inspiration

You Make a Difference

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I sometimes encounter people who tell me they don’t feel they’re making a difference in the world. We all feel powerless at times when facing the kind of severe challenges that exist today. I truly believe we all matter and that we shift the world one breath at a time. We may never realize what a kind word might mean to someone who is struggling. Remember this: Your smile is written upon the heart and being of every person with whom you ever shared it. Your love expands into the farthest reaches of the universe. Your kindness, no matter how small, may be the spark that awakens miracles. —Diana Henderson

No Act of Creation Is Lost

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My niece Michelle Johnson Fairchild is a brilliant artist. A few years ago, she expressed how difficult it was to paint over a piece she had done that never sold. She couldn’t always afford new canvases, so she undertook the heart wrenching task of choosing a painting to leave behind in favor of something new. This is what I told her….

I believe that every painting, poem, story, collage, sculpture, and burst of creation you bring into being is written forever upon the heart of Creation/Creator. Songs long forgotten, art never viewed except by the soul who fashioned it, poems we write only upon our hearts—all acts of creation—reverberate throughout the universe and settle into the consciousness of all life.

Stories and art live in the ethers and the collective as well. Once upon a time around 1988-89, I actually began writing a series of novels that involved a boy coming into his power and a villain who was an evil wizard with a name very much like Voldemort! I kid you not!! After a Hugo and Nebula award winning author critiqued my first chapters and outline and told me this book series was going to be huge and would change the world, I shrank from the story in fear and let it go because I wasn’t ready for that. It all seemed much too big for me at that time. Shortly thereafter, on a train in 1990, J.K. Rowling conceived the idea for Harry Potter, which involved the same themes and similar characters and settings. I learned that creation will have its say one way or another.

Stories that linger in the consciousness of the planet will be written by someone. Poems, art, songs, and all creations will come to fruition somehow. And nothing is ever gone. Once born even in the imagination of a single soul, the song is written into the Cosmos and becomes a part of the infinite expression of Creation. That’s what I believe anyway.

copyright 2022 Lillian D. Henderson

Your Sparkle Is Still There

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Sometimes your sparkle remains hidden within the quiet recesses of the heart, but it is still there. The light may seem dimmed amidst the troubles of the world, yet your luminous spirit never diminishes. Wherever your foot falls upon this earth, your pure essence lingers long after you leave. —Diana Henderson

Rushing River Experience

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When I was 21, my boyfriend and I went to the mountains with another couple for several days. While we were there, we went tubing on a river. I had a strange feeling about going that day, but my daring nature ignored it. For a while the rapids were minimal with long stretches of quiet water gently pulling our innertubes along. Our guide warned us the rapids would increase, which they did. As we approached a large expanse of rapids followed by a waterfall with a steep drop (six feet or so), he explained the way to navigate it and make it through the massive surrounding boulders. I listened intently and did my best to follow his instructions, but I ended up almost losing my life.

The waterfall crashed over me, the innertube disappeared, and I tumbled over and over beneath the power of the water, hitting my head on one of the giant boulders we were supposed to miss. I recall the fear, the adrenaline, and the feeling of being trapped, tumbling in circles beneath the onslaught of the river’s power.

My life passed before my eyes, scene after scene, snapshots of my 21 years. Then, the fear evaporated into stillness, and I was sure it was the end. In that moment, I felt a hand pulling me out of the tumult and lifting me to safety. I don’t know how long I was under that water, but when they got me to shore I was as pale as starlight, shivering and cold despite the hot day, and deeply in shock.

I share this story to remind us all that there is always a hand reaching out to us to pull us back from the brink when we truly need it. Sometimes that hand is invisible. It is the strength of the ancestors or the love and light of angels. Sometimes that hand comes in the form of prayers sent with love.

Sometimes we are the ones asked to hold out our hands and help one another rise beyond circumstance. And sometimes we are just meant to hold the hand of a dear one going through something we cannot fathom. May we take hold of that hand when we are in need and offer our own when our kindred spirits require our kindness.
© copyright 2024 Lillian D. Henderson

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
—Luciano De Crescenzo

Bluejay Messengers

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Recently, I saw three bluejays playing in our yard. I spotted one, then a second, and then the third. I believe the younger one is the child of the bonded pair who have made appearances here many times over the last few years. Bluejays are among Archangel Michael’s messengers. Bluejay is sent to remind us to protect our “nest,” to honor our power by right action, and to stand in the strength of our spirits. I love these visitors as well as the many other glorious feathered friends who visit our tiny forest. Archangel Michael sends his messengers often these days to remind me who I am and why I came. These winged wonders whisper, “Remember.”
© copyright Lillian D. Henderson

Note: Photo purchased from Shutterstock

Lean in to the Light

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Excerpt from Archangel Book of Days: A Year of Daily Inspiration and Blessings by Diana Henderson
“You are made of the stuff of stars and are no less beautiful and bright. Amid the tumult of human existence, you sometimes lose sight of this truth. Journey within and seek the core of your essence within the sacred heart light. The power, compassion, and wisdom of love await you within that space of pure grace. The divine spark lives forever within your spirit. Seek now this truth.”

In troubled times, always lean in to the truth of your spirit.

© copyright Lillian D. Henderson

May Inspiration Find You

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Excerpt from Archangel Book of Days: A Year of Inspiration and Blessings by Diana Henderson
“Inspiration flows forever from the Divine Heart through all life. Any of the travelers who cross your path can ignite the creative spark. All creatures great and small have a gift for you. All life has a blessing to share. When you are awake to the mystical and miraculous around you, you begin to hear the song of the wind, to see the shapes in the clouds, to discern the messengers in their many forms. Put on your magic glasses made of light. View the world through the lens of higher consciousness, and all that you behold will inspire your inner knowing and spirit’s truth.” 
© copyright Lillian D. Henderson

Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, may inspiration find you today and let your heart lift.

The Song of Life

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Excerpt from my book Archangel Book of Days: A Year of Daily Inspiration and Blessings:

“All of life has a song. Each star, planet, plant, mineral, animal, and human exudes a harmonic that is heard always by the angels and by Spirit. This great chorus resounds throughout the universe, yet the Creator knows and hears each single note, each soul, each life among the infinite multitude. In the deepest silence of your sacred heart, you may hear a quiet hum or a soft tune played as if far in the distance. The song of your soul calls to you. Listen today for its gentle calling and remember who you are.”
copyright © Lillian D. Henderson

Christmas in July?

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This short story from The Michael Saga, “Star of Hope,” offers respite from the chaos and despair of the daily news. Michael Browne and Melody Childress, two of 144,000 incarnated angels, find themselves in the midst of a world filled with turmoil and despair. The year after they find each other, as Christmas approaches, Michael and Melody ache to fulfill their mission and restore peace and hope to humanity. They reach out to their leaders, Archangels Metatron and Michael, and work together to shift the world.

If you need to feel uplifted in any season of the year, this story may help! I chose to write a story free from conflict. While the characters refer to the troubles in the world, the story focuses entirely on rising beyond fear and restoring hope.

Full description of The Michael Saga:

The Michael Saga tells the story of angels who have incarnated on Earth in order to bring healing and enlightenment to the world. They descend into matter without the gift of remembering their origins in order to experience life from a truly human perspective. Their arrival in the world of form is arranged to ensure that each of them will have reached adulthood by the time they are most needed. Early in the first book of the series, 20-something Michael Browne and Melody Childress, emissaries from the orders of Archangels Michael and Metatron, begin the journey of recalling and reawakening to their assignments. When they find each other, an immediate sense of recognition and connection leads them to discover together the gifts and the costs of being incarnated angels.

The first book in the series, Gathering of Angels, brings together the 12 leaders of the 144,000 incarnated angels with their mentors, the 12 archangels, atop Glastonbury Tor in the darkest time of the year. Once the 12 find one another, their true work begins: saving the planet and renewing the plan of light for all life.

As the series progresses, readers will come to know all 12 of these leaders among the angels born to Earth as well as the 12 archangels who watch over them. Each incarnated angel experiences awakening, challenges, and loss, and all are transformed on the human level by the path they must walk. As the shadows gather around the world, seeking to diminish the light and forestall the period of enlightenment and grace that could result from the service of these incarnated angels and their heavenly counterparts, all 144,000 will need to rise into service and live the light to its utmost.

These angelic beings embarked on this mission will full awareness of the difficulties they would face when the moment arose that they must heed the call to service. Yet life appears considerably easier while in the octaves of light than it does once in the earthly realm in the midst of all the chaos, emotion, and dissonance. Now, as humans, these incarnated angels must discover the means for living divinely and create the blueprint for others to do the same. Will they be able to rise into their gifts, align with their deepest truths, and illuminate a world seemingly lost in shadow? Join Michael, Melody, Yas, Alistair, Anaishe, and the others as they learn to see in the darkness, to rise above its pull, and reach the state needed to invite all humanity to claim their birthright of love, freedom, peace, and illumined consciousness.

As they learn to become more fully the beings of light they are while maintaining their human aspect, many angelic gifts will unfold. For readers who embrace this journey profoundly, the books in the series may serve as a means to regain buried wisdom, to embrace a deeper understanding of the angelic realm, to unlock esoteric truths, and to awaken hidden pathways to a higher reality. Through the experiences of these characters, readers may find paths to healing and to enhanced connection to the angels.

Imagine you are an angel who is offered the great duty and honor of incarnating on Earth, but you are told you have to release all knowledge of your life beyond the physical world in order to evolve as a human. You accept this assignment knowing you will have help. A full legion of 144,000 is born into the world of form along with you, and all of you must drink from the fountain of forgetfulness. The leaders of your kindred of light, all the archangels of the 12 tribes of Creation, watch over you as you learn to be human. But one day, when the time is right, you must remember what it means to be divine. And you must share that understanding with all the world.

Diana’s Books

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Do you believe that worlds exist beyond this one? Do you long to step into another realm, to experience another perspective? If so, you’re welcome here.

The novels of Diana Henderson focus on a reality that lies just outside our own—a world in which humans can communicate with trees, nature beings, spirit guides, and angels. Characters often stumble into the mysteries of the hidden realms in these books. In Grandfather Poplar, the title tree speaks to Melissa to get her to stop annoying him. In The Michael Saga, the world awakens because of a persistent sound, but for a few brave incarnated angels, that resonance is a call to service and a trigger to begin their mission.

The characters in these books walk between the worlds. As they learn, dear reader, you are invited to discover as well and to awaken the truths that lie hidden deep within your own soul. 

Archangel Book of Days: A Year of Daily Inspiration and Blessings is a nonfiction, inspirational book is now available in both e-book and paperback on Amazon and through other online booksellers. The e-book version contains a bonus of 15 pieces of Diana’s ascension art.