My dream of returning to country living with my horses and animals became a reality in 1998. Our land chose us: an old Christmas Tree Farm filled with magical memories, where dreams come true and hearts whisper!
We named our farm, Whispering Hearts!
My mantra is: "Everything always works out for the best! It always has and always will!" I invite you to travel with me on our magical adventures we call life!
Charm
Charm at 2 days old with her dam, Sassy. May 24th 2005
As we finished chores I reveled in the peace and calm. The horses were softly munching their hay. The cat was quiet, the wind was quiet, the usually noisy barn birds were also quiet!
It was enchanting and welcoming after a busy and rather noisy day! We bought a new splitter, and tested it out! The last one was working before this cold spell. The elves, fairies, dwarfs and gnomes must have had a party on it! Spilled their tea, so it wouldn't start! So, we decided, after my very mechanical hubby, couldn't fix it, that getting a new one was needed!
Photo by Debbie Soderberg Kirchner
We are grateful that we have the gold to pay for it! It was actually enjoyable to split wood on a brand new splitter!
Photo by Debbie Soderberg Kirchner
The magic glass shared another image. I believe it is my Grandpa George! His story is fascinating! A man with a heart of gold, but with a steel exterior! A hard worker, with high expectations for his large family. Everyone pitched in on the farm! His, her's and their's! 14 children, raised as one!
Photo by Debbie Soderberg Kirchner
I have one of his milk cans in my garden. It brings me great joy! When he gave it to me, and I said goodbye! I told him I would see him next time we came to Michigan! We took the ferry across Lake Michigan, twice a year. Spring and fall, to visit my mother's huge family!
His wise words were, "No, I think this was our last visit!" I held him tight, and buried my head into his chest and cried! Somehow, I understood the meaning of his words! My heart knew!
Apparently, Grandpa George had something to say! I didn't expect his story to flow through my heart this morning!
My heart is full! Peace and calm, love and warmth!
With gratitude!
Is your heart calling you to remember a magical moment filled with love?
Can you feel the energy that radiated from that moment in time?
Can you bring that magical feeling into your heart and thank it for visiting?
Now, can you pass that magical and loving energy on?
My childhood dinner bell was calling to me to take a picture of it. My husband sanded and clear coated it for me this summer. It turned out amazing.
I am grateful that I have it, grateful that I have fond memories of hearing it when it was time to come home. I am grateful for the memories of it calling the horses in from the pasture. Yes, our horses learned what it meant to hear the bell. All of the kids had cars and could tell time, but the bell still rang.
Once my parents moved off the farm, I brought the bell to our farm. It rarely rings now, but I use to ring it to bring my kids home from the woods, or the neighbors. I use Sleigh Bells to bring the horses in to eat these days! I wonder where I got that idea?
I collected bells as a child. I loved receiving them or buying them with my allowance. I have many, but this is one of my favorites and has been well loved the longest!
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Do you have a cherished treasure from your childhood that brings you joy when you see it?
Does it take you back to the sights, the sounds and smells you cherish?
Our cherished memories are gifts to share with your heart and the hearts of others!
I am incredibly grateful for these 2 sweet gifts this morning!
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An amazingly magical foggy morning, and a sweet connection with Hope!
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We stood together for a long time this morning, just after I took these photos! She was nervous as she watched and listened for danger that may be hidden in the fog! I walked up beside her and offered her my calm energy!
She relaxed, sighed, chewed and cocked a hind leg, while we stood together!
Something had worried her, but together we found peace, calm and relaxation! This was such a sweet gift to treasure!
My heart was touched deeply!
When I walked away from her to go to another pen to continue my morning chores, she came to me! Seeking peace and calm! Scratches, too!
She did this not once, but twice! I can't tell you how special this was for our connection!
For her to seek me out, to help her to relax, was such an honor!
It was magical! I am incredibly grateful and honored that she trusted me to help her to release her fears!
I honestly believe that I am indeed finally healing. I am a calm, safe place in which she can find comfort and joy within my energy field and aura!
I can finally go into peace, calm and relaxation once again! I can also go deeper and stay there longer! I can be her island of safety!
She has needed me, as much as I have needed her in my life!
With gratitude!
Have you ever found yourself unable to be in a calm, peaceful, relaxed state of mind?
Have you been around people or animals who are unable to be in a calm, peaceful, relaxed state of mind?
Do you have a friend, human or animal who can go deep into a calm, peaceful, relaxed state of mind?
How do you feel when you are with them?
Are you an island of safety or are you in need of one?
Peace! The moon last night was so incredibly peaceful as I sat on the front step with Tipper, our Sheltie mix dog. I had not seen this view of the moon through these interconnected trees before!
Sometimes we need to look up to see things from a different perspective! Mom always said to look up when we were out walking. Look up so you can see the world and breathe in the beautiful fresh air.
Photo by Debbie Soderberg Kirchner
This morning a mother and baby whale appeared in the Magic Glass!
The whale once again reminded me of the Whale Chant I was given in a meditation during the summer of 2021!
Calm, peace and abundance!
Today is my mother's second heavenly birthday! She would have been 87 this year. It took me a while this morning to realise this was a message from my mom.
A message of love. A message reminding me of the connection and deep bond between a mother and her child share. A love and connection my mother honestly believed in striving for each and everyday!
My heart has struggled during this past year, forgiveness has been hard to give. Love has been hard to feel! Tears and anger have been easy to grasp! Sadness and grief for what might have been, clouded my thoughts!
I feel love today, after all the recent channels through Debbra, the 31 Days of Magical Gratitude Challenge and a Deep Listening Workshop I have participated in during the month of October 2023.
My heart is ready to let go, to love and be grateful for the good memories! To appreciate and accept the gifts of peace, calm and abundance! I am grateful for Magical-adventures and finding joy in life again!
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The Magic Glass also produced this lovely picture. Gifts from the ocean... Pearls! Abundance bubbling up from the sea! It reminds me of the lovely sparkles on one of her beautiful angels.
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The Magic Glass was not done gifting me just yet. This one appeared after I took my morning vitamins! I love this one! It feels like a loving spirit reaching through the veil. So sweet, so kind, so peaceful and calm!
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This is the last magical picture to appear this morning! It is similar to my mother's silhouette! She is an angel now, with nothing but pure love to shower down on those she knew. She wasn't perfect, but she tried to be! Bless her heart. She has joined my amazing Angel Team. Together they have learned how to freely sprinkle magical loving blessings to us all! I am sure she is laughing happily and full of joy as she says, This is Really Living!
Mom always said "This is Really Living," when our family was experiencing a great deal of happiness and joy on one of our many Magical Adventures!
Happy Birthday mom, may you continue to sprinkle magical blessings onto all those you love! We are very grateful for your loving messages and guidance!
Have you felt magical blessings from a loved one who has crossed? Do you feel them close by guiding you as you make decisions and live your life?
Do you thank them and listen deeply to your inner wisdom, knowing the answers to your questions are coming from a loving place?
Have you forgiven the mistakes you or a loved one have made, so you can live your highest and best life?
Today I am grateful for my partnership with my husband!
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We are installing doors on our Can-Am Defender! The bottom half was easy, but the hinges for the tops have been difficult to install! The holes aren't lining up correctly!
Photo by Dan Kirchner
We worked late into the evening hours, trying every combination we could think off to make the doors fit! Yes, we followed the directions, over and over again, lol! We finally stopped for the evening, so we could get a fresh start this morning!
I love how brilliant ideas arrive when one sets a project or problem to the side!
This morning Dan woke up with a plan! So after morning chores and coffee we started working again!
Dan needed to drill larger holes into the hinge plates that attached to the top half of the doors! (The doors each have 2 halves, so we can remove the top half for summer riding!)
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I supported him from inside the Side By Side! I had my coffee and phone, so I was content! I ratcheted the top half of the door to the bottom half! I also marked the hinges so Dan could see where to drill the holes larger!
He did the hard work, while I reflected and wrote! Teamwork! Ya gotta love it!
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Dan saw the vision and made it happen with his tools and experience! It's his art and creative outlet! A passion he has had most of his life!
He had to do a bit more modifications on the passenger side door, but after the modifications worked perfectly on driver's side, he could invision and easily make the needed modifications for the second door!
photo by Debbie Soderberg Kirchner
The hinges are done, the doors work! The mirrors are on! We feel good about completing another project together!
It's time to move onto the next task at hand! Picking up wood to burn for the winter, which our neighbor so graciously cut up for us!
Photo by Debbie Soderberg Kirchner
Though before we worked, we decided to play! It's time to test out the new doors and mirrors!
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They worked perfectly! We stayed warm on thus absolutely beautiful day!
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When a problem arises do you allow your wisdom to work in the background by putting it on the back-burner?
Do you push through when a problem comes into your life instead?
Do you have a trusted person to bounce ideas off of when the going gets rough?
I am grateful for my, “Deep Listening” experience with Onyx. While Dan moved hay, I held Onyx.
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My plan was to just let him eat his hay. My ribs were in spasm, so I was hoping to just be a post for Onyx! Nope! He smelled treats, so I realized my body was going to need to move a little! I picked something simple that we both could do.
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We played with putting a foot on the Frisbee for a treat, but it soon became apparent that he was needing more! As in life, a challenge is good for the mind! Instead of keeping the target in one place, I tossed it over the mat, which his hay was sitting on. We did simple circles around his hay pile to get to the Frisbee!
I guided, but didn't micromanage him! He sometimes landed ahead of it, or behind it and pawed at it. At one point, he flipped it over. I laughed joyfully! The treat came when he had one foot or the other on the target! It took him a minute to solve the new puzzle, but when he did, it was magical.
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As we continue to add to this game, I will point to one or the other leg, challenging him to land on the Frisbee with that foot! I can see us moving this game to riding. I can toss Frisbees from his back and we can find them together. We dance the dance with joy on our hearts.
My goal was to allow him the opportunity to be more precise with his feet! He made mistakes! No big deal, I quietly adjusted his approach and gave him time to figure it out! Puzzle solving is fun for both of us.
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As in life, I realized that we both need to be open to having a conversation. He asked with his heart, I listened with mine. Though, I must admit, I was not open to the conversation, at first.
Onyx started this particular playful conversation! He was very clear, but polite. Had I said, “No”, he would have respected that. However, since I was able to move at my pace and still give him the puzzles he was asking for, it was a win/win. Our magical connection was peaceful, fun and heartwarming.
We moved from circles to straight lines. I tossed the Frisbee and off we went to find it! Progression! Listening to my horse with my heart, challenging him as well as myself to do a little bit more, with more precision, was magical!
I am grateful!
As I ponder our experience, I see that my guides play with me in exactly the same way! I simply need to listen to, respond to the messages and use my wisdom to reach out for the target! Magic!
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The dance may not always be perfect, but if I listen with my heart, as I feel my way to the highest and best feeling, the road I travel has become a magical adventure, I truly treasure!
Have you felt the magic, on this road, we call life?
Did you listen with your heart or did you listen with your mind?
Notice the past and present forks in the road you are on. When you made the choice to listen with your heart or just with your mind, what was the outcome? Loving energy vs judging energy!
The feeling is so very different. The outcome is also different.
Remember to feel the difference as you move through life. It’s ok to make mistakes on this journey, just remember to feel for the love as you take your next step!
We can follow either path, however, one path brings us on a magical adventure, while the other path usually becomes sluggish or bumpy.
Last night was the first frost of the season for our area of the universe! Our flowers and vegetable plants were lovingly covered with blankets and sheets, so they may continue to thrive!
They were protected from the seasonal cold weather! Covering them for a few nights, now, will allow them to live on into the upcoming fall days. A few more weeks of warm days and nights will follow this temporary cold spell!
It's a beautiful time of year. It's honestly my favorite season!
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We split 3 loads of wood yesterday! We had raised the splitter up about 9 inches a week or so ago! I was incredibly grateful that my body wasn't throbbing while splitting or in agony this morning as it has been in the past!
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I remember thinking yesterday, "Wow I am not hurting or getting tired, yet!"
It had to be because we listened to our bodies telling us last year that this is getting to be way too difficult to sustain for much longer!
We learned from the past, came up with and planned an easy solution, prepared and executed that plan and now we are reaping the benefits!
I have renewed hope that we can continue to heat our home with wood we cut, haul, split and stack ourselves for a few more years!
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It strengthens our bodies if we do it correctly and thoughtfully, too!
Like covering the plants to live on, listening to our inner wisdom strengthens us so we may thrive, too!
What messages has your body sent to you that you could listen to in order to make your future better?
Will you listen to, ponder, plan, and develop a solution to respond to your bodies messages?
Have you had success following your bodies wisdom in the past? If so, it makes it easier to trust and follow through with the intuitive messages we all receive!
Living in a connected magical flow that our bodies crave us to participate in, can and usually does bring about long-term comfort and peace!
Our cucumbers have been prolific this past season. So much so that I can't remember a year like it. We try to grow them each and every year that we can find them to buy. We learned a few years ago, that they are not cold hardy, so they don't start to sell them until later in the spring. Now I know to go back when the temps are warmer at night. This year we chose 3 container pickles. They were supposed to stay small and have tiny little cucumbers on them, which are truly my favorite!
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2 of the 3 plants survived and grew so tall that they needed a trellis, which we made for them. They continued to grow over the top and down from the trellis. Think 'Jack and the Beanstalk' plants! I watered them, nurtured them and hunted for cucumbers daily. I could not believe how easy it was to miss them when they were small. Many of them were huge when I found them. A memory of my mom, who passed away during the fall of 2022, kept visiting me each time I found an extra large cucumber, that had obviously hidden from me for days! She told us kids stories of her childhood as we were growing up. She frequently talked about working in the fields picking pickles. I remembered her telling us how they could hide and get too big for the store. They had acres and acres of cucumbers, strawberries, apples and other produce. She grew up on a farm near Muskegon Michigan. It was a hard life, one that I was privileged to not have had first hand experience with.
Picking the pickles was hard work, the stickers were painful and after hours of picking were unavoidable. Hands were sore, backs hurt and bodies were tired. Daydreaming became a way to escape from the misery and pain of the day.
Photo of an historic photo by Debbie Soderberg Kirchner
My mom proudly hung this picture of she and her sister reading the Spiegel Catalog in our home. My dad, bless his heart, had listened to these stories, too! He hired a talented and lovely woman to paint this picture for my mom. It was not the first, nor the last painting my family had her paint. There were 5 paintings in all. Mom moved them from home to home with her over the years. Until her passing, they were always together. They were also all on display together at her Celebration of Life, along with the actual pictures they were each inspired from.
Painting by Charlotte Wiskow. Photo by Debbie Soderberg Kirchner
I had forgotten the words of the following poem I wrote for my mother until recently. I finally had the emotional energy to hang it up in her honor and read it once again. Awe, no wonder every time I found a large pickle that had been hiding from me, I thought of my mom.
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Dreaming
9/15/1995
I always remember
the stories
my mother told
of her many years
working in the fields
Her hands raw
from picking the
pickles from their vines.
Her jeans worn thin
from scraping them
along the rows and rows,
and acres and acres of pickles
Her stories often times told
about the long awaited
moment...the arrival of
the "Spiegel Catalog!"
After a long days work
in the hot fields,
they would search
through its glossy pages.
To dream of the time
they could order
their clothes for school!
The threadbare jeans,
traded for skirt and
matching sweater.
Their dirty faces and hair
clean and shiny
after a long awaited hot bath!
A way of life traded
for another, sometimes
if only it was, a dream!
Copyright 1995
D. Soderberg
I grew up a privileged white girl in a very different world from my parents! I am grateful for my upbringing and for the stories my parents shared with me. Stories of their very different and very difficult upbringings. The stories were not easy to hear, but they were oh so important to listen to. These stories ground me and bring me back to a very appreciative space. A space full of gratitude for what I had growing up and for what I am blessed to have now in my early retirement years.
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My mother's hands worked hard, so that I could live a better life than she lived. She felt pain, I did not feel, she struggled, so I could be strong and she dreamed of a wonderful life, I benefited from.
Where do you come from?
What stories do you hold close to your heart, as you think of your family and your historical roots?
How are you better because of these stories? Have you written them down for future generations to hear, to learn from and to be grateful for?
I am grateful that my mom came through during last night’s Metaphysical chat with Debbra Lupien on Youtube. Looking back on the events of the evening, I am in awe of the miracles that occurred, before my mom could come through via Debbra. I took the picture above, of my mom's image at the bottom of a drinking glass, at 6:08 PM, my time yesterday. It appeared to me right before I logged into Debbra's Youtube Live!
I was surprised because the image under the glass looked and felt so much like my mom! I attached a picture of us together last summer for comparison, though you may not feel what I felt because it was a message meant for me at that moment.
Hearts have been a long time symbol for me! I love hearts! My friend Susan, who crossed in July of 2023, has quickly learned how to send hearts, other pictures, words and numbers to me from the other side, as her way of continuing our communication! She has sent so many messages, I have honestly lost count of some of them!
608 was her last area code! She loved numbers, and used emojis often. Hearts, unicorns, thumbs up were just a few that she loved before she crossed. I totally forget numbers, so I have had to be clear as to what set of numbers I can recognize coming from her. 608 is one of those sets of numbers.
The day before yesterday, I saw a heart and then a horse form in a drop of water, under the very same drinking glass as the image of my mom appeared under last night! I think my friend was practicing as she wanted to make sure I got the messages from this new location... which I did! I, as always, told her thank you for the messages and for staying close. (Those who have crossed, seem to love validation)
All photos by Debbie Soderberg Kirchner
I am so grateful that my friend gave me a little heads up with the amazing picture that felt and looked like my mom!
So much of a heads up, that I actually asked a question relating to our truck, instead of the general question I eventually asked. You see, I wasn’t ready for a message from mom… I later deleted the first question, because I wanted to ask a question for Dan, my husband, as it was his birthday!
Divine intervention...continues!!!
The coincidences of the night were powerful in themselves…. deleting the first question I wrote, was yet another magical coincidence… so many people were on the Live, that Debbra made the decision to only answer 1 question per person before she would answer a second question from anyone. She asked that 2nd questions be added at the very end, so she didn't have to scroll back up hunting for them. She was also clear that they would only be answered if there was time.
I quickly deleted the truck question and asked a question for Dan, as it was his birthday. That was, by far, a more important question to ask. I followed the rules and waited until the very end to add, what I thought was, my second question. You’ll have to listen here for her response. It was so very special!
Because mom was apparently in line, waiting for her appearance, my original question about our truck (yes, it was an avoidance question) was never seen by Debbra…. lol. Divine intervention made sure it wasn't asked, when Debbra had the insight/message to cap the questions to one question per person. FYI: we, Dan and I, already know the answer to that question, so there honestly was no need to ask it anyway! Lol!
Truth be told, I didn't think I was ready for another deep question or answer, so I originally asked the easy, yes/no question. My team knew differently. I love it when my team is so insistent!
Thank you Debbra, mom and my angel team for sending me this important message! Tears were streaming down my cheeks! Fyi, we knew it was her, for sure, when she said that I was her “Golden girl”!
Someday, I will write about that story! I think it’s time I watch their show first, though, to gain more clarity!
With gratitude! Thank you with all my heart for last night’s message!
Are you able to see where divine intervention occurs in your life?
Look at the path you are on, can you see and/or feel the breadcrumbs that have been put there for you to follow?
Are you listening to those messages? Will you start now?
Please know that you can start at any time!
Ask your divine team of angels to help you see and feel them, they will love the challenge!
