Hi lovebug,

I had a question from a reader come in last week. It was so good I want to share it…

Would you kindly write about how to spiritually move through life altering events, such as losing your home, becoming disabled and having to create a new life for yourself, etc.? When I say spiritually move through it, I mean how to help a truly wounded spirit find the hope to move through the pain. I don't know if you've ever felt so crushed (mentally, physically, and spiritually), but a sort of how to give your spirit hope in those earth shattering moments of pain. 

To be transparent, I had to give myself some time before I decided to write a post about it. 

Why? Because there are times where things feel so unjust, so wrong, and so heartbreaking that I can’t make sense of how God/Spirit/the Universe would allow this to happen.

I am most definitely human with big human feelings. 

That being said, I remembered that I’m not answering this question: spirit is. So here we go…

A channeled message from Archangel Gabriel.

You have signed up for everything in your life that’s happened to you. I know that feels cruel or like we’re blaming you for your hardship: we are not. 

You forget your contract, your learnings, what you agreed to in this life because that is the way things are done. 

You show up in this world with amnesia of everything that came before. Sure you may have glimmers of past lives, but on the whole you don’t remember. You believe that this is the first time you have lived. It’s all new, in many ways. It keeps your time on Earth exciting and wondrous.

There are some lessons you have been learning over and over, but not mastering. You have choice points along your life journey that can make things easier or harder. Sometimes the choice itself is quite difficult or uncomfortable, but it will make your life easier. Sometimes the choice seems easy, but then your life becomes tough.

There is no wrong way. 

The important thing to remember during the darkest of dark times on your Earth journey is that God/Spirit/the Universe is always with you. Always. 

Perhaps your lesson in life is faith in the unseen? Perhaps it is in trusting yourself to keep going when it feels deeply challenging to do so? Perhaps it is to struggle so that you can teach others how you got through it later? 

Your life journey and lessons are specific to you and your soul’s evolution. 

Many of you have stopped communicating with God/Spirit/the Universe daily. You call out during the hardest times or give thanks during the best times, but spirit is here when you check your phone, when you walk the dog, when you’re putting gas in the car, when you’re scraping the dishes after dinner. 

Spirit is within you and outside of you and around you always. 

You have been taught that you can only find it in specific places or through specific channels, but that is false. Spirit is a knowing, a feeling, an energy, a calmness, a light. 

So when life feels immeasurably hard, it is your job to connect with whatever Spirit is to you. Is it music? Is it dance? Is it nature? Is it laughing with a friend? Is it snuggling your puppy? Is it joining a 12 step program? Is it skiing down a mountain? Whatever makes you feel that spark, that’s it. That’s spirit. 

Small connections lead to strong faith. Faith, not in a religious way, but faith that you’re being led, faith that you’re learning something big, faith that your job here is not to struggle but to evolve from a spiritual perspective. 

So - what do you need to learn through your hardship? Zoom out and look back through a neutral lens. Where do you need support with your path? What lesson have you been replaying again and again because you, as the student, are still learning?

Trust. Be compassionate with yourself. Find your connection to Spirit in tiny ways and then build up from there. And remember that life is supposed to be loving. 

- Archangel Gabriel channeled by Rebecca

Note from Rebecca: Archangel Gabriel is the divine messenger, so it makes sense that that’s who the messaging was from today. 

I’m going to chime in with my thoughts in the next newsletter from a day in / day out perspective of going through hard times.

If you’re looking for channeled guidance, a reading is the right step for you. You can book one here. 

Rebecca*