In March, my friend, Funlayo, will be traveling to Zimbabwe for one week.
It will be her first visit to the African continent, and I’m so happy for her.
Funlayo will be staying in a fishing village near the beach, and she’ll have an opportunity to dance, eat great food, and immerse herself in the culture.
I wish I were going. I know it will be life changing.
But getting to this point has not been easy for her. In fact, it was scary. Funlayo is married with two kids, and was worried about what her husband would say. For weeks, she kept putting off the conversation even though, secretly, the flight had already been booked.
He was pissed off, . Hubby said her priorities are totally screwed up. How could she travel when the world is in such chaos?
Her Mom wasn’t happy about it either. Mom said, “the hell you ain’t going to Africa!”
But Funlayo is going, and she’s doing the right thing. She always been drawn to African culture. For years, she had two dear friends living in Zimbabwe, until one of them passed away. In the past few months, she’s been receiving so many spiritual messages and signs that support her urge to make this journey. Including the opportunity to meet up with a friend that she’s always had a powerful soul connection with.
I’m sharing this because I know there are things you want to do or experience, but fear might be holding you back. If that’s the case you’re hardly alone. It’s the human condition.
We tend to get stuck, or trapped, and sometimes we lack the motivation to break out of the rut we’re in and move forward.
In the book, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year As If It Were Your Last, author Stephen Levine says that people near death are often full of regrets.
“On their deathbed some people look back on their lives and are overwhelmed by a sense of failure. They become disheartened when they reflect on how they have overlooked the preciousness of their relationships, forgotten the importance of finding their ‘true work’, and delayed what some call ‘living my own life’,” says Levine
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“All but those who have fully opened to life say they would live differently if they had just one more year. Many say they would change their work situation. Some say they would quit,” adds Levine. “Most concede they would at the very least reduce the number of hours they work, change jobs, or perhaps study some long-admired skill even though there might be no job at the end of the rainbow.”
“In their last year many people feel as if they have a second chance at growth and inner healing. Some, recognizing their desires, bought themselves the cello they had always wanted. Many are drawn to long walks in the woods and sitting quietly by the sea. Some went back to church, some took up a meditation practice, turning toward the mystery, investigating their own deathless nature,” says Levine.
What about you, ? What would you do differently if you only had one year left? People don’t like to think about such things. But sooner or later we must.
. . . You can’t wait forever to do what matters to you, .
And that’s what I told Funlayo last month when she started to think of reasons why maybe she shouldn’t travel to Zimbabwe. “Listen,” I said. “You need to get on the plane.”
If you look for reasons why you should not do what your soul is calling you to do, you will find them.
I wish you the courage to do what you want truly want to do, or to be who you truly want to be, .
I told Funlayo to send me some pics from Zimbabwe. I also called her Mom. I told Mom, Funlayo will be in good hands in Zimbabwe, and I’ll be checking up on her via Whatsapp.
This is all for now, . Let me know how you’re feeling and doing. I’m here to support you in any way that I can.
Live this year as if it were your last.
All my love,
James Weeks
Author, Meditations Across The King’s River
P.S. Still available for spiritual readings
P.P.S Signed copies of my book are available. Message me.
I’m so proud of the work that Jeanette Charles of Iya Global is doing.
She recently launched, In Spirit and Struggle, a collective coaching program to empower others, and she asked me to be the first speaker to kick off her ambitious, eight-week offering that began two weeks ago.
We did a short interview two weeks before the program started so folks could know what to expect.
I’m sharing this with you because you never know where your visions can take you.
Jeanette has more than a decade of experience as “a popular educator, people’s historian, radical thinker, strategist, independent journalist, language interpreter, international human rights activist, creative writer, and certified coach.”
She’s also an initiated iyanifa in my spiritual tradition.
“I am a proud daughter of the Haitian Diaspora and grew up in a Mexican and Central American immigrant community,” she explains on her website IyaGlobal.org
Her inaugural program, In Spirit and Struggle, is a offering as “a Black internationalist and Ifá practitioner. This collective coaching program builds upon years of political, professional, and spiritual development in the Americas, the African Diaspora, and on the continent,” says Jeanette
Although it’s too late to enroll in her 2021 program, you can learn more about it by visiting iyaglobal.org
…That’s what Kurt said last night. He’s one of my mentors.
Kurt happens to be an expert in cryptocurrency, and since I mentor others in trading and investing, I pay close attention to what he says.
But you don’t have to be into the world of trading to apply what Kurt is saying to your life. It’s spiritual and universal.
Here’s the thing, storms don’t come to some of us. Storms come to all of us.
But eventually, every storm runs out of rain — every single one. So what you’re going through right now, whatever that happens to be, will surely pass. The challenge is to summon the courage and the stamina to stick it out until it does.
Kurt also said this. “The only thing that stands between where you are in life and where you want to be is time.”
He added that there are lessons we must learn in order to advance to the next level.
As a spiritual advisor, I know it’s difficult to see the lessons when you’re in the middle of turmoil. In those moments, let’s face it, we want the pain to be over as soon as possible. However, there’s always some precious nugget buried amidst the chaos.
When you understand what that nugget is, I believe you can emerge stronger and with more clarity than ever before. That’s what happened to me. I share many examples of this in my book, Meditations Across The King’s River. If you don’t have a copy yet, you can email me for an autographed copy.
One more thing, Kurt said not to compare yourself to others. I know this is easier said than done. Here’s the thing. We tend to feel a bit behind when we compare ourselves to others, especially if we think they’re having success and we are not.
My advice is to celebrate the success of others and to have faith yours will come too. In the meantime, take care of yourself and work on your goals daily.
Looking back on my journey, I’m grateful for the blessings that came my way, but I’m also grateful for what did not happen the way I hoped. What we want is not always the same as what we need. It takes wisdom to know the difference.
This is all for now.
It’s early 2021, and so many things are possible for you. Remember this. A dream may be delayed but not destroyed. There is no end. There are only new beginnings.
I’m with you in Spirit. Please feel free to write me, and I’ll respond as soon as possible.
I spent the first day of the day year visiting my sister, Joan.
She makes a delicious gumbo. Anyway, as we sat around listening to music and talking, I flipped through an old family album she has and found a baby picture of myself when I was two years old.
Who knows what my parents were thinking when they dressed me up like this? I guess they figured I’m going far in life.
If that’s the case, they were right:)
I am going places, and I hope you are too. 2021 is here, and I intend to make the most of it.
To be honest, I’ve never been one to make New Year Resolutions because every day gives us a chance to begin again.
My advice for getting the most out of 2021 is simple. 1. Maintain a daily spiritual practice. 2. Focus. 3. Take Action.
Yes, I know, I’ve spoken about maintaining a daily spiritual practice before, but I’m doing it again because sometimes we tend to forget, or we don’t make it a top priority.
Sometimes we make everything a priority except our own well being.
A strong spiritual practice is our foundation. A house without a strong foundation will crumble. From working clients over the years it has become clear to me that we can’t function at our best without a spiritual practice. Life can easily knock us off balance, and one starts feeling depleted, depressed, overwhelmed.
I want to see you thrive in 2021, esi.
A daily spiritual practice can be anything you want it to be, prayer, meditation, time in nature, yoga, sitting in silence, pouring libations, working at your altar, divination — whatever resonates with you the most. You don’t necessarily have to do the same thing every day – but do something.
You might not notice a shift right away, but in time you will. Consistency is the key.
Focus is crucial because you can’t do everything. Of course, you can attempt to do many things, but it tends to not work very well. If everything is your focus, then nothing is your focus.
Here’s the catch. Something might be good to do, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good for you do it right now. I often suggest focusing on what brings the most fulfillment.
Sometimes this means only focusing on one or two things.
And, of course, we need to take action. Daily.
Here’s what I’m up to these days:
In addition to doing spiritual consultations for clients, I’m working on a new trailer for my film, Across The King’s River. (Well, we’ve been working on it for a few months, and hope to show it to you soon.)
I’m also promoting my book, Meditations Across The King’s River, to new audiences who are not aware of it yet.
(And I’m still mentoring people who want to learn how to trade in the largest financial markets in the world.)
Finally, I might be offering seven day spiritual retreats on the islands of Jamaica and Guadeloupe in 2021. The plan was to begin offering the retreats last year, but Covid-19 smashed those dreams.
Enough about me, what are your goals for 2021? Send me an email, I’ll get back to you asap.
On behalf of my family, I’m wishing you abundance, health, clarity, peace of mind, and love.
Blessings
James Weeks
Author, Meditations Across The King’s River
P.S. Signed copies of my book are always available.
…That’s what I’ve come to realize. Your road is your purpose or the spiritual messages your ancestors are sending to you.
I’m telling you this because as I work with clients, many are not sure if they’re receiving spiritual messages on their own.
Yes, it can be challenging, but here’s the thing you ARE connected to Spirit, and your loved ones ARE trying to communicate with you, more often than you realize.
And here’s the good news. If you miss a message, they’ll try to send it again, or in a different way.
The analogy I like to use these days when describing how spiritual communication works is GPS technology. If you’re using GPS, and you miss your exit, GPS will reroute you another way.
If you screw up again, as we often do — not to worry — GPS will reroute you again.
GPS always has another option for you, and guess what? Our loved ones in Spirit will give us other opportunities to receive messages if we miss them the first time.
The ancestors have your back. They don’t give up on you — their job is to make sure you won’t miss the road.
Your job is to be open, willing, and disciplined.
And here’s more good news. If you don’t get the message on your own, they will often send the message through someone else.
That’s what happened to my Jamaican friend, Nicole, last week. She bought land on the Caribbean island of St. Croix earlier this year and has been worrying about how she’ll come up with the money to build her house.
As she sat quietly, staring into space, stressing about her finances, all of a sudden her boyfriend, Francis, said, “I want you to listen to what I’m going to tell you. Let the house come to you. Stop stressing about it. It will come.”
In that moment, Nicole realized Spirit was speaking through Francis. “It wasn’t him talking,” she says. “It was a different spirit I’ve never heard before.”
I love Nicole’s story.
Here’s the thing. I know you’re receiving messages too. Everyone gets messages because everyone is a spiritual being. Some of us, however, are better at it than others or may have developed it to a high level over the years.
Pay attention. The subtle messages or signs are definitely there. In time, with practice, you can decipher them. Granted, how messages come to me, might be different to how it happens for you. But they’ll come.
One more tip. If you don’t have a consistent spiritual practice, start one, because in time you’ll become more receptive to divine communication.
Brightest Blessings To You And Your Family
James Weeks
P.S. Still available for spiritual readings
P.P.S. If you would like to purchase an autographed copy of my book, Meditations Across The Kings River, email me at james@acrossthekingsriver.com
That’s what my eldest son, Malcolm, was saying the other day.
We were in his truck, on our way to buy a new water heater for our home, when our spiritual conversation began.
I listened, and I smiled, and I wanted to share.
Malcolm and Jakari
If you know our story, or if you’ve read my book, Meditations Across The King’s River, you know my son was not always in a good place – he was once in a very dark, scary place.
When he was in his late teens, my son was caught up in the gang life in Oakland.
But you would never guess this if you listen to him now or if you spend time with him. Malcolm is a dedicated Dad, a successful businessman, and he often goes out of his way to help others.
Malcolm says a little faith goes a long way…
Granted. He didn’t change overnight. But he changed. He is still changing. We can all change.
If you’re in a dark place right now, or if you feel like you can’t win because you’ve been having one problem after another, I encourage you to not give up.
I know what it’s like to be tested, and 2020 has presented all of us with extraordinary tests and challenges.
But I’ve also seen things shift for the better and dramatically improve. I believe this can happen for you.
Yes, my friend, I believe in miracles.
Not sure what you are going through in this season: relationship, health, financial, emotional, legal.
But I do know that this season does not define your next season nor the rest of your life.
I really mean this.
Faith is not wishful thinking. Faith is a radical act. It requires strength, action, perseverance.
Wishing you the courage to envision other possibilities for your life, or for your family.
I’m with you in Spirit. Feel free to write, and I will respond asap.
All My Love
James
P.S. Still available for spiritual readings.
P.S.S. If you would like to purchase a signed copy of my book, let me know.
P.S.S. Working on a new trailer for my film, Across The King’s River, and will be sharing it with you in a few weeks.
