Yesterday morning, a friend texted me this question:

“Are we doing all that is within our power to heal the times we are living in?”

(They described it as “random.” I described it as deep.)

I immediately felt a “yes” in answer to the question, and then felt the undeniable sensation that a channeled message was incoming. Here’s the message:

We notice the pathway to healing lies within refraining from objectifying the manner of healing, from holding the vision for a specific way of healing. To give over the wanting of the outcome is to improve the opportunity for the healing. To offer the healing and then to step back and observe what is healed without judgement is the powerful path to wholeness.

To be clear, given the question was posed from this person to me, the “yes” in response took into account just the two of us. If I add a few words to the question, we might receive a different answer. Here’s the revised question:

Are we, as a collective, doing all that is within our power to heal the times we are living in?

The answer is “no.” Does that change the channeled message? I’m told, “No.”

Refrain from objectifying the manner of healing

Whether it’s a headache, a broken bone, a tornado outbreak, a divided country or a devastating war, it’s important to set our intention for what needs healing. Identifying the focus of our healing makes clear what the healing is being invoked for. Makes sense, right?

That’s as far as our intention will best go, however. While we might want to also identify the way our focus will be healed, our idea of what will best serve as a healing vehicle may not align with what’s actually needed.

We could certainly make assumptions about what would best heal that broken bone, and yet those assumptions might not be as beneficial as what’s available beyond the scope of our ego mind.

Give over the wanting of the outcome

This one might challenge our ego. We probably have strong opinions about what (and/or who) the divided country needs in order to heal (speaking of the US, here), and equally strong opinions about what outcome will come of that healing.

Problem is, those opinions are based on our personal perspectives, backstories, beliefs, political affiliations, etc. In other words, they’re our personal wants, not the country’s needs.

The same applies to a headache, a broken bone, a tornado outbreak and a devastating war.

If we really want healing to occur, we need to refrain from intending an outcome, no matter how “right” and even obvious it seems to us.

Offer the healing and then step back

The way of this sees the human returning to its origin of soul and understanding the wholeness abiding there. The wholeness is the space from which the healing comes, and from which the outcome will come. This makes possible the full spectrum of healing, without the interference of the human ego mind to bring about an outcome which might be far worse than the dis-ease.

This is about allowing ourselves to admit that our human selves truly don’t know what will be best in any given healing situation.

We can suppose and postulate all we want, drawing on our wealth of knowledge and wisdom, and yet without stepping away from a desired outcome in the offering of healing we risk mucking things up in a really big way for the recipient of that healing. (The offering of healing includes prayers, by the way.)

Doing all that is within our power to heal the times we’re living in

Doing all that is within our power, in this instance, involves doing less than we might think we need to. It involves checking our ego, remembering we aren’t an omnipotent god, and offering whatever healing energy we employ with as absolute a level of purity as our humanness allows.

When we take a step back after offering that healing energy, observing whatever outcome may result, we can rest assured we did everything within our power to create healing that is truly for the best of all involved. 💞

Happy May!

Our porch is a very busy place - at least for the wren family. The babies hatched early last week, and Mama and Papa Wren are back and forth all day long bringing those babies food.

We can’t see the babies, unfortunately. We can hear them, though, when either of their parents arrives. If the suggested timeline for their fledging holds true, they’ll likely be leaving the nest about Sunday (Mother’s Day in the US) or Monday.

While it’s been an honor to host them, we look forward to reclaiming the porch for our use. We have two nesting boxes and a three-storey birdhouse to add to our yard, as well as a replacement wreath for the front door that won’t accommodate a nursery nest.

I remain hopeful I can salvage the nested wreath and hang it inside the house. (Our house, not the birdhouse, just to be clear. ) We’ll see.

Yours in peace and gratitude,