Being Sufficient

“For despite what you think, you all are very self-sufficient. From the within of you lies the core of your strength, the God-self within you that can take you anywhere you care to be, and you have the right to be there. It can give you that feeling of audacity, I am a child of God. Therefore, it doesn’t matter what the external world does because I am sufficient in that truth.”

04/29/2026 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, SPIRITUAL AUDACITY, Pg. 7. Copyright 1995 Springwell Metaphysical Studies. All rights reserved. To buy this booklet, please contact: sherry@sacredgardenfellowship.org

The Now

“I know that, at this moment, I am here. This is the only moment that I have. I have no other time, no other moment, no other space. This is it. It is this way this moment and it will be that way in the next moment because all we have is right now! The past is all done. The future, we haven’t created yet. So it doesn’t exist. So, we could say, ‘We have no future!’ and literally that’s true. We have no future. We are creating moment-by-moment-by-moment what our future is. But the moment right now is all any of us have. We don’t have anything past this.”

04/27/2026 Blog. Rev. Penny Donovan, ENERGY PORTAL – LIVING IN THE NOW, Pg. 7. Copyright 2011 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this booklet, please contact sherry@sacredgardenfellowship.org

Mother Mary on Judgment

               “'Judgment of others is like a dark cloud that forms in front of your eyes and does not allow you to see truth. The more you judge, the greater and darker the cloud becomes, until after a while all you can see is yourself, and that self appears to you to be superior to all others. In the vision of yourself, all others appear lacking for you compare them to yourself. Since your vision of yourself is not correct, the other always appears to be lesser than you, and this leads you into yet another sin, that of pride.'

               'So now your soul has two more limitations - for these particular sins are very heavy and thick, most difficult to be rid of, for you cannot see the truth. These sins will make you lose your discernment, for you will see everyone only one way, different and lower than you. It also will blind you to the reason others speak or behave as they do. You will not see that perhaps they are in pain of body, or perhaps of heart. So you will not seek to help them. The gift of the opportunity to serve God, by means of helping the poor soul before you, is also lost.'

               'Now we have four sins living in the soul of you: judgment, pride, loss of discernment, and lack of service to aid another. Do you see how judgment is like a serpent in a bird's nest, eagerly swallowing up good deeds that lighten the soul and radiate love to others?'

               'Yes, Mother,' they replied. One of the girls known as Celia spoke up.

'Mother, I see the truth of what you say, but how do we tell a good person from someone who is not good, if we don't form a judgment about them?'

               'By prayerfully using your discernment. Ask the Father to give you wisdom so that you may see the person in truth, Mother Mary answered. Ask Him also to give you an open heart so that even if the person is not good for you, you may recognize that there is a need in them to be loved. In doing so, you can see them with love, and bless them on their way. Thus you exclude yourself from their influence and yet no harm is done.'”

04/26/2026 Blog. Rev. Penny Donovan, BELOVED WOMEN - THE LOVES OF JESUS THE CHRIST, Pg. 16. Copyright 2023 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this book, click here.