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Friday, Dec. 30, 2005 — Sedona, Arizona

Letter from Mark David

Dear Friends of the Light,

It's a funny thing about clarity. It doesn't always take the form that we expect or would choose.

When this Christ Light Revelation Portal opened nearly three weeks ago, I expected it to bring me clarity. I expected to have revealed to me, for example, the home base from which I would continue to do my work. I expected a sign that my 55 weeks of constant travel would be nearing an end.

I expected lightness along with the light.

That's the problem with human expectations. They're often based on human fears, flaws and follies.

At first I was disappointed in what I perceived as a lack of clarity and began to question the existence of the Christ Light Revelation Portal.

But a little higher dimensional prodding forced me to acknowledge that I have received a great deal of clarity through this period, even if none of it satisfies my human craving for stability.

I have learned much about my work with the earth, for which all this traveling is critical. I have learned that no one place can claim me until this phase of my earth work is complete.

I have learned more about my work with you and how it will play out in 2006, and I have learned more about 2006 itself, which I will be sharing in future newsletters.

I have also had confirmed and validated for me many things about myself and my work that I had suspected.

Perhaps the most powerful illumination was that, even as I surrender more fully to the promptings of my Divine Self, I can set reasonable conditions for the fulfillment of those promptings and expect those conditions to be met.

It's a paradox that the deeper my surrender, the more I am expected to ask in return. And what I ask for — financial, emotional and spiritual support through this sometimes arduous journey — will be granted to the extent that it is not in conflict with those promptings.

I joke sometimes that we live in a free-will universe in which we're given only one choice: whether or not we surrender.

To an extent that's true. But it's also true that from that place of surrender we have certain choices and freedoms, and we are expected to exercise them.

But those choices and freedoms derive from the surrender. That's what comes first.

In a search for clarity on Christmas Eve, I connected with my Divine Self. This is part of what I received — for all of us.

Like the Biblical Abraham, you are being asked to sacrifice all for your God, which is your highest aspect and the highest aspect of All That Is.

Do you think that Abraham never felt weary...never doubted....never cursed God?

Do you think that Moses never did? That Jesus never did?

Expect no less of yourself. You are human in this lifetime and will feel and experience all that which a human of this lifetime feels and experiences.

Allow the feelings. Forgive whatever actions emerge from those feelings. Love yourself through all. Doubt when you must, but let the doubts dissolve as quickly as they emerge.

Recognize your work as supremely important, profoundly effective and intensely important.

Know yourself as all of that and as the Divine in Human Expression you are.

And from those places of knowingness, surrender to that which brought you here and that which keeps you here: The higher knowledge and certainty that what you do is changing the world, is awakening heaven on earth, is birthing ascension.

This is not an easy path any of us has chosen. We make it infinitely more difficult when we choose not to surrender to the promptings of Divine Self.

Sometimes it's hard to still ourselves enough to hear the promptings. Sometimes it's hard to follow them, for surrender is a simple path but not always an easy one.

Yet those promptings are the light.

And so as we move into the final days of the Christ Light Revelation Portal, see yourself as the light of surrender as you surrender to the light.

And know that the depth of your surrender will match the depth of your support, if that is your choice.

Please join me on Sunday and Monday, January 1 and 2, as we anchor the Christ Light of this Revelation Portal within us and within the earth.

It will be a powerful initiation into 2006, which is the Year of the Buffalo and the Year of the New Earth Initiation.

We will then launch the year's Aquarian Earth energies on Thursday, January 19, the day the sun enters Aquarius and we take the next step toward Heaven on Earth in our lives.

If you're in the Phoenix area, please join me as well on January 18, on the eve of this Aquarian portal, for a live New Earth Initiation in Goodyear.

You'll find times and registration and pricing information/links for all upcoming events in the calendar listing in the right-hand column.

However you choose to mark these significant milestones, I wish you abundant blessings of illumination, joy and wonder as we cross into the energies of the new year.

Namaste,
Mark David

P.S. My Christmas Eve call for financial, emotional and spiritual support was fulfilled most eloquently within 72 hours. On Dec. 27, despite my exhaustion, I surrendered to a return to the road. That morning I was offered the free use of an awesome Sedona cottage for the night by an emotionally and spiritually supportive soul. I'm still in the cottage as I write this, and will be through the weekend.

P.P.S. Please note that the price for teleconferences goes up with the January 19 call. I'll have more to say about that in the next newsletter.

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You're Doing Great!

I am guided as I write this to commend you.

I am guided to acknowledge the path you are traveling and the distance you have come.

I am guided to celebrate your courage, your strength and your light.

I am guided as well to invite you to join me in this commendation, acknowledgment and celebration of you...of the greatness of you.

You have traveled so high and so far and you are weary.

You are so weary that you do not always see how far you have come, nor do you see all that you have achieved.

Know that your human weariness is acknowledged and known in all the higher realms. Know too that all you have achieved and accomplished is acknowledged and celebrated in those same higher realms.

You are weary. You are worn out. Your are uncertain and unclear. You wonder when all this will end. You even dread, perhaps, moving into a new year if it is to be but an extension of this one now ending.

Yes, it has been challenging. Yes, it has been difficult.

But this truly is a shift of the ages. This is a shift of a magnitude never before known or experienced, a magnitude not fully understood by the limitations of a still-limited human mind.

We must expect a shift of this scope to be unsettling... disturbing... earth-quaking. We must expect to experience these quakings in our own lives as much as in the life of our planet.

At the same time, this is a shift you are not only experiencing but helping to birth. In effect, it is those same experiences you decry that stimulate the birthing.

"Yes," I hear you cry. "But I want to do my work. I want to be supported. I want a break from all this intensity."

Whatever you are doing or not doing, you are doing your work.

Your work is not only the expression of your gifts of healing or creativity or whatever.

Your work is your beingness.

Your work is who you are and how you walk that in the world.

Your work is your light and how you shine that in the world.

Your work is your beingness.

All that you do, however seemingly removed it is from how you feel called to express your gifts, is light work, is earth work, is healing work.

All that you do is that, for all that you are is that.

Your thoughts, your words, your actions, your relationships, your choices...these all are templates that you are setting in motion and creating for those others who are following you into the light.

You are a way-shower. You are a leader. You are a trailblazer.

You light the way for others because of who you are. You light the way for others through the life you live from day to day, moment to moment, breath to breath.

You light the way for others because you are are light, a light that exists independently of your spiritual or metaphysical work.

Your light is who you are, is all that you are.

You are already shining it. You are already transforming the world through the path you walk. You are transforming it through your struggles and challenges, which you have taken on not only for your personal journey but for many others, whose journeys are already being eased by the choices you have made and are making.

Celebrate that. Focus on the radiance you already are. Focus on the magnificence you already are. Focus on the light you already are.

Celebrate it.

And know that through and from that light, you a force for powerful and empowering transformation for many...many you will never know in the physical, but whose energy grid is activated by yours, through your beingness.

You are already doing your work.

You are already being your work.

And you're doing great and being great, for you are greatness.

Stop right now. Before you read any more. Stop to acknowledge that. Stop to celebrate that. Stop to realize how much of your greatness is already playing itself out in your life and in the world.

Now, read on, knowing, that you're doing great!

Namaste.

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Notes from the Freedom Trail

On Dec. 11, 2004, I left my Sedona home and began an odyssey I never expected to last more than a few months. Although I have stopped in many places through my year's cross-country travels, none has yet called me to stay. And so I continue, carrying my words and songs to you and to the earth. These Notes from the Freedom Trail are my chronicles of this journey.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 — Pinnacles National Monument, California

The first thing I notice as I wind up, down and around the snaking road to Pinnacles National Monument are the sentry-like stanchions that jut into the clear California sky from the mountaintops.

Their majesty is breathtaking, yet I'm still not clear why I have been called here.

It's only when I enter what names itself to me as the Valley of Enchanted Serenity that I begin to understand.

I smell life here. There is moisture in the air that expresses itself on cushiony, lime-colored moss, in the pleasing gurgle of a tiny stream, in the comforting embrace of tree limbs still clothed in green.

I feel totally safe here, totally at peace. The pillars of stone are my guardians, the trees my protectors, the earth my home.

Despite the soaring, godlike pinnacles that surround me, there is an intimacy here, a softness.

I feel as though I could curl up on the ground, right here on the path, and melt back into the earth, into the stillness, into the light.

Yet I continue to walk. As I do, I'm reminded to remove my hands from my pockets. Immediately my shoulders drop in relief.

We carry so many burdens on our shoulders. All the shoulds of our lives reside in our should-ers.

The hands-in-pockets position naturally hunches our shoulders so that we may hold onto those shoulds and bear those burdens.

Letting my arms drop free relaxes my shoulders. The yoke cannot hold and slides off, falls away.

Freeing my hands allows the elves to hold them and lead me forward as fairies flit and fly around me. They offer no messages, guidance or revelation. They are silent as this place is silent, interrupted only rarely by the joyful trill of birdsong.

I feel renewed, rejuvenated, ready to resume the journey...wherever it takes me.

Before I leave, I read that the rock formations here are the eroded remains of an ancient volcano situated 195 miles southeast of here. Over time the shifting tectonic plates of the San Andreas Fault pushed these rocks to this site.

As soon as I read this I know I am called to energetically link Pinnacles to its origins...only to discover through further research that I have already unknowingly done it!

Just a few days ago, without knowing why, I pulled into Lancaster, California. I spent several hours there, including some time driving around trying to find freeway ramps.

Pinnacles' "home site," I learn, is near Lancaster.

I don't always get such eloquent confirmation of the earth work I am doing. When it comes, I'm deeply grateful.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 — On I-5, between Kettleman & Santa Clarita, California

Still exhilarated from my Pinnacles experience, I drive south along California's I-5. Day is slipping away and, as I prefer to find accommodation before nightfall, I decide to spend the night in Bakersfield.

Long after it makes no sense to turn back, I realize that I missed the Bakersfield exit.

"No worry," I say. There are two more towns before I hit the motel desert of the Santa Susanna Mountains that separates this part of the world from Los Angeles.

First town: The motel gives me the creeps.

Second town: Whoops. I miss this exit too.

It's dark as I drive south through the Santa Susanna Mountains toward the lights of L.A.

The next town will be Santa Clarita and I can't help but remember this same hour 365 nights ago. It too found me unhappily driving in the dark through the Santa Susanna Mountains toward Santa Clarita.

Is this a Groundhog Day rerun?

In one sense, I suppose, for I'm again driving through the dark toward clarity (Clarita) on the day before the Winter Solstice.

Yet, even through my frustration and fatigue, I know it's different. I know I'm not the same person I was a year ago. I'm stronger, more certain and, yes, more clear.

And what better way to usher in the Solstice any year than to move through darkness of uncertainty into the return of the light...even if it is the lights of L.A.!

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