If we're honest with ourselves, most people want to know that there's more to this life, there's more after this life.

You do not have to remain stuck in your grief forever when you realize that your loved ones who have passed continue on with you, side-by-side with you, in your lives, even though they have their own life going on across the veil.

The spirit world wants us to know there's more to this life.

Love is the essence of All That Is, no matter what we do here, we are met with love. We also feel how our choices were in alignment or out of alignment with that love. We all immediately ascend to the level that we achieved here, to the level of vibration of energy, of awareness, of that love.

I know, personally, that I would not be in the beautiful state of awareness that I find myself in daily now - knowing that love is the essence of all that is - had I not had the most painful of all experiences, the loss of my stepdaughter.

Unfortunately, it does take pain to wake us up sometimes.

We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge.