Stepping Stones for the Heart: An Awakening with Jesus

If your heart and soul have questions, about why we are here? What is our purpose? Am I going crazy? Are you open to a new way of thinking? If so, It is no accident that this book popped up.

Ann, share’s her wondorous journey with love and wisdom. Her warmth and caring, draw the reader in, so that you can choose to BE and follow your own stepping stones. It will touch your heart and soul.

—Deb Maslowski

When I began asking my questions while on my spiritual path - Why AM I HERE? Many books and people came into my existence. Ann’s book hits it all to the point of what we are all looking for LOVE. The real message behind what Jesus was teaching. Its an incredible book of experiences Ann had with Jesus and of her many past lifetimes.

I am so glad Ann trusted herself and came to reveal these wonderful messages to us for humanity so needs it at this time. We are all waking up to who we really are... LOVE.

A must read in my opinion and also tops on my spiritual book list for it comes from the heart and not the head. Bravo to you who pick up this book. You won’t be disappointed. An inspirational and amazing story. I truly believe Love will be awakened in you once again.

—C.O’Connor

This unique book reveals past life experiences of the author with Jesus (Jeshua). We feel that Jesus is talking straight to our hearts, helping us open ourselves up to the love of God and his love, which permeates our lives.

—ML Franke, MD

author of The Universe In Our Body

Stepping Stones for the Heart literally exudes love and compassion for all who choose to read it. An inspirational and amazing story that is perfect for the time we live in now and for the future that lies ahead.

—Craig Fuller,

author of What if we were love and Pools of Truth

Stepping Stones for the Heart by Ann Paulson

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

THE BEGINNING

Prior to 1999

Previously dismissed strong encounters

The Glider

October 1999

Meditations

Methods in which this story was received

Another meditation

In a later meditation

Against in the small hometown church

Spirit conversing

Other experiences

first past life

Relationship from 2,000 years ago

The karma of the stoning

excursions

i dimensional time travel

Healing of Jeshua’s wounds and karma

Excursions – Episode I

Jordan River

Blessed Virgin Mary

Winter of 2000

Nile River

The Father

November 1999

444 January 2000

Pets and Reunions

Horses

second past life

I’m who? I’m what? St. Rita

St. Rita’s garden

Spring of 2000

Reeling

episode II-dimensional travel

Reacquainting Party

Greece

India

Dolphins

third past life

Egypt – Suspicions, Questions

June Horse trip

Joseph and Asenath

Confirmation of Joseph’s time

Rita’s garden continued.

The house in the garden

The final debate

interlude

Tidbits for all of us

Love

On Prayer

Purgatory

About God and other topics

A New Outlook

Coincidental Miracle

Dealing with inappropriate presences

Children and grandchildren

Reflections - Rhythms of God’s loving care

Analogies

Finale

bibliography

This came alive for me somewhere in the tender

side of my heart, in that place where precious

memories are held in golden chambers

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

There was much encouragement needed to write this book. I thank my friends, Marlies, Deb, and Margi, for their continuous support and enthusiasm throughout the years in the process of writing. It kept me moving forward to finish it. Next would be my ever patient husband, as I worked through revision and then another revision and rephrasing, etc. that a book requires.

Many thanks go to my daughter, Donna for using her graphic artist skills to create the cover. There are meanings to the cover. The flowers are Forget me nots, we are never forgotten. Purple is the color for spirituality and green is for fix its. We always have more to learn to fix old ideas.

And lastly, thank you to Jeshua, the angels , and other heaven lies. Jeshua definitely gave me information to write about.

Their continuing guidance, advice, encouragement, helped bring this to fruition. They definitely saw more to this than I did and probably still do.

INTRODUCTION

In October of 1999 my life, and how I viewed it and the world, took a definite turn. This was not something I was expecting, planning, or looking for. I began to experience definite meetings with Jesus, whom I now call Jeshua.1 These were not physical meetings, but a combination of inner telepathy, trances, understandings, and visions. He gave me information to assist in my own present growth and also information about what happened in my previous lives that led me to where I am now in this life. In approximately four months I received the majority of this information. It took three years to completely accept it, digest it, or even begin to tell close friends about it. I suspect that you will need an open-mind as you hear my story. I have learned that not everything is as it seems, or as we are first told or taught.

The book reflects the grand time that we are in right now. Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we want to admit it or not, we humans are on what I call an "alternating

1. Jeshua is another name for Jesus. Jesus is the Greek form of that name while Jeshua is the Aramaic form that he spoke while on earth. This is the name I am more comfortable with in speaking of him.

current (AC) with the spiritual realm and within our earthly physical realm. We run the gamut as individuals. There are those of us who deny anything spiritual, and some who are very committed to a spiritual path. The majority of us fall somewhere in between, thus the alternating current reference. The ego and mind place a veil in front of spiritual truths, which plays a part in our denial of things, thus the negative current. Spiritual awakening is definitely a positive" current. Life is a balancing act between the spiritual and the physical; and now, at this time, we are all being asked to plug more and more into the positive spiritual current.

Spirit/God, angels, and Jeshua help us with the positive heavenly current. They are on the heavenly side and are always waiting to communicate with us, if we would shut down the ego or mind long enough, and ask for them from our hearts. We are alternating consciousness, trying to create balance in our lives between our physical experiences and the spiritual experiences. To experience and balance that current is part of the purpose of our lives. Maybe we won’t get everything done correctly in this lifetime, but we are here to try, and to contribute our love the best we can.

From Jeshua

As I told you, Ann, my blessings are on the book, on all who read it and are open to it. It’ll help them a lot maybe a glimmer, maybe a lot. They are the deciding factor always coming from the heart to choose. Choose. Does it feel good for you? Does it feel good for others? Does it feel good for all God’s creation? I praise and thank God for his blessings to come through me unto this. You are loved.

Affirmation from Jeshua to publish this:

Get this book done and to an editor. Put the above in the beginning of your book. The above and the book are much needed. Your work on the book is not in vain. Remember, Ann, I said I’d bless each, and open hearts with it

PREFACE

My purpose in writing my story is to follow the angels’ direction Because of the times we are in, the added purpose in sharing this higher awareness and consciousness. In the beginning, when the angels told me to tell my story, I asked them, What story? They said, A story of love. As an insecure person in this area, I was unsure of this answer. I had no inkling of what was to come. I never considered myself an eager or proficient writer. This is definitely not about physical love. Rather, it is about love from and with the divine aspects that are all around us, and of which we are all a part. This is about the love which drives out fear and brings in light and truth. Perhaps in some way this story will be of help for others in raising their consciousness in order to experience the divine. Each of us is cared for very much and, in asking for the angels love, protection, and guidance, you will feel protected. It’s only your thoughts, emotions, and feelings that can make it otherwise. I grumbled to the angels about this assignment of writing but they replied, It will be a labor of love." And this is how it has turned out for me. I have heard from the spirit, and been told to write of the extraordinary things that happened to an ordinary person me.

Spirit also describes this book as:

God’s spark is in everything.It works together, slowly mixing in, continuously unfolding.

My central theme is a journey of a soul awakening and returning to a higher awareness, consciousness, and love. It is a journey I would never turn back on now that I have experienced it. Once you have been to this level of joyful revelation, it can become a piece of heaven on earth for you. Life on earth is a journey toward gaining this peace and a piece of heaven on earth for all of us. This is a joining of our physical realm to the spiritual, and ultimately to God. It is our evolution in spirituality. We are all on different pathways to this spiritual life and at varying points. Mine is a simple story. It was amazing to me at times, but I offer it to help you understand yours. We are in the new millennium where much angelic and spiritual energy help is increasing and offered for our paths.

As I tell you my story, think of yours. Think now for a moment, reflect on your life. Have there been instances where you felt that heavenly touch, that heavenly guidance? That’s it, my friend, you have been touched by heaven whether you realized it or not. Now open yourself to it more and more. Perhaps in reading of my struggles, you will gain some insight, and your path will become a little brighter and easier. It can happen for all of us. With diligent work, prayer, sincerity of heart, and effort, you can be on a broader, brighter spiritual path, and higher spiritual consciousness that will also be reflected on your earthly path. Help is waiting, just ask your angels, Jeshua, God, or any and all in the heavenly realm with whom you feel most comfortable.

Author Joe Crane wrote that there are two ways of achieving the spiritual. One is by studying and learning, which eventually brings you to the spiritual. The other is receiving the spiritual first, and then you study and learn to understand it. The latter is what happened for me. If you say my story is hard to believe, that’s okay. I would say the same thing, except I lived it and experienced the feelings and emotions of it. All I can do is describe, and if everyone could understand, feel, and experience the same things, the earth would be peaceful and filled with love. But, most important, what I do want you to do is to consider the things I learned in my beginning search and see how an understanding of these truths can be applied to your life. We live in such a great age. More and more people are waking up to the knowledge that they are children of God who deserve freedoms and rights and love, and they are bringing these concepts forward for the betterment of themselves and others.

I see myself as no more than a messenger to help you discover who and how great you are. In these times as you find these answers, your ever-growing, shining light will reflect back on everyone and everything, as we are all one.

Again - God’s spark is in everything. It works together, slowly mixing in, continuously unfolding.

PART ONE

THE BEGINNING

Prior to 1999

Perhaps some brief background about me is in order first. I consider myself an average person, with an average life, an average IQ, and after looking at the same face in the mirror all these years, average looks. Even the gray hairs on my head look average now. My father was a dairy farmer and I loved growing up on the farm. I loved the animals, seasons, nature, and the freedom of roaming the land and woods. Much to my mother’s consternation, I would just as soon be in the barn with the cows and calves rather than in the house. I had a rather tom-boy nature. My friends in town loved nature as much as I and would come for visits. We gave each other good memories of our adventures on my pony in the woods and fields. I kept my love of horses all my life. I always said somewhere in time I might have had a small transfusion of horse blood.

After college my