Love in every moment

I always feel energy when I channel the angel messages, but during the last few messages, the energy has been exquisitely peaceful, as if I am sitting inside a bubble of “All is well, no matter what.” And when I surrender to that love that lives within, all is well… no matter what is going on.

As I write this, I’m sitting in the lobby of the car repair shop. My lovely old girl is currently having a $4,000 spa day. She’s 28 years old and told me she needed some love. Ends up she needed a lot of love and some major parts replaced. So be it. I’m safe, and she’ll be like new again. I have a long-term relationship with this car, which even has her own angel—Zippy—who always gives me advance notice when I need to take her into the shop to avoid problems on the road. In my past, I would have been in a huge drama over the numbers, but lately, living in this love, I feel blessed. She gets great mileage, has very low insurance fees, and has carried me safely for years. The money will come and go. The adventures we have will live in my heart forever.

Not having a car for a few days has revealed wonderful opportunities.Monday, I walked to the place where I do my cold plunges. A typical five-minute drive became a 40-minute walk each way, taking me past a beautiful old grandmother tree that I’d driven past without seeing, golden flowers bursting through cracks in the sidewalk, and homes that seemed ordinary by car but delighted the senses with the smell of incense and the sound of wind chimes as I walked past.

One might complain about the inconvenience, but sometimes inconvenience opens new doorways to new treasures.

Out of contrast comes new love.

As I watch the world’s antics, I breathe and simply observe. My prayers have been simple, “May the light of love rise up within all beings.” Rather than succumbing to the chaos, I subscribe to good-news emails and pray daily for all entangled in unpleasant dramas.  Then I walk into my backyard and see the real news. The bees are busy on the rosemary blooms. Heirloom tomatoes are turning red daily. Basil plants that usually die back did not this year due to our warm winter, and they’re sprouting new leaves. The scent of oregano washes over me when I open up the flap to the little tent I made for another tomato plant. My garden is a humble collection of planter boxes, but each little plant is loved… and loves me back.

There are big questions, of course.  Is the world aiming for another war? Perhaps. Will AI cause massive layoffs? Maybe, but we humans are a creative bunch.  We’ll  come up with new jobs to fulfill.  Will the violence continue for awhile?  It’ slikely to continue until enough people get sick and tired of it and withdraw their energy from the conflict.

If you don’t get entangled in a vibrational tug of war—wanting to be right while making others wrong—then the fight can’t entangle you.  Hooks need loops on that sticky tape we find on our jackets.  Neurotransmitters need matching receptors. If we don’t match what’s thrown our way, it cannot latch onto us.  Darkness has no resonance with a loving heart that refuses to join the battles the darkness wants to create.

We are powerful in our love. In our refusal to hate the haters, we remain in a frequency that allows us to uplift those crying for love. In our refusal to educate the unwilling ignorant, we don’t inspire them to argue their points even more vehemently.  In our commitment to being kind even when others aren’t, we teach hearts that can, in turn, inform minds.

We need not despair in a world that seems so divided right now. Earth is a one-room schoolhouse and, as the angels used to say decades ago before I understood a thing about vibrational law, “Don’t hate the kindergarteners, but you don’t have to play with them.”

And so, the wilder the world gets, the deeper I commit to kindness, love, and being the light.

Here are a few easy, yet powerful ways we can continue to ripple the love that we are outward into our world:

1. Ask, “What Does My Soul See?”

Sometimes you see things in the world that inspire anger, despair, or sadness. These feelings are perfectly legitimate and nothing to push away. Love them instead.

Love that your anger reveals your soul’s desire for peace. Love that your despair helps rekindle a desire to feel your soul’s awareness of your power. Love that your sadness brings tears of love that water the growth your soul already sees in progress.

These so-called negative feelings indicate a difference between how we see life and how our soul sees it. They are clues that remind us to dive deeper and embrace a more loving view.

So next time, you feel that you have wobbled from your soul’s loving perspective, ask, “How does my soul see this?”

I have learned so much from asking that question.  The more often you ask it, the more quickly the answers—and the peace—arrive.

2. Add Love to This Moment

Right now, how can you add a little more love to life?

You can give yourself a hug. It causes a release of oxytocin, the ‘bonding chemical,’ that makes you feel safer, more secure, and connected.

You can pray for someone, call them, or send a thought of appreciation.

You can clean out the drawer that has been bothering you for months and enjoy the order.

You can appreciate one thing in front of you.

You can smile at a stranger.

There are so many small, simple ways to add love to life—to be appreciative, or enchanted. Even here in this repair shop lobby, I look around and see the others waiting. Some are bored. Some are engaged in work or videos. We probably have many differences. But I feel good sitting with my human family, smiling at strangers as they walk by, feeling the love flow in the smallest of ways.

We can always add a little more love to this moment.

3. Grant yourself grace

Be kind to yourself. When you witness unthinkable things in the world, it won’t feel good.  You’ll likely feel strong, unpleasant emotions. It’s OK. Feel them, but then dive a bit deeper to feel the love that lives beneath.

It is awe-inspiring to reach beyond the mundane and take a few minutes a day to ponder our true nature. We are swimming in love, filled with love, and when we remember, living in a love so powerful that we need only aim it and watch it take shape in tangible form.

It does not require years of meditating to feel this connection to our true Self. It does not require dogma or even rigid rituals. It does not require special diets or prescriptive beliefs. The Creator lives within creation—in you and me and all beings. All we have to do to experience this reality is, as often as possible, surrender to our own deeper desire to love and be loved.