Rev. Jayne Howard Feldman's
Angelic Newsletter
Winter 2009
Dear Angel Friends:
I recently attended a retreat weekend in Roanoke, Virginia sponsored by the United Metaphysical Churches of America. I am a big believer that when we need to have our spiritual batteries recharged, spiritual retreat weekends are a great way to re-energizer ourselves. Paula Matthew csj, and I will be offering 5 solar return/spiritual retreat weekends at the Spiritual Center in Windsor, New York in 2010 from May through September, and in addition I will be leading two St. Michael weekends at the Spiritual Center.
I am an interfaith minister, ordained in 1988 by Rabbi Joseph Gelberman’s New Seminary in New York City and I have also been sanctioned as a minister by UMC. The headquarters for UMC is located in Roanoke, Va.
UMC churches are divine metaphysical churches with roots in spiritualism. You can learn more about UMC at www.unitedmeta.com
Rev. Mike Perry is the pastor of Roanoke Metaphysical Chapel. He is a wonderful gifted medium who does telephone readings. Here is his email address for those of you who might wish to contact him for a private reading: starmanva@aol.com. You can learn more about the Roanoke Metaphysical Chapel and Rev. Mike at www.roanokemeta.org
As part of the weekend experience, Rev. Mike did a class about Spirit Guides. In his lecture he shared that spirit guides are around each of us and are part of our soul group. Our soul group is wonderful support group that fulfills the divine purpose of helping us success in living abundant lives. Our soul group includes the following (and may also include many more members):
Joy Guide – Joy Guide serves as a gatekeeper during message circles and readings. Your Joy Guide helps you with your spiritual communication. Joy Guides often communicated with you as a child and your parents called them your imaginary friends. They are very connected to nature kingdom and often times have names aligned to nature, such as Lilac, Bluebell, etc. Joy Guides are perceived as little girls and little boys because of their joyful, loving energies and light-filled vibration.
Protector Guide – May be a Native American guide (doesn’t have to be). May also be an Angel protecting you. The Protector Guide helps shield and protect you; helps keep your grounded on your spiritual journey.
Philosopher Guide – A Doctor or Teacher Guide. This guide may be a male or female and serves as an Overseer of the activities in your life. The Philosopher Guide helps guide you to wisdom and information that will be support your spiritual growth.
Chemist Guide – This is a doctor or chemist who helps with your body chemistry. This guide will motivate you with feelings of what your body is in need of to maintain good health. The doctor/chemist guide supports all your bodies – physical/mental/emotional/spiritual.
Master Teacher Guide – Supports your spiritual growth and progression in being a master of your own life. Could be a saint, an angel, a disciple, an ascended master. You may have a Master Teacher Guide named Master John and it is someone who studied with St. John of the Bible.
Artistic Guide – Supports your creativity or personal self-expression. For example, if you are a writer, the guide would be a Writer Guide. If you are a musician, you would have a Musician or Music Guide helping you.
I felt inspired to share this information with you because I have experienced great joy and happiness from the love and support of my guides and guardians.
Also during the Roanoke retreat weekend, Rev. Sandra Tedora, who also is a gifted medium (she does telephone readings, too and her contact is: kestrel68@aol.com) did a message circle with everyone receiving messages from their Native American Guides or Protector Guides. Message services and message circles are a beautiful sacred part of the metaphysical churches. Sandra’s circles are similar to message circles I do, with the difference being that during this particular circle she channeled messages from Native American Guides and I do angel and archangel message circles. It’s all wonderful, inspirational, uplifting divine dialogue.
When it was time for my message, my Native American Guide asked if I would allow him to step aside as another messenger wanted to come through Sandra. I agreed and then Chief Joseph came through with a truly inspiring message for all of us. Chief Joseph is a hero of mine. He was a great leader who truly cared about his people’s welfare. He truly was here on earth and still is in heaven a champion of peace. I was thrilled that he came through during the message circle. In fact, I was beyond being thrilled. I was ecstatic.
In 1877, the Nez Perce tribe, a Native American tribe of the Wallowa Valley in Northwest Oregon, was forced off their ancestral hom land by the United States government and ordered to go to a reservation. The Nez Perce refused to go. Rather than see blood shed, Chief Joseph, leader of the Nez Perce, tried to lead his people to Canada. Chief Joseph just wanted to live in peace the way their tribe had always lived. He led his band of men, women, children and elders more than 1,500 miles, fighting the US Army that was chasing them the entire journey. The tribe crossed Idaho and Montana. The US Army chased them and caught them just 30 miles from Canada. After five days of fighting, and being surrounded by the US Army, the remaining 431 Nez Perce were defeated in their effort to reach the safe haven of Canada and the nation of Sitting Bull.
On October 5, 1877 Chief Joseph made this now famous surrender speech:
“I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are – perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them along the dead.
Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”
During Rev. Tedora’s Native American Guide Message Circle, Chief Joseph described himself to all of us as a man of peace. I was deeply touched by the messages he shared on the importance of peace at this time. He encouraged us to be leaders in our own lives; with every breath to aspire to live as leaders of peace. He remarked about my life, that even when my life was sheer confusion, I have been able to stay focused on my true commitment to serve as a messenger of upliftment and peace. I felt he was reading my soul when he said that bringing peace to others and being an instrument of peace was of utmost importance to me. I simply share this because before every reading I do, I say the prayer: Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace. In fact, I read the prayer of St. Francis every morning. I feel it starts my day with the intent and focus of embodying peace in everything I do.
I was especially amazed about his using the word upliftment repeatedly as I have been sharing in my own message circles and classes the importance of upliftment and lifting ourselves up. For example in chanting it is taught as you chant the word AUM, simultaneously lift the tongue to the roof of the month to align with the pineal and pituitary glands. Some meditation practices teach individuals to relax, close your eyes and look heavenward or upward. The Bible inspires us with the psalmist’s words: I lift my eyes up unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord.
The statue of the angel that is at the entrance gate of The National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, Maryland shows an angel pointing a finger up towards heaven with a child by the angel’s side. The angel’s poise conveys the message of looking up; keeping our gaze upward to God. In 1993 I first discovered this statue and photographed it. It became the poster image for Be An Angel Day. We all have free will and the ability to make choices in our lives. The angels inspire us to choose upliftment; looking up to God for inspiration.
And so in honor of Chief Joseph, I share with you here Peace Offerings – 101 Ways to Achieve and Maintain Inner Peace. May the following peace offerings support you in being an earth angel for peace. May this holiday season be a time of peace on earth and good will towards men, women, children, animals, all members of all kingdoms.
PEACE OFFERINGS – 101 WAYS TO ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN INNER PEACE
1. Believe in God. Energizing belief in God daily through your thoughts, faithfulness and spiritual exercises is the key to unlocking inner peace. Know that God believes in you, too.
2. Look for goodness in all you encounter. Be a seeker of all that is good.
3. Spend time daily observing yourself – your thoughts and emotions. Reflection upon yourself brings you understanding about yourself and your patterns. Be truthful with yourself about patterns that are unhealthy. Changing negative life skills to positive life skills changes the world for the better.
4. Meditate. Meditation allows you to be a disciple to your Higher Self – the “you” that is conscious of its connection with God – the source of all. Make time to be still and be in oneness with God through meditation. Meditating is putting yourself in peace space.
5. Serve others. When you give peace to others through being helpful and of service, you will be the recipient of peace, too.
6. Stretch your imagination through knowledge. Give your spirit wings to soar through wisdom. Make peace with yourself that you do not know everything and fill each day with learning experiences.
7. Keep a daily peace journal making note of beautiful moments of peace you experienced during the day. Create a peace book filled with images, i.e. photographs – quotations – that instill you with peace. Ponder upon peace.
8. Believe in yourself as a peacemaker. Live your life knowing that the peaceful choices you make in your own life make a difference in the world.
Get acquainted with your neighbors. Take the first step to start building a neighborhood of peace.
9. Limit the time you spend watching television news programs; reading newspapers. Fill your free time with life enriching activities that help strengthen you so you are able to maintain peace easily in your life – even in chaotic times.
10. Live in the now fully, abundantly and peacefully. Don’t worry about tomorrow. God is already there.
11. Pray. Make time for prayer. In your “talking to God” time, ask for support for peace in your life and peace on earth. In St. Padre Pio’s words: Don’t worry; pray. Join the World Peace Prayer Society (www.worldpeace.org).
12. Affirm peace. Say affirmations proclaiming peace in your life, i.e. “I am one with God’s peace.” Cultivate positive thinking habits. Develop a positive peaceful outlook.
13. Get quality sleep time. Enjoy a peaceful sleep. Create an atmosphere of peace in your bedroom through colors, art, bedding and pillows.
14. Declare peace intentions. When you wake up in the morning, express you intent to live a life of peace. Start your day with the intent that in all that you do, you will be a peacemaker, i.e. “Today is a new day and it is my intent to fill all my waking moments being peace filled.”
15. Play peace songs such as “Let Peace Begin With Me;” and John Lennon’s “Imagine” in your car; in your home. Fill your life with sounds that soothes your soul and make you feel at peace.
16. Use the word “together”. Together is a magical word. Use it in your life to solve problems, i.e., How can we resolve this together? Use it in your life in your relationships? How can we work together? How can we play together?
17. Pursue peace in all you do. Look for ways to embody Martin Luther King’s words: “We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.” Look for alternatives to fighting and quarreling that occurs in your life and family’s life. Look for peaceful resolutions.
18. Be God’s peace angel to those whose worlds are in turmoil. Be an angel of hope to those who are feeling hopeless perhaps over a lost job or relationship ending.
19. Talk to a child about what peace means to them. Learn from children the truths about peace. Ask children to paint a picture of what peace looks like.
20. Send a SASE to Jayne Feldman/PO Box 95/Upperco, MD 21155 and receive a free BE A PEACEMAKER bumper sticker.
21. Discover, imagine, explore peacemaking through the book Peace Quest (www.celebratingpeace.com/book/html) which promotes four basic themes: Peace for Me, Peace for Us, Peace for Everyone, Peace for the Planet.
22. Take a class in peace solutions for conflicts. Sign up for a peace studies program. Learn about peace; teach peace to your family. Sponsor a peace speaker to come to your town.
23. Plant a peace pole on your property or in your community as part of a Children’s Peace Festival (www.peacepoles.com).
24. Learn about people who have been champions of peace; i.e Peace Pilgrim; Mattie Stepanek. Learn quotations about peace.
25. Speak up for peace’s sake. Be the voice of peace.
26. Write a letter to someone currently in the armed forces and thank them for being a peacekeeper.
27. Practice peace daily. Just like playing the piano, peace takes practice.
28. Visualize a TV news program with the words: Breaking News! See the newsperson telling the listening audience: “We’ve just received this breaking news. There’s peace on earth!”
29. Live a peaceful life by living simply. Uncomplicate your life. Have just what you need.
30. Make time to study the stars and connect with the peacefulness of the night sky.
31. Think of peace as in important ingredient in the recipe of life. Stir in an abundant helping of peace in all your experiences rather than stirring in trouble. Be a peacemaker not a troublemaker.
32. Say a blessing daily upon your home. “God bless our home with peace and all those who reside within.”
33. Walk in peace. Whenever you are walking, visualize that yours is a peace path. Visualize that your walk is sacred and that God’s peace flows through you and to the earth. Your walk blesses the earth with peace.
34. Create peace time in your life with those living in your home with you. Peace on earth begins with times of peace at the supper table; sharing a bathroom; sharing chores.
35. Write our government a letter encouraging the creation of a Department of Peace.
36. Create and celebrate your own special BE A PEACEMAKER DAY – a day to spread the message of peace.
37. Learn origami and create a dove of peace and hang in your home. Have a basket of origami doves and give as gifts to visitors of your home.
38. Be realistic when making plans and setting goals. Don’t sabotage your inner peace by unrealistic expectations.
39. Do a web search by typing in the word “peace” and explore websites dedicated to promoting peace.
40. Nurture children with peaceful environments. Plant trees in your community; clean up trash.
41. Record a message of peace for your answering machine message.
42. Stamp your letters and checks with a peace statement, ie. Peace is not an absence; it is the presence of God.
43. Embrace St. Francis of Assisi’s words: Lord , make me an instrument of Thy Peace.” Be a peace instrument in God’s orchestra of life. Keep yourself tuned to spreading peace in the key of you.
44. Make peace with yourself and the way things happen in your life. Take the pressure off yourself in recognizing there’s a lot that you can’t control. You can, however, choose your response to all your life’s happenings. Choose to respond with peace.
45. Make an appointment with yourself to have a day, an evening where you are free of the stress of having to be somewhere doing something.
46. Enjoy the peacefulness of solitude. Spend time alone to replenish your soul. Remember the great masters of life who have mirrored to us the importance of spending time alone with God.
47. Make peace with stressful demands by prioritizing your workload. Ask yourself, “What do I need to do now?” After you complete the task, give yourself a respite.
48. Practice patience. Practicing patience is practicing peace. When something is not happening fast enough for you, pause and breathe in the peace of living your life on God’s watch.
49. Be happy with what you have. Have an attitude of gratitude and thanksgiving. Appreciate the life God has given you. Thinking about what you are grateful for in your life keeps things peaceful in your soul.
50. Walk a gentle path through life. Walk in oneness with your integrity. Don’t compromise your values. Peace comes with living in oneness with your ideals.
51. Smile. Peace starts with a smile.
52. Take mini “peace pauses” throughout your day. Practice relaxation techniques.
53. Buy a peace lily for your home or office. Make plants your peace partners in bringing peace to your environment. Plants supply oxygen. Humans breathe oxygen. Having healthy air to breathe is a real peace booster.
54. Look for ways to plant peace seeds in your daily life. See yourself as a Johnny Appleseed, instead you are a Johnny Peaceseed. Look for small ways to spread peace. Spread seeds or little acts of kindness and peace. Check out Seeds of Peace (www.seedsofpeace.org).
55. Read the passages in the Bible where the word “peace” is found.
56. Take flower essences that energize peace inside your body.
Essences such as Indian Pipe and Peace Lily support your body with
the vibration of peace. Flower essences are available from Green Hope
Farm - www.greenhopeessences.com.
57. Accept that no matter how good your aim, there are days you totally miss the mark. Be at peace in not being perfect.
58. Make friends with nature. Spending time with nature has the benefit that peaceful vibrations rub off on you. How you ever noticed how contented cows are as they graze in a pasture?
59. Slow down your pace through life. Notice the pace you go through life and then slow it down a notch. Your heart will thank you.
60. Breathe in peace by giving peace breathing space in your home. Deal with clutter. Get in the habit of putting your belongings away. You’ll be amazed at the peace you’ll experience in organizing your stuff.
61. Play a loop to loop recorder at night while you sleep. You can choose to have peace chants in the background or subliminal tapes that promote peace and well-being.
62. Dedicate time to doing nothing without having any guilt.
63. Practice peace by saying “no” instead of agreeing to do everything for everyone every time you are asked.
64. Visit a cemetery. Walk respectfully among the tombstones. Read the epitaphs. Imagine those who are “resting in peace” being angelic messengers to you. What message do they convey?
65. Reflect upon childhood joys that brought you peace. Find ways to bring those precious moments into the now in support of your inner child.
66. Go to a masseuse to give your body an experience of peace when your body is stressed; go to a counselor to give your mind an experience of peace when something is troubling you. When you are hurting inside, get professional help outside.
67. Be responsible for your life and choices. Don’t just “get a life”. Get the one that is yours! Peace comes with acceptance of being responsible for your life.
68. If someone makes you feel they are off their rocker then go sit in a rocking chair, and peacefully rock back and forth visualizing being rocked in God’s arms. Visualize that the person who irritated you, is also being rocked, soothed and comforted. When people mirror to us they are off their rockers, God is whispering: “Rock for them. They have forgotten how it feels to be rocked in arms of love.”
69. Peace is a maintenance program. Visualize yourself as a peace flower in God’s garden. Make certain to fill you life with that which supports the blossoming of your soul and that includes a support team of friends. Make time to weed out negative thoughts that choke peace from growing abundantly.
70. Send a card to a hospitalized veteran throughout the country through the VA’s Chaplain’s Service. Let them know that you appreciate what they have done for all of us in rising up in defense of peace. The address is: National VA Chaplain Center * 301/110C * Hampton, VA 23667.
71. Make peace with yourself. Be a good friend to yourself. Stop the battles inside of yourself. Smoke the peace pipe; raise the peace flag. Monitor your viewpoint. You are experiencing your life based on the way you choose to view life and what happens to you. Put your focus on peace.
72. Peacefully co-exist with others. Remember the wisdom taught by our elementary school teachers to live in peaceful co-existence with your classmates. Now that you are grown up, don’t forget to peacefully co-exist.
73. Contemplate the concept that we share oneness with God while at the same time not sameness with each other. Behold the beauty of diversity.
74. Create peace rituals in your life. Hot relaxing baths. Listening to calming music. Having a cup of tea. Take a short walk after work in order to unwind.
75. Laugh out loud daily. Laughter sends peace waves through your whole body.
76. Make use of the time you spend in your car. We spend a lot of time in our cars. When you are in your car, visualize yourself as a peace pioneer and you are mapping a path of peace for the world. Be kind to other motorists. Play peaceful music in your car. When stopped in traffic, send blessings of peace to all around you. Imagine your car is a peace-mobile.
77. Tell those you love, you love them. Go to sleep at night with the peace of mind that you filled your day make certain those you love heard it from you and experienced it in your actions.
78. Make peace with computers.
80. Eat food that gives your digestive system a peaceful experience. Practice self-care and soul-care.
81. Be courteous and thoughtful to others. Courtesy and thoughtfulness support peace. Just imagine that God is the person you stop and hold the door open for. God is the person that you let into the line of traffic.
82. Be like the angels – God’s cosmic cheerleaders. Root for peace! Root for peace efforts be made in the world. Root for peace summits! Root for peace conferences!
83. Pay attention to the yearly announcement of the recipient of the Noble Peace Prize. Know the name of recipients of the Noble Peace Prize.
84. Whenever you see 4:44 on the clock, think to yourself: It’s peace time.
Peace in all 4 directions; peace in all 4 seasons; peace in all 4 of our bodies – physical peace; mental peace; emotional peace; spiritual peace.
85. Develop listening skills. When talking to someone, look into their eyes. Give them your undivided attention and hear every word they are saying to you. Listen with your heart. We can give peace through conveying to others: I see you. I hear you.
86. When you have a situation in your life with another person where you reach an en passé, reach for the phone and call a mediator.
87. When you are unable to wrap your arms around peace because of some violation to your soul or the souls of others seems too great, remember to call upon God. Let go and let God be your refuge – your place of peace.
88. Learn peace prayers from different faiths.
89. Do a peace dance. Let your body flow with peace. Sing a peace song. Eat Ben and Jerry’s Peace Pops.
90. Write a peace poem. Ask members of your family to contribute a line or verse that conveys their conviction to peace on earth.
91. Learn about September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows (www.peacefultomrorows.org). Their mission is to turn their grief into action for peace; seek effective nonviolent solutions to terrorism and to acknowledge our common experience with all people similarly affected by violent throughout the world.
92. Make someone happy. Share joy moments. Share peace moments.
93. Be tolerant of those who have different beliefs. Live a judgment free life.
94. Love yourself. Love others. Cultivate friendships with people of all races and creeds. Be open in giving and receiving peace.
95. Wherever you travel, feel like you are being sent by God to be a peace ambassador. Be friendly. Consider your vacation a “peace mission” assignment from God. In your travels you have the opportunity to spread peace.
96. When conflict arises, ask yourself – is the conflict occurring inside of or outside of yourself. Often times what is going on around us is a message to us to heal the inner conflict within us. We get what we focus on so conflict tells us we’ve lost sight of peace.
97. Start being a peacemaker today. Peace is achieved by taking one step, followed by another step. But you have to be willing to start walking. Start your peace walk.
98. Make peace with your body. Do not compare yourself to media images; make peace with your age.
99. Surround yourself with peaceful scents. Stimulate the olfactory sense with peaceful fragrances such as peace incense.
100. Whenever you have the opportunity, be forgiving. When you give someone your forgiveness, you are giving yourself inner peace.
101. Checkout: earthangel4peace.com. Blessings of peace profound to you!
While writing this newsletter, I paused to look at the latest issue of Science of Mind magazine. Rocco A. Errico writes an article for this magazine every month. In the December issue he writes about the angels’ declaring Jesus’ birth as “Glory be to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men.” Errico shares that the Aramaic text reads: “Songs and praise to God in the highest and all over the earth peace and beneficient, joyful hope for humankind.” Errico states that the word “will” in Aramaic is seweeyana; but for this particular Bible passage, the Aramic verse actually reads “sawra” not “seweeyana” . Sawra’s meaning is that the angels were offering the divine blessing of “hope, expectation, joyful message, good news.” In his December column, Arrico writes, “The angels brought glad tidings and hope of a better world for humanity, wherein global peace could be realized through God’s reign coming to fruition.”
And so to each and every one of you, I wish you abundant sawra. An angelic blessing of abundant hope, expectation, joyful message and good news.
Angelic Sawra Blessings ,
Rev. Jayne Howard Feldman
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