September 11

Don’t tell anyone, but I’m about to break the rules. I’m going to share a channeling that is usually reserved only for members of my website, because I just realized something that stopped me in my tracks.

Every year when I channel the Daily Message for September 11, I always pay a little more attention because it is such an important day in our history as a country and across the world. Two weeks ago when I channeled ahead for this day, here is what I got: 

“September 11, 2012: There is a sense that everything changes today, like a revolving door. Be prepared to try something new.” 

So, why am I telling you this? Why is this message for September 11 so special? Because it isn’t special at all. I am sharing this message because it is so unbelievably mundane that it reveals something remarkable. 

I looked back to last year’s September 11 Message and here’s what it said: 

“September 11, 2011: The collective energy of this day for 2001 still resonates. It is time this year to roll up your sleeves and move forward. This day on the calendar is ending its contract to hold collective trauma. Do your part to step into an empowered stance by taking positive action in your life, rather than dwelling on your regrets. You have healed what you can by sitting still. It is time to heal by acting with integrity, compassion, and empowerment.” 

Did you catch that? This day on the calendar is ending its contract to hold collective trauma. In other words, starting last year there is no longer karma held by this day in regard to those heartbreaking events in 2001. This means that whatever feelings we still carry from that terrible day are being carried by us as individuals and BY CHOICE. If we are still resentful, fearful, or otherwise traumatized, it’s up to us to heal it. The time-space continuum held a vibration for this for ten years. I think it probably did so to hold that collective trauma for us so we could deal with it one step at a time instead of all at once. But now, according to the Records, that collective space in time is done with holding trauma. 

Does this mean we are to forget those events? I don’t think so. Do we have an excuse to feel traumatized and resentful every September 11 from here forward? According to the Records, not anymore. 

As usual, our healing is in our own hands and what we choose to do with our heartbreak is up to us. 

And that, my friends, is the thing that inspired me to break the rules today. I just had to tell you because, at least for me, this information is liberating. I can stop feeling a little guilty and sad every time this day rolls around and finally let it be just another day. Do I still cry sometimes when I think about September 11, 2001? Yes. Will I ever forget? No. I became a different person on that day and I am still working to transform my fear into love. I’m just going to do it throughout the year when my heart calls me to it instead of when it appears on the calendar. 

What about you?  How do you approach September 11 each year? 

New Age Grammar Lesson

I laughed at myself today as I was updating my website with the Daily Message. I think I spent about ten minutes deciding how to capitalize the word “love” in the message for November 30. It’s not that I’ve forgotten the basic rules of English grammar. It’s just that grammar gets a bit confusing in the New Age.

There are certain words – Love and Enlightenment, for instance – that have become ideographs in the New Age movement. They’ve taken on a gravity and persona all their own. We capitalize them in the same way that more conventional religious folks capitalize the word God. We strive to have the letters in the word help us hold reverence for what we’re writing. And I think this is great. Until I find myself writing something like this:

Daily Message -- November 30, 2011
The energy of Love is very strong today. Find a way to show Love for everyone around you. Spend time meditating on the people and places you Love most, and build a sense of Love in your heart that reaches beyond your body. Live in a field of Love today.

After I typed this out, I felt uncomfortable. It’s one thing to occasionally break the rules of classical grammar in order to add emphasis. It’s an entirely other thing to write the word Love with a capital L five times in only four sentences. The inner grammar critic inside my mind just started spinning and I couldn’t do it.

So I rewrote the whole thing with no capital-L Loves:

Daily Message -- November 30, 2011
The energy of love is very strong today. Find a way to show love for everyone around you. Spend time meditating on the people and places you love most, and build a sense of love in your heart that reaches beyond your body. Live in a field of love today.

That looks better to my inner critic, but it doesn’t fit at all with the emphasis on love that was coming through the Records when I channeled this message several weeks ago.

Finally, I decided to use a little grammar rule of my very own – one I’ve come up with over the course of typing out many channelings from the Akashic Records that use the word love in so very many ways. This rule dictates that I capitalize Love when it is used as a noun, and leave it small when it is used as a verb.

So here’s the variation that finally posted on my website today:

Daily Message -- November 30, 2011
The energy of Love is very strong today. Find a way to show love for everyone around you. Spend time meditating on the people and places you love most, and build a sense of Love in your heart that reaches beyond your body. Live in a field of Love today.

I feel fine with this for now, and I’m glad I’ve come up with my own little rule for New Age grammar. Sometimes I feel like I am overcapitalizing in the channelings when I post them online. Other times I wonder if I’m not doing it enough to emphasize the importance of certain concepts coming through the Records. Whenever I channel a message, it comes through as a set of ideas and concepts. It’s up to my and my brain to figure out how to put them into language.

I think all channelers and healers must face a similar conundrum. How do you put these huge, nonlinear concepts into words? When do words fail to convey, and when do words come through so powerfully that they have the ability to heal? I’d love to hear about your experiences.