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Copyright 2012 by Sonia Choquette

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Choquette, Sonia.

Grace, guidance, and gifts : sacred blessings to light your way / Sonia Choquette. 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4019-3744-7 (tradepaper : alk. paper) 1. Spiritual life. 2. Devotional literature. I. Title.

BL624.C47686 2012

204.4dc23

2012005961

Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-3744-7
Digital ISBN: 978-1-4019-3745-4

15 14 13 12 4 3 2 1
1st edition, July 2012

Printed in the United States of America

To my beloved daughters,
Sonia and Sabrina Choquette Tully.
I love you.

As Divine Beings we are on a continuing transformational journey from limited human consciousness to limitless Divine Spiritual consciousness, and we have two distinct aspects of self that are in the process of merging: our soul and our Divine Spirit.

Our soul is not the same thing as our Spirit, although for many people, myself included, this has been, at times, an unclear and confusing distinction, because both are aspects of our nonphysical being and are therefore difficult to separate.

Having been asked the difference between Spirit and soul over the years by my clients and students, and having wondered myself, I have set my heart and mind to finding this answer for decades. Now, after years of prayer, meditation, contemplation, discussion, wonder, and intuition, I have come to recognize and understand the distinction between the two in such a way that, at least for me, feels true. Our soul self embodies the sum total of our conscious experiences throughout each lifetime, and we carry this totality of consciousness from one lifetime to the next. Throughout our human journey, our soul seeks to find its way back home, back to Source.

The soul contains all our feelings, involvements, learning, love, confusion, and understanding from our first moment of separation from Source to the present, where we yearn for the moment of reunion. That is why the soul seeks. It is on a mission to get back home, back to Source, and it draws from all of its experiences as it works to achieve wholeness.

Our Spirit, on the other hand, is the timeless divine spark of holiness within, the eternal flame of light that has never been separated from Source. An extension of the One Spirit, our Spirit oversees the soul on its journey home. While the soul is the self that experiences life, the Spirit is the witness overseeing the experiencing part of you that is learning.

Energetically, the vibration of soul and Spirit is quite different. The souls vibration feels energetically complex, both light and dark, and even in some more than a bit fragmented. The soul energy feels at times cloudy, heavy, and attached, while at other times yearning, restless, intense, and compelled, even shadowy like the moon. The soul is complex because it is composed of so many experiences: positive, beautiful, and transcendent, as well as horrific, traumatic, and painful. It reflects and expresses these complexities through our ego as it seeks the light, and draws from the patterns of the past for guidance and support on its quest. Sometimes this is good. Other times this holds back the soul.