Category: Spiritual Writings

Embracing The Mess

“As I stand in my kitchen, surrounded by the beautiful chaos of daily life, I am reminded of the profound lessons that come from embracing the mess. The crumbs on the counter and the sticky spots on the floor are not symbols of failure but of life being fully lived. They show that I am present, day after day, doing my best.

Life’s messiness is where we find our true selves—where we learn to embrace imperfection, find beauty in the ordinary, and show kindness to ourselves. It’s where we let go of control and learn to go with the flow, trusting that things will work out, even if it’s not in the way we expected.

Embracing change and the chaos that comes with it has taught me that the most beautiful moments often arise from the most unexpected places. It has shown me that resilience, adaptability, and strength are born from facing our fears and stepping into the unknown.

Recently, a wise friend gifted me a fridge magnet that reads, ‘A clean house is a sign of a wasted life.’ There was a time when I might have felt defeated or even insulted by this message. Instead, I now see it as a gentle reminder to exhale and accept myself and my messy life as they are—worthy, unique, and filled with rich lessons and avenues for growth.

If you find yourself struggling with the messiness of life, I encourage you to look for the grace in the chaos. Embrace the imperfections, show up, and do your best. Remember that you are enough, just as you are. Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.

So, the next time you find yourself overwhelmed by the crumbs on the counter or the sticky spots on the floor, take a moment to breathe and appreciate the life being lived in those messy, imperfect spaces. Show up, do your best, and trust that this is more than enough.”

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What Is Wabi-Sabi?

“In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘び寂び) is a world-view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is ‘imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete’ in nature.  It is prevalent in many forms of Japanese art.

Wabi-sabi is a composite of two interrelated aesthetic concepts, wabi (侘) and sabi (寂). According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, wabi may be translated as ‘subdued, austere beauty,’ while sabi means ‘rustic patina.’ Wabi-sabi is derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印, sanbōin), specifically impermanence, suffering, and emptiness or absence of self-nature.

Characteristics of wabi-sabi aesthetics and principles include asymmetry,  roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and the appreciation of both natural objects and the forces of nature.

‘Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It’s simple, slow, and uncluttered. It reveres authenticity above all. Wabi-sabi is flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings on this planet. That our bodies as well as the material world around us are in the process of returning to the dust from which we came. Through wabi-sabi, we learn to embrace liver spots, rust, and frayed edges, and the march of time they represent.’ 

In one sense wabi-sabi is a training whereby the student of wabi-sabi learns to find the most basic, natural objects interesting, fascinating, and beautiful. Fading autumn leaves would be an example.

Wabi-sabi can change the student’s perception of the world to the extent that a chip or crack in a vase makes it more interesting and gives the object greater meditative value. Similarly, materials that age such as bare wood, paper, and fabric become more interesting as they exhibit changes that can be observed over time.”

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Know The Stream Of Love And Life

“My dear friends, we love you so very much,

Never in your existence could you ever fail in the eyes of the Divine. You are eternal beings. You come to earth for the pure joy of creation. You come to learn. You come to expand, evolve, and allow more love to flow to you and through you. Love is the name of your earthly game, and no tangible thing that you accomplish will ever be more important than the countless ways you can experience and express love.

We are not talking about the human idea of romantic love. That is only one of countless possible expressions of Divine love. If you take a bite out of a warm piece of bread and savor the taste, the Divine, expressed within that bread, meets the Divine within you and experiences itself in a whole new and amazing way.

If you walk barefoot on the cool grass and take a moment to savor its softness, nurturing your feet and connecting you with the earth, it becomes a symphony of love. The Divine within the earth feels the Divine within your feet and greets the Divine within the grass.

The reason you so dearly desire the love and approval of others is because, within their favorable gaze upon you, you feel the favor of God. Within their approval, you feel God’s approval. Within their love, you feel God’s love. There is only one love, dear ones, and it can come through the eyes of a lover, your child, your kitty, your dog, the sunrise, your coffee, or countless other expressions of this One.

Grant yourself permission to attune to love even in the tough times because you deserve to feel good. You deserve to feel guided. You deserve to know the stream of love and life that creates you flowing to you and through you, for in that stream, all is made new.

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

Ann Albers, www.visionsofheaven.com

 

Our Wish For You

“Our wish for you is that you become less entangled with the world’s lower vibrations and more aligned with the Divine. In this space, you can be in the world but not of it. You can witness the pain with compassion but not feel the pain. You can be the light and the force of love that lifts others who are willing to be lifted.

The Divine and your angels will only dance with you in an ‘entanglement’ of love. We focus on your true, beautiful, radiant, loving self. We focus on empowering what you love and want to experience. We witness you when you find those lower vibrations, and we have great compassion, but we never engage in a lower vibrational dance with you. We don’t send you ‘lessons,’  ‘tests,’ ‘rewards,’ or ‘punishment.’  We only and always attempt to guide you along the kindest, easiest, and most loving path.  

The world, however, will tug and pull at you with a variety of vibrations, and you will always feel most strongly the vibrations that match your own in a given moment. You will always become ‘entangled’ with the vibrations that match your own.  This is why we encourage you to reach for comfort, soothing, kind thoughts, good feelings, pleasing circumstances, etc. This is why we discourage you from focusing on the lower behaviors of others, the pain and problems of the world, and the thoughts that drag you down.

In plain terms, you do yourself a loving service when you remove your focus from the things, people, and situations that drag you down and give yourself permission to find and feel greater comfort, ease, grace, and joy. Trying to prove a point or educate those who irritate you only entangles you further with their irritating qualities. Trying to prove your worth to those who don’t see it only entangles you further with their judgmental views. Focusing on the wrongness of another’s behavior, no matter how right you are, only entangles you with those lower vibrations. Simply focusing too long on the things that drag you down can attract more of the negativity you are trying to avoid.

The good news is that you can shift just slightly to focus on anyone or anything that pleases you, anything you love, or anything that even gives you some comfort, and in that loving vibration, you open to the never-ending stream of love available to you at all times.

Dear ones, it is not so hard to open to love in a given moment. Look around you. Find something pleasing, right here and now. Enjoy it. Appreciate it. Think a kind thought about it. Now, think a kind thought about yourself. Perhaps you can acknowledge yourself for attuning to love in this moment.  With something this simple, you have just opened yourself to the love that the universe is always sending you. The more you practice this simple act, the more you become ‘entangled’ in the vibration of love, and the more loving your reality will become.

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

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