The Seance Newsletter

Thoughts from Suzane

I know I'm not alone with this - can you believe it's already August?! Summer is zipping along but for us in the Northeast, we have experienced so much rain, it's mindboggling - just about everyday it seems. One can't but help notice on Facebook the constant everyday chatter of, "Another rainy day! Welcome to Seattle in the East."

I will tell you however, that the tree and bushes love the rain. Outside of Albany, at Landis Arboretums - a beautiful place to visit if you're in the area - the water level for the trees has finally risen from years of drought and near-drought level. Hey! If the trees are happy . . . then so am I. You can count on that.

It is very interesting to note how things we could count on in the past as a result of doing all the right things are no longer there for us now. For many . . . job, income, savings, etc. are all impacted, which in turn affects all those other parts of our lives that we also once thought of as perfectly secure, including relationships both personal and professional.

As one client recently said to me, "I entrusted my life savings to the same man for thirty-five years, and everything was wiped out. Then he took his life." Like others, this client wants me to provide the answer for her on how to proceed, or get that information from her DPs, when she is at an age where she can't really start over.

Now, those of you who know me understand how my heart goes out to my client, and others who find themselves in this kind of situation. What I try to remind people is that no one ever said things are forever. There is no guarantee that we will never experience pain, sadness and even a sense of devastation during our lives on Earth. Quite the contrary. But through challenges like this, we all have a chance to grow spiritually. As has been said elsewhere, "We are like [old fashioned] photographs in that we develop from the negative." What we experience in life is all relative to our own individual journeys.

It's funny but when you think about it, the journeys of people are a lot like those of trees and plants in some ways. Each lives in communities where there are the older, middle age, teenagers, and "seedlings." When someone comes and knocks down a tree - say to build a house, as happened in my area recently - the tree community changes. Fragile trees, such as my birches and ash, can become weakened. And so when there is a later challenge, like when an ice-storm hits as occurred this past winter, trees that were originally weakened are once again threatened. I hope he's wrong but my tree guy said at some point they probably won't make it - all from building one house.

Now what does that have to do with us, our spiritual life, and connecting with those we love? I think the message is to keep persevering through difficult times and understand that there will be challenging times in life. It's part of what I call the Earth program. There are simply NO guarantees! Not for the trees and not for us.

But what is different for us is that we have souls. As spiritual beings having a human experience here on Earth, we need to recognize that our community and connection to God, our higher consciousness and loved ones in spirit, will all always be there, though perhaps in a different form, because love never dies no matter what.

So let's keep persevering when we have to. And keep the faith in challenging times. Let us be thankful everyday for our blessings, and never stop hugging those we love or telling them that we love them.

When life throws you some lemons, think how wonderful it will be to have a lemon tree!

A note of thanks for sharing, meeting and having a great weekend at Omega - a wonderful community of trees and people.

And remember, it's still August, and summer! So go out and have some fun!

Warmly,
Suzane