Monday Musings

"We really don't have to ask God for anything, but instead, open ourselves to receive way beyond what we might have originally thought to ask for!"

"The One That Really Matters" - YouTube video

Dearest Family, Friends and Colleagues,

I want to share this touching You-tube and its palpable message with you.  I believe that the more we feel The Presence like these musicians are, the more we will 
Be as Jesus and all our Ascended Master relations...

With all of my love,


Phaeryn

Michael W. Smith - The One That Really Matters (Live) featuring Kari Jobe

 

Spring and Easter 2015 Prayer

Dearest Family, Friends and Beloved Colleagues,

I wish us all to feel as glorious as this scene of Earth Mother radiates...

May the magnificent energy of Spring and all of its expression such as Easter shake us loose of any beliefs that our life is anything less than a great privilege.

May we newly feel the power of Jesus' love for us and surrender to the mirror He eternally strives to be for us....

And may we remember that to keep these awakenings, we must share them; give them away and pay them forward.

Celebrating with you in Spirit's care, 

Phaeryn

The photo, which I found on Pinterest, looks likes a dream, although rarely is there that much color in my dreams. I dream in neutrals. -

The Blessing Of Spring Is Faith

Most of us have experienced the season of Spring many, many times and yet, have we really? We have felt the major shifts in spring weather and, yes, we have felt a sense of hope rising up and really refreshing us. But wouldn’t most of us admit that the new hope at the beginning of Spring gets erased by the ‘doingness’ dance that our modern world subtly but ruthlessly seduces us into?

What is the season of Spring about, anyway?
Our ego minds, I suggest, are momentarily entertained by its newness but, as always with our ego minds, they become bored, disinterested and discontented easily. Always!
However, given that Mother Gaia’s Springtime is once again upon us, I challenge us all to open ourselves to being fatally seduced by Mother Goddess Springtime so that Her blessing of full Rebirth infects us for good…and so that this Springtime bursts us awake to our God-like, Christ/Buddha-like Selves, so we can finally get to the real business we’ve come to Earth for – to create the new worlds of heavenliness into the physical on our Earth. Yes, let’s bring it in right in the midst of the morass of huge suffering and devastation our present day world is seemingly steeped in!

To access this Rebirth, I propose we newly devote ourselves to our Faith in Divine Mother Goddesses’ magnificent plan for us and our Mother Earth’s environment.
In pondering this for myself, I remember my first spiritual teacher telling me that if she were allowed to only embrace one spiritual attribute in order to really keep her advancing on her spiritual path, it would be unquestionable Faith in the divine living within her and without.
She kind of substantiated her comment by continuing to say, “Did you know that the ultimate reason why the ancient world of Atlantis unexpectedly one day, and in just one hour, disappeared into the sea? It was because a small number of devoted Atlantian citizens stopped having Faith in their coming together to pray for the return of Enlightenment to their Beloved Atlantis! They supposedly lost Faith that their prayer efforts were worthy enough.”
As I listened to her expound on the glories of Faith, I found myself feeling really irritated instead of inspired. How can I have the kind of total impassioned faith that she did when so many prayers of mine throughout life hadn’t been answered. In fact, it pretty much seemed that what my prayers weren’t asking for is what I got instead.

When I admitted that to her, she became very animated. She said, “No, Phaeryn, listen to me. Praying to God, to Mother Goddess for what you want without having faith that your prayers will be wondrously received and responded to in ways you never could have even dreamt possible, is setting yourself up for having a miserable embodiment. You and so many other well-meaning spiritual seekers just haven’t been educated or been able to practice creating your lives from a consciousness of Faith and Knowing that Mother Father God, Divine Mother Goddess, Spirit, the Presence Of All That Is or Creator, (however you wish to label Ultimate Source) is waiting for the chance to give you exactly what will gloriously bless and bring you closer and closer to remembering that we all are uniquely created expressions of Godly nature and, thusly, destined to co-create heaven on earth.”

Twenty eight years have passed since my teacher was alive, but she very powerfully indoctrinated me and her other students with the following Precepts Of Faith that I hope will powerfully inspire and empower you who are reading this to seize the blessing of Mother Goddesses’ Springtime. Be in Faith that you are worthy and deserving of a great Rebirth to take hold of your life and transform you for good.

Remember then that:

1. Faith expects and anticipates the best to manifest.
2. Faith doesn’t ask, Faith declares and claims destiny to unfold regardless of how present reality might appear.
3. Faith causes a myriad of unseen, magical forces to come together for good.
4. Faith promises to always deliver. So when what we’ve held in Faith doesn’t unfold, it’s only because something greater is preparing to happen.
5. Faith knows and accepts that some fruitions take a lifetime and some take just a moment.

For more information regarding our programs, please contact Marshall Estner at 505-850-2132. ascendedmastersfoundation.org.

 Published simultaneously in Truly Alive Magazine March-April 2015 edition:

http://www.trulyalive.net/blessing-of-spring-is-faith/

This New Year, Living By Grace

 
Probably the most difficult thing in most people’s minds to really, sincerely believe in is Grace. It seems to be so illusive and blesses us with Its Presence so randomly.

We have heard many times from religious and spiritual teachers how to obtain grace and how to keep It. We also have turned to crying out for It, especially when we haven’t felt like we have much to hope for…as sometimes we experience It, and sometimes we don’t.

Although most people experience Grace coming to them unexpectedly, we also have heard of those who Live In and By Grace…that it has become their way of life or a perpetual state of being for them. These people tend to share similar attitudes, beliefs and ways of being in life. They seem to have tapped into a gold mine of a consciousness much of the time. They report a common sensation of “falling” into this rare state.

What exactly is Grace? Well, for most of us, it shows up as being suddenly or constantly miraculously blessed without seemingly having to do hard work to earn it. Perhaps the following true story will crystallize for us how it sometimes happens.

There was a large family living in a middle income neighborhood. The father and mother were good people…devoted to faith in their God. The father earned his salary by being a traveling salesman and, after a very long sales trip throughout the southwest, he returned home feeling “under the weather”. Little did he know that within a day or so he would find himself paralyzed from his neck down with Polio.

He spent a good amount of time hospitalized until he was able to return home. His family, though greatly saddened and burdened, gladly welcomed him home and settled into a routine of taking turns taking care of him. As a year passed, everyone who knew him observed that his cheerful, playful and loving way had changed…that he had become angry, disrespectful and mean-spirited. He was enraged with God and ended up projecting it on whoever came near.

Then one morning his wife decided he needed to see his new son who was born while he was first hospitalized.  Gazing into his young son’s innocence and sweetness suddenly just broke open his angry heart wide and he wept. It was in that timeless moment that Grace slipped in and embraced him.

From that day on, this paralyzed father began to say prayers of gratitude out loud to God for giving him each struggling breath so that he could still be alive to love his family and his friends. Grace seeped in and melted through him. It didn’t miraculously heal him physically, but indeed it did so heartfully.

This mysterious and magical state of consciousness seems to be the only consciousness that will uplift, transform and/or transfigure what no other state of everyday consciousness can.We, of the Ascended Masters Foundation Community are looking forward to getting a very strong ‘grip’ on this nebulous experience of Receiving and Living in a State Of Grace. The channeled Ascended Presence engaging with us at our upcoming Spiritual Warrior Of Deep Heart Retreat will provide the perfect opportunity.

 The response to the January 2015 Retreat has been so great that we will be  scheduling a second Retreat opportunity, possibly in May 2015. This retreat will be available to you to attend either in person or by teleconference via camera.

May these opportunities to Retreat with us be your access to 

LIVING FROM NOW ON, “IN GRACE”.

For more information, contact: Phaeryn Sheehan 

505-206-2139 or email phaerynsheehan@comcast.net

 

Letter 5 from the Camino

On the Way Home-Last Official Update

These stone fences, probably built in the Middle Ages, show the Irish tradition of stone building and were built by Irish pilgrims who stayed in the area after walking the Camino. I think this picture shows you what a Walker comes to as an inspiring reward after climbing very difficult hills and walking through challenging valleys.  It is the presence of The Camino!

As we spend our last day here in Santiago, we know we are so going to miss hearing Castilian Spanish and speaking it better each day; eating such a variety of unusually prepared and not always digestible food; the unforgettable mysticism and challenge of the Camino Road; the small chapels along the road where we rested and wiped up our sweat; drinking Aquarius, a life saving electrolyte drink; saying over and over again to fellow travelers - “BUEN CAMINO” (which means “have a good Camino”); having to eat dinner at 9pm  and feeling sheepish that we asked to be served earlier; facing our shadow selves together; laughing and crying together...and so much more that just can't be accessed yet in us because we have yet to digest it all.

One of the best things about being here in Santiago is everyone feels like they are desiring to ascend out of the ordinary into the extraordinary in some way.

Even the very strong masculine, tight lipped way of being of most of the people is affected here by the Santiago, the St James promise of ´the way of the Christ shall Lift Us All Out Of Our Own Way.

While the students are being guided by Marshall to Finisterre by the Ocean to do their guided Ceremony of Release, I´m taking all of the wishes today to the Cathedral of St James for you all.  It is such a privilege to be doing that.  There is a very beautiful and small chapel in the Cathedral where I will read all of the wishes quietly and ask for the Divine Intervention of St James, as well as all other divinities to hear and respond to our personal and transpersonal prayers.  I ask you all to be open to receiving what you have asked for from this day on....kind of like noticing how your blessing of The Camino is happening for you because you asked for it!

I am looking forward to having just a little time in Madrid, hoping to get tickets for the Flamenco in our last evening...we shall see what Mother Madrid wants for me!!!
We know you are praying for our safe return...as so, so appreciate all of the support you have given us.

Love,  Phaeryn

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Letter 4 from the Camino

Walking the Camino
September 13, 2012 

Enjoy the flat road for walking -  just around the corner, thru that dark space, is another incline!

Well, all of our walking is coming into a major culmination tomorrow...we will be walking into Santiago De Compostela.  I am trying to console myself because I injured my knees enough two days ago that I won´t be able to walk...just ride into Santiago.  This injury has sourced me in facing some resistances in my life I wasn´t aware of until now.  I can say though that I walked all but two days of our journey and it has been A CHALLENGING ENDLESSLY INSPIRING WALK.

Some of our team will walk a short way because they too are a bit sore and too weary, some will walk all the way with their packs on their backs, some will walk all of the way without their packs and some will ride with me.  We have had four channeled sessions preparing us for the important adventure of laying all of everyone´s wishes at the foot of St James statue, touching the Pilgrim’s column as we walk into the enormous Cathedral of St James  and, for ourselves doing a ceremony to let go of our human ways of loving in order to embrace the divined ones.

Santiago is a very old university town filled with romantic, medieval pubs, restaurants, rare items shops and places all over where Celtic music is being performed. We are intending to take in some of the Art and Historic sites as well as spend a good period of reflective time just sitting in the Cathedral in prayer.

 
As you probably know, when anyone is close to the finish line, there are all kinds of energies that can tend to cause mischief so we ask you to think about us in this more than once tomorrow.  Pictures of all of this are coming!!!

Thank you all for sending us your wishes and prayers.  We will very carefully tender each one in this sacred atmosphere.
 

Pausing to catch our breath. Left to Right: Jane, Susie (sitting), Catherine

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