Excuse me while I blow off a little steam.

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One of the puzzles of my life is why people will go to clairvoyants, and/or tarot readers, for readings when they don't want to hear what the person has to say. Oh, I am not talking about you personally, I know you won't argue with me when I say something you don't want to hear. You won't explain to me how I am wrong about so-and-so whom you are madly in love with - because she, or he, is wonderful and truthful, and only lies to other people. Hmm.. no, no, you will hang on my every word, and trust everything I say .. and I will be wondering exactly what it is you think I said, because obviously you are not listening to any of it.

Ok, so I am ranting. I love doing readings for people. I love watching their lives falling into those patterns that they have been creating for themselves, over such a long time. I love seeing them heal from old fears and new ones. I love watching them change their minds, their tunes, and their attitudes. It is one of life's pleasures when people get back to me and say 'it happened .. it really happened'. Yes, it happened, angel, just the way you wanted it to. Or didn't want it to, some of the time.

The future is open to interpretation, just as we reinterpret the past to fit how we want to feel about ourselves. The future appears, for me, in a series of stepping stones based on the choices we make today. Each step can lead to many different possibilities, none of them absolutely fixed. We can choose to change, our hearts, our minds, our thoughts, our feelings, and in doing so change our lives.

So when you say to me "oh no, you are wrong, its not like that at all", you are already changing your future away from what you asked me to review for you. Why do you come to me if you only want me to tell you what you want to hear? Why don't you just go back to daydreaming, or fantasizing? Yes, with our thoughts we do make things happen, but only for ourselves. If you are trying to make someone else do what you want, or be what you want, it is their choices involved, not yours. You can dream the person in your head, but if they are living already they will not fill the shoes you want them to wear. I know this from experience, I've been heart-broken too.

Why do people come to us for readings - because they are doubting their own inner instincts and want to be told that those instincts (that say this is not a wise choice) are wrong. It is about trusting yourself. It is so easy to place responsibility for your actions on others, to not pick up the mantle of 'trust' and wear it .. because sometimes it can be heavy, and sometimes it can hurt. If I say something will happen, in the way you seem to want me to, then you can be mad at me when it doesn't work out, rather than blaming yourself for not trusting your first instincts that said 'don't go there', 'don't do that', 'you know it is not true'.

I am sorry you are hurt because of what I told you. I am also sorry, in a way, that I cannot tell you only what you want to hear. I have my ethics too. I will tell you the future as I see it, and you will continue to argue - for you want things to be the way you want them. Well, if you want that so much why do you not trust yourself and not waste your time with me?

Follow your heart, and trust your instincts .. that inner feeling is your guides and angels talking to you .. saying 'we love you no matter what'. If we all did that then we would all be clairvoyant .. and know the truth of the song of our hearts.

Love & Light
Ama

How can I Pray and be Heard by God?

Would you like to Know the Truth (part 4)

How can we possibly not be? God is everywhere. God created all things. God is in all things. If God is in ‘all’ things, so then God is in, and within, us. Since God created ‘all’ things, s/he created atheists and people with other belief systems. Since God created all things, then God created other belief systems and other ways of coming ‘Home’ to the source energy that is in ‘all’ of us .. in other words, God.

So why is there separation? Separation begins with us, with our lack of belief, or faith (which are two different things). When we doubt we put a barrier between us and God. That barrier is our free will. Because we were granted it back at our creation, and because it was restored to us by Christ at the Crucifixion, (after we had so foolishly given it away to the ‘devil’ .. see the story of Adam and Eve as a metaphor for our choices ...) we have the power to stop God from helping us, to remove his/her ability to give to us what we most want – Love.

Sometimes our prayers are not answered, or seem not to be. There is a saying “be careful what you ask for, you might get it”. God in his/her infinite wisdom does not always give us what we want, because s/he knows that spiritually most of us are like small children demanding sweets. We try to bargain (if you do this, I will do that) and what we bargain for may well not be what is for our greatest good, and so we are not given what we seek. And God knows that we don’t always understand, at the time, why this is so, nor do we all understand about free will, but s/he doesn’t punish us when we become angry and despondent ... no, s/he loves us anyway, whole heartedly, unconditionally, knowing that we will understand one day – and that day might be the last of this lifetime, or it might be tomorrow.

So praying to God is important because it takes down the barrier between us and him/her, and tells God what we want, and, if we get it right, gives God permission to help us. It also tells God that we are listening when s/he speaks, and that we are grateful for all the good that comes our way each day, and accepting of the challenges that also are part of our lives.

The brochure says that for God to listen to us we have to pray in ways that s/he approves of. That seems a bit of a conundrum, given that first we have to learn God’s will, and then pray accordingly. How do we first learn God’s will? We can find lessons throughout the New Testament in the words of Jesus Christ. Love one another, be honest, truthful and kind. And the Watchtower quotes 1 John 5:14, which says “And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us”. So be bold, be truthful, be trusting, be loving .. and just Be .. a daughter or son of God, a spiritual being in the material world.

Do you remember to say thank you when you pray? Gratitude is incredibly important. Or do you mouth rituals without thought for what the words mean? I agree with the Watchtower brochure here – do not just mouth prayers that you know without putting your heart and soul into the words. (Matthew 6:7-8) Keep it simple. Make it obvious. The Lord ’s Prayer in Matthew is lovely, to begin with –

Our Father who is in heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
On Earth as it is in Heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive our debts
As we also have forgiven our debtors
And do not bring us to the time of trial
But rescue us from the evil one.

Begin with this and move on.

Sometimes I do feel unworthy of being the crumbs beneath his/her table, but most of the time I know that God seems me as s/he created me ... a perfect ‘likeness’. The imperfections are my own beliefs and attitudes that put the barrier up between what I want from God and what s/he wants from me. Just how thick is your barrier?

I love you

There was a book I read a few years ago, a part of which surprised me very much. It was only one chapter. the title was 'what God wants from you', or something like that. What God wants. The pages of the chapter were totally blank, and as I looked through each wondering at the 'revelation' I realised just how wrong the totally blank pages were .. to me they said 'God wants nothing from me' .. but that is not true. Even if God truly does only observe humanity and not interfere, God loves us .. loves us profoundly .. loves us deeply .. and allows us to 'be' all the small nasty people we can be, all the great and glorious we are equally capable of being. And asks only one thing 'Love as I Love you'.

God loves unconditionally - 'he' proves that every day. He gave us free will, that means that we can ignore him, invoke him, scream at him, lie to him, pretend he doesn't exist .. even when we then ask a friend to 'pray for us' so that we can achieve our dreams, rant at him, rage at him, worship him, beg for things, ask for things, kill ourselves and each other, ruin our environment, kill all his other creations, ignore his good works and the people trying to achieve them - regardless of our behaviour; what else can I add to the this? I'm sure you can think of a few things.

And if you look in your heart and soul you will find his message there ..

"Love child, be simply love, child,
Be what you will be,
what you are, child .. simply Love Child,
Know your true nature,
God in creation, part of the whole self,
Part of the truth, child,
Be simply Love,
Child ..."

Song of Creation .. sung for the children of 'man' (humanity).