Dear angels, higher self, I am really missing Laurie. I’ve been thinking about her and our childhood and my love and all the good things we shared in life. She was a part of me, my world. I feel the loss. It makes me sad. Could you talk with me about this?Yes, let us talk about love. We will continue the conversation that we last had. Love is the value, the emotion, of the spirit of you. You are essentially love. It is natural and it is spiritual to feel love for every human on the face of the earth. It is natural to feel love for the animals, and for the trees, and for the flowers, even the rocks, the air, and all that exists around you and within you. You see, you ARE love and so it is an aberration to NOT feel love.
So your love of your sister was and is the right thing to feel. It is natural. It is essential. It is an affirmation of the spirit of life that you shared. It is a part of your unity, your union, your togetherness as sisters and as souls and spirits traveling through time and through the earthly plane with each other.
You do know that you and Laurie are joined forever. There is no separation between you and the soul and spirit you called Laurie in her last life, because you and Laurie are spirits that shared and will always continue to share a deep, abiding love. It is a beautiful thing always to know in one’s heart that love is shared and that your shared love guides you into rich fields of learning and understanding.
Now, you and Laurie did indeed share many kinds of learning together. You learned first and foremost that love is an emotion that you could feel on a daily basis. Because of the love that you had and have for each other as you were growing up as siblings, you could see this love in evidence each and every day. Not that every day was a love fest, but the continuity of love in your relationship was evident. You had stirrings of love in your daily world. This is the value of family: family gives us the opportunity to see in each day the face of love and the value of love.
Now, you and Laurie were also learning some potent lessons with one another. There was and continues to be the lesson of acceptance. This is a powerful lesson because it gives each person the challenge of looking at self before looking at the other. You see, in Laurie’s face you saw energy of yourself, and yet as you judged Laurie’s energy at times, you were indeed judging yourself. This was not always evident to you, but believe me when I tell you that you were indeed judging yourself. So when this energy is present – and it is the most common of all energies of expansion and growth (it is truly a great lesson to be gifted with) – it is always a benefit to the soul because it challenges reflection. Laurie, too, could look at you and experience the same challenge. You both were learning high levels of love and personal acceptance.
To accept self is to understand that we ARE love. And so as you and Laurie looked at each other and saw your own images in the face of the other, you were indeed learning about love. Look and see the beauty of love in the face of sisters. This is a gift that you each gave each other. And it is a gift that you feel ever more strongly today as you remember the good things that you and Laurie shared.
Now, another challenge – another lesson that you are learning now in Laurie’s physical absence – is the gift of letting go. You may interpret love to mean that there is a promise of forever. And indeed there is this promise, but the promises of the physical world are different than the promises of the soul and spirit. For you and Laurie, there is a promise of spiritual togetherness, but Laurie, in love, made a commitment to a new set of parents, to join them in a new life and to continue her path of soul and spirit advancement by joining them. To make this commitment, it was necessary to leave her physical life with you.
You can feel the joy of Laurie’s joy in being set free from a body that was ravaged with cancer. She created an exit and she learned deeply from the lessons that her chosen exit provided her with. She learned about caring for her physical body. She learned about the love and loyalty that accompany the trials of disease – as your family and her friends rallied around her to support her. Her disease and her death opened the hearts of many. And this is as it should be, as Laurie was a touchstone of spiritual awakening in those who loved her.
But you, Linda, you and Laurie shared a deep bond of acceptance and of faith in the understanding that life is more than appears on the surface. You shared in an understanding of spiritual laws that – by virtue of some of your shared experiences – you could interpret as profound. You knew from what you shared in activities that life is more than the three-dimensional world. This acceptance and these experiences allowed you to grow together.
Laurie is indeed in a better place today, and in a perfect place, as each moment of our lives, for each of us, is perfect. The soul and spirit of each of us chooses a place and a set of circumstances that are perfect and bright and wise choices. The ego chooses fear but the soul and spirit are infinitely wise. So Laurie’s choices for living and learning are wise and perfect.
Have faith, have trust in Laurie’s choices. She is a great soul. She sends her love. She is aware of your hurt and your sadness and she too feels the loss of your physical presence, but she knows that you know that all is well and that all is right and that time and space do not divide the love that is eternally a part of who you are as sisters in soul and spirit. This bond of sisterhood extends far into the soul and spirit realms, much to the credit of you both as you have made the commitment – and have honored the commitment – of helping one another in your soul and spirit advancement.
So be at peace with Laurie’s choices, and with your own choice to help her and yourself learn. Together you are advancing. And this advancement is much needed at this time on Earth. Keep looking forward, and keep your heart steady. Your love brings you eternal peace and joy, and Laurie shares this emotion of spirit. You are forever sisters. Celebrate this love and be the energy of sisterhood. It will serve you both eternally.
