HI Everyone! Just a warm invitation to our monthly zoom chat, SPIRIT CAFE, an open forum on a variety of spiritual topics. Hosted by our teammates Sue Scofield and Roxanne Smith, come and enjoy conversation with a mug of your choice and a bunch other people who quickly become friends. No particular theme this time, so, what’s on your mind? It’s a full hour, free and always fascinating! Starts at 11 am EST. Here’s the quick link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81970023054
By the way, as the scheduling for our course Yeshua and the Magdalena landed on the same day and time, and several of us are in that class or teaching it and won’t be able to attend the CAFE, it will be fun to see who turns up this month! Try it –you’ll like it!
cU (see you, get it? looks like a little mug! LOL) Love to all!
The December 2024 Spirit Cafe discussion focused on Joy, and remarkably we spent the entire hour on that one topic — normally, we start with one topic and then meander wherever spirit seems to take us. But Joy is such a rich topic, one that everyone wants to experience, we just couldn’t leave it! After all, who couldn’t use more joy in their life?!
We discussed that while happiness and joy are related, there is a difference. After hearing the wisdom of so many, I arrived at the conclusion that happiness is the temporary, outward expression of the more permanent, inward experience of Joy. Got it.
Then, we talked about how feeling gratitude is a gateway to joy. So, that got me thinking … how are happiness and gratitude related to joy and love? Of course, being a nerd at heart, I was reminded of Star Wars Master Yoda’s assertion about Love’s opposite, Fear:
Fear leads to hate.
Hate leads to anger.
Anger leads to suffering.
So, perhaps there is an analogous progression for joy … and this is what I came up with:
Happiness leads to gratitude.
Gratitude leads to love.
Love leads to joy.
I’m happy with that! … and I’m so grateful to be part of the Spirit Cafe discussions among such loving souls. Won’t you consider joining us for the next Spirit Cafe on Saturday, 11 January 2025, for more joyous opportunities of learning, community, and fun?!
This picture was snapped just as we, Sue, Rob and I -Jen- started to come on for last month’s conversation and you can see by our faces, we really love Spirit CAFE!! It’s not just the camaraderie, it’s also the way we spur each on to find the highest perspective, the one that makes your heart zing and eases life’s tensions. I always feel like I’m walking on air after one of our CAFE conversations!
SPIRIT CAFE WILL BE OPEN this Saturday, December 14th, from 11 am to noon EST. Come & be with us for a heart-lifting discussion. Come as you are, sit in & listen or contribute to the conversation. We love to be with you!
On Saturday, we’ll start with the topic Finding Joy, share some personal stories and reflection — Is joy available, present or rare, abundant or elusive? I find It’s like taming a wild fox… joy can be a process of cultivating trust. Once you make friends with joy, it’ll continue to surprise and delight you!
So get your favorite cuppa and bring it on over to a wonderful heart-felt sharing in our Zoom room,as we feel through Finding Joy. For some tips and laughs… Join us this month!
Hosted by Sue Scofield and a group of COLT friends at A Lighthouse for the Soul ~ all newcomers welcome!
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.
[I channeled this a few days after the U.S. election. My teammates and I were discussing people’s reaction to it, and when it came my time to channel, St Germaine unexpectedly came through with this message of hope. He gives us a call-to-action to look beyond the results and unite as one, as was the original vision for America. — Rob]
St. Germain
Rob: I keep seeing the image of St Germaine standing in the [Independence] Hall in Philadelphia when they signed the Declaration of Independence. We’re standing in the back … although we’re kind of overseeing the whole [scene] — we’re up above, looking down on the hall. I’ve been there, and it’s actually not a very big room.
St Germaine: Greetings, all. This is Saint Germaine, Keeper of the Violet Flame, and yes, one of the instigators of this experiment that we call America — the New World, as it were, at the time. I show you these images to make the point that we are coming full circle to the original vision of what America, these United States, was meant to be. Yes, I had a hand in inspiring those who signed the document to actually have the internal fortitude to do so, and, for those who drafted it, to craft the words that would resonate with so many for centuries to come.
We find ourselves now at a point in the history of humanity where we’re on the cusp of truly understanding what it means to be united. I know it doesn’t feel that way at the moment, but this time — this most recent election — is showing MORE people — not just in this country, but across the world — the effect that division and separation have on our attitudes, on our beliefs, on our well-being. And everyone is coming to realize what they no longer desire, what they are no longer willing to tolerate.
The shift is happening. People understand [that] divisiveness, certainly in government systems, but in all facets of life, just does not work. It is not good for anyone.
Yes, there are times when one side feels that they’ve won, but as you all pointed out at the beginning [of your discussion], that also means there is another side who feels they have lost … and that flips back and forth from one cycle to another, constantly winning-losing. It makes no sense.
People are coming to understand, to realize, I no longer want this. I want off the roller coaster, as it were. I want to feel what it is like to be united with ALL my brothers and sisters, within my own community, within my own family, for that matter, across the nation and across the world. All these events that have happened most recently are all leading to that point of realization. It’s taking hold — perhaps slowly at first, but it is surely taking hold.
Now is the time for all of you to help your brothers and sisters to see that, to understand that the division does not serve anyone. And it’s coming together, united as one humanity. That is where we are headed. That is where you are all headed.
And it’s up to each of you to show others the way, to extend to them, as your dear teammate likes to say, the generosity of your heart, to show others what it is like, how to behave when living from your heart with love and compassion for all, irrespective of what side they are on. There are no sides!
Yes, there’s a wide range of differing beliefs, but none of that matters. You are all humans. You are all here for the same reason, for the same ultimate purpose, that is to realize who you are. And you are all the same, therefore you are all on the same journey. Yes, you all take a different path, but at the end of the day, you all end up in the same place.
As you were just looking the other day, Rob, at that image that you created of multiple paths up the mountain, yes, different cultures can all have a different path, but in the end, we all end up at the top, the point of realization that we are, in fact, all one.
We are SO excited for the times that are emerging now, for the events that are to come, for the resulting sense of unity across the entire planet, as it was meant to be from the beginning.
But thank you all for your service, for helping humanity get there, for it is happening. Rest assured. Take heart. Be proud of the role that you are playing.
Let’s get together and talk… A Lighthouse for the Soul hosts a monthly Zoom Space for an hour of catching up with each other, conversation and connection!…
However you are processing the goings-on in the world… we all need support as “The Times they are a Changing!” Many of us grew up with Bob Dylan, who was considered a prophet for our generation, and I always felt he was pointing to some really huge shifts – in our lifetime- that we would be wise to be awake to… it feels like we are in the midst of these shifts. NOW. How are you keeping your balance, your positive outlook, your heart in a space of compassion and generosity? Love, Jennifer
Let’s talk together: come to SPIRIT CAFE at 11 Am EST on Saturday: Please join us!
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A SPECIAL Channeled Message from Yeshua & Mary Magdalen, by Jennifer Donaldson with Rob Loveland, October 28th, 2024
Note: I often channel with Rob and other friends from the Council of Love, but this time we had a chance to be in the same room (rather than on Zoom) and the message was especially powerful and timely. Speaking to all who have been preparing for these “truly tumultuous times”, Light-workers, Love-bearers, Old Souls, all — this is what we were born for!!
Jennifer: (Settling in to channel) So I’m feeling Papa on the back of me from my ears all the way around to the back and all the way down my spine, down to my heels, to my elbows and the backs of my hands, just supporting me lightly, like a book stand supports a book. And on the front, I feel Divine Mother silkily nestling into my face, my eyes, my cheeks and lips, my throat and all the way down my torso, just completely covering me like a soft, radiant, bright pink and deep blue quilt, a fuzzy blanky.
Sinking into my heart, Mother/Father meet in my heart, front and back, and on either side is Yeshua on my right, Mary Magdalen on the left, holding my hands. And they put something in my hands as a playful note, as a note of encouragement, gifting a little silver heart, and each one is a locket. The lockets spring open and inside the locket, is a hair of each of them from their days on Earth. Very beautiful, really sweet gift. I’m grateful. Thank you. I will wear those in my heart.
So, Yeshua and Mary, Rob and I have talked a lot about the future of our class [and our plan to offer it through] the Council of Love… both of us have a very strong sense of loyalty to the COL… I feel that they are part of my soul family, and precious to me, those relationships, and [i’m wondering] what we have to offer one another going forward, through these times, these difficult times. And I still have a deep longing in me to reach as many people as possible in service.
Yeshua and Mary Magdalen, together: We are happy to be invited to respond to your self reflection. [Rob’s Grandfather clock began striking twelve.] Yes, as you feel, and as you hear, it is the 12th hour. We have been connected deeply with you… throughout these last stages of the 11th hour, where there [have been] messages of awareness, we will use that word rather than warning, the messages of awareness to begin to be aware, to begin to be ready for atruly tumultuous period in your lives which is going to upend everything.
And some of you have experienced this personally, in an episode of some sort, such as a hurricane or a sudden event in your lives, in which it turned everything upside down. Well, this is going to be a collective experience, and you will find that you do not need to enter into it on the individual level in the same way that you have had if you were caught unawares.
And this is why we have been preparing all of you, because it is very helpful to have the many of you who can be one degree or five degrees or 10 degrees removed from the impact of shock, because it is no longer a shock. You’ve been hearing about this for years. You know that something is going to happen. You don’t know exactly what, but you are prepared, so that when it arrives, you will say, “Yes, this is it.Here it is. This is what we came for,” and you will be able to hold your center, to hold your love and to hold your light.
Those of you who have collected around the symbol of the lighthouse are clearly those who wish to hold clarity. You are willing to channel, you are willing to write, you are willing to teach. You are particularly dedicated to holding clarity and holding the torch in the cave, as it were, during the “earthquake”.
So you see you chose this. We honor you for that, but we also remind you that you are well prepared, and you know what you are doing. You know how to do, what to do, and in that, in those moments and in those days and weeks of the worst of it, you will be able to remain the calm center, and that will be greatly assistive to others.
Remember also that one of your greatest skills -gifts- at this time will be as listeners. We know that you are mightily attracted to the role of ‘provider of words’, and we tease you a little bit about this. And this is a wonderful thing. What you have been able to, so far, extend to your brothers and sisters on the planet has been greatly instrumental in creating a fabric of peace, trust, knowing of goodness, knowing of love, knowing of centeredness, knowing of the power of your own being as creators.
So, all of your channelings, messages and postings and teaching offerings have been to establish and create and extend this net of assistance to your brothers and sisters. And so, continue with this, if it gives you joy, but the greatest gift that you are going to bring in service to your brothers and sisters at this time— it will begin with those closest to you, in geographical proximity, at the time, as the events unfold, as the oft used phrase, the days tumble one into another with revelations and new learnings each day — that is to listen. This is the greatest gift.
The greatest gift is to listen, because if you [any of you] are in anxiety, you will have the need to speak and say, “I don’t understand what’s happening. I don’t understand what to do. I don’t know how we will get through this.” Well, you are miles ahead of this, my dear, both of you, and all of you who are in your circle— and I would count the Council of Love, teachers and COLTs and your fellow students far and wide, as those who have been prepared to listen, to say, “Yes, this is not comfortable, this is not fun, but we are here together,” and listen to them.
Listen to them [those who are anxious]. Even if you have the answers, they may not be quite yet ready for the answers. So until they say, “What do you think?” or , “What have you heard, or what do you know?” Or, “How can you be so calm and peaceful in this terrible moment?” We can just say, “It has been foretold. We knew it would happen, and we know we’ll get through it. We’ll get through it by loving one another, taking each other’s hands, hugs, comfort, cheerfulness, humor.” All of the blessings of your humanity and all of the strengths, blessings and virtues of your divinity coming together, in one great, cataclysmic moment.
You will find that you are not really surprised by what happens, because there is a part of you that can see. There’s a part of you that knows, and just because you have kept the trap door closed, so to speak, you were and you are, venturing into greater knowing while you sleep, and you are experiencing a much greater awareness, and tucking it under your hat, so to speak. But this will become more and more available to you.
The main thing is to remember your own gift is to listen. Hold space for the love. Hold space for the light, but not at that moment to be proselytizing or to be offering too many words of your own, unless requested, because when one is in panic and one is in fear, one is not able to take it in and what one feels instead of comfort from your words, whatever loving words you may offer, they will mostly feel more unsafe, more unheard, and a deeper sense of separation. So for them to feel connected, the best thing is for them to listen to their hearts, listen to their own guidance, but have you model that by listening to them.
So, you will not need to hold this level of containership throughout the rest of your life, but you will have had a profound experience of the blessing that you offer if you allow the other person to feel your energy. And we are speaking specifically to those of you who enjoy giving answers and words to others.
Of course you do. It is still an excitement for you that you have discovered such answers. But now you see the value of holding space. And you do not hold empty space, you hold radiantly loving space. You hold trusting space. You hold peaceful space. This is a very valuable container for all of your encounters, all of your family relationships, and all of those who are connected to you in this period. And so allow your humanity within the larger group. …
So go ahead, move forward with your plans [for the next class]. Do not be surprised if they get tossed in the air. Do not allow yourself to become unseated or unsettled by anything. And if you find yourself temporarily unsettled, sit down. Breathe us in. We are with you, and we will help you resettle yourself into your core.
Rob: Thank you so much. …
Yeshua & MM: [chimes are heard] Your clock is quite charming. We enjoy the chimes. We enjoy so much being invited to speak with you. We are grateful. Thank you for being you.
28 Oct. 2024, by Jennifer Donaldson with Rob Loveland
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Spirit Cafe is a free, online meeting place for spiritually-minded folks to gather, learn, contribute and share all things spiritual! For folks who enjoy listening or engaging in casual conversation about the many interesting spiritual topics out there, Spirit Cafe will provide an open-minded and open-hearted platform.
Sue Schofield and the Lighthouse team of Jen, Rob, Adrienne, Paul, and Roxanne will lead off the discussion with a topic, but the discussion will go wherever YOU and Spirit choose to take it!
All are welcome and all will surely benefit from connecting with friends, family and folks from all parts of the world.
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I recently had a spiritual epiphany — namely at the Divine Neutrality webinar that my teammates and I held this past Saturday. It seems this often happens during open discussions of spiritual topics. It just goes to show you that no matter how much you think you know about a particular topic, there’s always more to learn!
After my teammates and I offered our thoughts on what Divine Neutrality is and how it manifests for us, one of the participants shared her process for remaining in that neutral place in her heart when events in the world seem so chaotic. This sparked in me a realization that had not occurred to me previously … and it’s profound enough that I’m prompted to share.
First, it’s okay to have emotional reactions related to the unfolding events in the world and the revelations they reveal — that’s part of being human. But any emotional reaction is a reflection of an expectation we hold around an old energy pattern that we’ve been holding onto. As part of the progression of the grander Divine Plan, these old energy patterns must come to the surface to be released.
BUT, in order to release them, we must remain neutral regarding the outcome. That is, regardless of whether events unfold the way we expect and regardless of whether we feel good about it or not, we cannot attach to those feelings. If we do, then we literally hold onto it so it cannot be released. Rather, we must allow the emotion to arise, feel it, and then let it go, with no expectation about what comes next.
In the end, my realization is that maintaining Divine Neutrality is not just necessary for what is outside of me, but it’s just as important to be applied to what is within me! It seems so obvious now that I “say it out loud.” 😉
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The next webinar in The Other Side of Change 4-Part Series will be Saturday, 26 October 2024, 1:00-2:30pm Eastern, with the focus being on Embracing Unity Consciousness in a World of Separation. Won’t you consider joining us to explore the simplicity and depth of this topic that will be so vital for navigating the divisiveness of the world. Perhaps you, too, will gain some profound insights.
