1. Introduction: Gratitude – In Spite of Ourselves

Dear Friends,

It has been quite awhile since I’ve been willing to sit down and allow the Beings of Light to come through. The holiday rush has been distracting and not always in a useful way. I’ve had the normal worries of not getting everything done in time and that others would be disappointed in how I’ve carried it off. They wouldn’t like their presents, or simply think I’d fallen down on the job in some way. I think every Mom gets concerned about those things. When everything does turn out all right, we are actually surprised and may even claim it’s a miracle that everyone had a happy face at the end of Christmas day!

Now, given what we’ve been taught by the Beings of Light, you’d think that I would have been the soul of serenity, simply breathing the Light and allowing myself to accept help in every moment from this marvelous Light that is guiding and caring for each one of us in every moment.

But no, that really doesn’t suit my ego mind which would like to take credit if all goes well and place the blame on anyone I can find if it does not.

So, here we are, a few days after Christmas when yes, everything actually did go really well, and I’m still willing, as is Martin, to take as much credit as we can for how well all the children got along and how lovely everything was.

And yet, each night I’ve been awakened by this Light that continues to send wave after wave of healing energy through my form and bathe me in a loving radiance when my guard is finally down and I’m willing to accept it.

So, I must say “thank you” once again.

Love and Light, Linda

P.S.: The Masters refer to us by our soul names; Linda is “Leia” and Martin is “Manalus.”

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Featured Channeling:

The Properties of Gratitude

You may think we’ve come to you, beloved friends, to accept your appreciation for all that we do to aid you given the words that Leia has just written. But that is not at all what we intend to do.

You see, beloved friends, it is not the Beings of Light who legislate what you choose to experience as humans. We are here to simply aid you when you ask for help. And do be aware, in spite of what Leia has written, she did frequently ask for help as she moved through this time of welcoming the Christ Light once again into your human plane.

She did ask for help, and frequently. She was simply not always willing to accept it after she had asked and so, we did then come to her in her dream state to minister to her and aid her in moving through this very special time.

But again, it is not the Beings of Light that will receive the gratitude. It would go to her own Totality, her connection to Infinite Source. For all that occurs to anyone upon your human plane is indeed always legislated by his or her own Light.

When you choose to acknowledge this powerful Light that is flowing through you and is animating you, you will understand that in every moment of every day there is a reason to be grateful.

What are the properties of gratitude, and how is it helpful to allow this state of grace to fill your being? Let us say that you have had your holiday celebration. And, at the end of this event, you think of all that went well, and allow this conscious awareness to fill your being. Think for a minute, beloved friends, of any moments during that day that you felt even slightly pleased with how events were unfolding. There was certainly much change on this day, was there not? For the energies of change are very present upon your plane at this time, so your holiday was probably quite different from those in years past. This might have made you feel uncomfortable. But even with all the change, were there not some moments that were even slightly pleasant? 

Focus on these then, beloved friends, and see how this feels within your heart. Then simply express gratitude to your Light for allowing you to be consciously aware of these pleasant moments. How does this feel to your being? Do you not feel a state of calming, loving radiance surround and fill you?

Even if you only allowed this for a moment, do keep it as a pleasant memory as you then choose to recount all that was not as you wished it would have been. For it is often true that humans will allow a moment of gratitude to fill them only to then say “But this and that was still not right! So I cannot be completely grateful!”

As this conscious awareness enters your mind, what happens to the state of calm and love that you were feeling? It evaporates, does it not?

Close your eyes for just a moment and return to the state of gratitude. And sincerely settle yourself in this conscious awareness. Allow yourself to see how the Light fills you and radiates from you. As you move through life, if you were to allow this state to be your prominent awareness, would not your life be filled with more calm and love?

Understand, beloved children, a very basic cosmic law: Like attracts like. The more you are settled in allowing yourself to be grateful for all that your Light bestows upon you, the more you will have reason to feel this gratitude. -- It is very simple but very true.

When you instead choose to focus on what you think is still wrong with your universe, you continue to attract that which will validate this state of affairs.

Allow yourselves to realize that it all is simply a matter of focus. When you shift your focus to realizing how very blessed you are at all times by this wondrous Light that is here to nurture and love you in every moment, then you open yourself to allowing this Light to do its job without the encumbrance of an unhappy ego mind. 

Rest this mind. Allow it the opportunity to know that these unhappy thought forms will only make you more and more uncomfortable in your universe.

Instead, just say, “I accept all which is truly blessing me in every moment. I say thank you to my Light.”

We thank you, beloved friends, for allowing us to share this truth with you this day.

Many Blessings of Love and Light to One and All.