Let It Be, an Anthem for Navigating the Ascension Process

[Rather than a direct channeling, this week I’m posting an article I wrote, but the inspiration behind it is just another form of channeling.  We all have the wisdom within us, if we would only stop to listen.  — Rob]

While listening to the radio the other day, I heard one of my favorite Beatles songs, Let It Be [1], and it struck me how many meanings that simple phrase could have, all of which make it the perfect anthem to guide our way through this Ascension process.

While Paul McCartney wrote the song about a dream he had of his own mother, Mary, I (and likely many others) take the references to “Mother Mary” as the personification of the Divine Mother, making the references to her “speaking words of wisdom” ever more meaningful.  In spite of listening to the song hundreds, perhaps thousands of times, this time, it occurred to me (or was given to me by the Divine Mother 😉) that “Let it be” has three distinct connotations, depending on how we define “it”:

1. The first connotation is to let go of “it,” where “it” is any internal struggles we may be holding onto.  This one is especially important, certainly for me, at this time.  I am realizing on a daily basis just how many old beliefs, ideas, and judgments I’m holding that are just not useful and, thus, not necessary anymore.  We are meant to experience life in peace, so when that peace is disturbed, it’s an indication that we’re holding onto a belief that is no longer necessary.

2. The second connotation is allowing others to be as they are, where “it” is anyone who may be behaving in a way we don’t approve.  So often, we attempt to place limits on other’s behavior to conform to our ideas of what is right and proper.  When we sit in judgment about another’s behavior, we are really trying to control them, but, they are divine sovereign beings, allowed to act anyway they are moved.  So, in reality, any upset we feel is simply a reflection of something we are judging within ourselves.

We’re here only to learn to control ourselves — our own thoughts, beliefs, and emotions.  Taken from that perspective, this connotation is actually a specific case of the first connotation, since all judgments about others are really manifestations of our own beliefs and biases, which are in need of letting go.

3. The final connotation is a prayer to a higher force that “it” may be so, where “it” is something we desire, presumably something better than what exists now.  This time of Ascension is certainly a time of pleading with the Divine Mother to bring into our reality a better world.  In fact, I am currently focused on the portion of the song that says,

“And when the broken-hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer.  Let it be.

For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see. There will be an answer.  Let it be.”

We are living in a time when all the broken-hearted people, who are so deeply divided, are waking up and coming to agreement that there must be a better way.  There IS an answer, because the Divine Mother has a plan, but it is up to each of us to do our part to decide what we want.  Of this, I am convinced … and it leaves me with feelings of tremendous hope and gratitude.

While contemplating this song, I was reminded that many years ago (I don’t recall exactly when), I was walking down the hall of a very large Government office building where I worked, and I spontaneously started to sing “And when I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me.”  Immediately, I realized that Mother Mary was, in fact, with me … right there in the hallway.  It was her way of making her presence known at a time and place not particularly spiritual.  Of course, being in a public place, I then had to hide the flowing tears!  🤣

So, the next time you find yourself upset by anything in your life, whether internal or external, my advice to you is simply to let it be and know that everything is happening for a reason.  Return to the hope of a better world and know that Mother Mary has ”it” under control.  👏😉

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[1] Let It Be, written by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, title track on Let It Be album, released 1970.

Mother Mary on Maintaining Balance

Rob: I see myself walking on the roadway in my sacred landscape, and, of course, Mother Mary joins me and takes me by the arm. She’s just enjoying that we’re laughing so much.

Okay, over to you, Mother.

Mother Mary: Hello, my children, all. Yes, it is such a joy watching you laugh, having your conversations about the tumult in the world and how it need not affect you.

You are all learning to find that place of balance, and that is the key. It is all about balance, finding the balance within yourself, the within and the without. It’s not just above and below, but within and without [as well]. What is in the outside world must be balanced with what is within you, your own spirit, your own sense of centeredness – as you just said, Rob, to care about what happens in the world, but not allowing that to affect you and take you off of your own center.

We commend you, Rob, for the place you are at the moment, in a place of more balance. Not to say that you’ve solved all the world’s problems, but at this moment, it is a good day. It’s been a good week, a good month.

Of course, all of this is helped tremendously by that wonderful grandchild of yours. Nothing will help you find the balance within your own life more than the beauty found in the eyes and in the smile of a small child, reminding you continually of what life should be about – the never ending sense of wonder, of exploration, of finding what’s new in everything that’s right in front of you.

So yes, as depicted in the Tarot’s Two of Pentacles card, you are in a place at the moment of acknowledging the chaos in the world, but staying within yourself and finding that place of joy that allows you to dance. And it’s all centered in that place of balance. You have found that balance for the moment. Yes, there may be times when you are pulled off, but you understand enough now how to bring yourself back.


Enjoy these moments when life seems to be easy, and even when faced with rather extreme expenses in the financial side, it doesn’t seem to affect you. It doesn’t faze you. This is the way of things. This is the way of balance. You know all will be taken care of. You will be taken care of. We, the entire Company of Heaven have your back, as it were. All will be well. Just allow, but more importantly, just have fun!

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A serene garden scene featuring a seated Buddha statue and a statue of a woman with a blue robe, surrounded by small stones, shells, and colorful flowers.
Mother Mary and her friend Buddha decorated for Spring….

Jennifer channeling Divine Mother on the Balance of Giving & Receiving

Jen: So, Mama, tell us something about why we resist taking care of ourselves. (A motorcycle roars past outside.) It’s noisy today… 

Mother:  This is a an example of the kinds of distractions that you have in your world. And it is not that there is a desire to be neglectful of your own true self, or to not take good care of yourself. There’s no desire in the way of deliberately wanting to cause this kind of neglect. It is really just that you live in a time, an era, when there is enormous pressure on you, socially and financially. 

In many ways, there is a lot of pressure, and therefore the distractions are multitudinous. There are many ways in which you can become distracted from any intention you might have to take better care of yourself. 

You also have a history – another factor within you – of lifetimes in which your intention to live as good a life as possible involved adhering to the recommendations of the church. And the church, in many ways, found it useful to point you to others, to helping others, to putting others before yourself, because it kept you off balance. 

Frankly, if you can see this for the manipulation that it was, understand it, forgive it, let it go. We’ll clear the energy for you to be able to say, “Oh, I so wish to be in balance. I wish to offer the wisest possible experience for the personality and for the soul that is using this particular body” – yourself.  

You can remember that balance is intrinsically valuable in any situation. Realize that the energy going out from you needs to be replenished, the energy that you spend loving the world or caring for your loved ones.  Caring for anything in your life needs to be balanced by an incoming energy of self-nurturing. 

That will take different forms, some of them helpful and some of them more, say, useless rather than destructive. But there are those of you who nurture yourselves in a so called “adult” way, by pouring alcohol down your throat. This is not particularly helpful. It has its uses. It has an effect of relaxing you and relaxing your inhibitions, so that you can revel in feeling a little freer and more relaxed. So it is useful in that sense. However, it is not in balance as far as self-nurturing. So this is a misuse of the idea of giving to yourself that which will be pleasurable, which will balance that which is supposedly difficult or challenging for you, which is what you give out. 

You know this, you can understand and see what it is I’m speaking,  that there is a mis-figured, misguided, a warped – if you want to use that word – sense of the coming in and the going out of the divine energy filling you and flowing through you.  

I would say, I would characterize this as a Third Dimensional system longing to work more efficiently and more productively, if you are creating recreational opportunities for yourself that don’t truly give Life to your body or inspiration to your mind, don’t give or allow love to your heart. You truly are nourished by love, and so you seek it in lots of ways in this world that are not helpful or not productive, but there is always the longing. 

So we would bring you back to a higher dimensional perspective, which is one of seeing yourself as created out of love, and therefore needing love to sustain yourself. So if you want to be of service to the world, as so many of what you call your light workers, your love bringers, your love holders, if you want to bring light and love to the world, then you need to bring light and love into yourself through a deliberate choice of opening your chakras, opening your heart, opening your crown, opening yourself to receive. 

This is what is so valuable about the meditation practices. But there are other wholesome and energy-supported practices which are not as formal as meditation, and that is the enjoyment of being in a loving relationship with anyone of any age that you know, children are particularly helpful for this.  

Also, to find some experience of yourself outdoors, in the fresh air, in nature, with your feet on the ground, so that you are in balance with Divine Mother in the Earthly representation. 

So the balance in, the out, the flowing down, the flowing through, flowing back, the giving up, giving up to Us, which is All That Is, Source, in the way you give prayer, the way you give your longing, the way you ask us for help, you speak with us, you offer us relationship. This is a giving up, giving up to a higher vibration, and then you open the door for that to flow into your being. 

A woman with glasses and light gray hair, wearing a blue top and a patterned scarf, smiling softly against a natural background.

All of these things are things you know about, but we have just put it into a context here of how to nurture your own sweet self. Thank you for this time. I am your Divine Mother and I love you, each and every one, dearly. 

Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, April 9, 2026, South Portland, Maine USA

Mother Mary on Buttons, Blessings & Meditation

A serene image of a woman with a halo, set against a bright sun shining over the ocean, evoking a sense of spirituality and calm.

Jennifer:  So I’m relaxing in my little unicorn floaty again and then it turned into riding on a unicorn. [I have a unicorn higher dimensional friend named Ukiel.]

We’re kind of sailing around in the skies behind Rob’s lighthouse there [Rob had a zoom screen with a lighthouse photo].

So I’m feeling Mother Mary, I’ve been getting you a lot, Mama.

Mother Mary: Yes, my love, we are most pleased to be the one invited today.

I do speak with you, in your heart, and you have been drawn more and more to my presence and to be present for me, for others. 

In answer to your questions, the workshop idea is excellent. There are many who struggle with learning to meditate and what will work, and for you to try a variety of things and have people collect them and then decide what they want to use, and also invite them to invent for themselves what makes the most sense for them at that time.

A cartoon illustration depicting a spiritual fair with three booths labeled 'Past Life Reading', 'Meditation', and 'Future Telling'. A woman at the meditation booth humorously asks for 'Present moment anyone?'.

The main thing is to take the time away from your usual rushing around, and all of you do rush around, and those who don’t rush around physically, rush around mentally.

So the main point is to stop the rushing around. Take the few deep breaths and lie back in your beach chair. Let the waves lap on your toes. Listen to the seagulls and rest. Rest in your own beingness, and that is where you allow space for guidance.

Meditation is one of those practices that we are expanding greatly and we are promoting on the planet for all of your benefit. There have been a great many people involved in this movement toward making meditation mainstream.

Now [second question], as for why is everyone falling apart— and are we putting them back together?

So, we are well aware that this is an important tool in your ascension process. It is an important skill to practice. So have fun dreaming of this and doing the writing involved and speaking to people about it. I think it will be very helpful.

We are supporting you very much in this. [Watch for more on this upcoming workshop soon!]

This is part of the process. At this point in time, many people are reaching a point of congestion in their energies, and so they will precipitate some kind of incident to bring about a re-set, such as your friend has experienced. They will precipitate, with their higher selves and their guides, a set of circumstances which will lift them into a new way of being. 

And each of you are looking to the others as a little bit alarmed. “Oh my dear, my, this one is falling down.” “Oh my dear, this one is falling down.”  Think of it as: This one is falling through, falling through the veils, lifting into, paradoxically, falling down and being lifted up into a higher vibration. 

In every single case, the one experiencing the incident, or the crisis, or the challenge, is being lifted into the next stage of their own human adventure.

And of course, it is going to be an upgrade.

Yes, not just a reset, but an upgrade.

Now, not all of you need to go through something like this. Some of you have already gone through this. Rob mentioned his brush with Lyme, his – well, shall we call it an “entrapment”?  It was more than a brush. It was rather a long incident for him, but he came through it, and he was, in effect, rewired and ready for this stage in his development.  And it has been a most fruitful stage, has it not, Rob?  See?

So, you see, these are the opportunities embedded within what seems like a rather fraught experience. And it does push all your buttons, but it also discharges any energy behind the button mechanism, if you will follow my analogy.  Here it is, as though all of your touchy points, all of your —well you call them “buttons” — are actually…

Jennifer: I’m getting a thing like a spark plug and a something going on in a car… 

Mother Mary: …which you [Jennifer] don’t have the language for. But one thing sets off something else, which then discharges something else,  to get something going.  

Cartoon drawing of two simplistic characters with hearts and dots, one saying, 'I'll push your buttons, if you'll push mine.'
Cartoon by Jennifer Donaldson, 2023

This is how this works for each of you, and it is in your best interest always. Of course, your buttons, as you call them, serve to hold on to a lot of energy, and do not always function in the most blessed of ways. 

Now, if you will see any growth incident as a blessing, you are then using the button mechanism to grow by leaps and bounds. Each one is opening doors for you, opening windows, paving a new pathway, putting a bicycle in your path, a brand new, shiny one! 

Each of these incidents of emotional outburst or awareness of something that is not working, if you will pay attention to it and feel it and ask for the guidance around “Where is the blessing?”  “Where is the nut meat in the cracking of this nut? Because all I’m feeling is the cracking,” then you will get to the point where you treat every moment of your life as being full of blessing for you.  

And just keep asking yourself, “Where’s the next blessing? Here it is —it’s this insight, it’s this hug, it’s this pair of eyes, it’s this email from a friend.”  And even when someone sends you a message that was not what you were looking for, there is a blessing. There is a blessing. 

And if it isn’t for you, immediately, then it is for the other and so you can say, “Well, there was a blessing there. It was mostly for the other person. So I participated, and it was my honor to participate,” and there is the blessing.  

You cannot lose with this method.  Watch for your blessings. You will all be blessed continuously, I might add.

Do you have your eyes open? Do you have your ears open? Do you have your heart open? Is your mind functioning to assist your growth?

It has been my very wondrous pleasure to be present with you today.  Thank you.

Jennifer:  Oh, thanks!!  [To teammates] I felt her energy so strongly today.