New Year Thoughts from White Eagle

I love the bright energy of New Year time. It always encourages me to feel optimistic and look at everything in a more positive light. None of us can know what will actually lie ahead in the ensuing months, but what we can ALWAYS be sure of is God's love and care for us all.

White Eagle asks us to keep faith in this no matter what.

Perhaps this might be a good New Year Resolution: 

I have faith in God's love and care for all life.

I have faith in God's Perfect Plan.

White Eagle reminds* us:

'We in spirit can look upon the earth from an angle which you cannot. We can see into the hearts of people, and what we see is beautiful. We see goodness, we see the light of Christ growing. We also see that which is crying out for love, and this is where you can help.....you have the power within to create your own heaven and to create your own hell, to create heaven or hell for your brother man....

and so we say in this New Year...

look to the spirit; let the spirit guide you in all your undertakings. Be true to your innermost light, and you will create heaven and know complete happiness on earth.' 

 *These words of wisdom and  more to inspire us throughout the year are in our book White Eagle on Festivals and Celebrations.

Christmas Gifts

'What can I give him, poor as I am?

If I were a shepherd, I would give a lamb.

If I were a wise man, I would do my part.

But what I can I give him.......

....... give my heart.'

I have always loved these words by William Blake in the well known Christmas carol. Even as a child, they meant a lot to me. Now, hearing the carol again this year, the words seem even more meaningful.

We are very near the traditional time of giving, and the shops and media are full of possible gifts for friends and family. And perhaps this year, after the separation and isolation of last Christmas, there is an even stronger feeling of wanting to acknowledge how much companionship and friendship means in our lives.

However, for many, illness and loss of jobs, and all the uncertainty of what lies ahead with new variations of covid, probably means that material giving of the expensive gifts we might wish to buy is not possible. But the great comfort is, I hope, that we all have a gift which we can give, no matter what - the priceless gift of LOVE.

The traditional story of the three wise men tells of three gifts. They may have been real material objects, but they are certainly symbolic of the gifts we can both give and receive in our lives.  (White Eagle has given us interesting teaching about this*.) We have been learning a lot about MYRRH, the challenges of living in a physical world, but this less welcome gift does bring with it great opportunities for developing spiritual wisdom, as well as down to earth practical kindness, such as free food parcels for the hungry and shelter for the homeless. And the  gift of FRANKINCENSE is symbolic of the heavenly and angelic help - the gentleness and sweetness which is there for us all - especially if we do all we can to follow our guiding Star! 

But best of all,  I think, is GOLD - the gift  of God's light and love in our hearts, which can shine out in the darkness of material life and transform everything.

With my best wishes for a 'gold-filled' Christmas

Jenny

*  White Eagle on Festivals and Celebrations is a lovely book - and it does make a great gift!

 

 

Remembering

Remembrance Sunday is a poignant time for so many, and its significance seems even more important nowadays, not only to the older generation who remember the world wars, but to the younger ones who study them in their history classes at school, but also witness vividly through media coverage, the horror of modern weapons. Also, we witness the courage of those who have survived military conflicts, but been terribly injured, and have to re-build their lives. We see the bravery of those who support their recovery, their close family members, and those who repair broken bodies and minds. 

There have been so many inspiring stories this Remembrance time, which have touched my heart more than ever before. It is as though the separation from loved ones, which comes about with the pandemic, has highlighted the importance in our lives of those we love, and how significant it is to remember what they have given to our own lives.

Probably in most countries and cultures there are special ways to remember. In Latin American countries there is the festival of 'El Dia de los Muertos' (the day of the dead), and in the Christian church we have All Saints and All Souls Day. Halloween has similar roots, even though it has become commercialised these days with concentration on ghosts!

White Eagle's teaching gives a different perspective on remembrance, as he reassures us of the reality of eternal life, and that our loved ones living on are not ghostlike! On Sunday, we held our on-line Remembrance service. It is wonderful that technology now allows this opportunity to come together at the inner level, when physical attendance is not possible. (We had participants  from Africa, Europe and all over the UK.) This also brings to mind the fact that our loved ones in spirit (heavenly beings and angels) join us too, and they do not need the internet to do this! 

One of the readings from White Eagle's teaching we shared was really specific about our loved ones continued presence in our lives and I would like to quote a part of it again now, for readers of this blog who were not present at the service.

'We have heard you relating to your friends what a wonderful time you had with your brother or your husband and that has all passed, that has all gone. This is where you make a big mistake, because these things are not over. All the lovely memories you have are still alive and you are can re-live your experieinces of happiness and joy because your dear ones are still living in a world of feeling and emotion and desire. It is not a dark world - they are in a world of light - in many instances, a world of intense beauty and perfection of form.'

And very importantly, White Eagle goes on to say: 'You do not need to go to anyone else for your vision. You have your own vision.... you only need to love God and have an open mind..... you need to expand your consciousness. The more your consciousness expands in the God-life, the more your inner powers will unfold.'

Thank you White Eagle. So as we remember our loved ones in spirit, let's try to be open to their presence with us!