PART TWO: ON LOVE, channeling with Mary Magdalene ~
[Continuing from this last part] It is a huge challenge to be human, and yet it is a huge blessing to be human, the exquisite pleasure which you feel when you feel another’s heart, whether you have fallen in love or embraced a child, whether you have kissed your elder, whether you have held your mate, whether you have held the hand of a brother or a sister, and seen the love in their eyes, the appreciation, the encouragement, the willingness just to be together in this adventure. You all know so much love. Each of you knows love in abundance.
We feel ready to move along to the question part of this session, if you have brought some question, or you think of one. Now, if anything that I have said has sparked a question, or you wish more elaboration, or you wish to know more about some aspect I have perhaps glossed over a bit, let us proceed. And if my helper, my sweet helper, will call out the names since Jennifer has taken off her glasses and sees a beautiful blur, you go ahead and speak up.
Question #1: I’ll actually start with a question. In our world, currently, I’m experiencing the lack of loving expression so profoundly and so broadly. Can you respond to that lack of love more of a global level, a lack of expression of love, because love, love, love is there, but…
Mary Magdalen: Yes, you do know love yourself. You are asking about why there seems to be so little love out there. You are perhaps partly expressing or projecting a belief in lack of love to the greater whole. You are also partly believing that it is possible for there to be a permanent lack or a solid lack of love. There are chimeras, there are movies, there are videos, there are words which seem to be not of love. Do not put to put too much belief in these.
There is at the moment in your public life, a great outpouring of what you would think of as the shadow self. You see, it used to be the older generations would only show what was nice, what was pleasant, what was of good manner, and much was repressed for a long time. Now, you are seeing the expression of the shadow self of the collective, which is saying, “Can I still be love? If I am unpleasant, if I am unkind, can I still be love?” You are asking in your heart of hearts, “Is it possible for there to be love when there is so much disagreement, when there is so much separation?”
Well, there is so much belief in separation still, and this is why so many of you have come to be on earth at this time to shine your light in the ways that you do. Just by being you. You do not need to start a great mission. You do not need to start a TV station, though some of you might want to. You can write a song, you can write a poem. You can smile to your neighbor when you see them. You can smile to the stranger. And this is shining your love.
You see, you are picking up, dear one, the collective belief in lack of love empathically through your heart, and it weighs on you. But this is not the true essence. It is merely an expression that is troubled, that seems to be lacking in love, that is afraid that there is no love or not enough love. You are aware of all of these in your own individual journey, and you have overcome them. At this point there is more of a seeing it out there and believing, in you. You will all find your way to love. This is the path forward for mankind, humankind, man- and woman-kind you. Does this clarify for you?
#1: Yes, very much. Thank you.
Mary Magdalen: I am glad. Would there be another question from anyone? … Wonderful. Go ahead
#2: Well, I can honestly say I love myself. I love my body. I’m really grateful for my body, and I send love in every part and every aspect, and I also send love to my soul, and then I do sort of feel that I should be in harmony, because love dissolves all the negativity, and then there’s harmony and there’s balance, and also with the physical disbalances, they should be, they could be removed in that way, but that does not quite happen. Can you please give me a little bit more information about that?
Mary Magdalen: Are you asking about the healing aspect of love for you to feel better?
#2: Yes, that’s, that’s it certainly, yes.
Mary Magdalen: There is a reason why you are all incarnated together, and we would suggest to you that you reach out to the greater collective, whether this is something you do in your mind, or something that you do in an occasion such as this, where we are together, where you will receive a strengthening of that love and that delight and that joy that you are looking for, a strengthening of Your Own Beingness by being part of the whole. You are whole, but your wholeness is not separate, and this is a lingering fragment or figment of your belief in separation.
You will all go through many stages of belief, a little bit of separation may continue for a while. So I would just advise these group meetings or the times when you can have the human interaction in your own daily life, whether it is a hand or a hug or the sweet communion with eyes. We see your love and we see your spiritual practice, and you are a most beautiful soul incarnated dear one.
Yes. But take advantage of -in the most positive way of that phrase- the fact that you are all here together in this beautiful world, and know that there will be times when the energy feels a little less, just as the tides come and go, the tides recede, and then they come back again to shore, and they wash beautifully upon the sands, and they gift you abundantly. And then they withdraw for a little while, and then they will return again. So to trust in the cyclical nature of energy flow, would this help you as well?
#2: Definitely yes, thank you.
Mary Magdalen: I’m glad. I am here for you.
#2: Thank you so much.
#1: #3 has a question.
Mary Magdalen: Yes, go ahead, dear one.
#3: Hi, thank you. Okay, so my question is on personal relationships, you had said something in your beginning about leaving behind judgments and criticisms of self because we’re all love. If we feel that maybe love may be lacking in a personal relationship, and that’s the wrong word, or there’s a fear in me in some way, because it may not be real at all. It could be the judgment of self, the lack of self worth, or whatever. Can you give me guidance on how to remain true to myself and maybe eliminate the fear, or may not even exist at all?
Mary Magdalen: Is the fear within your own ability to be loving in the relationship, or is the fear projected to the other that they may not be loving enough for you?
#3: Projected to the other okay, but it may not…
Mary Magdalen: It triggers, perhaps, your feeling that you are not quite enough?
#3: Maybe. It never occurred to me, okay, maybe.
Mary Magdalen: The dance of a relationship is the mirroring for each other, the love that you each are, or where you are, not believing in the love that you are. There is never less than love. There is less than love in the belief that is expressed. It is only through the belief that there can be a lack of love. How could there be a lack of love? Look at this wondrous, amazing life that we are.
#3: So really, it’s my belief systems.
Mary Magdalen: Well, in the dance of a relationship, you will also encounter the other’s belief systems, yes, and they will project upon you occasionally. But, in that you are completely knowing of your own love, the other can say just about anything, and you will wait until the wind has stopped blowing and you will come back with your peace and say, in your own way, “I see you. I love you. We can get beyond this. We can go now together,” and you are in peace and harmony again, you see.
In a relationship, sometimes you are projecting your peace and harmony, your belief in the goodness and abundance of love, and sometimes it is the other way around, and you know that in the sacred partnership, you have agreed to work together with all of the energies that you each encounter each day. These are varied, you see, not always the sweetness and light.
#3: Right.
Mary Magdalen: This makes life interesting. This makes relationship dynamic, but to the extent that you can be with another, or take a little time out and then be with the other, and hold the love that you know you are and that you know, essentially, they are, then it does not matter. The expression of less-than-love is not real, and it will pass. It will fade out like a slide show on the wall, and he will return to love, and you will mirror that for him.
You are all here to be mirrors to each other, and this is the beautiful way of relationship. It can happen in family relationships, and it does, sibling relationships. What kind of relationship are you working on, each of you?
You see, it could be a relationship with a neighbor. This one, Jennifer, had a neighbor who had neighbors who had a barking dog. It drove the neighbor “up the wall” every time the dog barked. She had a little work to do with love for her neighbor and love for the dog. Simple, right? You can see it in others. You all have so much wisdom. Trust yourselves. Does this answer your question?
#3: It does, and it’s interesting. When you speak of the mirror, you know, when you recognize things in the other person and in family too. So yes, identifying it. Yes.
Mary Magdalen: And I can say a little bit more. Those parts of yourself that you are uncomfortable with, you will assign to another. You will feel more comfortable if you can temporarily disown the “discomfortable” part. True?
#3: Yes.
Mary Magdalen:But if you see something in another that is disturbing to you or is uncomfortable to you, and you say, “Bless that too.” That part, too, is only [there] because that person is afraid of love. That person is afraid there is not love. “Bless that too, bless my brother or sister. They are just believing in ‘not-love’ and this too shall pass.” It may take a week, it may take a year, it may take another lifetime, but they too will come to know themselves as love, as each of you are doing now, and there are many ways to express this love, do not think it has to be one way or another. Love is not limited. Do not limit it.
Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson on February 19th, 2025
[ note: the final part of this session included a question from a child about communicating with the Elementals, a charming Q & A I will make into another post. You can look forward to that! ]
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