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December 12, 2020 Empowerment 1 Comment

Samson Was An Onion

Have you ever been lied to?

I have, but it took me quite some time to realize it.

How did you feel when you found out?

Maybe it was deliberate, maybe it was through confusion. But it matters when people tell a lie. Sometimes, it matters a lot.

A number of years ago I was on a small town jury. The charge was (sadly) possession of marijuana, probably with intent to sell, though I honestly don’t remember that now. I was one of 12 jurors.

The trial began. The police officer told of stopping this man in the wee hours of the morning, where the guy pulled into a parking space in town – just a block from the courthouse where we sat for the trial. By the time the officer walked up to the car, there was no pot in the car, despite a search.

Coincidentally, there was a bag of pot right below the driver’s side door, lying there on the pavement.

But, hey, it didn’t belong to him!! Pure coincidence. The defendant had quite a story about the entire situation. He just happened to pull into that parking space, etc.

We jurors were new at this, and confused. We listened to the instructions and went into deliberation. Still confused. After some discussion and some time had passed, I began to think really clearly.

One of them was lying. But which one? Could be the cop – there are dishonest cops. Could be the guy accused of pot sales.

I started laying out the “if….then..” for the other jurors.

If the cop was lying, then these 5 things had to be true (all pretty improbable).

If the defendant was lying, then only one thing had to be true: he dumped the bag of pot out the door or the window as soon as he pulled into the parking space.

Shortly all the other jurors could see the either-or situation, and that one person was lying. Together we agreed the defendant was guilty and he was convicted. (Nowadays I’d hate to spend that much energy and money on a pot charge, but this was in the ’70’s.)

When two people – or groups – disagree completely, diametrically, on what the facts are, there are lies involved.

How do we tell who is lying? FAKE NEWS has become an unfortunate alarm cry. There is fake news. But it’s not always where the fake-news-labelers say it is.

How do we tell?

We are gifted with thinking, with intuition, with discernment. It doesn’t always work perfectly, but when we set our minds to find the truth, it can usually be found. Sometimes the reason truth seems so elusive is that large numbers of people don’t really want to know the truth, and keep it buried with accusations.

Did you ever know of someone whose spouse was cheating on them, having an affair? And lots of people knew it except the spouse? I know a couple of people who had that experience. Digging deeper, it was usually because they didn’t really want to know.

They ignored the clues, they ignored their own intuition, because they were afraid of what would happen if they looked with clear eyes at the truth.

Maybe their marriage would end. Maybe their financial security would be threatened. Maybe they would have to make a really hard decision.

Right now, we are swimming in a sea of both deliberate and accidental lies. It’s enough to make any sane person cynical. It’s enough to make some people get duped by multiple conspiracy theories… we’re talking capital C Conspiracy Theories!

To get out of this cultural period of lies, confusion and polarization, we need to pull all our thinking capacity to the front lines. We need to use our critical thinking, as well as our intuition.

If this is really true, then… these things have to be true. Can that be? Is that even possible, or reasonable?

Do you care enough about the truth to ask for it? Are you brave enough to ask these questions about things that you value? You might not like the answers.

My dad taught us a lot about critical thinking. When we were really young, he started with this one:

Dad: An onion is strong, right?

Me and my brother: Yeah.

Dad: Samson was strong, right?

Me and my brother: Yeessss…. (Where was this going?)

Dad: Therefore, Samson was an onion.

Me and my brother: Wait! What?…what are you talking about?

When we protested, a discussion on the need for careful critical thinking would follow. I don’t remember the details, just the Samson was an onion lesson, which said it all.

I was once in an emotionally brutal marriage for a year. The last few months I was sick and desperate. I thought I was doing God’s will, staying loving and committed. But it was so painful, I was isolated from all my friends and most of my family and cried a lot. What was wrong?

Finally, when none of my other prayers were being answered, I began to pray fervently to see clearly.

Holy Spirit, help me see clearly. I prayed this over and over to myself.

You know what happened? Things got worse.

Yes, things got worse. Day by day, he was more brutal more often, until he finally said, “I hope you get sick from eating that!” as he slammed a plate down in front of me.

My thinking capacity finally showed up, like the cavalry to the front lines. As if cold water were thrown over me, I suddenly thought, “This isn’t right!” A few hours later I left, taking shelter where he couldn’t find me.

How did I feel when I realized I had been deceived, and even lied to?

Humiliated. Devastated. Wrecked.

But I was grateful to still be alive. I had been making mental lists in my head for months – “When this is over, I will apologize to …. ” The list was long. I began the work over the next few weeks, along with crying a great deal and doing everything I knew to heal.

Are you going around declaring Samson is an onion to your friends and family? Have you pushed the snooze button on your thinking capacity? Are you believing lies just because they are loud and repeated over and over?

How will you feel when the truth is finally clear to all?

Remember the voice of God is nearly always the still small Voice within. We have to be quiet and connected to hear it.

You do not have to be tricked into believing lies simply because they are loud and outrageous.

Your thinking capacity – and your intuition – will return if you really want them.

You do have the courage to face the truth.

Samson is NOT an onion.

Linda Chubbuck 2020

July 30, 2020 Empowerment, Love or Fear Post a Comment

The Bindweed Takeover’s Life Lesson

My gardener dad taught me many things. One of the most memorable was how bad bindweed is. I mean, it’s like the end of the world. If you get bindweed you will never get rid of it. It will take over and strangle your garden, your flowers, everything. There’s nothing you can do except poison, and you have to keep poisoning it for a long long time.

Wow. I could see what it did – take over whole areas he was trying to garden in, filling the bare spots, climbing up the tomatoes and peppers. Yikes!

Years ago, gardening in Central Kansas, I got a load of horse manure compost from my neighbors. I was so happy about the rich bonus and we spread it over the garden.

But by late summer, the first bindweed I’d ever had appeared in my garden. Oh no! It was apparently in the manure – I was freaked. I was gardening organically and had no idea what to do.

Eventually I moved. Problem solved.

Fast forward – years later, gardening in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, bindweed appeared next to our fence. All my fears and memories of bindweed came rushing back. I hoed. I pulled. I asked Stan to do the same.

Still it expanded. It climbed up all our raspberry bushes and strangled them. It crept up the back fence. It wound itself across the grass and into our regular vegetable garden.

The bindweed exhausted me. I was discouraged and despairing. I didn’t want to move to escape this pestilence.

But I didn’t want to give up my entire garden to the Bindweed Takeover.

In the absence of a remedy, I just kept plugging along. One day I came across a book, called Weeds – Control without Poison (Charles Walters). It’s a weird book and a radical concept for sure. But I read parts of it, including what it said about bindweed.

Come to find out, bindweed is an opportunistic weed, Mother Nature’s clean-up crew, sent in when the soil is poor and or the ground is bare. Suddenly I had childhood memories of barren soil driveways leading into fields – thick with bindweed. I read further.

I learned that certain plants are Nature’s remedial crews, which over a few years, provide the organic matter and processes that impoverished soils need. When their work is complete, they die out and are replaced by other plants which do better in richer soil.

Wow! I thought about this for weeks, replaying garden and weed interactions from my past. Is this true? Then my mind skipped over into Life itself… is there a metaphor here?

After I pondered this concept for several months I convinced Stan to help me make major changes to the garden. We removed the strangled raspberries and replanted some of those roots (carefully cleaned) to a new bed free of bindweed. We put grass – tough grass, thick grass – where the bindweed was the thickest and got it going, then simply mowed regularly. In the garden, where the bindweed had intruded, I vowed to compost and enrich the heck out of the soil, making the bindweed unnecessary and unwelcome.

All this we did. In addition, once the thick field of bindweed roots and plants was no longer flourishing, we rigorously pulled and hoed EVERY SINGLE ONE of the isolated plants that would pop up. Yep, there were a lot. But we removed a lot also. We are still doing it every time we visit the garden, but there’s not a lot to do.

This summer, about 4 years after the major changes, I have an asparagus patch to die for. Lush. Extravagant. Prolific. Spreading. Right where the bindweed used to live. I can barely find any bindweed at all there anymore.

And the rest of the garden is the equally clean. We still have to pull individual plants, but it’s not taking over anything.

What’s the metaphor?

Remember Field of Dreams, “If you build it they will come”?

In the same way, if you un-build something, things will disappear.

When I spent lots of time focusing on how bad the Bindweed Takeover was, I was stressed and discouraged, constantly trying to beat it.

But when I began to understand, appreciating the role bindweed was playing in my garden, and creating a space that didn’t invite bindweed – then it subsided, almost to disappearing.

Yes, I did have to pay attention and root out the single plants popping up. I had to be consistent about that. But, my reward is a rich and sumptuous garden, right where the bindweed used to be. So worth it!

Are we too focused on fighting something that seems huge and overwhelming and monstrous? What if we make an environment where “it” is no longer welcome? What if we join forces, learn and understand, and make “it” outdated and unwelcome?

Yes, we will still have to face and eliminate isolated instances. But we can change the habitat, and the species that found it most inviting will go elsewhere.

Lush and thriving asparagus patch in midsummer

Whether the issue is bindweed, or systemic racism, or corruption in politics, or hate crimes… coming together as humans across all kinds of lines, to create an enriched environment where these things are not welcome, is possible.

Is it easy? No.

Is it simply positive thinking? Absolutely not.

But joining hands, and working together to make fertile ground where all of us (all colors, all religions, all cultures) can thrive is not only possible but actually exciting.

When the ground is fertile for healthy and happy living for all people (all beings actually), then it will be easier to root out the “bindweed” that does show up – the acts of hate or violence – and deal with them, eliminate them.

Do not mistake what I’m suggesting as only positive thinking. There’s much more work involved here, and much more understanding.

We have become accustomed to an impoverished environment where noxious intruders are comfortable. When we create a rich, connected, fertile environment those intruders will fade. And we’ll have the power and clarity to deal with them one at a time.

Thank you, Bindweed, for the valuable lesson.

March 25, 2020 Empowerment 1 Comment

Going Viral – A Thousand Tiny Choices

Before all this madness began, I was writing a book. The working title is Connected, about all the thousands of ways we are quite literally interconnected. Biologically through air, water, soil, and matter. Energetically through thoughts, emotions, intentions, and love.

Well – as luck would have it – we are having a global lesson from the Shadow side of connectedness right now. Painful, frightening and deeply transformative.

Sometimes it takes a Shadow Lesson to help us understand something that the Light Side was just too nice to really get through to us. The question is, in a time of memes and funny videos, is it possible for deep lessons to go viral?

Here’s what I see that we – meaning humanity – are facing now.

1. We are all connected. Some of us like this concept and others don’t, or even think it’s a lie. Even those of us that acknowledge it, still judge others, feel separate, etc. despite our best intentions. With COVID 19 we have reached the point where it is obvious that we are connected by invisible forces. Our lives are being altered by the actions of something we cannot see, persons we never met, objects we didn’t know we touched. We are all connected.

2. Choices – tiny choices – that I make, that you make, that a stranger makes – are now matters of life and death.

To travel, or stay home. To shop or not to shop. To hug, to touch, to wash. These small choices are quite literally changing the face of humanity of this planet. But wait – maybe small choices always were matters of life and death. We just weren’t paying attention.

3. Awareness can save our lives. We have been admonished for a month now to wash our hands and not touch our faces, as if our lives depended on it. But it’s so hard! Even the health official reading the precautions at a press conference licked her finger to turn her page. My husband wore gloves to remind himself not to touch objects, and not to touch his face. He got back in the car after a quick stop in and out, and put his gloved finger between his teeth to pull his glove off. Aaagh! Humans are creatures of many habits. We want choices on auto-pilot so we can be thinking of other things. This virus is demanding that we be present. We must be aware.

4. We can envision our future. Can you see past the apocalyptic circumstances to a brighter, more connected future? Sometimes I can. But sometimes all I see is chaos and fear. Can we as a species use our great power of love and imagination to hold a beautiful vision of our future through this dire time? Humans have a capacity for imagining the future. Sometimes we haven’t used that capacity very well. This pandemic is bringing that up for us to make a choice again.

5. Life is more than just people. People are dying and surely more will. It is frightening to me, and there are moments I am scared for my loved ones and myself. But a friend said recently, as she was grieving and even fearing, it occurred to her that there are many life forms on the planet, not just humans. In the lessening of human activity, what other forms of life will regenerate and flourish? This can be a reminder that life includes many forms and species.

6. We are more than just a body. We connect through love, not only through touch. However we understand Life and the Universe, many of us know deeply that we are more than our bodies. Something in each of us lasts forever, and at the point of death, we all have to let go of this body that we identify with. In this time when we cannot hug the body of our child or grandchild, remember this truth. Send that child loving energy. Find a way to connect that resonates for the child. That connection is real – play with it, experiment with it. We are not only a body. As my brother said, use this time to get acquainted with the part of you that doesn’t die. The part of you that lives forever.

These lessons, which were not completely unknown before the COVID 19 illness, suddenly show up starkly. Shadow Lessons have a way of doing that.

Can we humans learn these Shadow Lessons fast enough to change outcomes? Can we make a thousand tiny choices that are different from what we might have done a few weeks ago? Can we take into our hearts the reality that – like it or not – we are all connected?

Can we make these love lessons go viral? I’m going to do my part.

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January 22, 2020 Empowerment, Love or Fear 1 Comment

Sent by God

In 1999 I met a brilliant man. I had led a “sheltered” life the decades prior to that year. First married, then divorced, I was raising my kids in my country home in rural Kansas. Sure I had a college education and I read. But truly, the new people entering my life were rare – maybe one every year or so.

Then J appeared. He was mesmerizing, creative, a great storyteller. I was firmly set on a spiritual path, and he told me he came to me because he was God’s answer to my prayers.

I sort of believed him. Two weeks after we met, he proposed. I said yes. We set the date for two months later. J was charismatic – even my son said he was a miracle in our lives.

Two days before the wedding he blew up at me for my relationship with that same son. I was enmeshed, he said. He threatened to leave, and walked out for a day.

I swallowed hard, apologized, and we married two days later.

That scenario repeated itself dozens of times over the next year. I scrambled to “clean up” my relationships so I could be close to J. I cut out one person after another based on his assessment (judgment). The sudden blowups continued as he judged nearly all of my relationships as co-dependent, enmeshed, entangled. I needed to clean them all up.

J reminded me regularly that he was – literally – God’s answer to my prayers: for a closer walk with God, for improved relationships, for a partner, for creativity.

Yes, he was God’s answer to my prayers. God sent him to me.

As the months went by with J, I became isolated, stressed, and my body began to suffer with mysterious aches and weaknesses. I didn’t know what was happening and I had no one – except J – to talk to about it. Despite his great story-telling, our huge dreams, and our exciting travels, I was increasingly depressed. He was moving out about once every 3 weeks, then back in again a few days later. We changed homes 3 times in one year. All of my belongings (and my children’s keepsakes) were in storage and unavailable to me – jumbled.

My mind was a maze of confusion and fear. My body felt like hell. My life felt like hell. Inside, I was still praying. God, what is going on? God, what do you want me to do? Despite all J’s pronouncements and certainty, this didn’t feel like Love to me.

I have always believed in love. Love as a force. Even when I didn’t believe in God, I believed in Love and in Truth.

I was so confused.

One day, my prayers were answered – again – when a poster in a mall asked the question, “Does anything about your relationship scare you?”

Hell yes. Almost everything.

The poster was an invitation to call the Domestic Violence help line.

I did so. I left with my suitcase the next morning.

So I have a question for you.

Is there anyone you believe was sent by God but what they do doesn’t feel like love? It doesn’t feel like truth? It doesn’t feel like integrity?

I don’t care whether it’s a close up and personal relationship or whether it’s the president of the United States. I don’t care whether it’s a Senator, or a friend.

If you are passionate that this person was sent by God, but what they do doesn’t feel like Love – or Honor – or Truth – or Integrity, think on this.

What if God sent this person to you – or to us – to reveal the ugliness of hatred? To reveal the ugliness of judging others? To reveal the ugliness of racism, and corruption?

I used my free will to walk away from the Man who was Sent by God. I lost much of what I valued in my life. I cried for months. I made apologies and amends to those I had judged and alienated. I prayed and spent time in the ashes of humiliation.

Slowly I mended my life. I pondered the lessons of what judgment does to relationships, what self-righteousness does to Love.

If you believe Donald Trump and company were sent by God, I invite you to answer this question – does anything he does feel like Love?

What would Love do? What would Jesus do?

If you believe Donald Trump was sent by God, I challenge you to consider what God might have wanted you to learn from this?

I challenge you to awaken your own conscience. It might just be a Revelation.

October 1, 2019 Empowerment, Intention, Love or Fear 2 Comments

Atheism and the Responsiveness Mystery

I was part of a discussion recently about atheism. A professor was asking the students to provide evidence of the existence of God.

While I would probably fail if the assignment was mine to do, I don’t lack for responses, and it set me to thinking.

Can you provide evidence of the existence of Love?

It’s true, people act like they love each other, but what proof is there? Nothing is tangible. Nothing is measurable. Obviously it disappears sometimes. People say they love each other, and then later they don’t, so maybe it wasn’t there at all. Could you – or I – prove to someone who didn’t believe in Love, that Love exists? I’m not sure that I could.

But I know that it does.

Can you provide evidence of the existence of Gravity?

Of course, things fall to the ground, we all know that. But maybe that’s just the way the earth works. Why does there have to be a force? There is no proof that there’s a force called gravity. Well sure, out in space things are different, but that’s to be expected. You cannot see it, touch it, taste it, measure it, etc. Why do some people think it exists?

Can you provide evidence of the existence of God?

No, I can’t provide evidence of an Old Testament angry God. I don’t believe that God is real, except in people’s minds.

But here is what I know absolutely.

The Universe (which is another name for God) is responsive.

Responsive.

Before I explain further, a little detour.. let’s imagine a young woman who has been traumatized as a child by people who said they loved her – perhaps beaten, even assaulted. Her concept of Love is completely corrupted by what has happened to her. Now, as an adult, she no longer believes in Love.

“Love doesn’t exist. It’s all fake. People just act like they love each other so they can get what they want. Prove to me that Love exists. I don’t believe it.”

What are the chances of her finding a healthy romantic relationship, or even a solid friendship, in the face of her beliefs?

Little to none. Practically zero. Why? Because the Universe is responsive. Her mind is powerful enough to overcome the truth that Love exists, at least for the duration of her beliefs, and perhaps her entire lifetime.

I’m not saying that simple affirmations or statements will bring about something. I AM saying The Universe is Responsive.

Over time, statements, convictions, and deeply held beliefs we have show up in our lives and bring us “proof.” This young woman is quite likely to find herself in similar situations to her childhood dynamics that “prove” to her that Love doesn’t exist.

The Universe is Responsive.

Over time, by contrast, if I am convinced that Love is all there is, and that people simply choose to deny or contradict it sometimes, my life demonstrates that Love. The Universe is Responsive.

In my garden, if I Love and nurture and spend time with the plants, I am rewarded with a great harvest and little surprises.

In my family, if I Love and spend time with my little grandchildren, I’m rewarded with a huge smile a week later from my one-year old, who remembers and loves me back.

In my marriage, if I Love and appreciate and devote time to my relationship, I’m rewarded by a deep sense of connection. No, I can’t prove the existence of that Love. But I can savor it.

Simply put – over time, what we are deeply convinced of shows up in our lives. The Universe is Responsive.

If you are deeply convinced you are isolated and alone, that will show up in your life. Much like an anorexic who is thin to the point of death can look in the mirror and “see” fat, you will ignore the love and connection that is in your life and see only the isolation.

If you are deeply convinced the Universe is a loving place and you are connected, that will show up in your life. You will find yourself in mostly loving relationships and activities, and will find creative and loving ways to navigate difficulties so that more love appears.

God is Mystery. God is Principle. God is Responsive. God is Love.

If you’ve had trauma that convinced you that Love doesn’t exist, or Love hurts, or you are alone, there is help to heal that trauma.

You CAN learn to open, trust, Love, and experience the responsiveness of the Universe from a place of deepening Love. You don’t have to prove it to anyone. Just experiment.

The Universe is Love and and the Universe will respond to you.

I cannot prove the existence of Love or God or even gravity to you. But you can prove it to yourself.

May 14, 2019 Channeling, Conversations with Yeshua, Love or Fear Post a Comment

Truth in the Face of Lies

Conversations with Yeshua. This is channeled material, edited minimally for clarity only.

Linda: It seems so discouraging and overwhelming that the media is filled with lies and people are believing them, and taking action on them. As if there’s no CARE for what the truth is, and no effort to find it. As if lies can build a world on their own, a world of ill intent, just by force of will. What good is truth? Does truth have any power? How can we possibly get to, and share truth when lies are so popular? Can you speak to this, please?

Yeshua: Lies have always been popular. They are now being exposed as popular. We assure you, there is a force greater than lies that never ends. It’s simply not making the headlines.

Your headlines are the surface only, with rare exceptions. And yet they are noisy. With the noise comes seeming power, but again, only on the surface. Half of earth’s population could declare – and write headlines and hashtags – that the earth is flat. The earth does not change because of the declaration.

Linda: I understand that. But sometimes people are put to death because of not agreeing with lies, or because of the lies themselves. It feels like lies are powerful and do damage in many ways. I watch this and I’m sad and frightened. What do I do? What do we do?

Yeshua: There are many variations on lies, but they all have this in common – they contradict what cannot be changed. The Big Lies are saying evil can win; humans are separate and of varying worth; there is no connection; individuals can get away with bad things; humans die; everything dies; and more.

The Big Truths are this: physical form dies or changes, but the Life that animates that form is forever; everything is connected, because everything is built by and from Life; Life is the same thing you also call God; Life is the same thing you also call Love; humans are impatient for good and for justice, but all things work together for good, it just plays out over a larger epic scope than you understand; nothing dies – the Life force leaves physical form and goes on to the next chapter.

To counteract Big Lies and small lies both – train yourself to look for the big picture, the long view. Train yourself to speak the Truth always (this may take changing a lot of habits) – truth about what you feel, who you are, what you want, what you see. Call out lies – but refrain from arrogance. You may be missing information, or mistaken. Be open to the fact that there can be illusions at work in you as well. Look for the long view. Look for Truth, and look for the places where you see Truth triumphing. When you do this, you will see more.

Be impeccable with your own behavior. Humans have lived in a cozy relationship with lies for millennia, and this is where that set of choices has brought you. To undo that coziness will take some discomfort.

Be a Truth-teller without judgment. Be a Truth-teller about your Self first, then dare to determine truth in the world and share it. Be open to feedback. Remember your perception is not always Truth, because it IS your perception.

L: Thank you. This helps.

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May 8, 2019 Channeling, Conversations with Yeshua, Love or Fear Post a Comment

Children and Fear

Conversations with Yeshua. This is channeled material, edited minimally for clarity only.

Jesus, Yeshua, I have questions and I want to hear well. I want to listen deeply and hear your responses, your wisdom.

Ask. You will hear.

Linda: I want to ask about children and fear, children and trauma. Children in our country are having to go through Active Shooter Drills. Many parents are distraught. There are so many things wrong with this picture. What about the children? What about their fear?

Yeshua: Except for the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises, children are born with no fears. All the other fears are learned through interactions with the adults or people around them, or with the world itself. We are going to lead you through some difficult territory here, so hold on.

In this situation, i.e. active shooter drills, there is the social issue of domestic terrorism, which is its own symptom of fear and separation. We will not address that at the moment, but rather focus on the playing out of that. Given that the children may be in danger, how do we protect them and minimize the damage, the anguish they may experience?

Let’s say you live in a community subject to wildfires and it’s a dangerous season. The school may have fire drills and rehearse practices that will save lives. This does not have to be done with fear, even though a real fire might produce some fear. It also is a separate (as if there were any separation…) issue from the dry conditions, the placement of homes, careless use of flames, etc. But if the teachers in charge are very afraid of fires, it’s easy to see the children will be influenced.

Fear is useful, for a moment, to get something to shift. Fear is destructive when it becomes a chronic condition. Anytime fear threatens to become chronic, it must be faced directly and examined: what needs to change to eliminate the fear? My state of mind? A social condition? An imbalance of power? An injustice?

These shooter drills can be taught and rehearsed without fear, by the adults. Yet those adults may have to acknowledge their own fears (in appropriate settings), and be prepared to deal with the fears of some of the children.

There are many situations in your world where you take precautions to protect the body from physical harm, yet you do it without fear. Seat belts. Fire drills. Insurance. Tornado drills. These are not harmful to children or adults if they are done without fear-based emotions. Beyond these preventive measures then, a community of people can look at the “why” of each of these. Do cars need to be safer so no seat belts are needed? Do buildings need to be constructed differently to be fire-safe? Do guns need to be regulated more than they are? And more.

So a parent of a child facing active shooter drills may share these questions and support: Do you understand why you are having this type of drill? Does it scare you? Are the teachers or some of the children scared? Tell me more about it. How do you feel about it?

Based on the responses from your child (remember, all responses are acceptable), you can offer additional information: A long time ago, children going to school had to worry about bad diseases that many of them got. But that’s not happening anymore, because we found some good answers. Right now, however, some very disturbed people are using guns to hurt other people, so we have to find ways to stay safe. Your school will probably NEVER have a real shooter, but if they did, you would know how to stay safe. Just like we fasten seatbelts in the car – but how often do we really need them? Still, we keep fastening the seatbelts.

Besides keeping your body safe, let’s talk about how to deal with your own fear.

At this point the parent – or teacher – should share ways they, and the child, can calm their own fears while still taking the needed action. That might be prayer. It might be a calming song. It might be a poem. It may come from your own faith tradition or might be secular, but must be powerful enough to resonate, and to stay with the child. Whatever you bring to your child, invite them to come up with their own resources – what they might bring to the situation as well.

Fearful adults can create fear in children.

Numbed-out adults can create numbness in children.

Dismissive adults can create confusion and fear in children.

Honest, loving and calm adults will encourage authenticity, courage and clarity in children.

There are answers.

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May 1, 2019 Channeling, Conversations with Yeshua 1 Comment

Finding Answers that Give you Chills

Conversations with Yeshua. This is channeled material, edited minimally for clarity only.

Linda: Given the busyness of this world and my life (and most people’s lives), how can we possibly find the answers and the wisdom that I KNOW is available to us? To solve the personal problems, to solve the global and community problems?

Yeshua: Each of you must find your own way, and we will suggest several. But the doorways all have this in common: before you can enter this door, you must know it is there. Of all the information the world is offering you – millions of bits at any given moment, and more at your fingertips – only a tiny fraction contains Wisdom. Wisdom that crosses barriers and is undistorted. The Wisdom-containing answers are the ones that give you chills when you hear them; the ones that bring you to your knees in relief or gratitude; the ones that you are willing to leave everything else for, and follow.

These are the Wisdom answers.

Wisdom has always been like a tiny but vast treasure, a gem in the midst of a field of coal. Yes, it’s there, but concealed by so much chaff, so much of inconsequence.

To access these gems one must find a way to develop your own x-ray vision, your own laser focus. Some do it by meditation and inviting the wisdom to come to them, in the silence. Some do it by an intention to see clearly, and becoming very present. When one is exquisitely present to what is, all of life becomes clear…. what is the rubbish? What is the treasure? Presence will reveal these things to you.

Others find Wisdom through Wisdom teachers and traditions, and following a path laid out for them by the Ancestors. Still others encounter Wisdom through a life-altering or even a near death experience, when suddenly the difference between Wisdom and facts becomes crystal clear.

And others, such as you, find it by directly conversing with a Wisdom teacher who can reach across the veil and convey Wisdom, along with information as needed.

There are many ways to access Wisdom.

Linda: What can a person do to recognize Wisdom, and to find their own way to access it?

Y: Begin with quieting your mind. Either in meditation or in nature. Add in the study of Wisdom teachers (there are many sacred texts).

Over time you will find yourself receiving direct guidance that makes sense to you, and perhaps surprises and assists you. This can happen quickly, or slowly over time, depending primarily on your willingness, on your openness to hear things that don’t suit your preconceived concepts.

L: How can I and others begin to trust Wisdom that comes directly, when there are so many conflicting ideas?

Y: Acknowledge that the stakes are high. This world cannot go on driven by facts and conflict and arguments. Acknowledge that there are higher answers that are accessible, that can solve seemingly impossible dilemmas.

Then commit to finding your own way to access Wisdom. Read books and teachers of the highest level and begin to ask your own questions, seek the answers that work beyond what you can imagine. When you begin to sense the responses you get, you are most likely to react with doubt and skepticism. Do your best to overcome that. Take chances at the ‘local’ level, and try trusting the wisdom when the stakes are not so high. This will prepare you to trust as the stakes become higher.

Study the stories of others who have made a life’s work of listening, no matter what tradition they are in. The stories will inspire you and bring you comfort, like lamps along the path.

Wisdom is accessible to all of Life. Wisdom has the answers you long for, but doubt their existence.

Wisdom can communicate with you. Learn to listen. Then listen again, and again, and again. Find the answers that give you chills. That’s how you change the world for good.

December 13, 2018 Healing, Judgment 1 Comment

That S#$%T Doesn’t Work All the Time

When Michelle Obama swore on the Stephen Colbert show and thousands of people shared the news, it hit me at a vulnerable moment.

You see several years back I read Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In and was really inspired by it. Yes I could do it. I could be a mother, and a successful entrepreneur or writer besides. Heck, she could do it. Sure she had a great husband and money by now but she probably didn’t have all that when she started. She was pretty honest about the obstacles she had run into and I was very inspired.

I grew up passionate about becoming a parent. Specifically becoming a parent in a different way than I was raised. I cared so much about it I could not imagine not having children. I did have a career, but was not deeply attached to it and when my first child was born in the mid 70s I stayed home to be a full-time mom for a while.

But feminism was rising. As an educated liberal woman I certainly identified with the feminist causes. Who wouldn’t? But for me I still wanted to raise my children full-time. As the months and years went by, there was more and more criticism from the culture and sometimes even from friends about my choice to stay with my children as opposed to getting a “real job.”

At a beautiful art fair one summer day I ran into a childhood friend who was now active in the state arts commission. I had both babies with me as well as the stained glass projects I had been creating for sale. I was really glad to see him. Until he asked me what I was doing. I told him I was raising my children and doing stained glass.

“Oh,” he said and moved on. My choice to be with my children apparently was so uninteresting to him that he had nothing more to share with me. That was a fairly common response although his was conspicuous.

I refused to give up on my passion for being with my children and for parenting in general. I read books, I learned. I tested out what I was learning on my children who were of course ready participants in my experiments. Meantime I became an artist in a variety of ways and a small business person. These ventures allowed me to stay with my children and to be available while supposedly bringing in some income.

No matter how creative my ideas were as an entrepreneur, however, years went by with none of my projects really taking off as a viable business. Forever the optimist I continued to try new strategies and occasionally new ideas.

A few weeks ago I completed my 70th year on this planet. Sometimes those milestone birthdays get to me. While I still feel healthy and energetic and useful, realistically I can acknowledge that my life is past halfway.

Then, 10 days ago on a hiking trail in a Costa Rican jungle I fell hard on a slippery sloped mud trail and broke my arm. We were in a remote area two hours from the closest hospital. When my son and my husband helped me back up the path to reach assistance and our car, we passed a giant snake on the left as well. Right beside the path.

The combination of all of these factors and the disability that goes with having one arm in a cast threw me into a state of mind that I can only describe as awareness of my own mortality. And with that comes a voice inside of me that is panicking that I haven’t achieved what I intended to in the world.

I haven’t become the superwoman I intended to be. I haven’t written a bestseller. I haven’t made hundreds of thousands of dollars. I do not have a highly regarded career. I do not have my own retirement fund. I’m not superwoman. In fact I feel pretty fragile right now.

I don’t have a real job.

I did my best to lean in like Sheryl Sandberg said but somehow it didn’t work for me. What if I’m approaching the end of the trail and this is all I ever have? Can I look back and say I’m proud of it?

I am deeply proud of all I did to learn to be a good parent. And I’m deeply grateful that despite the financial hardships I spent as much time with my children as I did. I am in awe of the fact that now I have three little grandchildren that I’m able to be present to, to offer unconditional love to, and spend time with.

But… I still don’t have a career. I still haven’t written a bestseller. I still haven’t made a big splash in the professional world.

Perhaps you have no judgment about that. The sad thing is that I do. I judge it myself. For 40+ years, ever since I was a young mother and the feminist movement was expanding, I have believed that I should and could do it all.

But I have failed. I have failed to accomplish what I wanted on one side of the equation. And I think that I’ve spent too much time suppressing that awareness and instead trying harder, harder, harder. I have never quite given myself the unconditional love and approval that I believe in and try to offer to others.

When I put all this into words I end up crying.

If a friend told me all this I would comfort her and tell her that our spiritual practice is about being present and loving – which is what you chose and what you did. It’s not about achieving in the world. So give yourself a break, acknowledge what you have accomplished and give yourself that long overdue unconditional love and acceptance.

It’s more difficult when it’s myself. I feel like making excuses, I feel like a failure, I still want all those success-in-the-world dreams that I’ve had for years.

Here is what Michelle Obama said last week: That whole “so you can have it all.” Nope, not at the same time. That’s a lie. And it’s not always enough to lean in because that shit doesn’t work all the time.

Perhaps if I take her words to heart – the frankness of a woman who appears to have it all – I can find a balm for my heart and my soul.

November 6, 2018 Channeling, Conversations with Yeshua, Intention Post a Comment

Prayer. Intention. Alignment.

Conversations with Yeshua. This is channeled material, edited minimally for clarity only. It is personal information given to me and my husband Stan, but relevant to many situations and this is one I am asked to share with the world.

We hear you stating that you have no particular questions and you would just like us to talk at the highest level that you can hold onto at this point so that’s where we will begin.

We want to tell you both that you vastly underestimate your own creative power of Prayer, Intention and Alignment.

Prayer, Intention and Alignment.

When you apply P I A to any topic, things improve. And you may want to say “Why?” since there’s no God-Santa Claus handing out goodies in response to requests. Yes, this is true but you are aligned with all beings on earth. When you line up and you see things – in your mind – turning out well for this set of beings, you shift the energy in that direction. You shift the energy in the direction of well-being.

And others pick up on that notion and they join you and also shift the energy in that direction of well-being. Things happen as a result of your prayers and your intentions and the visions you see in your mind, with your sense of alignment with good, with All-That-Is.

You want to know how you can pray for your country right now and for the world. Here’s what we say to you.

For every trouble spot that you become aware of, literally see angels. See a force field of love and light working within Congress. See a force field of love and light working within the White House. See literally angels, which are simply the representatives of Good, and of the Miraculous.

See these force fields wherever you see the presence of fear and all its consequences. See these force fields of good, just like you did at the Memorial.

And watch the results that come from that. Miracles come out of that. Ill intent is blocked. This is not a trivial thing. You are a powerful co-creator. When you take your physical form and you align it with well-being and with miracles, literally things start getting better.

So here’s how we say to you to pray.

Prayer. Put yourself in a place of peace. Alignment. From there, go through your list, and if anything is difficult for you to imagine, (Intention) imagine angels in that situation. In whatever you consider a trouble spot, see a force field of love and light. See angels. And feel the feeling of relief.

We will take you through one right now.

As you think about [a recent shooting event] see the scene that was the scene of [their] death. See that scene also filled with angels, and with Light. Let all the forces come together, so that this may be used, literally, for good. This force field of Light and angelic presence and good enlarges and stretches and covers [them and all who loved them]. [They are] comforted, blessed with knowing [they] did not die in vain. [They] died as an agent of Truth.

While [their bodies] may not have died willingly, [their souls were] prepared. In your mind, you see consciences awakening; those responsible tossing and turning, called by the Light to do the right thing. Individuals being called by their own angels to do the right thing.

This is how you pray.

Prayer. Intention. Alignment.

Use this whenever you feel tempted to worry or despair. We send this with you as a blessing today. Go in peace. Use the power of your mind for good.

We are glad you took the time to listen today.