divine balance – A Lighthouse for the Soul

View of a sandy beach with calm water, framed by flowering branches and lush greenery.

Note: lately I was told, in no uncertain terms, to take some time off (see AA Gabrielle’s message below)… that is very hard for me to do, but i took two nights and a day this week… went to the beach and lay down for a couple of hours… It was hugely restorative. I will be doing more of that this summer… and I hope you will, too.

Rest, recharge, restore your peace, your strength, your optimism and your ability to be so present for others & our beautiful planet… Love, Jen

Channeling AA Gabriel, June 5, 2026

Jen: I’m just sitting in my heart feeling the infinity loops twirling back and forth, side to side, up and down, in and out, hither and yon, just centering. I would ask Gabriel, beloved, to sit with me and ease my heart about the experiences I’ve been having lately ~ the difficulties or obstacles, choppiness, just turbulence… even meditation is really difficult lately. Doors keep banging. I want to sink into a submersion bathtub chamber with heavy walls, [where I would] hear nothing.

AAG: This is Gabriel. You are ripe for a retreat.

This is exactly the experience you will remember from now on that indicates to you that you are ready for some quiet, some downtime, some space, some rest. You have been going 100 miles an hour for a very long time. It is fine to have a half a day of rest, [but] this is not enough at this point.

You need to take a few days off, walk by the ocean, dip your toes in the water, go up to your knees, jump in all the way -it does not matter- but you need time alone and time in the peace and harmony that is given to you for this nurturing of the energies as they are experienced within you. Then you, of course, see them outside of you.

So, working again from the outside to the inside, if you change what it is you’re experiencing, seeing, in your daily life for a few days, you will find that there is greater harmony within you. It is possible to work the equation from both directions.

Certainly, it is a guide to you that what you see without and around you is a reflection of what is within you, but also it is a useful mechanism for you to understand that if you change what is outside of you, that will often bring about that shift that you are looking for within you.

There will always be the press of life upon life. There will always be shared experiences, some of which are pleasant and some of which are annoying or irritating. You live in a crowded world with one another, on top of one another, we would say. Certainly surrounded by and with all of your personal desires to be connected with so many, you are naturally going to feel the interruptions and …it’s not always going to come at the right time, so you will sometimes feel irritated, or you will feel overwhelmed. There may be many claims upon your attention at the same time. You will have various other kinds of challenges.

We can tell you that in fact your internet is being an enormous group reflection of the chaos within, within humanity. You are all seeking clarity. You are all seeking the calm in the eye of the storm. And yes, it is a storm, sometimes a sunny one, but energetically you are in the midst of the storm.

There is debris flying around you. There are those things which get lodged within your own personal energy field, which are unwelcome. It is going to assist you, behoove you, help you, and ultimately heal you to remember that you have choices.

And if the circumstances in any given day are difficult, take at least a moment and reconnect with Mother Earth, reconnect with the representation of Divine Mother, which is most closely available to you in your environment. Put your feet upon the grass, put your toes in the water, put your fingers in the air. Allow your eyes to be bathed in the beauty of natural wonder.

Does this feel that it will be assisting to you?

Jen: Indeed, for sure.

AAG: So, what would prevent you from choosing this so clearly and directly?

Jen: Well, it seems that each day has more in it than I can possibly accomplish, so I am caught on a hamster wheel of my own making.

AAG: Yes, and it can be your unmaking as well, and you can unmake it. So dismantle it little by little. See it as not being made of metal, not being made of wood, not being made of anything solid, but being made instead of grass, being made instead of cobwebs, being made instead of light beams. See this wheel that you are playing upon- rather insistently- as being gossamer, gentle, fun.

And if you will remember to envision it differently, you will find that indeed it is changing substance, it is rising in vibration, and it will no longer trouble you. It may recur again, in which case, you remember: re-envision what you are experiencing. Tell yourself a new story. Describe your current experience in a new way, and it will follow.

Life will follow your creation, because your life is what you have created for yourself, and, you collectively have created for yourselves. So to the degree that you wish to participate within the collective creation, enjoy! If it is no longer enjoyable, now you know what to do.

Go within the quiet temple within your own heart, where all is peaceful and all is sweet, and when you are refreshed, emerge again, and it will be a new day. Great blessings to you, my dear, and to each one in your team of friends, soul friends, heart friends. Farewell for now.

A cluster of yellow and white flowers growing among dry leaves and pebbles.

Note: Lord Maitreya advises me personally in this message, and I thought it might be interesting to share with you as many of us have similar challenges. He has been very helpful in helping me to expand my practice locally, open an office, and meet lots of wonderful new people who share my curiosity and passion for spiritual growth. Another common theme he touches on here is exhaustion, which builds up, and then we need to slow down, or even, turn off and reboot. It’s all about balance: action & repose, care & self-care, pouring out & refilling… Spring is slow in my part of the world, but the cycle is surely turning: the first local flowers are blooming…so, Happy Spring everyone! Love, Jen

Jen: I guess I have a lot of questions about the best use of my time here [at my office] and the best use of my time in focusing for the next couple weeks while my son comes to visit, and the best use of my ability to channel, to reach out to Mom and to levels of her in ways that might be helpful to her at this stage [my husband’s Mom is 101 years old]. She has more and more confusion and makes less sense. But I know that that’s [on] the physical level, the personality level, and that on a spiritual level, she’s as whole as as any of us are. And so I want to speak to that level.

So I don’t know whether Gabrielle, you’d like to speak through me now or Yeshua or Maitreya. I’m just gonna go: “Eeny meeny, miny moe” or let you present yourself.

Lord Maitreya: Yes, this is Maitreya. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to be a spokesperson for all three of us at this moment. I have been close to you in these last few weeks as you have had some serious questioning about your role and your best use of focus and energy. This is a particularly sensitive time for you, as you do understand it, in a cycle of the depletions of winter, then coming into a more energetic space and not feeling necessarily filled-up or prepared or in the condition that you would like to be in to expand your work, your offering to the world.

Let me be clear, what your heart desires to offer to the world is exactly where you need to focus. Because whether it is ultimately judged to be of value to someone else is not your concern. And this is true, whether it be for your mother-in-law or whether it be for a large audience somewhere scattered throughout the WordPress world—as you like to look at that map and see the different countries represented by readers.

It is valuable for you to express from your heart that which is most dear to you, that which is welling up to be spoken, that which is helpful to you.

If it is helpful to you to channel, then channel. If you sense that others may be interested in channeling by all means, invite them. By all means, make this available to others. But it is not in any way meant to be an obligation or to be driven by the calendar. We know that you have had some doubts this month, particularly this month, especially, about the interest in your work, such that it be sustainable, to continue comfortably.

This is just this bump that you yourself are finding yourself in. Shall we call it a little bit of a combination of a rut and a bump ? It is like your muddy roads in the Spring, in your part of the world, where you either sink into the rut or you are trying to drive on the high point in the middle of the road, so that you do not fall into the rut.

It is a bumpy ride at this point, and you are very attuned to your seasons and to your brothers and sisters in your area, and to what they are feeling. Many feel the way you do— not a whole lot of energy left.

Remember the image of the multiple candles reaching in all directions, each one of them lit through the fire of your passion, your dedication and your acknowledgement of the pure pleasure and fun of channeling. You have been burning all of these candles, and you are now down to the interior of the little nest of wicks, and it is one glowing and puddling and pooling “hot mess,” as you say… (laughter!). We are delighted this brings a laugh to you, to your heart.

So. My encouragement to you would be to slow down, relax, enjoy each day, relieve yourself of any obligation whatsoever, reach for those things that give you the most sense of comfort and affection, support, alignment with those that you love. Certainly making time for your son is valuable to you.

So slow down, relax, let the next month be another month, another way of looking at what you would like to bring forth.

This idea about [a weekly channeling for] your mother-in law is very, very generous given how depleted you’re feeling, but we were also feeling the words sweet and kind. Your affection for your mother-in-law, in fact, your abiding love and commitment to her are precious to you. This would be an expression of this, but it would not serve you if it were a “should,” if it were an obligation, if it were a burden in any way.

We suggest that you use your meditation time in the morning. Ask for a message. Begin speaking with [Archangel] Gabrielle, enjoy your connection, and then ask her. Ask her to speak a few words that you can share with your mother-in-law, Mary. She is a Mary too, just in a different stage of life. [Marys were priestesses in Biblical times.] [note: I asked Mom recently about her belief in angels and who she felt close to, and she said Archangel Gabriel, who is the Queen of the Angels]

Use your Otter [app]. It will make it more simple for you to type it up. We suggest, as you are seeing, just a paragraph, which, when you translate to a large enough print for her to read, you can see will fill most of a page. So a short message for her on a weekly basis would be a beautiful gift, a most beautiful gift, but it should not, as I said, be a burden to you, merely an offering from your heart, and it will be received with great love.

You have often wondered about your connection to this one, and how you recognized her heart immediately in this life, and how valuable it was, and is, for you to spend this time in her later years, her last few years, together. There is a very strong heart connection, many different expressions of this in many different lives. You have often been connected through your spirituality, and these are the most precious of your connections.

Sometime, if you wish to explore this in greater depth, again, use your meditation time. Focus and say, “I’d like to explore this,” and we will assist you in revealing the Akashic records that are relevant to your relationship —if this is of interest to you. Truly, what is most important is that you feel the connection. You know it is there, and you feel very happy when you have sincerely and cheerfully attended to this one, this very elderly one, who is most precious to you.

Close-up of a sleeping cat, showing its nose and part of its face nestled in fur. — Repose… my cat teaches me balance.

So it is all about balance, the balance of your heart and its expression in the world, the balance of your desires and your energy. In every aspect of anything you choose there is the balance. You cannot ride a bicycle without balance. You cannot do most things without balance. So it is the doing and the being. It is the feeling and the understanding. There are two wings to a bird, are there not? This is balance.

And it is not the duality of the third dimension which we are discussing. It is not the opposites. It is the balance within life expression, that there is an overarching connection between the inner and the outer, the above and the below, the within and the without —in each life expression.

So thank you for allowing me to be the one to speak with you today, and we offer you the greatest love.

Jen: Thank you, Maitreya. Thank you.

Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, March 20, 2026.

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