows. We serve souls, not egos.


Love doesn't hurt, but it does expose the unloving behaviors in ourselves and others... the ones that do hurt.

Even when people cannot love me the way I wish, or don't act as I would like, this light that I have worked to find within myself, rises up and helps me sees their innocence and their need to listen to their own hearts. This light celebrates growth and expansion. This light comforts me even when I don't get my way.


Mother Theresa is quoted as saying, "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."


Our challenge in life is to grow through the less evolved forms of human love, longing, expectation, etc., into a deeper form of love - one that wants only to honor the light within ourselves and others. This love truly does elevate our spirit. This love feels as if we are running pure water through our souls. This love makes us feel like our best self, it fills us with joy, and it needs nothing in return. In the words of Thomas Merton, this love "is its own reward."


Have a blessed & beautiful week!


I love you... There is such a beautiful light that lives within you all,


Ann

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Nature Does Not Have Expectations Ann Albers a message from Ann Albers

Nature Does Not Have Expectations

a message from Ann Albers

Saturday, 28 March, 2015  (posted 1 April, 2015)

My dear friends, we love you so very much,


Release yourself from the bondage of expectations dear ones. By all means, have intentions, goals, dreams, desires, and wishes, but then release life and yourself from expectation and live now. Make the best and happiest choices you can make now. When life does not look as you expect, bless it anyway. When you do not feel as you expect, bless yourself anyway.


There is far too much time on earth wasted in resisting life. There is far too much energy spent wondering what "should" be, rather than dealing with what "is." There is so much agony over what "isn't going according to plan" rather than surrendering to a "higher plan."


So look forward to the unexpected! Allow yourself to get up every morning and pray. "Dear God, Dear Angels... this is what I would like to happen today. I ask for your help and release my expectations as to how this must look. I trust that everything that comes my way today is in Divine and perfect order." Then dear ones, live that way. No matter what happens, remind yourself, "I am loved. I can make the next most loving choice." In this reality you are dancing with love, flowing with life, free to move forward without resistance or attachment to how you think life must look.


This dear ones is freedom - the freedom to choose love in each moment. Try it this week. Allow yourselves to be free from expectation. Set your intentions. Pray for your dreams and desires. And then... dance with life.


God Bless You! We love you so very much.
-- The Angels

Message From Ann

I dance with life all the time. My way is not always the way things work... in fact quite frequently my schedule gets rearranged by a higher power. It happened again last week....


I often spend special days in silence communing with God, my angels, and all that is. And so on my birthday, I was running out the door, with my hiking shoes on, backpack stuffed, and water bottles ready, when the sudden guidance to visit a friend became very strong. It was so strong that I changed clothes and changed my plans. I felt the angels smiling but had no idea what they were up to. And sure enough, I couldn't believe the outpouring of love that surprised me during the day as synchronicity after synchronicity brought me in contact with the kind and generous hearted people who made the day even more special that I could have asked for. I ended up hiking the following day and so was blessed doubly.


On an office day earlier this week I was running errands. Again, I got in the car, with my plans as to what I would do first, second, third, etc. It made "logical" sense. Instead things got rearranged. I had the impulse to change the order of my errands. As I was dropping off some items to donate at a thrift store, I thanked the young man unloading the car. He stopped in his tracks and asked me what color my eyes were. "I'm not sure today." I answered honestly, "They change." Quite innocently, he came up to me and peered into my eyes as if looking into the depths of the ocean. Without warning (to me!) the healing energy that comes through my eyes turned itself on. My heart felt big as a barn and it felt like a river was pouring through me. He stood transfixed. I'm not sure what he felt, but suddenly he broke the gaze and shook his head and wished me a good day, looking back as he went into the warehouse. I felt so much love pouring through my heart it was amazing. I may never know what just happened there, but I do know God was pouring love through me to this soul that I encountered in a dance of divine timing.


So when you think you know how life "should" look, as the angels say, lighten up a little. Be willing to change plans, be flexible, and trust that if you get the urge to shift things around or if something doesn't look the way you thought, just dance with life as the angels say. People are not always cooperative... move around them. Life does not always look as we think - Assume there is a higher order. It is a more relaxed and wonder-filled way to live :)


Love you all! Have a blessed week.


Ann

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