What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.

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

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.

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 speaks to us through the heart. The more we open our hearts and raise our own vibrations, the easier the connection.

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.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.