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