Category: Being the Light

Lord Maitreya: Lighten Up!

by Jennifer, posted in Ascension, Being the Light, channeled guidance, Life in 4/5D, Lord Maitreya
Photo “Copper Light” by Jennifer Donaldson, 2025

Jen:  My dear Lord Maitreya, would you like to comment on your generous role in my life and in all our lives and in this sense that we are living more and more now in the fifth dimension?

Lord Maitreya: This is Maitreya. I am very pleased to be invited to speak with you in this way, in this setting, at this time, and in answer to your questions. We see this breakthrough that you are feeling, and many will be feeling this, and many are feeling this. But if you are not yet feeling this, know that you will. 

It comes at a time when there is a convergence of energies which have been preparing for a long time to lighten up, brighten up, lift up. This is ascension. You are all in an ascension process. Your elevators are moving. Some are moving quickly. Some are moving slowly, but eventually your doors open and you step out and it feels like life is a little more wonderful. Life is a little more amazing. Life is easier. Life is gentler. 

It is because you are reflecting these things. You have learned to be gentle to yourself. You have learned to take things a little easier, and even if you have many plates in the air, as you like to visualize it, you are having fun with your plates. You are not feeling daunted. You are not feeling afraid that you will drop them. You know that they can, well, first of all, your plates are made of paper, so if they drop to the ground, it’s no big deal. You just pick it up, you see. So it is not the hardship that you have been committed to for so long. 

This new space feels brighter, lighter, softer. I spoke of the gentle aspect of it. I would use the word sweeter, but I do not mean the sugary part which all of you struggle with from your experiences of the toxicity of it. I speak of the sweetness of Life itself, the unexpected bursting upon you, the pleasure that you anticipate with anything — going for a walk and seeing a beautiful bird, the pleasure bursting upon you, it is as though your palate becomes your entire experience, and the sweetness of Life bursts upon your view, your sensations, your vision, your hearing. 

Now let us talk a little bit about this time of year. It can, as the leaves fall in your part of the world, go from being Technicolor gorgeous, to being a little dreary and drab. This has been your experience in all of the years on the planet in this part of the world. Ah. So how will this feel like a higher vibration to you? What will change in this next month and the month after that?  This will be a fun thing for you to discover! Your technique of saying to the world every morning, saying to the universe, saying to your guides, angels, your higher self, “Surprise me. I’m open to surprises today. I’m trusting that the surprises that will come to me will be joyous!”

Surprises will be interesting. Surprises will be unexpected in a way that opens up new understanding, new pleasure, new experience. You can say to yourself every day, “Oh, I’ve done this before, but I’ve never experienced it that way before!”  So, in your everyday occurrence, you are not suddenly transported to another universe. Your everyday experiences, that you are well familiar with, will become to you more rich in their offerings and in your ability to receive, to allow the wondrousness and to receive the new experiences. 

Every experience has value for you. This is why you incarnate. This is why you play the game. This is why you run the movie. Every experience has value to you, and so you stop in each moment and you sniff the air, “Oh, that wonderful smell of Fall, of Earth. The leaves are falling now, and they create a wonderful, wonderful aroma.”  

Okay, so you hear a sound that in the past, you would have said, “Oh, there’s that darn leaf blower again,” and I’m using gentle language. You will think instead, “Oh, I send ear protection to that young man carrying that monstrously noisy machine.  I hope that his ears will be safe and that he will find fulfillment from his work. That, in this period in his life,  running a leaf blower for a yard company be a good job for him, and one that helps him in many ways.” 

So you see, your experience of the leaf blower is entirely different than it was a few years ago, when you would say a string of angry words and put some headphones on, or get in your car and drive away somewhere where you did not have to listen to that.  You have asked for a gentler world, and it is moving in that direction. Yes, many people are converting to the quieter forms of leaf blowing. 

And you say, “Why not get out your rake?” Well, there are people who are reviving this too. Yes, there is something calming and gentle about moving a rake slowly across your lawn to find all those lovely leaves. And did your friend not just send you a wonderful video of raking her lawn with her grandchildren? And them lining up and, at the count of three, running forward and leaping into the leaf pile with laughter and smiles? What a joyful moment, and your friend sent it to you in the mail. She enjoys a leaf rake. Yes, they will revive. 

People will begin to realize that they have speeded up their lives to an uncomfortable degree, and they have a choice. They can move into something more comfortable, and step by step, they will do so. So we have elaborated a little bit on the qualities that you are beginning to notice, and we would take this moment indeed to affirm for you, to confirm for you entirely, that yes, indeed, you are moving into and living more in the higher dimension, of the fifth.  

You do not need to know exactly what all of the steps are, but you do know that there are twelve steps in each dimension, and you will experience each of those before you are ready to open the door of that elevator. You see?  And sometimes you stay in the elevator for a while, and it goes up and it goes down, and it goes up and it goes down, and you just enjoy watching the floors change. Yes, it is fun. Do you remember that story of the little girl in the big hotel in New York, Eloise? [by Kay Thompson & Hilary Knight]. She would ride the elevator up and down and up —and get off where she wanted and run along the hallway and find the the stairs, the physical stairs, and run up them and run down them. This is what is happening in your world right now, and there is a playfulness and a joyousness to it. All of the heavier energies are being left behind, when each of you is ready, and we honor the pace of every single one of you. 

[part 2 on Abundance, next week! ]

Great love to each one of you. This is Maitreya.  Until the next time. Farewell.

Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, November 7th, 2025

Light Will Not Fail

by Jennifer, posted in Being the Light, Channeling, Hope, Lighthouse, Spirit Cafe, spiritual community
Portland Head Light through the sumac, September 2025, by Jennifer Donaldson

My friends, how are you doing? Many Light-workers and Love-holders report being particularly exhausted lately. Sensitivity to the world’s pain can drain our energy very quickly. Compassion for all that the planet is going through can stretch our spirits very thin.

Here is a way to refresh your weary heart: by taking a break rather than doing more, with easing up rather than trying so hard, with choosing peace rather than focusing more on the chaos, with a daily hour outdoors soaking up the color, the beauty, the inspiring design of our natural world.

I love to walk in a nearby park along the rocky edge of the ocean, breathing in the dee deep blue of the ocean, and the refreshing oxygen and presence of the trees. Then I find a bench and sit for a while with what is strong, enduring and grounding, the cliffs crowned by this beautiful Lighthouse.

Where are those special places in your part of the world? How can you take loving care of yourself in the midst of change? How can you rise through exhaustion to holding the excitement about the beautiful life in 5-D that is now open for everyone?

Our Lighthouse team has been sharing thoughts about this in preparation for our monthly SPIRIT CAFE coming up this Saturday- the 20th.

SPIRIT CAFE will be open again for an hour of conversation and a short meditation or channeling, on Saturday September 20th at 11 am EDT (Eastern USA.) Come for community, insight and more fascinating conversation about All Things Spiritual. 

NOTE: we have a new LINK.

This month our team – all of us are Council of Love teachers & coaches – will open a discussion on-line on the topic of Lightworker exhaustion vs optimism.  Why are many feeling disheartened while others feel stronger than ever, full of hope and energy…. What is going on?

Linda Dillon, our mentor and founder of the Council of Love, with our angels & ascended masters, are constantly expanding our understanding through strategic, informative classes and seasonal events. Because of this great resource, many of us have bonded into a strong & supportive community, filled with hope for Nova Gaia.

Spirit Cafe is inspired by the Council of Love. Please join us this month! We’d love to see you. Everyone is most welcome.  

NEW LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84820870165      Meeting ID: 848 2087 0165

SPIRIT CAFE ~ on Riding the Waves

by Jennifer, posted in angels, Being the Light, channeled guidance, Channeling, joy, spiritual guidance

The Lighthouse Team of Council Of Love Teachers, Sue, Adrienne, Rob, Roxanne, Martin and I, are all excited to announce that we’ll be holding the next SPIRIT CAFE conversation on Saturday, APRIL 12th at 11 am EDT (Eastern time)!!!  

We so look forward to these rich open conversations on relevant topics.  This month, all our chats have led to “Riding the Waves of Change”. How are we getting through the rough and tumble of this time of transformation, intact and with grace? So much seems to be coming at us, too fast!  

What we are learning in the melee is that everything seems to serve a purpose for good. Every day is full of miracles. Everything we experience can be seen as a challenge and a blessing.

But it often takes our friends to help us understand this alchemy of perspective, to see the hard and scary times as invitations to align. And what’s the quickest way to alignment? Let’s talk about it on Saturday! Join us? It’s free and you are most welcome to listen in or add your perspective.

Use this link or here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81970023054

The following is a related inner conversation with an Angel called Alashara. She speaks to our theme in a truly loving and helpful way, coaching us in how to ride these waves every day and reminding us of the power of our choice.

Your Joy is Innate, channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson April 4, 2025

Alashara: Yes, this is Alashara. I am here to remind you to be open to surprises.  You have -at your fingertips – any one of us to have a conversation with.

I step forward because I wanted to remind you that you have prepared for this time, that you have within you all knowledge. You can see what is before us. You can see your way through the tunnel. You know the shape and the beauty and the wonder of what is at the end of the tunnel. This has all been shown to you in preparation for this journey. It is there for you. There are occasions when you will shudder a little, a spider falls down from the top of the tunnel and you go, “Whoa!”

But you are very good at re-centering yourself.  And do not for a moment berate yourself for taking the time that it takes to recenter, to come back to your place of peace, your place of comfort, your place of wisdom, your inner strength. It is there, and this is the human journey.

These are the moments that knock you off your feet, the waves that knock you off your feet, and you are sitting in the midst of the swirl, and your feet are in the air and you’re laughing, but you find your balance. Do you come out a bit wet, and it takes a while to dry off?

You were wondering where and how to find your joy in the midst of the discomfort of change. Yes. Remember, your joy is innate. Your joy is a very deep part of you. It is the core of you. But allow yourself the entire journey. Allow yourself all of those sensations, all of those emotions. And you do know you can tug on us when you are feeling extreme discomfort.

As far as what to tell others at this time, do not hide the joy, if you need to make a headline: “sharing joy In the midst of misery, in the midst of fear, in the midst of doubt and worry”- share your joy.

You are wondering: How, in a time when so much creativity is surfacing, so many ideas are coming forward— “Oh, we could do this. Oh, we could do this, we could do this, we could do this,” and then you find that you are doing more and you find you are more exhausted. Yes, it is a time of adjustment in this way. 

You will find yourself burgeoning. This is an old word, burgeoning, such as, the Earth is now burgeoning. Much is growing, much is popping up, just springing forth, and it is greatly beautiful.

Allow yourself to be comfortable,  no matter what happens. Allow yourself to trust the pacing. Trust the flow to contain the best speed for each day. Do not distrust the flow. We have invited you over and over to allow the flow. So why distrust it? Why label it? Why? Why say it is too fast or there is not enough of it, or there is not enough time. Just know that what there is time for is in the perfect flow. What you feel like doing is in the perfect flow.

You do not need to commit yourself to everything way ahead of time. You can always be clear that you will choose what is in your highest alignment at the time. And it is not always possible to see this ahead of time. And others will wait. They will go about choosing their best flow.

You choose, and then it manifests. And then you ride the waves. But it begins with choice. The choice is the initiator. If you choose a peaceful day, choose a peaceful day. Watch it unfold. Begin your morning with your choice, your conscious choice. “Today, I choose a peaceful flow”, and even surprises will come to you as delightful rather than alarming.

And you, if you are being empathic, will pick up on everybody else’s feelings. But that does not need to swamp you, that does not need to upend you.  Just say, “I notice.  I notice there are strong feelings about this. We will be all right.”  Be there when you can for another’s feelings, just calmly, and trust them to handle it.

You have all been learning, some of you more consciously than others, but you have all been learning. … So trust this and know that you are doing very, very well, and not only that, we are very grateful for your sense of dedication and purpose, for your love you are bringing the planet. We are with you in that love. We will restore you. We will add our love to your love. We want to share our love, too, on the planet. Thank you for channeling. Thank you for being in relationship with all else. 

Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson April 4th, 2025

Thanksbeing: a perpetual hug

by Jennifer, posted in BE LOVE, Being the Light, Creation, Divine Father, Divine Mother, Divinity, Life in 4/5D, relationships
photo by John PM Higgins

Hope you had a beautiful Thanksgiving Day… mine did not turn out the way I expected, as some family were sick. So we postponed a few days. At first I felt sad and disappointed, but as the day went on, I discovered that opportunities opened up: deeper connection to those I did see, time to myself in the studio, so rare, and the chance to sit with myself and explore the depths of gratitude. In the fullness of love, I would like to share my thanksgiving prayer with you ~ Jennifer

Thanksbeing:  November 28th, 2024

And as I settle into my heart, I ask my Higher Self and my Guides to come closer, to take my hand, pat me on the back, caress my cheeks, smooth my hair, kiss my brow. Thank you all. Thank you, my guides, for all that you do for me. Thank you to the ones who I know intimately and to the ones who are still a little unknown to me. Thank you for all who assist me in this human life, keeping me out of danger, alerting me to my opportunities, helping me settle into the emotions that I am feeling in any given time, helping me to wring the truth, the beauty and the lesson from each experience.

I AM deeply grateful to Mama and Papa for creating me in the first place. And for giving me the power to create also my life as it comes to me. I’m grateful for understanding that it is a movie that I am projecting, that it is myself that is outside of me and the universe that is within. Somehow we are backwards in our thinking, thinking we are nothing within and that what is outside is everything. 

Oh, I know this is a conundrum and difficult to understand, but I am beginning to glimpse this truth: All that I Am and all that I’ll ever Be is within me, there in the wholeness, there in the stillness and there in the embrace of Mother/Father/God. 

There is a perpetual hug going on, an infinite embrace. It is a very loose embrace, there is much movement afforded, but we are all truly connected by love. And what is that but an embrace? 

I wish to thank all of my brothers and sisters on the planet, those I don’t know and those that I do, those whose faces I know, and those who are new to me, those who are dear to me and those who are very close. Thank you for the friendship, the love, the support and encouragement. Thank you for the laughs and thank you for the good times and the explorations, thanks for all of your creativity and your amazing minds. Thank you for leading the way. Thank you for following. Thank you for walking with me, hand in hand,. 

Bless this beautiful physical planet, bless the light emanating from it and the love imbued in every cell, every grain of sand, every needle on every pine tree, every tiny insect and every beautiful butterfly, every humming bird and every albatross, every little mouse and every amazing elephant, the land animals, the mammals in the sea and all the beautiful fish and the creatures who live in water, especially the wonderful octopus. Thank you all for sharing this planet with me. 

Thank you all for being in this physical realm, this amazing physical adventure, this 3D/ 4D/ 5D movie, this whole created reality. Together with our amazing, amazing Divine Parents, all who have come before and all who will follow, thank you for this amazing life in this amazing place. I do so love this world. I do so love Mother Earth in all her glory. Thank you, Mother, for sustaining us. 

Thank you to my beloved teachers, the Ascended Masters, the Archangels, and all who have encouraged me on the path to my joy. I do now claim Joy. I claim the giggles, I claim the smiles, I claim the heartwarming glances.  I claim the joy of driving down the road and seeing beauty left and right. I claim the joy of waking each morning to the light streaming into my home. I claim the joy of hearth and home, of affection, kindness and companionship. 

I know the joy of extended family, those born into the same family as me. I feel the joy of those born to me, and the joy of those born to those born to me, so precious, so precious. I carry the joy of those who came before, my parents, my aunts and uncles, grandparents and ancestors. Thank you. 

Because of everyone and everything, I am who I am today, I am in the joyous moment of this Now, this gratitude prayer. Thank you. Thank you All.

Thank you to each one of you who have read this, each one of you who will, each one of you who extends your love to meet mine, that together we may weave a more wonderful world. 

Thank you to my team, my old friends, my new friends, to all who lend their hearts to the common good and the blessing of friendship. I am deeply grateful, sweetly grateful, blessedly grateful, ever grateful for what is now and all that is to be.

 May we go forth in heart, may we go forth hand in hand, walking together, expanding our love, expanding our light, lifting up, embracing, consoling and inspiring. 

May we give back all that we have been given and keep the ripples going. May it be so, with so much love, love upon love, wave upon wave, and breath upon breath. Thanksbeing. 

To All Who Love, by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, November 28th, 2024

For All The Lighthouses ~

by Jennifer, posted in Being the Light, Channeling, Divine Mother, Lighthouse, spiritual community, spiritual guidance, The Time Is NOW

Note: this message was channeled on Nov. 4th, feeling in need of some reassurance that – no matter what- we would be able to get through the storm… I love Divine Mother’s words and hope that they reach all of you too, who are holding light for those in your sphere. Blessings and Love, Jennifer

Channeling Divine Mother, Nov. 4th, 2024

Jennifer: I’m feeling Mama Divine, Mother.  Quan Yin is standing beside her, and my higher self is just totally surrounding me and chuckling and giggling, because the image I got was …a picture of a mouse, which is my totem. It’s a picture of a mouse holding a little teeny, weeny, weeny, perfect teddy bear. So it was just that sense of being my symbolic self and my real self and my human self all mixed together and going to Mother and just receiving so much comfort, just in a moment. The teddy bear is the comfort.

I’ll see who wants to speak.

Divine Mother: This is your Mother. I am smiling at your mousy self, because in another sense, you are quite a lion, capable of quite a roar. You have the cat energy in you, my dear, you purr and you love to be warm, and you love to be comfortable and you love to be petted. But truly, you have a mighty roar. And while you may carry the mouse within you, it is actually a very smart little mouse, and it is a clever little mouse, and it is a good navigator and a good caregiver for you. 

So you are asking about your tendency to perhaps stretch your energies a bit too thin, and how you would like to be able to guide yourself during this period so that you may have maximum effectiveness in your desire to be the lighthouse, to be the channel of truth, to be the conduit of love, to be the reminder of the love within each one who you can reach. 

… this is the time to amplify your offerings to others. So I would concentrate on that this week. And when you need a break from it, when you reach a stopping point, when you want to take a breath, you can slip in something else, you see, you can add to your other desires as you are creating them. You can continue to paint a mandala over here. While you have one in front of you, it is fine just to prioritize the one thing for now and when that is complete, obviously —and this sounds like… I think you already know these things— but when you have completed one thing well, then you allow your attention to embrace the next, you see? 

And because the process of channeling and posting and encouraging and getting the word out of the different ways in which you desire to be of service, because those are cyclical, weekly, or, you know, monthly, or however that you wish to do them, they will continue to cycle back and back and back. So you will never finish one thing completely and have it off your desk. You will learn to attend to it, to clear it from your pile, to accomplish it.

 But think of it in a fun way, like baking brownies. Yes, you have these ingredients, and you have this step and that step and then the other step. And for heaven’s sakes, don’t forget to put it in the oven and bake it, you see? And you can enjoy, when you have completed a task, the savoring, the lovely smell, the wonderful feeling that you have brought something to light, that you have brought something to your brothers and sisters on the planet, all of those who you do love dearly, and we love so dearly. 

And so we share this with you, and we rejoice with you that you desire to bring this and that you are doing so. And I would include [Rob Loveland] in this. And there are others who you know and are close to, who are also working in this way, this time, offering your time, your effort, your excitement, your passion, your dedication, but mostly your love. Yes, you are the lighthouse of love. You together, all of you in your group. So enjoy this, enjoy your creation, and know that we are with you at all times. 

And if you yourself feel the need for some reassurance, if you yourself are feeling any anxiety, any confusion, any shock, you know how to come to us and we will assist you. Don’t forget this, because you do not have to do this alone. We do think you know this, but we are stating it for the record so that all of you know this, all of those you share this with. 

The advice you heard today [Eckhart Tolle] to stay in the Now moment, rather than ten minutes ahead or two days ahead, is very sound advice. It does not help you to say “What will happen?” Just say, “Is there a problem right now?” Usually there is not, you see. So turn to us for some comfort, for some hugs, for some energetic embrace. You know is always there. You will always receive this when you ask.

Thank you for co-creating this new era of love, this new era of each of you stepping into the golden, shimmering presence of yourselves as Children of the One. We love you so dearly. You. We will see if Rob has a question. 

Rob: I’m not sure how to phrase this as a question, but as I was thinking about what Quan Yin said, and then what you have further expanded on that this time, this week and maybe the next few weeks, I keep coming back to that original saying that I had about being a lighthouse, that a lighthouse doesn’t run up and down the shore looking for boats in need. It just remains fixed on its foundation. 

But while doing that, it’s a time of just turning up our light to reach a greater number of people from where we are fixed right now? 

Mother: Yes, yes. And cleaning your windows (chuckle). Maintaining the light, but standing firm and tall, standing in your balance, doing whatever it is that you need to do to feel strong.  

Rob: Solidly anchored. 

Mother: Solidly anchored, yes. And beaming the light does include these activities that you have discussed with Kuan Yin. Your postings are reaching many. You will not see their faces, perhaps, but know that your words, our words through you, our words together, are reaching into their hearts. Yes. They are feeling the love. If you feel the love, it will transmit. Thank you for being open and feeling the love. 

Rob: And thank you for that confirmation. 

Mother: I’m happy to be in such deep and tender connection with each one of you. Thank you. 

Jennifer: Well, Mama sure felt sweet tonight.