With all the controversy around face masks, I asked Steve if he would put a question to Archangel Michael; if he could provide a higher realm perspective for us.
On October 30th, 2020, Steve received this response from AAM (Thank you, Steve.):
There is the practicality of masks and the intentionality to protect others, rather than simply oneself.
When you infuse [them] with Love, as you are creating masks, with the various Divine Qualities, they do indeed settle into the very fabric and the energy of what you are creating. It is a good job.
AAM had a little more to say, later on in Steve’s reading, using my face masks as an example when talking about money and value:
Let me use Kathleen’s masks as an example. If I make a mask and I take the time to infuse it with Love, with mighty protection, with hope, with Divine Qualities and I put my Love and my labour into this, it has a certain value.
Take the market value out of it. Think first just the value that you have infused into that piece of material.
Then, if you take a mass-produced piece of cotton fibers that is produced a million at a time (and I am using this not as truth but as an example) and the machinery or the technicians operating machinery are there.
They are exhausted, they are hounded, they do not feel valued. They do not infuse love into the material or to the machines or into the process. That mask has a very different value to the individual.
So what one is saying with money is that I value this mask (for example) at a higher value rate than something that is simply coming from a machine that was not done with any kind of love quotient.
So in one country for example, the spice, because it is culturally the foundation of what is used in food, they have a very high value. And another country that never uses that spice, it may go for a penny.
So it is simply a way in which human beings have devised to say what they value, what they love, what they think is worth the exchange. So it puts a whole different understanding on money.
In April 2013, Universal Mother Mary explained how our actions of Love, coming from knowing our innate value, are the blessing and virtue of grace:
The starting point is remembering that you already have a storehouse of this quality (grace), but you do it through your expressions of Love. Now what are those expressions of Love?
Yes, you can sit and you can pray and you can make pilgrimages to Fatima, or to India, or to Machu Picchu, it matters not for you are asking for the blessings of grace, and that is one way because what it does is it silences your soul and ego in order to receive.
But truly the way in which you are designed to receive the blessings of grace is through your actions; so your actions have need to be…it is quite simple…loving, kind, generous, charitable, humble, pure, even expressions of fortitude, of patience, of piety.
She said we build reserves of grace with our actions. Imagine! This is how we create our Nova Earth Mother Marys says as grace expands Infinitely out to the Collective:
These are the ways you build your reserves, shall we say, and therefore your expressions of grace because grace is not simply dormant.
As you build your grace, and it is Infinite, it is the ability to expand Infinitely, as you do that it spills over.
So not only are you doing an action that is of Love, it is also giving whomever you are working with, or the collective, grace as well. So that is how you do it.
Now there are times when I watch you, all of you, and you will grudgingly do something…”I’ll do it because I think I have to or because it’s the right thing to do” but you do not do it with a joyful, loving heart or attitude.
Well that does not build your warehouse of grace because what you are doing is you are back to that place of martyrdom, you are back to that vasana that you are suffering, that you are somehow lacking so that you have to earn or do in order to earn love. And that is not of truth.
So rather than do something even grudgingly, stop and simply think, “Do I choose to do this?” “Can I do this?” And the answer is always yes!
“Can I do this in a kind and loving, nurturing and tender manner?”
We are kind, unitive beings at our very core and Mother Mary says this is how peace comes about:
Strength, what you think of as your warrior self is gentle and kind, it does not bully, it does not force, it coaxes and caresses and embraces.
That is how peace comes about; it does not come about from manipulation and control.
It comes through the gentle embrace and acceptance of the wonder of differences and eventually the celebration of those differences.
Now there are times when there is simply a plea and a prayer in a moment of the dark hour of the soul or the falling into the place of desperation or despair when one of you turns to me and asks for a blessing of grace.
It is always, always given, not when it is asked as an escape clause, but when it is genuinely a heart plea because what grace does, because of the alignment factor, is it literally eradicates what you perceive as hardship.
Now mark what I say, this form of action and request eradicates your belief that you are in hardship.
So it is one of the most rapid ways in which to simply leave the old 3rd behind. Is this clear?
