Stone Soup...Or a Lesson in Trusting the Process

The invitation said, "Come to my house on Saturday at 2:00. Bring a raw food item. Don't talk to any of the other class members about the food you're bringing." She wouldn't answer any questions about what sort of food or how much to bring. This was actually an assignment for one of my classes at the Center For the Study of Human Systems, to take part in our classmate's Culminating Project, a requirement for her Associate Certificate.

We gathered in her living room at the designated time. I seem to remember bringing a bag of green peppers. "Now", she said, "Let's go around the room and each person say what they've brought." Bananas, onions, chicken, green pepper, potatoes, chocolate chips, carrots, ginger, lettuce, corn, marshmallows, green beans, mushrooms, cheese. "I wanted in my project to create a lesson in trusting the process. It's been a big lesson for me already because I've had no idea whether this would work. But here you all are and you've all brought food. Now you're going to make dinner. So figure out what you can make with what you've brought. There are staples like flour, sugar, rice, as well as an assortment of condiments in the kitchen that you can help yourself to. Drinks are on the kitchen table."

None of us had known what to expect when we selected a food to bring. It took a minute to grok what this was about. Then we rather quickly formed in small groups with others whose ingredient went together to form a dish. In my group were chicken, onions, green peppers, mushrooms, ginger. We decided to make an Asian chicken stir-fry, or did we bake it. We concocted some sort of marinade from soy sauce, white wine from the drinks table, ginger and whatever else we located from the condiment shelf that made it taste good.

There was no overall coordination by anyone and I wasn't paying too much attention to the other groups that formed. Don't recall that anyone was. We just focused on cooking our contribution towards dinner. Early in our preparations a couple of requests came in from one or two of the other small groups for part of an onion or two carrots. We coordinated use of the stove, oven, and cooking implements among the groups with little effort. It all flowed. None of us had any idea whether our dishes would compliment each other, we weren't really sure what anyone else was making. We had fun, there was a lot of laughter.

I remember it was a warm, sunny June afternoon. There was a very pleasant patio and back garden off the kitchen with a big hammock strung between two trees. During a break from cooking I rocked in the hammock with a glass of wine and chatted with one of my colleagues.

Finally everyone was ready and we spread the dishes out on the patio table. There was my group's Ginger chicken with vegetables, a big mixed salad of lettuce and steamed vegetables, stuffed baked potatoes with onions and melted cheese, corn on the cob roasted on the grill. And for dessert, bananas baked with melted marshmallows and chocolate chips. We'd had just the right amount of each food to prepare the meal for all of us. A fabulous meal from start to finish. A feast!

I've always been grateful to my colleague for creating this experience. The richness of learning from that afternoon stays with me. When we trust the process, everything we need comes together. We have the creativity to provide for ourselves when we all participate. Everyone has something valuable to contribute. Magic happens when we let go of knowing and trying to control what the end result should be. Trust, what it feel like and how it changes everything. I'm certain other aspects of learning from this experience will reemerge in my conscious awareness after I post this. You could always try this with some friends and experience it yourself, then harvest your own wisdom from the experience. I can just about promise that, at a minimum, you'll have a great dinner. Then again we are just now entering the time when this is the way we'll be doing everything.

Enjoy each moment of your life!

A Huge and Powerful Gift We Rarely Acknowledge

I'm going to tell a story today. I had a very dear friend, one of the best friends I've ever known, who taught me something immensely valuable during our friendship, though I didn't realize it until after she had left the planet.

Priscilla was there with me during some very challenging transitions in my life, and I in hers. When I first got to know her I was ending a marriage, moving, and soon thereafter starting a new career and business of my own. Throughout all the changes and much personal growth she was there for me. And she knew she could always count on me to be there for her too. I can say this because she told me so herself. She was really good at being a friend. I valued all she brought into my life. I valued our camaraderie.

Early in my new career, while attending a training session, I met a very impressive and senior person in the field. He was one of the presenters and I had gone up afterward to ask him for clarification on something he'd spoken about. He was very cordial and invited me to call him if I was ever in his city (it was nearby) and we could have lunch. Of course I told Priscilla about that evening and the invitation. And sometime thereafter, I contacted him and we scheduled lunch. Now this was really quite a gutsy thing to do, for someone entering the field to call him about having lunch, given his position and the decorum practiced throughout the field.

The day before the lunch date, Priscilla and I chatted about it. I was nervous. Now Priscilla was a very gifted intuitive, and sometimes she'd come out with some word of guidance that I could tell was through her guides, the White Brotherhood. As we were talking that day she said, "He is going to give you something huge." Despite my repeated pleas for more details, she wouldn't say any more, just, "It's huge." Lunch was very pleasant. Over the next few years we had lunch perhaps two other times. I forgot about what she'd said. On a few occasions I felt comfortable contacting him for guidance on a difficult business situation. He made time for me and was very supportive. This meant a lot to me, especially as it was not an easy field in which to build a business on your own and few people in his position would take the time to offer guidance as he did for me.

Unexpectedly, Priscilla became ill and she passed over within a few days. Her passing was a very difficult adjustment for me. She'd been such a big part of my day to day life and suddenly there was only a big hole and an empty silence.

During the process of grieving, of identifying exactly what I had lost, I came to see the enormous gift Priscilla had given me. My recognition came out of sensing what was no longer there. I saw then that I had also received this same gift from the senior professional in my field. It was something I had not really understood the significance of before. This is the gift. She believed in me.

Feeling the strength of her belief in me, had given me confidence to overcome my doubts. It gave me courage to go for what I wanted, even against great odds. It helped me find strength to do what I believed in.

We came here to experience and to learn from our experiences. What we learn experientially, we really know and understand. We know it in our minds, our hearts, our body. Our culture puts little focus on identifying what we've learned from our experiences, which is sad and unfortunate because that is where such wisdom lies. I'm certain that I could never have comprehended just how powerful a gift believing in someone is, had I simply been told me it was so. Even though I was experiencing something that felt so good and was so important to me, it was only once I really searched through what I'd experienced that I was able to clearly identify what it was.

I share my experience here in this post with the intent that doing so might remind you of an experience you've had where someone believed in you, and it changed your life. And with the hope that in recollecting your experience you might get in touch with your inner knowing of just how huge and powerful a gift believing in someone is. The power of this gift is not one that we give much notice to in our society, yet think about it's magnitude when it's multiplied exponentially.

May the Light be with you!

Earth Movement and Your Power

Deep within the Earth she is moving, shifting. Our planet is not some dry clump of earth. She has a soul, Gaia. Gaia is cleaning house now. Moving, clearing, tossing out all the clutter and filth we have cast on her for all these millenia. Releasing and clearing all the anger, pain, judgment and fear we strewn across and with her with our thoughts and emotions. How cold she be expected to contain it all? All the war and suffering, all the harmful and unnatural chemicals, all the concrete and paving, all the all the electrical and sound frequencies we emit and channel through overhead and underground wires and through our atmosphere? Contain all the angry and judgmental thoughts and feelings we humans have thrown out about us each minute, hour, day, and century.

So the movement just beginning comes about in her process of clearing out, and then absorbing the vibrations of love and appreciation radiating towards her from the cosmos and Source. Gratitude for all she has put up with from the students here in planet Earth Growth School.

Our sun, Ra, assists and shares Gaia's metamorphosis. He too has been so harmed by the ugliness we human have expressed. They work together now in a magnetic energy dance of rejuvenation. Have you felt it? If not, you will. We all will.

Their heaving movements can be lessened if we assist. They can be lessened if each of us, the many who are now aware, send our vibration of love outward to the Earth, Sun and Stars each day where it will rebound and rain back down upon us in showers of love. Love is the power of creation and destruction. This is so important to understand. Love is the power behind the cycles of evolving energy, matter and form.

Do you realize the power we individually and collectively hold? When we come together and jointly act in consciously using our power of creation and destruction, we have the power of Prime Creator. We have to power to deconstruct what harms all life here, what harms our home planet, deconstruct all that has been formed through our unaware thoughts and feeling causing harm across all dimensions. We have the power to create what supports our life and nurtures our souls. Every thought and feeling becomes manifest in someway.

You matter so much more than you realize. You are way more powerful than you have ever imagined. This same knowledge of power has been used against us to shut down our awareness of our own power and to enslave us within systems that abuse rather than support our existence on this planet. Now the tide is turning. These dark forces are losing now, they are in the death throws, grasping desperately to hold on to the power they have exerted over us. Hold this awareness of their demise. Be grateful for their passing, be grateful for their presence and all their actions, because they have given us the contrast that facilitates our understanding and appreciation of the Light forces. Their purpose has been served.

Now is the time to own your Free Will, your will to choose, your birthright. Own your sovereignty. Radiate all the love, appreciation and gratitude your heart can embody. Give your follow Sovereigns the respect and appreciation they deserve, you deserve, each and every one of us. Infringe not upon the Free Will of any other. Speak out together against injustice. Put not one single drop of your support towards the manifestations of the dark forces. Do not work for, buy products from, or support their militaries, their defense contractors, their corporations, their financial institutions, and their governments who do not represent us. All we have to do is walk away.

When we cease to acknowledge or support their presence in any way, they will disappear with such speed we will all be breathless with awe! And the songs of celebration will radiate outwards in every direction, at every level, through all dimensions.

May the Light be with you!

Communing and Preparing Your Vegetable Garden

Now is the time to prepare your vegetable garden if you haven't already done so. For many reasons, it will be very important in the months ahead that you have done so. You all know the nutritional importance of eating fresh, organically grown foods. There is also the sense of pride and accomplishment that comes from knowing that the beautiful meal you're eating is one that you grew yourself, as well as a deep appreciation for nurturing yourself.

I recently came across some wonderful information about our relationship with plants while reading Anastasia by Vladimir Megre, valuable information worth sharing and passing on. Plants seeds hold immense amounts of universal intelligence. They carry the ability to read information from our bodies about our state of health and to tailor their fruits so that they provide us with the specific nutrients we need to overcome disease and balance our health. How cool is that? Your vegetables and fruits you grow can match themselves specifically to your individual needs! All that you have to do is provide them with information from your body through saliva and the touch of your hands and feet.

Here is Anastasia's advice or planting your garden:

While standing barefoot in the soil where you will be planting, hold the seeds under your tongue for at least nine minutes. Then hold the seed in the palm of your hand for about half a minute.

Open your hand and gently breathe on the seed, warming it with your breath. The seed will gain knowledge of everything that is within you.

Hold the seed on your open palm, presenting it to the celestial bodies. The seeds gain information from the sun, moon, and stars.

Dig the hole for the seed with your hands and feet, spit into the hole. Now plant the seed.

Do not water it until three days after planting so that you do not wash off the information from your body. You can water the soil before following this procedure and planting the seeds.

Plant in accordance with the lunar calendar.

While they are growing, communicate with them. Brush them gently with your hands, touching them at least once during the full moon.

This is the basic planting method. There's much additional guidance provided by Anastasia about the plants in your garden, building a house for bees, as well as a host of other topics, so I hardily recommend getting a copy of the book. The information is magical and will fill you with joy. Very worth reading.

Enjoy this time of new growth and rejuvenation. Each morning send your love out to the Sun, the Moon and all the stars. The poem I posted yesterday speaks to the meaning of this time.

May the Light be with you!

Reflected Heart

They say the outside reflects what is within.
I am waiting now for my heart to appear around me.
Such a simple thing,
This gift of reflection.
Only open our eyes,
Survey our surroundings,
Fathoms the depths of our soul.

I plant seeds in the soil of my being
With patience and gratitude.
Tend the seedlings,
Watch with expectancy for my garden to flourish.

What was once a barren, weed choked patch
Took so many days and months and years.
I pulled the weeds,
Loosened earth, shedding air and light
And openness into the dark loam.
Amendments added to nurture.
Many lifetimes' work.

Now, finally now
Spring comes, ample rain and beckoning sun.
Seedlings grow noticeably each day.
We are becoming who I AM,
Standing in the garden of the heart's reflection.


© 2010 by Helen Sumerwell. All rights reserved.

What is Light?

Here we are, well on our way now towards expansion into Light and our ascension into the Forth Dimension. We are gradually and steadily transmuting to Lightbody.

All souls follow the spiral path towards Light. But do you really understand where you are headed in the journey towards Light? Have you ever asked yourself - What is Light?

This question came to me recently as I pondered where to begin in writing this blog when there is so much to share. It's a question I've not seen raised or addressed, although every book, article, web page and blog on the subject of the Ascension all use the word Light as a core, perhaps the core concept. Understanding what is meant by terms like expanding to light, ascending to light, filling yourself with light, being a Light Worker,....is key to following this path.

Webster's Dictionary online gives 66 definitions for the word "light". Light is a noun, a verb, an adjective, and an adverb. How many words are used in so many forms with so many different definitions? I'll leave the research on that question to someone else, but I doubt that there are many words with as many meanings and uses.

There is another definition for Light, not referenced in the dictionary definitions, that I found in the glossary of terms at the back of Atlantis Rising, by Patricia Corey, channeling the Sirian High Counsel. When I read it, it rang the vibration of Truth throughout my being.

Light: Knowledge and Love

Something important to grasp, yes?

Who I Am

The Alchemist of Sweetness

I am the Queen of Lemonade.
Queen of the masses,
No royal birth here.
I earned each jewel in the crown,
Cut each facet, polished each stone
In the journey of lemons.
Too tart, too sour
To nurture the soul.
The sting bares our unknown cuts,
We grow aware by the sting.
And who really,
Who is there
To grant the promise of lemon-less ease?
We all get lemons,
Some more than others.
Some get bushels.
Bushels bestowed on me,
My cosmic birthright.
The power of alchemy lies in the learning,
Learning the secret of brewing lemonade.
Mine the Truth within.
Mine for all your worth.
Following the vein deeper,
Deeper down the vein of sweet golden Truth.
An alchemist of sweetness I became.
Sweetness refined in understanding.
Today I step into later years,
Regal in my crown of sparkling citrines.
Open wide the doors of my court!
Send out the call!
I'll teach the alchemy of sweetness
To any who wish to learn
The high art of making lemonade.

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