Pray for my children

Russia invades the Ukraine

Today when I turned on the news and the discussion was about the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, I was reminded of this message from Fatima.

According to William Thomas Walsh’s beautiful book Our Lady of Fatima, the Blessed Mother told three children at Fatima on 13 July 1917:   “I come to ask the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays.  If they listen to my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace.  If not she will scatter her errors through the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church.” 

I was reminded that when this message was given on July 13, 1917 that people began praying for the people of Russia and changes happened. We saw them on the sides of Allied forces in World War II. Then when the cold war ended, people forgot to pray anymore for the Russian people, and the energy of aggression again crept into the leadership.

Now we are being asked to pray for the protection of the people of the Ukraine, but to also pray for the people of Russia. We are asked to pray for the people, leaders, and soldiers. To ask that love, compassion, wisdom and peace enter into their hearts and minds.

Let us take time each day to do this.

Blessings and thank you.

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Polls

We all have opinions! Curious about the opinion of your audience? Start asking with our poll block. It makes creating a poll as fast and simple as listing bullet points.

 You can choose between a button or a list style for your answer options, and you can fully customize the styling of the block.  By default the poll block will support your theme styling, but it’s up to you if you want to keep it. You can customize the style how you want, from font-family to border colours.

Just click in the poll below and start editing.

And everything else you expect from a Crowdsignal poll is also available — such as setting “single answer” or “multiple answer” choices, a customised confirmation message, poll timeframe, and avoidance of double voting.

Here is a short demo video for how to set up this block, not that you would need it 😉

Feedback Button

You might have spotted it already, in the bottom left corner of this page: Our Feedback button.

This is a floating button that lives above your site’s content. Always visible this button makes giving feedback easy! User can send you a message and provide their email address so you could can get back to them. Needless to say that you can fully customize the design and text, including the label of the button itself. Feel free to make it a “Contact me” or “Say hello” button or anything you like.

And yes, you can change its placement! You can put the button in any corner of your site. Just try it! Click in the feedback and start editing.

Don’t miss out on your customers’ feedback. Keep your door open anytime and place a feedback button on all your pages.

Voting

Sometimes we need just quick and fast feedback from our audience. A quick voting button might be all you need. Fully customizable of course.

There is already a “like” button at the end of a WordPress post that you can click to express satisfaction or agreement. But what if you want to ask readers their opinion on a subject in the middle of a post? Or what if you want to present several ideas and find out which one is the most popular? Wouldn’t it be great to ask readers what they think without having to leave the editor or switch to another service or plugin?

That’s what we thought! Say hello to our Voting Block:

It’s a simple block that adds two voting buttons—thumbs up, thumbs down—to your post wherever you want to place them. Customize the block in different sizes and colors, with or without a border, and with or without a visible vote counter. Put several in a single post, next to different ideas, to see how they stack up for readers. Make the block your own!

Applause

The Applause block is a simpler and more playful version of our Voting block. The main differences are users only being able to give positive feedback and encouraging users to “make as much noise as they want”. Meaning this block does not only allow repeated voting, but even encourages it.

Let your audience make some noise with a big round of applause.

Preview this post and try clapping yourself! It’s fun.

The block currently comes in three different sizes, and can be customised with a button-like styling, including a border, border radius and some colour customisation options.

Embed Surveys & Forms

So far we only talked about quick and fast ways to collect feedback or opinions from your audience. But what if you have many questions or want to create simple forms? You can do this with Crowdsignal, too! Create a survey or form on app.crowdsignal.com and embed it into your WordPress post or site. Similar like here:

The Crowdsignal survey above was embedded using our “Single question per page mode.” It’s exactly what it sounds like: In this mode, no matter how many questions your survey has, your respondents will always see one question at a time. Single Mode shines when you embed a survey into your website or blog post. Surveys with multiple questions can take up a lot of space, overwhelming your site. If you’re not sure whether your readers will take the survey at all, it disrupts the reading experience. With Single Mode, a survey  uses the same amount of space as an image, even a really long survey.

Once they provide an answer (or skip the question),  the next question loads. It has a playful  feel, like flipping through a slide show. Every answered question feels like progress.

You can choose between several transition options, and decide whether the questions should move from top to bottom, or from left to right.

Ready to create one? Here’s how:

– Go to app.crowdsignal.com (we will log you in with your WordPress.com account – magic ;)) .

– Create a new survey.

– In the Editor, choose “Single Mode” at the top left.

– Then create as many questions as you like and style your theme.

– When you are ready click on Sharing and copy the URL of your survey.

– Go back to your WordPress editor and paste the URL of your survey into your post

– Done! Your survey will appear in your post.

Here is a short demo video for you that shows you how it works in less than a minute:

Measure NPS

While we are driving our projects, working hard on our products, we all wonder: How are we doing? Are people satisfied with our service? Are we doing better since last month? 

Sometimes you want to measure your progress over time. Measure and monitor the customer satisfaction and growth potential of your product with a Net Promoter Score.

We have built a Gutenberg block for you that makes it easier than ever before to track your Net Promoter Score on WordPress. If you have previewed this post before, you might have seen the NPS question already in a modal window.

The moment you add the block, you are basically done. The design of the block is based on your site’s theme. You can still customize the styling of the block, or edit the questions, but that might not even be necessary.

To get the most out of your NPS data, it is important to show the question only to users that are already familiar with your service or product. You can configure the block to only show to repeat visitors. It’s more likely you will get feedback from someone who knows what they are talking about, and you can make sure new users are not interrupted during their first visit to your site.

After you publish the block go to the results page of the block and monitor your results. We have built a special results page for you to track your NPS score and to analyse any additional feedback.

We provide an analytics dashboard with our block that automatically calculates the Net Promoter Score for you in real-time and allows you to monitor your score over time. Are the differences geographic? Filter your results based on countries.

By the way, did you know you also can get email notifications or a ping in your Slack channel any time you get an NPS rating? Just click on the little “connect” button on your results page.

Here is a quick tutorial video on how it works.

Live in the Now

To live in Now creates the future and sets us free.

Now, this moment, is truly all that you have or need. The future has not yet been determined, you will create it in the now and the past in linear time is gone. The ‘past’ as viewed from non linear time still exists and can be altered, but that is beyond the comprehension or ability of most of humanity at this time.

For us, the past is but a shadow or memory of events, thoughts or feelings that have occurred and had an impact on how we feel about ourselves and /or others and how we view the world. Those thoughts can be happy or a shadow of fear, doubt and regret.

If our memory is happy it can cause you to smile and feel uplifted. It allows you to have a positive view about the past and the now. If the memory is sad or painful it can carry a charge that can change your perspective of the experiences today if you allow it to do so. It is those memories which are not happy that we have experienced which are the shadows that haunt us. Most people put them in a closet and shut the door tight so that they don’t have to remember. This works for awhile until an event, experience, perhaps a song, or a thought can trigger the memory and yank the door wide open. Then the thoughts and feelings come flooding back.

We can never fully experience the freedom of our soul until we face these shadows, understand what happened, and transform them from the shadows into light.

There are many ways in which to begin the process. I would recommend the very first step to be to quietly go within and ask whatever creative or divine power you believe in to protect you through this process and to help you find enlightenment and transformation. Our Creator Source, gave us the gift of freedom of choice, and those Beings who serve the Source cannot help us unless we ask. It is good to be protected, for as we open the door to negative emotions and energies we can draw forth more from the collective consciousness.

The next step is to open the door and to look at the shadows within the closet. There are many ways to do this. If you desire or are open to working with a person trained to help with this process there are psychiatrist, and counselors both spiritual and therapeutic.

You may prefer not to share your inner most thoughts and feelings with another, for you have spent a long time trying to avoid looking at them and any feelings or emotions they bring up about yourself. You can try meditation or there are many energetic healing therapies, like (EFT) Emotional Freedom Technique, Neurolinguistic Programming, and Shifting the Assemblage point to name a few.

The process you take to open the door and look at these shadows is up to you. Please remember the shadow thoughts and feelings may be the result something that was done to you or that was completely out of your control. Which then created an emotional response within you that effects your feelings about yourself, others and the world. Some examples are rape or abuse.

The same is true if the shadow is the result of your actions or choices. Each experience and interaction in life is an opportunity to learn and grow, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The choices we make and the actions we take are usually based upon our prior experiences, our beliefs, the morals and values of our family. The ideal choice is one which results in not only bringing more harmony and balance in our life, but is for the greater good of all.

We all have made less than ideal choices and behaved in less than desirable ways. Upon the earth the energies are dense, from the fear and anger of mass consciousness, there are emotions locked within our DNA from our ancestors, and we have our learned beliefs and behaviors.

As you look at these shadows, try to look at the events with emotional detachment. For what we need to understand is why we made the choice or acted as we did and how we could have did it differently. You can ask Archangel Michael who is the protector Angel to also cut all cords that bind you to another and see his sword cut through them and return to sender. You can deal with any ramifications of this later but this will help to free some of the emotions for this process.

It will certainly bring up emotions. When you experience these emotions, center yourself, be quiet, place you attention within your heart and breathe deeply in and out slowly. See the in breath as light that flows through you clearing the emotion and breath out the unbalanced energy. Once you are able to move through the emotions and feel calm again you can again look at the event or experience. If they bring up emotions again, use the breath technique.

The ideal we will learn as we have experiences or choices is to before we speak or act to stop, bring our attention to our heart and take a breath or two. Ask yourself.

What is happening? Why is it happening? What do I feel about it? Why do I feel this way? Do I feel this within my body, emotions or mind? What am I thinking about this? Are these thoughts mine or have I been told by others this is what I should think or feel? What can be the results of my words or actions? Is this of benefit to me? Is this of benefit to all involved? Ask for guidance from Source, your Soul, your Guardian Angel?

Once you have looked at this you can make a more informed and hopefully enlightened choice. What did I learn? After the experience or event, you can then look back as you are now doing about the shadow and see the ramifications of your acts or words, to decide if you could have done things differently.

As you have reviewed this shadow and brought it forward into understanding, exposing it to the light it is time for transformation. First we need to release the emotions.

If the action was done to us it is time to forgive the perpetrator. For as long as we hold anger toward them , we are connected and they are a piece of our life. If we realize that their choices and actions were theirs and had nothing to do with us but with their own experiences and choices, we can release them emotionally. “Forgive them for they truly know not what they do.” For if people were truly aware of the ramifications of their actions, they would usually not do them.

If you have been the one causing hurt to another it is time to ask for forgiveness, “Please Forgive me” , which can be done through prayer to them and sending them love.

Next, ” I am sorry, ” which is to forgive ourselves for had we known how to do things or been emotionally free enough to do so, we would have.

“Thank you”, for forgiving me and for the Creator for still loving me always.

Bring forth the VIOLET FLAME OF TRANSFORMATION. This is a gift to transform and release all unbalanced energies back to the universe so we can be filled with light.

Ask also that the violet flame go forth to all involved in this even or experience and to transform all unbalanced energies between you and others that you may all be released and balanced.

Once you have removed the energies. It is time to move into the heart and to ask to be filled with Light and Love and to visualize this expanding outward, to fill all the space which you have cleared.

“I love you”, it is time to bring love, compassion, forgiveness and understanding to all within the situation and to ourselves, and all life.

All life is about learning, experiences and choices which lead us to see, acting, feeling and living from a more loving, compassionate and balanced point of view.

As to the future. Our thoughts, words, deeds and actions of this MOMENT are creating the future. There are endless possibilities, but we shape and change those outcomes with each choice we make. That is why it is important to stop , beathe and think before we speak or act.

As we do this we cast no shadows in the linear past.

As we look at our shadows and see how we could have done things differently we assure that they don’t interfere with a future of joy, balance and abundance. So in effect we are making changes to the past for we will no longer be affected by the past and it can’t effect our future.

BLESSINGS TO YOU -IN THE NOW.

I AM Marguerite

Highest Gift and Life Expression

The highest gift we can give to ourselves and others is to be a living vessel of Divine unconditional Love. In this state of Being we are free from all that binds us to duality and can live and express, Divine Love and Unity to help others to break free.

Then together we can help to transform the Earth into the Heavenly place it was created to be.


This begins not by looking outward into the world for answers on how to change but inward in the heart. This is where the essence of the Creator lives within us. Go within, and ask to be shown and to receive Divine Love. Ask for help to have all walls and blockages which hinder or prevent your feeling, receiving and expressing this love be removed.


We must ask in order for the ones who serve our Creator to help us, free will and all. Once we have opened our heart, and this is a process. We may feel it immediately and the flow increase day by day or we may have many blockages to remove for this to happen. But, continue daily to go within and ask for help and it will occur. The process may bring up thoughts and feelings from past experiences that may not always be pleasant, but just ask for more love and help and you will find the release and transformation happen, and it will get easier.


Until one day you feel this glow within you that expands outward and you know that All is good, All is One, All is Light and Love. That you are safe, and all blessings can come to you and through you.


IT IS unconditional love that will change the world, not anger, violence, hatred or war. Place you focus upon and above the appearances of events and open your heart and ask to be shown the higher point of view and you will see how easily you move beyond the confusion and frustration into peace and joy.


IT IS TRANSFORMING!!!!!!!!!!!


Give it a try you have nothing to loose but hurt, frustration, pain and anger.

Namaste and Blessings

Forgiveness

I sat outside and as I was listening, I was told that I should share these thoughts about forgiveness and my own process.

I found the prior post Forgiveness Decree synchronistic as are many writings, books or teachings that come to me at exactly the time I need to know or remember, or need a tool.

As people who know me would tell you I am not a perfect person, I have faults and make mistakes, bad choices, get impatient, cranky, and find myself needing to ask for forgiveness for my words or actions. Thankfully our Creator is loving, forgiving, understanding and can use us to help ourselves and others despite our faults.

Long ago I read in the book “Illusions – the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah” by RIchard Bach – this quote., “You teach best that which you most need to learn.”

That is why these writings will be a mixture of teaching, learning, wisdom and truth. For as I learn, grow and open my heart more, it allows more wisdom and truth to enter so that I may share with others.

The key is that we are not yet perfect, for it is difficult to be so in a human form, but not impossible. We are not expected to be perfect in an instant by saying I believe in this or that. It is a process, of learning, growing and being.

We may make mistakes for which we might need forgiveness sometimes, some mistakes don’t affect others and some do. If we make a mistake, it is a learning process, what did you learn, and how can you do this better the next time. If you hurt another or affect another, admit your error and ask them for forgiveness. You must also forgive yourself.

The forgiveness of self is an important key. If you have asked another, whether or not they forgive you, you have admitted you hurt them in some way and try to make amends. If they choose not to forgiven you, there is nothing you can do about that but move on and do better. But you need to forgive yourself also.

We often stop in our forward movement when we make a mistake. We beat up on ourself mentally and emotionally believing we are not worthy. We forget that the Creator loves us unconditionally and only asks that we open our hearts to reconnect and live as One with the Creator. Often , we tend to shut down thinking we have disappointed the Creator as we perhaps had disappointed our parents or another authority figure when we made a mistake as children, and felt ashamed.

We shut down our connection in an attempt to hide, but the Creator knows for the Creator is within us. The Creator does not judge but sends us love to help us to overcome and move forward. We just have to admit, ask forgiveness of all involved including the Creator, for the Creator is also in the ones we harmed, and then open our hearts and minds to receive the Love and Light of the Divine, to heal us

As I said, we need also to evaluate the situation which happened and learn how to handle it better in the future. Forgive ourselves for not being perfect, and vow to do better. It does not mean you won’t make more mistakes, but as we try to watch our thoughts, words and deeds before we act we will find ourselves making less mistakes. Stop before you speak or act – is what you are about to do loving, are you acting from the heart of compassion, is it necessary, is it kind or will it hurt another in some way.

When we self monitor, and live from the heart the need for forgiveness will lessen along the way.

So as I said, I am not perfect, I am learning, and I needed to have this Forgiveness Decree as much as some of you may need it. To remind me to do better, but when I stumble to learn, ask and give forgiveness and do better in the future.

As I said luckily as we are part of the Creator , who will use us as we are willing to help to uplift ourselves and others, I am sharing that which I am inspired to share.

The following is a beautiful corresponding thought to that of Richard Bach, that we teach best that which we most need to learn and then two people may learn as quoted by Robert Heinlein.

“When one teaches, two learn.”
–Robert Heinlein

May your path have few pebbles upon which to stumble but when you do, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and move around the pebble. Then watch for others along the way, and step over or around them, instead of kicking them and cursing them for being in the way and causing you to fall.

Blessed are the forgiving and forgiven for you shall be free.

Forgiveness a gift we give ourselves.

Diana Cooper shared this please say 3 times from the heart.

Forgiveness decree
I forgive everyone who has ever hurt or harmed me, consciously or unconsciously, in this lifetime or any other, in this universe, dimension, plane or level of existence or any other. 
I offer them grace.
I ask forgiveness for everything I have ever done to hurt or harm another, consciously or unconsciously, in this lifetime or any other, in this universe, dimension, plane or level of existence or any other.
I ask for grace.
I forgive myself for everything I have ever done to hurt or harm another, consciously or unconsciously, in this lifetime or any other, in this universe, dimension, plane or level of existence or any other.
I accept grace.
I am free.  All chains and restrictions fall from me.  I stand in my full power as a Master.

So be it.  It is done.

Idolatry

The dictionary defines idolatry: extreme admiration, love, or reverence for something or someone.

The christian bible says it is: immoderate attachment or devotion to something or someone

Today as I sat outside the following perspective was shared with me.

Sometimes we idolize or glorify another person. It can even be an object, money, belief system, political association or anything that represents or presents itself as being more important than our relationship with Creator Source. Even good things can become idols when we make them the ultimate things in our lives. Idolatry is all around us and we are so often unaware.

It may begin by one feeling betrayed, a lack direction, fearing their life is out of their control and others are a threat to their lifestyle. They begin searching for someone or something greater than themselves to which they may become a part. So they listen and perhaps believe and follow the path upon which this person is directing them

Often people feel powerless in the world whether it is because they don’t understand what is happening around them, or they fear the present and future. They want to take back control of their lives and perhaps even become a ‘hero’ in saving the world. Joseph Campbell referred to this as the “Hero’s Journey”. The Hero’s Journey is about feeling the need to respond to the call to adventure, a journey in which we are instrumental in positive change for ourselves and in the world

When a person follows another and what they are saying and doing, this person becomes a type of guru, icon or hero. The followers are willing to give away their power of self determination and spiritual direction because within them something is missing or lacking and they want direction and fulfillment. The person they follow or idolize , or the object, or belief systems that person represents, fills that empty space within them at the moment.

We can look back to the past and wonder about the worship of people as the lesser gods or mythological beings. They helped fulfill a need for direction and hope in a world out of the control of the worshipper. As they made things better for the people or displayed a greater power or ability to maneuver or overcome the obstacles of the world, people began to worship them. They may not even have been a real being, but an Archetypal representation of an idea with which the people needed help in dealing or explaining.

Joseph Campbell said of Archetypes and mythology: “It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.”

For instance the archetype of the Trickster:

Almost all non-literate mythology has a trickster-hero of some kind. … And there’s a very special property in the trickster: he always breaks in, just as the unconscious does, to trip up the rational situation. He’s both a fool and someone who’s beyond the system. And the trickster represents all those possibilities of life that your mind hasn’t decided it wants to deal with. The mind structures a lifestyle, and the fool or trickster represents another whole range of possibilities. He doesn’t respect the values that you’ve set up for yourself, and smashes them.

However, the Trickster by spurring us into action can help us to begin a path of forward movement instead of being stuck in fear or self pity.

A wise man once told me. ” God cannot direct you from a stopped position. However, once in motion, if you are moving along the wrong path, God can give you a nudge in the right direction.”

.Today these lesser gods or archetypes come in many different forms such as , movie stars, musicians, athletes, the extremely wealthy industrialist, spiritual leaders and icons, political leaders or military leaders. They may even come in the form of your material possessions, loved ones or friends.

There are ones you trust and follow even despite any character flaws. Why? A person of religion may say that many past prophets and religious leaders were flawed and yet their God used them to lead and guide the people. They were called despite their flaws because they were willing to follow direction and share what they received. However, it is always desired by Source that once they begin working with Creator Source they will begin to make positive spiritual changes in their lives. Just because we begin flawed and Source uses us to be of service, does not mean that it is a desirable state in which to continue living ones life or that Creator Source will continue to work through them.

To be called is about giving up of self/ego desires in order to be of Service to Creator Source and all Life in love, and compassion in order to bring Light and Love into the world. Our service is to help others to be uplifted into a more spiritual state and direction. We are loved unconditionally by Source, despite our flaws, but Source uses us as we are willing to follow direction in Unity and Oneness, and if we choose not to do so, we are still loved, but Source moves forward to work through others until we are ready to make changes.

This brings us to discernment. It is up to us as individuals to ask for protection and guidance to be able to discern truth and to follow that which is of the highest good. Just because a person brings us a Truth at a time when we are ready to receive it does not make that person an icon, we make that person an icon by continuing to follow and listen to them past the time of their sharing of Source Truth, or a greater truth than we had previously known, along our path of Ego directed truth.

We also need to be able to grow spiritually. Just because something is truth for us at this time in our life, does not mean it is forever true. There is Divine Truth which is forever the same and never changing. For instance – Like attracts Like. That is a forever Truth and Universal Law of Creation. That we are born to marry, have a family, home and work at a job until we retire and finally die. Is a relative truth that we are taught to be a guide for our lives. It is an accepted individual choice to accept or reject in whole or in part.

Sometimes we get caught up in the truth of another because of that lack within us to be a part of something greater than ourselves. They may even show us a greater truth than we currently know, but we must learn to discern and not blindly follow another.

 “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

By understanding our own hero’s journey, we can recognize and respond to the call to adventure of spirit and we can become participants of positive change for ourselves, for our community and the world. The desire to serve the Creator and humanity in creating a better world for all is the enlightening course to follow.

It is important to be discerning in our life of that which we choose to believe and follow as the guiding light and principal in our lives. Remember others are flawed, as are we and that the only true barometer of truth lies within us. If we learn to listen to the voice within we become able to discern the greater truth from the relative truth that is being shared with us. We learn to take back our power and be inwardly directed by Source instead of outwardly guided by Ego of ourself or another. No one can misdirect us unless we allow them to do so.

Does the truth or calling we see and hear from another inspire us to become more spiritually loving and compassionate on a forward and continuous basis. If not then take of the truth of the moment to which you are inspired and move forward along your path.

As we seek to grow closer to Creator Source we have a desire and willingness to be of service and to surrender our ego desires to a greater calling and unity.

Seek the higher journey of life. The hero’s path will open. Discern the Source of your truth and inspiration and keep only that which of uplifting and enlightening value. The truth and path lies within the heart.

May your light grow ever brighter.