If you are new to healing, spiritual development or exploring faith alongside spirituality, there are some wonderful resources available online that can help you learn more in your own time and at your own pace.
Bible Gateway is a well-known online Bible resource where you can read, search and study scripture in a wide range of translations. Whether you are looking for comfort, guidance, inspiration or simply wish to explore the teachings of Christianity more deeply, it provides an easy and accessible way to spend time with the Bible from wherever you are.
We have also included a link to Christian Spiritualism, a website dedicated to exploring the connection between Christianity and spiritualism. (This will include the archives of THE ZODIAC MESSAGES ) The site shares information on spiritual healing, mediumship, churches, events and spiritual philosophy, helping visitors better understand how faith, healing and communication with the spirit world have been approached within Christian Spiritualism for many years.
If you haven’t caught up with my latest blogs, here are three recent posts looking at some of the questions I am regularly asked about the spirit world.
This time, I’m looking at how those in spirit can guide us without interfering with our free will, why believing you’ve been cursed can sometimes create its own fear, and why children may naturally be more sensitive to the spirit world.
Here’s what you may have missed.
How the Spirit World Can Guide You Without Taking Away Your Free Will
If our loved ones are still around us after they have passed, why can’t they simply tell us what decisions to make?
This is something I am asked regularly.
I believe those in spirit can guide us, place thoughts into our minds and help us along the way, but there is an important boundary: free will.
We are here to live our own lives, make our own decisions and learn through our experiences. Those in spirit can help and guide us, but they cannot live our lives for us.
Have You Really Been Cursed? A Medium’s Perspective on Fear, Free Will and Spiritual Protection
I regularly hear from people who are convinced that somebody has placed a curse on them.
Sometimes they believe it is black magic, voodoo or another form of spiritual attack. Once that fear takes hold, it can become very easy to connect every problem in life with the supposed curse.
But how much power does a curse really have?
In this blog, I explain why fear itself can become part of the problem, the importance of understanding your own free will, and why we shouldn’t automatically give another person or spiritual influence power over our lives.
Why Children Can Be More Sensitive to the Spirit World
Can children see and sense things from the spirit world that adults no longer notice?
Children can sometimes appear naturally more sensitive to spirit. They haven’t necessarily developed the same doubts, expectations and barriers that we acquire as we get older.
As somebody who sat in my first spiritual circle at just six years old, this is a subject that connects closely with my own experiences growing up around mediumship.
In this blog, I explore why some children may be more spiritually sensitive, what they might experience and why we should be careful about immediately dismissing what they tell us.
Although these three blogs explore very different subjects, they all come back to something I believe is incredibly important: understanding the spirit world without becoming frightened of it.
Our loved ones can be close without controlling our lives. Fear doesn’t need to give a supposed curse power over us. And when children talk about sensing something we cannot see, sometimes it is worth listening before immediately dismissing their experience.
There is still so much we don’t understand about the spirit world. Even after a lifetime involved in mediumship, I continue to learn from the experiences and situations I encounter.
If you’ve missed any of these recent posts, follow the links above to read them in full.
Steve stepped in after a cancellation last night, giving a lovely address about St Francis, and then went on to bring some lovely messages. Thank you, Steve! Alison Keogh tried to keep us in line as our chair.
We have been treated to everything from short, sharp bursts of rain to long, thunderous showers. I think I can even feel the relief of my garden fauna as, finally, they get hydrated with water from above rather than my dirty dishwater!
The back and forth of sunshine-filled days and cooler, Autumn-like mornings is now quite obvious, and these rains have brought out snails in mass abundance, almost like an end-of-summer party. Glad of the rainwater to clean off their dry shells, they are now able to travel along smoother, wetter paths, seeking out food and breeding opportunities. They can lay their eggs in the moist soil and fill up on sustenance before the cooler seasons begin in earnest.
The humble garden snail. What a fascinating creature.
These little molluscs are hermaphrodites, meaning they possess both male and female reproductive organs, quite an evolutionary leap! When two snails mate, both may go on to lay eggs!
We have so many jokes about their speed: snail mail, moving at a snail’s pace. And yet, in their world, it simply works!
They carry their heavy shells wherever they go, providing protection for their soft bodies, and that ‘delightful’ tell-tale silvery slime they leave behind serves many purposes. It helps them move, retain moisture and navigate their little world, but producing it comes with a high energy cost.
And so, as you return home on a wetter day, tread carefully along your path. Somewhere beneath your feet, a humble little snail is probably travelling from A to B, and it may take a while…He/she is in no rush. And perhaps, as we watch these creatures move through our damp gardens, we might take a moment to slow down ourselves. What a thought! We protest and insist that the world calls us here and there.. but may we remember, whatever we are travelling to…Home has always been right where we are, at this moment.
And I am sure The Family felt ‘home’ as usual last night in Chawton. Unfortunately Vanessa Smallwood was unable to be with us, but our own Steve answered the phone on a Sunday, and so he was the appointed one!
Steve did such a great job bringing a lovely address about St Francis of Assisi. I think we all learnt a few things, and we know our family is packed with animal lovers, and then Steve went on to bring many messages. Thanks so much Steve for giving us such a good night. Our evening was chaired by Alison. Thank you.
There were beautiful prayers and readings from the family. Cake with cherries. Thank you Carole! We are indeed spoilt. And then good conversation, washing it all down with not just tea and coffee, but with healing to give us a good night’s sleep. Thank you also Julie for running our music. Thank you all for the set up and breakdown of the evening.
PRAYER OF THE WEEK
Please pray for Nepal and the horrific flooding. So much devastation and loss of not just human life, but animal life also. Please let us pray that aid can increase, and that healing is in sight.
Have a beautiful week! More sun is scheduled apparently, but we know that Autumn is now just around the corner…
Alton Christian Spiritualist Church 