NINA FERRELL

In regard to the recent earthquake in Haiti and the chaos that is unfolding in our world I asked this question of The Family of Light.
What are we to do in such a time as this?

Here is their response:
You are to hone your skills as a being of light whereby you live within the state of knowing that surrounds your mental field. You must move beyond the mind and the limitations of the mental realm and open to the higher states of being where wisdom is always available to you in each new moment.
Do not despair as these times unfold. For you have been preparing for times such as these for a millennia. Do not lose your trust and faith in the Divine Plan just as it is coming to fruition. Trust and surrender we ask of you. Your higher self knows what you at times do not. Trust that all is in alignment and all the events which play out before you now are for the good of all. Do not allow yourself to get caught up in the dramas of the 3D world. You know from your innermost being that the dismantling of the old provides the path for the creation of the new. Your people as a collective have yearned for the changes that are now upon you. All have made their choices in the higher realms and will take up their rightful places as circumstances continue to unfold.
Become the detached observer as drama ensues on your planet. Know that all is necessary, all has been contracted, and all choices have been made from the level of soul. Those who have chosen to leave the planet at this time whether through dramatic circumstance or slipping into the realms of death do so from a place of choice. So do not get caught up in modes of sympathy, sadness or angst as events unfold. Stand firm in your knowing and bless those souls for their assistance and part in the transformation of these times.
The planet herself is shifting and releasing and we are aiding her in this in ways that will cause the least chaos to the masses. But know that her birthing is upon her and cannot be stopped until the birth of the new planetary being is complete. Those of you who would accompany her into the new realms are those who have been preparing for this by attending to their own emotional clearing and release. What is accomplished on the planetary or collective levels must first be accomplished on the personal level. As you clear yourselves of karma, disease, limitation and emotional blockages you help pave the way for such cleansing and healing on the collective level.
Know that all is well. Take time to dwell in the inner sanctum of your heartspace and there find the comfort, assuredness and wisdom that you need to keep you centered, grounded and sure in these coming times. Your light, your love and your wisdom will be greatly needed as those around you are shaken into awakening and begin to ask the questions that you have been asking for a long time. You can aid these ones from a place of strength having weathered your own inner storms and upheaval. You are prepared. You have all the assistance you will ever need. Do not fear. Do not be in despair. Do not remain in the sadness, but rejoice because the first rays of the new dawn appear before you shedding light on the wonders that are to come. We are ever with you. We love and rejoice with you. Our hearts are full as we witness your courage, your conviction and the deep love you have for the Creator as you have volunteered to be here for this moment in time!
You have our love. Call on us. We are here for you!!\

Glory to Me in the Highest! You have long sought the Highest when it is you who are the Glory all along! Yours is the Glory forever.

If you could only recognize and accept a little of the Glory you are. If you had even a glimpse, a mere trace, of how Glory-filled you are, how happy you would be. The whole of the world rests in your palm, and yet you hold your hand out begging for a tuppence of peace in your life.

You want Me, you want love, and another name for what you want is peace. How you crave peace in your own home and in the marketplace. Think of a world in which peace reigns. Think of your home without an inch of friction. But the existence of non-peace arises not from the world or from your home. Non-peace as well as peace arise from your heart. Peace or lack of peace exists in your heart. You know this is so.

The enemy is within. This is a poor quavering enemy within. He is hardly worth the time of the day, and yet you bow down to him many times during the day. He has another name, this culprit, and his other name is fear. He is really a wimp, or he would not exist always in the shadows. True, he has a loud voice, and he assumes great ambiance.

Trade in fear for trust. Trust is quite another matter. Oh, if you would trade in fear for trust, beloveds, how happy you would be. What dancing there would be in your heart. Your heart would sing: “The wolf at the door is gone. The wolf of fear is dead. Hurray. The wolf and witch of fear are dead. Hurray. Hurray for me, and hurray for the world. The wolf and witch of fear are dead.”

When fear leaves, negativity of any kind has no place to hide. Everything untrue tiptoes out of your heart when fear slinks its way out. All the other tentacles of negativity in your heart are but the fingers of fear. Look at all that gunk leave your heart. Fear’s departure is long overdue. It has overstayed its welcome. You could have kicked it out long ago, only you thought you had to keep it, that fear somehow was part of survival.

Now that fear has gone, what is left? What can cohabit in your heart when negativity has made its exit? You and I, beloveds.. We can be known as the Oneness of Love and the Oneness of Peace. We are what is left in a heart where fear has vacated the premises.

Fear was an arrogant ogre all along. It made a lot of noise, yet fear was a lot of to-do over nothing. Fear was a muscle-man pumped up with steroids. Beloveds, stand up to the hollowness of fear. Fear doesn’t begin to be a worthy adversary for you. Fear is a shadow, beloveds, and one that chases you. Shadows are only shadows. No matter how big they may appear, shadows are phantoms. Like a phantom lover, fear has hung around you, eating off you, stealing your warmth in order to bolster itself. Fear has done a pretty good job of it. It has been twisting your arm right along, and all along, fear has been nothing but bluster. Now that We have gotten fear to size, he can fit through a keyhole. He can leave as you will. Fear is no bigger than a cowardly thought. .

Say: “Adieu, fear. Adieu.”

Say: “Welcome, God, love and peace. Put your feet up, and stay a while.”

http://www.heavenletters.org/the-glory-that-you-are.html

If it is true that we create our worlds, then fearing our future creates fearsome futures –

What if we could simply throw all (human) caution to the wind and do what calls out to us? Take that plane to that place which has been calling to us for so long? Leave the job which has been slowly sapping our life? Turn our back on the relationship which turns our life into a dreary monotonous landscape?

The trouble starts when we assume that things “happen to us”, that we are powerless in the face of our troubles and our unhappiness, that we feel drawn into our dramas and won’t even consider for a moment that the possibility exists that we can simply walk out of them.

We hold onto our old lives because we think that there is nothing more out there – not another partner, not another job, that our security depends on us staying is this life sapping job because jobs are so scarce –

If we remember the times when we felt we were flying, no matter how short they were, when we allow ourselves to accept the possibility that we may truly be creating our lives, then suddenly we are attracted to people who also start believing it – we become magnets for events and folks who confirm our beliefs –

Our present fears can be turned into our present dreams, which will become our exciting and wonderful futures. If we can let go of them.

© Nina Ferrell 2010

When you surrender, you are calm. When you give up, you are exasperated.
When you’re in the thick of a tense situation like deciding whether to take a job, or worrying about how the mortgage is going to get paid, you feel pressurized and squeezed. When you give up, you feel like throwing your hands in the air. Picture being flustered and throwing all the papers that you have in your hands up in the air for them to land where they will. You feel panicked and exhausted. There’s no real resolution, except you are no longer dealing with the situation. You’ve tossed it to the side.
When you surrender, you calmly put the papers to the side. You feel like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders. You feel a sense of calm and peace about the situation. You turn your attention away from the mayhem, not in denial, but toward possible outcomes that you can’t see while staring at the mess.
When you surrender, doors open. When you give up, you slam the doors shut.
Mother’s Day weekend I went home to see my parents. I was greeted by my rambunctious niece and nephew, and the news of the century. “Aunty, my teeth came out!” exclaimed my nephew. The tooth was his prized possession. He wouldn’t even let me hold it. I could only look at it. He kept playing with the tooth, despite my mother’s warnings, until the tooth fell into the seat.
Wailing proceeded.
In light of the wailing, I said a quick prayer. After 45 minutes of gridlock in Friday Miami traffic, and endless wailing, we arrived at a pit stop for treats and to locate the missing tooth. Have you ever tried to find the tooth of a 5 year old in a Nissan Armada? Can you say needle in a haystack?
My nephew continued, “I can’t find the tooth. The tooth fairy’s not going to come. We not going to find the tooth.” I tried logic and asked him to use his tiny hands to dig in the crevices for the tooth. After one last “we not going to find it,” he abruptly stopped, jumped out of the car and said he wanted to go in for food.
Meanwhile, I thought to myself, these seats are ‘poppable’, I bet if I just lift it up I’ll find it. I popped his seat up and all the way over, and there, looking like a flake of paper, lay the tooth. I am now Aunty, the hero
So the difference between giving up and letting go? My nephew gave up when he issued his final, “we not going to find it,” and jumped out the car. He had moved on for sure, but we would not have heard the end of the lost tooth. I, on the other hand, didn’t have much vested either way. It would have made a good story, but I had surrendered the situation and shifted into solutions. The tooth did fall into the car, so it would be found in the car. I knew there was a solution and I opened myself up to ways that the tooth could be found.
When you surrender, you soar to unknown heights. When you give up, you delve into the depths of despair.
Thanks to Pam and 3 of her brothers, I got my house on the market within 2 weeks of moving out. I was excited and pleased to be able to get the house up to snuff. After 6 weeks on the market, though, I began to doubt that the house would sell for the asking price. I played out the worst case scenario in my mind, FORECLOSURE!
Despair began to set in, as I tried to figure out how I could continue to pay the mortgage there and still keep my new, fantastic abode. I called my cousin when I was down in the dumps and explained to her that I’d given up. There was no way I could continue to pay for both and I saw no way out. Foreclosure was inevitable.
Hearing the panic in my voice, my cousin explained that while we have always been able to “work miracles with the worst credit,” there was no need to continue to create this situation for ourselves. Her instructions were to sit in the silence until I was able to release the situation. She said the outcome might still be the same, but at least I would be clear and I would have surrendered.
Sure enough, after sitting for about 45 minutes and wrestling with the imaginary consequences of foreclosure, paying to keep both places, the anger surrounding the situation, and the despair I felt, my mind finally exhausted itself. I decided that I would write a list of the major financial mistakes I made that shaped my life to that point. I came up with 6, number 7 was impending foreclosure. I said to myself, “Right!” I knew then that I did not want to keep beating myself up and I wanted a better solution. Foreclosure was not an option.
I opened up the spreadsheet where I keep my budget and went down the list of items to see where I could get the money to pay the mortgage. When I moved into my new place, it automatically freed up $500 which I wanted to use for debt reduction and to rebuild my life. That was part of the anger and resentment. I immediately zeroed that line item and added the money to a new line item: old mortgage. I went through and shaved cash of other expenses like food, clothing, and entertainment, until I found the remainder of the mortgage. This is my first month living with the reduced amounts, and while it’s tight, I must say that it comes with own set of rewards: creativity, and healthy eating.
When you give up, despair intensifies. That’s one of the ways to know if you are truly surrendering a situation. When you surrender, you move to higher states of consciousness where peace and possibilities live.
In Spirit,
Nneka

http://www.balancedlifecenter.com/252-3-differences-between-surrendering-and-giving-up/