Renewal

Hope

Hope and better things to come

You are cared about and being cared for from the outset in any situation.

In quiet times, we yearn for comfort and solace, and this is no different in times of stress. Equally, we are able to create the circumstances and environment we most want. We can overcome what we cannot tame. Now, that is a mouthful when you think about it. Because by what means will you get out and turn the world around on its axis … determining where you want it to go? No, there are other offices at work. The hand of God you could say, but which is really All-that-is making sure you have what you need, and that all is well and provided.

Now, how do you buck that, my friend? Where you are cared about and being cared for from the outset in any situation? Now, that is something you can take to the bank.

At this time of year, when your thoughts and heart turn to higher things … to celebrations, those you love, and your scripture … now is a time to assert and aim what you most care about toward the stars. Ask for heavenly grace to fall upon you, and help lead you in the direction that is most profitable for you. By that we mean you are all the better for it. You’re in a net better position, and therefore more able to help others and be of some effiacy in matters around you.

That is our message to you: of hope and better things to come. In fact, always being ushered to your door. Uplift your hearts to this and watch what happens. — your teachers

A bale tale

By Deborah Arndt

A field hand was returning home one winter’s evening and stopped to consider some bales of hay:

“The grass grows green and sweet. It’s harvested and baled to bring nourishment to our animals.Yet it’s more than that! It can provide light and warmth. A blaze to cook a warming meal or revive a waning fire. The bale can keep you warm, make a bed to lie upon or seat to stand or sit upon.

This sweet grass brings so much more than itself, yields more! So I see thee as friend, something that does double duty, even in tough times. It’s giving silently … and is trustworthy.”

Now, isn’t this a parable for you all? Wouldn’t you want to burn brightly at all seasons and bring more of yourself. You have so much more to offer and depths within you! So here is a winter’s tale … a bale tale. But not baleful, if you get our drift. – Your teachers

From where we stand

By Deborah Arndt

“For you are transitioning always, now and forever, but the autumn symbolizes it more intensely in many ways.”

From where we stand, all is given. We are not here to play with you or to trivialize your lives or our work in any way. We are here for you. Can you grasp that? We know it is a difficult subject for many of you to reach outside of your comfort zones to realize that something more … much more, is out there. We would not lie to you.

Now, we know that you worry at this time of year with your projects and preparations for children returning to school. We know that you cannot be everywhere at once, but once again we urge you and even nicely (smiles) ask you to consider what you are doing, and why are you are doing it.

We love September and we think you do, too. For it is a season changer for many of you who reside, for example, in the north, yet gives you cause to worry about the outcomes of so many things. “Will it snow early? Will we have enough to pay the heating bill? Will we get away for a break during the winter? Will the holidays bring good things or stressful things? Will the spring dawn with me wishing I had done so much differently?”

We see you reflect so much of that in your annual list in January of New Year’s resolutions. These are good ideas at the time, but often wither on the vine, don’t they?

Well, we would like to offer you something more at this time of year to perk you up, and sort of keep you going. How about a fresh dollop of hope and looking forward to things to come? We think you will like that idea. For you are transitioning always, now and forever, but the autumn symbolizes it more intensely in many ways for many of you.

Now, what are we talking about? We mean that you get practiced at transition, but do you ever get good at it? Being able to run a mile through practice doesn’t mean that you do it consciously aware of what is good for you, or that you feel good afterward. Are there after effects beyond that? Painful arches, hurting ankles, and so forth. So mere practice does not always bring the results you want. You desire certain results, but do you get them? That’s what we are talking about.

We can help you to get to those desired results by helping you to aim your thoughts in that direction. When you aim in that sense and let go, whoosh! You get a result you want. Now, that’s not so hard and you have all been doing this for a long time. When, as a child, didn’t you want what you wanted in the moment? That’s what we mean.

Now, you can contour and shape your thoughts, and point them in the direction of things wanted, and avoid what is not wanted. That’s a good thing, right? How does this help you in September?

We think September is a mindful month, one wherein you are mindful of many things: “How did I do this year, so far? What will happen next? Am I prepared? Can I handle it?” We think you are much more stressed out about your lives and experiences that you are willing perhaps to see and admit.

What if September is more of a honoring time? A bringing in of sheaves … the harvest time. Now, that you can relate to! Especially those of you who farm or work on the land. Now, you understand our point and our symbolism. When do you celebrate the harvest of your lives and your days gone by? Not just this year to date, but all the years to date? When do you look back and say, “My God, thank you for what you have given me, bestowed on me, and let me be my whole life long. How can I thank you? What can I do for you and for others?” Now that is the kind of thinking we like.

We like when you pause and give thanks, and then give thought to others. Deborah, too, has been giving this more and more thought. A good register of where you are at, is how much you are concerning yourself with others and can think outside your own experience to theirs. How are you doing in that regard? Here we teach you to make more of your life experience, and now we are saying, hey, how about caring more about others! Well, they are connected, believe us.

When you are cognizant of the feelings, sufferings, and experiences of others, you are a binding source upon the planet, not unlike binders you add into your food preparation to hold ingredients together. We are not judging that choice to add binders here in this discussion, rather to get you see that you are a binding agent, too, upon the earth.

Your heartbeat, your heartfelt concern for others helps make the world go around. You are not separate from others, as we are always teaching. So when you go about your September duties and day-to-day experiences, remember to fold in a little love and concern for others. Sprinkle it with tolerance and patience, good humor and joy. See what happens.

You can still have a remarkable year ahead, though much of it has already passed, because you are infusing, or better said, ‘baking into it your intention’ of well-being, caring and love. What other ‘salt of the earth’ and some spices, too, are required, my friend?

Be a salt of the earth. Season your season with your love, your forbearance, and your joyful expectation of things to come. We would love this and will help you along the way.

Bring forth renewal and blossom, even unto your winter months in this way, and in your life, your loves, and your occupations, our dear ones.

We hope this helps you at this time. With love. –the teachers

The Teachers: “What Awaits You In Spring”

By Deborah Arndt

What does it take to bring something new and fresh into your world?

Deborah has been writing again … in our newest book, which we hope you will enjoy. It’s entitled: Verdant: The Greening of Your Prosperity. That makes us think of how green everything is turning in New York where Deborah is. All is green again! You must be getting the point that there is no end. And spring signals so much more than season and weather, but how your life re-engages … again and again! And the wheel is always turning to bring you what you need.

Now, Deborah is hoping we will write to you about gardens. She has been plunging her trowel into the soil making something lovely out of a patch of ground … turning it into a garden of visual delights. The flowers are diverse colors, and she has interspersed grasses and border plants that offset the array of colors perfectly. Can’t you do something similar in your life? What does it take to bring something new and fresh into your world? Does it take a spade and trowel, or does it happen with other tools? What if you are born with those tools? What if Mother Nature provides them at no charge, so to speak? Can you get on board with this idea that you can grow gardens upon gardens with exciting vistas and so much more? You can grow fields of things within you and let them shine out and colorize and beautify the world. So why don’t you?

Think of spring as emblematic.

We love that it is spring, and everything is renewing and on the upswing in upstate New York, but that is only a small part of the world you inhabit. There is renewal literally everywhere! You don’t have to travel, or fret if you can’t travel, to get to places where gardens like Deborah’s abound, for there is a garden in your own back yard, my friend. You can bring yourself to the task of creating it anytime you wish. Now, we don’t like to tell you what to do, but when it comes to growth and regrowth, and marvelous opportunity to be something MORE, and to give something MORE, and receive something MORE, then why don’t you do it? It is not so hard. Think of spring as emblematic. Think of renewal as your gift for all time … an eternal wonder that you can enjoy, and feel wonder at! Why would you not want that?

As your garden grows, so shall you.

Imagine each day is full of wonder. “How did this or that happen?” you ask. Well, you can have that feeling. You might call it living a life of miracles, or at least miraculous experience, and soon it will become intention. For you will be so good at setting forth each day the intention that your day be filled with miracles. Now wouldn’t that be wonderful? Wouldn’t that be living truly, deeply and wonderfully, just as you always wished? Will others believe that you live a life of miracles? Well, that doesn’t matter at this time, does it? It is enough to feel that something that marvelous CAN be happening to YOU! Do you understand? When something comes home like that, and you can’t deny it, and you can’t push it away, well, you must look at it. Now it is YOURS, and no one can take it away.

Each day, when Deborah writes or reviews what has been written, she knows a miracle has unfolded. Well, it has or at least that is what she feels. We would not want to take that feeling from her! For in her perspective, how can all this writing and teaching be flowing through her? But if you sat with her and felt what she feels, you would soon understand and have a similar experience. For you would be a conduit of all good things and wonderful, exciting, miraculous things, too. For there is a never ending supply. Goodness, value, understanding and teaching can flow through you, too. Why not join the crowd and get on board and live a fabulous revved up life? Why wait any longer? As your garden grows, so shall you! All that you hold dear will flourish, too. Can you wait longer for that?

We do hope you will read our new book that will be published soon, Verdant: The Greening of Your Prosperity and drink deeply from that cup that is provided. Be so glad that this opportunity knocks, and you are not forgotten or omitted from the process that embraces you in all its glory, and selects YOU as its progeny and joyous expression of love, coming to you in love and inviting you to love others. Well, we hope this for you. Welcome spring, and all that it shows and teaches us! For we are all students of this one thing: life everlasting and joyful awakening, again and again!

With our love and hopes that you will mine or garden for new delights … new discoveries along with us. We are here on this journey with you, and we will help you. Never fear. Read on, gardeners of the soul and heart! We, your teachers