The following is the final chapter of my book. A dear friend mentioned reading this chapter again recently, and how it still resonated with her even now in 2025, given current events. She suggested that it might be useful to re-read it (which I did) and re-post it (which I am doing, since I was just reminded to by my own guides as well).
This was published in 2009 and the letter was one of the last things I added, which I wrote back in 2004. I want to preface this by saying that so many things have happened in the time since this was written, it’s been 20 years (!!). I have had the experience of being both high on the mountain top and low in the swamp, more than a few times.
I hope this gives a little light and healing to you during our currently challenging time. I am going to chose to believe that these challenges will be met and overcome, that hope is not lost, and we will find ourselves remembering the goodness and strength of who we truly are and who we all can be.
-Aloha and Blessings,
Erika
Chapter 28 from: An Open Letter from Spirit
This letter came to me in a meditation November 3, 2004. I was looking at world events, and I was disheartened by some things that I thought should be different and yet didn’t feel I had any way to change. As is often the case in such situations, I turned to prayer and meditation to shift my perspective and show me a larger view than the one I was seeing.
What I received was very powerful for me and helped me so much that I decided to include it on my Web page and share it with clients. One of the things I have learned over the years is this: If you ask Spirit for guidance and take the time to listen, you will always get an answer. It may not come in the way you expect or say the things you expect to hear, but quite often it is much more lovely.
Of the many things I have included on my Web page, this piece is one of two commented on most frequently. Since people have taken the time to write to me or call to say that is has been helpful to them, I wanted to include it here. I give it to you in exactly the form it came to me, punctuation and all. Take into account that it says some things that address the things in my own life that brought me to that meditation, and if you look closely it even mentions the book you are reading now. Given this, it may at first glance seem person-specific. It’s not. Don’t be fooled by the appearance. What I know to be true is this: If you are reading it, it is as much for you as it has been for me. It is truly an open letter from Spirit.
“You are the beloved. You are blessed and you are a blessing. I love you and I assure you that you will have everything you need as you need it. Have faith that the way of the world can never outsmart the way of the Most High. You have been given great tools and abilities, do not shun them but rather bring them out into the light and make the way clear for those who will come after you.
I know that you are saddened by the recent turn of events but let it be for now and it will become clear what this is all about and why this is the way it is, trust me, trust in god trust in the divine expression of love on this planet and know that it is larger than anything that you could ever imagine. Seriously I know that your mind is racing and that you are afraid for the stuff with your money and with the election and with the sadness that you see all around you, but do know please that I am with you and that you are never alone, even now I am here and I am with you and there are many that are with you in spirit.
And that you can be in the world and not of it and let these things of the flesh pass you by even as you enjoy them, you know that they are not the things that will remain. Remember the light and all that comes out of the light. These are the things that will last. You have great support, draw on it, let it come to use, do not delay the time is now, express your gifts, teach other to express their gifts as well, this is what is needed now. You may think otherwise but the time is upon you and great changes are afoot. Do not worry about rent, it will be paid, you will be taken care of, do not worry it, let it go.
Do what you can on your business, create a space for change and growth and for people to reach deep inside themselves, and remember that there are those that are deep in the place that you would call darkness and they are searching for a light, give them something to reach for so that they are not tempted by false things and by promises that have no substance. You can always ask me and I will always answer, I am as close as your very breath.
Finish your book and get it out there this year, so that others can find it, just finish it don’t worry about the publishing that will come, just get it done and start on your next one, you don’t have to say everything in this one book, you just need to get the ball rolling so that the light which is you can shine.
You keep waiting for something to happen for some kind of sign for some kind of something but it has already taken place and you are already at the door and you are already walking through it do not despair it is all right and everything is going to be OK, remember the dream that you had and how everything was all One and that there is no other?
Well that is real and you know it and you can remember it, feel that, feel that power in the oneness it is true right now right as you sit there typing, thinking that it is your own mind putting the words on paper when you also know that it is not and that I am speaking with you because you are the beloved with whom I am well pleased, really and truly do not despair, let it be.
I will show you over the next few days signs to watch for and you will see things and see that I am not gone but I am right next to you and verily right inside of you. Give yourself a chance to be at peace, be kind to your friend he is coming out of utter darkness and he is being challenged at the door and it is hard for him, be kind if you can be. It can only help.
I am going to let you go now and say to go meditate and meditate on Love and know that you do not have to wait to thrive, you do not have to wait to be happy you don’t have to wait to be loved and blessed and abundant, and in fact if you shift how you see things you will see how you are amazingly blessed and loved right at this very moment. Meditate on love and allow yourself to have it wash over you. You are not alone, you have never been alone and this is all only the beginning of great good, mark my words. It is so and it will truly be so. And so it is. I love you.
P.S. I heard you singing and it was good, thank you for seeking me, I will always answer when you call to me, how could I not, my love for you is beyond measure and without end, really really really. God.”
I will leave you with an epilogue, written from my current perspective circa October 2009. The book took some time, but is now (joyfully) in print. The election that was in question, has come and gone, and our next election surpassed what I could have even conceived of at the time. The rent was indeed paid and has continued to be (in wild and wondrous ways) since this letter was originally “written”. My business has grown, I felt called to move from the Pacific Northwest to Hawaii (a lifelong dream), and I am still singing. More things have been revealed since the writing of this book but those things will have to wait for my next installment, until then, all my love, blessed be… and so it is.
