RAINDROPS OF LOVE FOR A THIRSTY WORLD, BY LIFE AS SHARED WITH EILEEN WORKMAN

Raindrops of Love for a thirsty world, by LIFE as shared with Eileen Workman, Muse Harbor Publishing, Santa Barbara, CA, 2016, 372pp, $18.95.

Eileen channels what she calls “The Life Force”, or simply LIFE, offering poignant and uplifting help for our troubled world. The message from the opening Invitation to Communication is, “Know that I AM your formless Self, communicating with you through these words because you desire the conscious reconnection of form and formlessness. The time has come for you to awaken and transcend your imagined limitations so that you can express ever more of your formless Self in the realm of form.” Unlike other books channeled from discarnate entities or enlightened beings, Raindrops of Love comes from within ourselves. We are the Life Source full of wisdom, and we need to simply recognize it.

        Raindrops of Love contains four parts, each broken into short, easy to read sections. The sections are uplifting and easily fit into a busy life—I read sections over breakfast, more as I rode mass transit to work, a few more over lunch, and others before bed. 

The four sections are:

Part I – Soft Love – The Wonder of Self-Realization

Part II – Tough Love – The Challenge of Self-Discipline

Part III – Self Love – The Responsibility of Self-Actualization

Part IV – Life Love – The Freedom of Self-Mastery

        There are many self-help, self-actualization books on the market, each purporting to help us “live the life we were meant to live.” What sets Raindrops of Love apart is the warmth and deep love that imbue the messages. So many books are simply “how to” without uplifting words of comfort. Someone compared Raindrops of Love to the instruction book that comes with your car. It will be of infinite help, but only if you pick it up and read it.

        It’s difficult to condense all my feelings about Raindrops of Love into a short review. Let me offer some insight from Part III, the section called Listening to the Ego. So many authors tell us that Ego must be suppressed, Ego is the source of all our problems, etc. So, we wrestle with that and usually end up even more conflicted. 

        The lesson in Raindrops of Love is to listen to our ego. “…ego is not a problem child you must kill so that you can become an adult … defining your ego as ‘the enemy other’ only triggers internal resistance…your terrified ego will seek to stave off any violent assaults on its presumed sovereignty.” What an interesting perspective. We’re told to “Listen to [ego’s] stories, its woes, and its fears without further judgment.” We can then embrace those stories with “compassion for the limited understanding that your child-self possessed while it danced boldly along the edge of the unknown.” 

        This was so helpful for me as I dealt with situations in my life where my ego felt as if I were “angrily slitting [its] throat and then leaving it to bleed out…” I learned how to “convert…ego’s fear of punishment into peace…” 

        Raindrops of Love is a wonderful, uplifting, helpful collection of devotionals that can help us be more aligned with life’s rhythms. We are, as the title says, a thirsty world. Raindrops of Love can slake that thirst.

- Carole Scarola