Being Grateful for Where You Are

BEAUTIFUL! This week’s message from Shanta Gabriel…

Being Grateful for Where You Are We are drawing on the compassionate and timeless wisdom of The Gabriel Messages to provide insight and inspiration that we can apply every day of our lives. For this week’s issue, the message from Archangel Gabriel suggests a new way at integrating situations in your life. The Gabriel Message card for this week All that you have learned and all that has happened to you brought you to where you are now. Be grateful. In an interesting demonstration of Angelic intervention, this card was chosen after my asking for the perfect message for all concerned and also one that I had not done before. After I received this card, I remembered that two people I respect had given me the same compliment about my work the day before. I had forgotten they even said it. This did not allow me to fully receive their compliments into my consciousness so I could acknowledge myself for how far I have come. I realized in that moment how important my ability to receive would be in 2016. As much as we were hoping for a jack rabbit start to 2016, it feels like we are somewhat coerced by retrograde planets to review our lives and integrate our past into our present in harmonious ways. The 12 Holy Nights gave us an opportunity to go back through 2015 and gather information, remembering the sometimes vague activities and feelings of a year that was often challenging and tumultuous. Doing this integration before setting the new intentions for 2016 was an interesting process for me. I did have to admit at the end that I learned a tremendous amount and grew as a human blending divinity into manifest form within me during the last year. This year it is my intention to relax and breathe more deeply while I learn to receive from Life. I know that I can expand into this receptivity with the support of the Angelic Dimensions. I look forward to experiencing the new levels of Harmony and Beauty that are available to us all in this new year. Archangel Gabriel is telling me that 2016 is a year rich in Inspiration. I love that idea and have agreed to spend more time receiving from the deep well of guidance that we all have available for us in this precious time. It feels so expansive when I am inspired, as though anything is possible. Inspiration opens my mind and heart. It also raises my vibrational frequencies so I have an expanded perspective on my life and feel much lighter. I can also listen more deeply to my Higher Self, and feel more willing to do that. When I take this sacred time regularly, there is clarity about when to take action in all areas of my life. I feel like I really need the nourishment of Inspiration every day. Without inspiration, my intention for 2016 is to wait before I go into action. This is such a powerful teaching for living in 5D for me. This process brings in a beautiful element of the Sacred Feminine when I wait for guidance to be received before I bring action to life. My Soul’s voice active within my Higher Self communicates through my heart. When I pay attention to this voice, my heart’s intelligence speaks with greater authority, and I am able to hear its wisdom with more clarity. My heart inspires me into action, and I now allow myself the space to receive in order to experience the Divine Timing inherent in this process. Here is my prayer for the New Year: Divine Presence, Thank you for bringing me through this past year with such Grace and Love. Please help me to integrate all that I learned within my being so I can use the lessons to empower my life in 2016. I know that even when I am not actively paying attention, you are working with me, and guiding my way, and I AM Grateful. I willingly commit to listening to my Soul’s voice with greater dedication. I ask my Higher Self to help me pay attention to the guidance that is being offered from Source. Help me to remember that I need to slow down to receive the wisdom within me. I AM now creating space within me to receive in a greater way ~ receiving your guidance, receiving more love, and receiving all the support that is available to me in all areas of my life. I recognize clearly that I AM never alone. Help me to be more aware and perceive the presence of my support system on Earth as it is in Heaven. For my life and all that I have learned, I am grateful and blessed. And so it is. Shanta Gabriel January 10, 2016 www.ShantaGabriel.com

The Gabriel Messages #56 All that you have learned and all that has happened to you brought you to where you are now. Be grateful. Dear One, You have come to a time when acknowledgment of yourself is necessary. There needs to be a truce between the warring factions of your mind. One part of you is diligently watching to make sure that you never make a mistake. When you inevitably do, it leaps to chastise and remind you about all the ways you are wrong. This judgmental mind is never happy with your progress. Nothing you do could ever be good enough. It is relentless in its pursuit of your wrongness. It is time to tell this part of your mind to take a vacation. It needs to lose itself in the beauty of nature, and leave the rest of you alone. You are on this earth plane to learn. Making mistakes is one way that people learn lessons. It is impossible to do things right and perfectly every time. The Divine Presence does not expect this of you. What is necessary is that you follow your heart and your inner guidance. There is much wisdom within you. But it is often like a small voice calling in the wilderness, drowned out by critical and judgmental thoughts. Yet it is listening to this quieter voice that would most serve you in your life. This voice is telling you that you are a child of a loving God, and that there is nothing you can do which could stop the flow of Infinite Love. There is also society’s voice that demands you live up to certain expectations. When you are in alignment with your Higher Self, there is a flow of love-filled energy that allows you to step into a way of being which is totally connected to the Divine Power within and around you. This energy is inviting you to be rather than do. You are being asked to let go of the confining armor of society’s expectations and of your judgmental mind that has been conditioned by it. You are being asked to look with compassion upon yourself, and to notice the many things you are learning at this time. It is a powerful time on Earth when, although there is great suffering and fear, there are also incredible opportunities to break through into great love and peace. Practice: What you see in the world is colored by how you see yourself. Can you see that, in the past, you took the steps that seemed appropriate for you at the time? Do you notice that there were times when your heart told you to make a certain choice, but for various reasons, you did not follow your intuition? All these experiences have assisted you in learning lessons necessary for your growth. It is time to totally forgive yourself for behaving in ways you judge as wrong or bad. You would have made different choices had you known better, but you acted from your awareness at that time. Forgive yourself and get on with your life. Do not waste any more precious time in self-criticism. You are making choices in this moment to create your future. All that you have is this moment. Let the past go, and do not fear the future. Know that you are exactly where you need to be for your perfect lessons in life. It is up to you to lift the mantle of judgment and allow yourself to grow into who you would most like to be. Imagine acting in ways that bring you joy. Imagine your world surrounded in love. Know that you are a good, honest and caring person and give yourself the loving respect you deserve. Your imagination can set a powerful intention for your life when you use it to visualize a new and more harmonious way to be. When you set an intention, all the forces of the universe align themselves to manifest that which you visualize. It is wise to be careful how you use this powerful tool. You do receive whatever you focus on, if your focus and desire are strong enough. It is a Universal Law. Remember to be grateful for your life. It is an incredible gift to be in a physical body. With this body you can do so many things to enjoy this world of beauty. Be grateful for all that you are learning now, even if, at times, it feels uncomfortable. Be grateful for all that you have, even if it does not seem to be enough.  Gratitude awakens your mind to the greater truth within all things, and lifts your spirit into appreciation and joy. So remember your message from Archangel Gabriel today: All that you have learned and all that has happened to you brought you to where you are now. Be grateful. Shanta Gabriel for Archangel Gabriel January 10, 2016 www.TheGabrielMessages.com