Universal Connection

This is your card reading for Wednesday, September 2nd/15.  Your card skipped out of the 'Path of the Soul' fractal art deck, authored by Cheryl Lee Harnish.  Your card is 'Universal Connection', and Cheryl Lee's message for the card is this:
"The guidance you are now receiving is truly Universal.  Take time daily to connect with your guides and Angels.  They wish to connect with you as much as you wish to connect with them.  They are working very closely with you and you are being encouraged to journal at this time.  This is a great story you are writing.  It is your personal story and it is unique to you and only you.  Write poetry to express the emotions you are feeling.  Write down your dreams and synchronistic events that occur.  This card calls for putting your connection and experience with Spirit into writing."

My message for you today is this:
Just yesterday I was gifted a beautiful journal by a dear friend, to celebrate the birth or my first Grandchild, entitled 'A Grandparent's Legacy---Your Life Story in Your Own Words'. Her thoughtful gift brought me to tears.  I understand that in writing in this journal for my Grandson and then in someday sharing it with him, I will be sharing MYSELF on a very deep level.  The written word can be very powerful.
When you take the time to express with the written word what you are feeling and experiencing, you 'anchor' in those feelings and experiences.  It's almost as though you become the 'observer' and can thereby be more objective.  Recording your thoughts and feelings and experiences also brings them to your consciousness and often inspires reflection, contemplation, and integration---essentially it makes these things seem more 'real'.  
You need not commit to spending hours journalling daily, in order to acknowledge and record the connection with Spirit that you experience.  Sometimes I simply jot a quick note on my desk calendar as acknowledgment and reminder of an instance when I KNOW that Spirit was communicating with me. For example, a Hummingbird presented itself at the hanging fuchsia plant on my deck a couple of days ago, during a visit from my sister-in-law. We rarely see Hummingbirds here (unlike at our home in Arizona) and especially this late in the summer.  My sister-in-law and I had been discussing my departed mother-in-law, whose name was Joy; and Hummingbird means 'joy' and 'renewal'.  When Hummingbird presented, we looked at each other, KNOWING, that this was a beautiful 'sign' from Spirit. I quickly jotted the word 'Hummingbird' on my desk calendar, on the date that it happened, as a reminder and validation of how Spirit strives to communicate with us.  
The current energies are inducing a LOT of dreaming and disrupted sleep patterns. Take the time when you awaken to jot down what you dreamt when you awaken.  There are likely messages there for you.  Also, pay attention if you have been having a tendency to awaken at the same time, even briefly, each night.  Look that time up in Doreen Virtue's 'Angel Numbers' book, to see if there is a message there for you. 
When I do card readings for myself, I always 'anchor them in' by journalling them.  I have journals for just this purpose, that I keep with my card decks.  I layout the cards, and then I make a quick drawing of the layout and label which cards presented in each position. Sometimes that's all I journal, and other times I also write about what came up for me in that reading.  I don't do this so much so that I can refer back to these readings at a later date, but rather to draw the information to my conscious awareness at that moment.  I find that 'writing it down' brings it to my consciousness more effectively.
The message today is to acknowledge, through implementing the written word, what Spirit is communicating to you; and also to remind you that Spirit IS striving to connect with you!
Blessed be...