JOPHIEL

A breeze flowing through an open window,

Rustling leaves in a tree, or

Giving help to the wind under the wings of birds.

She roams through the forests, the mountains and the rivers,

Running barefoot, taking in the beauty of all.

Nature is her domain, or just outside your front door,

She will sit with you in the sunshine on your stairs, or

Stand and look at the stars with you.

Take her hiking or working in the garden, for

She loves to just watch and wait for the seeds to germinate.

She will clear the dust from your mind and your home,

Simplifying your clutter from both house and head, or

Doing tasks taking organization you cannot find within self

She will handle it before you thought it could be done,

And you may not remember the details from start to finish.

Always patient,

Always kind,

Always helping with the hardest of tasks,

Always loving…

Always.

An aside from the author:  I feel I know Jophiel quite well, as I have called on her energy many, many times – doing taxes, moving, cleaning house.  Those things might sound rather worldly, but she is so very good at organizing, especially those unpleasant tasks we tend to put off.  My biggest involvement with her was when I was selling a house, alone, that had been lived in for ten years.  Not only was there a great deal of furniture, books, collections of things, but also my ex-husband’s stuff – everywhere – all through the house, all around the acreage we had shared, in other buildings.  It was a formidable task.  I got a clear message it was time to leave this place that I had loved if I wanted to move forward into my true purpose.  I dreaded the cleaning up of it all.  But with faith, I called a real estate agent I knew pretty well and she and her husband both came over.  Their thought was, ‘oh my, you have so much stuff to clean out of the house and yard.’  Like I didn’t know that.  But they took pictures of the unfinished house and yard full of “stuff” and put it on the market for me.  In faith, I began the process of looking to see what I could get rid of that I didn’t want to have to move.  I asked for Jophiel’s help. 

I have to say that it was almost like being told what to do first, second and third and I just followed directions.  Piles were made for give-away stuff to friends.  Piles were made to take to used bookstores or clothing places.  Piles were made for my ex-husband to take.  All neatly organized, all easily boxed up.  Then came the selling of the house three weeks after I had put it on the market!  Given the housing market at the time – horrible - it was in itself a miracle.  But at that point I had no place to move to, a house full of stuff needing to get placed where it needed to go, and still, a yard and building full of tools, junk, metal, bricks in piles strewn everywhere, a garden shed full of pots and all other things that go with gardening.  Just writing this here gives me the shudders to think of all the material things that needed dealing with.  I cleaned out the garden shed, as that was mostly my stuff.  Things suddenly got taken that were in the give-away piles. 

The same day the contract on this particular house was signed, my brother told me to call the lady that worked for him, as her in-law apartment was for rent.  I knew her and knew of the house and immediately called her, explained that a contract was just signed on my house and could I see her apartment.  I’d only ever seen it six years before, when she had moved into this new house she and her husband had built.  She told me to come right over.  That was a monumentous day – my house sold, I rented a new place, and my ex-husband got remarried.  Some Saturday.  And oh, I also worked that day. 

Now I had six weeks to pull off what seemed impossible.  Move all my stuff out and set up a new place, clean out all my ex-husband’s stuff from the house, buildings, yard; and then clean the house I sold for inspection by the new owner the day before the closing.  It was stipulated in the contract that all things were to be gone from the house and from the yard.  My ex rented a dumpster, which would mostly be used for his stuff, as I found a way to recycle most of mine.

With Jophiel’s help, everything happened like a finely tuned orchestrated event.  Looking back on it, I honestly can’t remember it that much, as it all happened so fast and like clockwork.  I made many trips in my Prius, packed to the brim with boxes that magically got packed.  Friends from work brought the bigger things in their trucks, my heart sister helped me, along with her husband, to take carloads of boxes.  I measured all the walls in the new place and measured all my furniture to see what would fit, where.  It was all laid out in my head and I didn’t need to part with any valued pieces.  When the furniture began to arrive in the new apartment, I emptied the boxes into bookcases, DVD shelves, cupboards.  There was never any box to trip over as they were emptied upon the arrival of just the right piece of furniture to house the contents.  A friend’s son came to help and he took care of all the electrical stuff – TV, DVD player, stereo stuff – all connected and operational.  It was like having a team of professional movers – I just don’t remember it as being work at all.  I never had to lift heavy furniture, as the guys I work with, along with one strong woman I work with, took care of it all.  They awaited my instruction and it got done.  But oh, then there was the mess all around the property.  Well, another dear friend with a tractor took it upon himself to handle all that.  We did a burn pile of old wood, moved heavy stuff down the street to his field for safe-keeping, put bucket after bucket full of unusable, but unburnable junk in the dumpster.  My ex showed up and took things he wanted out of the buildings and some of the many piles of bricks laying around.  But this man with the tractor was my angel.  Even his girlfriend came to the burning of the woodpiles and helped throw old boards in the pyre in the pouring rain. 

The day of the closing the new buyer and his real estate agent came to walk through the house and property.  They couldn’t believe their eyes – everything was gone and the yard completely cleaned up, along with all the out-buildings.  They asked how I managed it all.  I told them I had the help of many friends and some great direction from the powers that be.  Jophiel worked with me and through me on that particular task that seemed so impossible at the time.  But shortly after it was all done, I hardly remembered it – it all came together that easily.  So trust me, call upon this wonderful Archangel for help in such dilemmas.  I called upon her to help me organize my taxes as well; a task I tend to put off, dreading it.  I pulled it all together in 45 minutes.  Again, with such ease that it seemed I was just going through the motions and someone else was doing it for me.

Jophiel’s Words

Yes, I am the great organizer.  I help clear the clutter, not only of your world around you, but the clutter in your mind.  I bring you the patience to deal with things that would normally have you frazzled, and I also guide you to smell the fresh air, to connect with the un-cluttered-ness of nature where everything is in its place.

Humans tend to be collectors of things – some are beautiful, some are a hobby, some are useful, some are… well, just things.  When you are surrounded by much clutter, it tends to clutter the mind.  Nothing clears the head like a good hoeing out of things that are no longer useful to you.  Traveling lighter through life is a good thing.  Simplicity of life is like opening the windows on a warm spring day and airing out your home, and your mind in the process.  People tend to collect so many things throughout their lives that they don’t even know what they have, or if they remember they have it, they can’t find it because it’s piled away with many other things and becomes lost to them.  What is the point of this? 

Many collect things to gain some sense of security, but security is never found in things, it is only found within.  I find it interesting that people on a quest for spirituality tend to clean out their homes of things they realize are no longer necessary to them and only keep what is useful or beautiful, or sentimental to them.  You would be amazed at how much that leaves out!  And you would be amazed at how rejuvenating it is to go through your belongings, thin them out and give things away, or have a flea market to be done with things no longer needed.  It can be a daunting task, so I suggest calling upon me to help you organize your thoughts about where to begin.  Even the clearing of one closet can help lift you out of a rut.  When you un-clutter your life, you free your self for the purpose of your soul.  This can mean un-cluttering stuff, un-cluttering your calendar, and doing only what is in alignment with you, or un-cluttering your head with thoughts that do not serve.  I can help you with all of these types of clearing your space, your time, or your mind.  I am of an energy that I actually enjoy this kind of activity, though most humans do not.  I, unlike most humans, am not attached to any-thing, but I can understand your attachment and will help keep what is important and weed out all else.

There is much more to feng shui than just the flow of energy allowed by careful placement of things.  It allows you to live life unencumbered by excess.  Simplicity unto itself also generates a good flow of energy.  This is something to strive for.

Another gift I can give to you, if you are willing to receive this, is patience.  This is something most people need much more of – patience with self, with others, with circumstances.  Raguel will discuss Divine Order when it comes to waiting for seeds to grow to fruition according to Divine Timing, but patience with self and others and allowing those seeds to grow before you harvest them is something I am quite good at.

Many people are not patient with themselves, so find it difficult to be patient with others.  As people mirror each other, what you find difficult to deal with regarding others is usually something you should look at within self.  Patience is one of these.  Parents who are impatient with children especially need to learn to be patient within themselves, for themselves.  Humans have a thing called expectation.  They also have a thing called immediate gratification.  Both of these together add up to a boiling point of wanting things done right now, in the right way according to their own way, and get very frustrated when things don’t happen according to their timing, their wished for results in the way that they would do it.  My dear author sister here has a hard time writing about this subject, for she, too, could use a little patience with herself.  Self-expectation is not always within Divine Timing in looking for the perfection of something, or of getting something done when you wish it was done.  Visionaries sometimes have a hard time waiting for things to “grow” into reality.  Things take nurturing, like a plant before it flowers.  It needs care, watering, and a certain number of days before budding, flowering and harvesting.  Pushing the river with these things sometimes brings on results that look as though they were done with haste. 

Breathing is good when you feel impatient.  The old saying in your world is “count to ten.”  That is merely giving you time for a few good deep breaths before you get angry with self or with others.  Those who are considered masters have found that allowing the time for things to come to fruition brings something so much more beautiful than even expected.  And masters are just that when it comes to allowing.  It is allowing what is in the moment and accepting it just as it is, knowing it will change as all things must.  Lack of patience is what keeps many from being able to just sit, listen, allow and be in the meditation of these things, of just being in that moment.  Minds keep racing around and patience can only be found in stillness.

A great deal about patience can be learned from nature.  A seed blown on the wind will find it’s place, and only after a season of rest can it begin to germinate, sending down its roots before sending up a shoot into the sun.  It is patient, waiting for the right weather, the proper amount of moisture, the warmest days.  Then it begins to grow, reaching up, sending out tiny leaves, then true leaves, then beginning to look like what it is meant to be.  Then it buds, then it flowers.  The same can be said for birds nesting – they fly around looking for the proper material for the nest, lay the eggs, sit on them awaiting the proper time for them to be ready to hatch.  Then they have to care for these tiny creatures, featherless and helpless until the timing is right for flight lessons.  They don’t push their young out of the nest until the proper feathers are grown in and the babes are strong enough to fly.  Everything is in its own order of time in nature. 

Speaking of nature, many do not know these things, for many do not spend time meditating upon it, or walking within it, or hearing it, smelling it, or tasting the pungency of a summer day because it is so powerful in its aroma.  Being in touch with nature is being in touch with the All That Is.  You can find God much more quickly touching the bark of a tree than sitting in your home watching television.  I fear for the children of these generations because they do not know outdoor games as well as past generations.  There are special children being born who will always know the importance of being outside.  But there are some children whose special gifts might be bound inside them because all they do is play games, text, or talk on the computer or phone.  This is not a good sign for the environment, for if these children do not understand the environment from being within it, who will take care of it?  And if food supplies are not forthcoming to all areas due to any earth changes, how will they know how to grow their own supplies?  More importantly, how will they ever see the connection of the One through all things if they do not gaze upon the manifestation of the One in nature and learn to relate it to the Cosmos, seeing a picture much bigger than a small screen can give?

It is good for children to be outside in the air and sun.  It is very rewarding for them to plant seeds and watch them grow, then be able to partake of the bounty of their very own garden.  It is something they need to know and it nourishes the soul as well as the soil.  If the electronics of this world suddenly came to a halt, this generation of children would be incapacitated unless they have a love and understanding of the world around them in order to adapt and survive with it.  They also need to learn to listen to the sounds of nature instead of the constant noise of their current world.  They will shrivel if they do not have the joy of these things from nature, for the soul yearns to be with as much energy of the Source as possible, and being outside is much closer to that Source than sitting in the house.  Parents need to also spend time outside to re-group from the hustle and bustle of being with the world.  It would also help to bring back a sense of family to be outside, playing with your children and giving them quality time.  It is quality time for parents as well.

Children in many countries are much closer to nature than they are in the richer nations, and these would be the survivors of any kind of electrical breakdowns, as they still do what their ancestors had done to survive.  This might be what Yeshua meant when he said the first shall be last and the last shall be first.  It is fine to live in a first world nation, but do not be so much with the world that you have forgotten to take care of your soul as well as your material things, for you will be last, as will your children.  If you think technology will be what will save your world, you are wrong.  Technology is only as lasting as its power source, and most people are not on solar or wind power.  All it takes it pulling the plug, and then where will you be?  Where will your children be without ever having learned outdoor skills, how to grow food, how to even be social as they all sit in front of a screen and really don’t even read body language anymore.  Yes, it is the poorer, less technological nations that will survive – the last shall be first.  But you can change this in your life by feeding your soul – simplify your life and spend more time with the nature that supports you. 

Always remember, you are so very loved.