
[Note from Suzanne Ward: Monday afternoon when I tried to distribute the following brief message that Matthew wanted to go out on the 19th, I discovered that my ISP was nonoperational. Jean Hudon, Earth Rainbow Network, let me read it to him and he included it in his message specifically for the inauguration.]
This is Matthew, with greetings of love and rejoicing at the momentous event for your world, the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States. We ask that you fill your hearts with love and gratitude and direct those feelings to him and his family and to the individuals who will assist and advise him. The outpouring of those kinds of energy streamers is like a blanket of golden filaments surrounding your world. By sending that energy to the Obama family and the new administration, you are radiating light to guide, protect and contribute to their success in governing wisely and honorably; and the light in their efforts beams out to the world, thus benefiting all souls and Mother Earth herself.

The first day of new presidential leadership is an event of paramount importance in a series of on-target powerful developments in the plan’s goal of spiritual renewal and reformation in your physical world, but in the continuum, its success already has been achieved! [Note: The November 21, 2008 message in “Matthew’s Messages” on www.matthewbooks.com explains the plan.] Nevertheless, all of the forward movement is operating in your concept of time, and in this respect, your every thought, feeling and action is creating not only your personal lives, but collectively are the stepping stones to Earth’s “future” world. All those steps are being taken at one pace or another, and holding your light steady in trust and patience as events unfold within the new US administration will heighten the collective consciousness. The higher the collective consciousness of a peoples, the higher the vibrations they radiate and attract in kind, all the while assisting Earth’s ascension into the increasingly higher frequencies that you perceive as time passing faster and faster.
Mother, I thank you for receiving and distributing my message today, prior to the swearing-in ceremony tomorrow. And now, with the unconditional love of all souls at this station, who are sharing Earth’s joyousness, this is Matthew bidding you farewell for a short while.
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Because of technical difficulties incurred by my mother’s service provider, she was unable to distribute my foregoing message at the intended time. I believe the difficulties were providential, as now I can speak in a timely manner about President Barack Obama’s stirring address to his nation, indeed to your world. It is not his eloquence to which I refer, but his forthrightness and honesty and wisdom, his determination to unify what has been divided, to mend what has been in tatters, to strengthen what has been weak and to heal broken spirits. The energy of this day, energy that opened wide the portals of change based in love and enlightenment, reached heights not felt on Earth since the finest hours of Atlantis and Lemuria.

By using the global economy to demonstrate the importance each of you has in the ongoing transformational process, I shall be answering many readers’ questions. The population as a whole is seeing the economic situation as it is reported by mainstream media, with unemployment, retail sales and real estate statistics along with various analysts’ forecasts. Therefore, in the collective consciousness the situation appears dire—by some estimates, the spiraling downward will continue for as long as two years and the overall impact will be felt with leveling out stages over the next ten or twenty years. The analysts are calculating in accordance with economic history and they see the resolution as combined government and corporate efforts to return to what they consider the soundness of the global system that existed prior to the meltdown.




Of course, that government never intended to enact it anyway. Massive corruption within national and global political and legal channels prevented enactment and the dissemination of disinformation added confusion and disbelief to NESARA’s energy pool. Regardless, because its monumental goals are literally “in the heavens” and already manifested in the universal continuum, the plan’s down-to-Earth progress continued in other directions to accomplish the very same goals.



Let me speak now about the many aspects of what has been transpiring in Gaza. Even though your media have reported the grossly disproportionate Israeli retaliation for the missiles directed by Hamas into areas of Israel, Palestinian casualties are much higher than announced. As in any conflict, there are outspoken proponents and opponents of both sides: Israel’s right to defend its borders from the declared aim of Hamas to destroy its neighbor, and the Palestinians’ right to end the oppression that began with the formation of Israel.



Still another facet of the carnage in Gaza is the effect of the higher frequencies that magnifies all human characteristics, and the capacity for hatred, belligerence and desire for revenge has reached its peak. The balance to that intensity is the surge in light-filled characteristics such as empathy, compassion and determined efforts toward peace.


This is an appropriate place to answer the reader who asked, “When will nations’ full karmic debt be repaid?” Only souls incur karma. Souls often choose to incarnate in areas where they spent other lifetimes and made choices that were destructive to themselves and others, and due to the eons of influence by the dark forces, souls may have embodied in the same general area hundreds or more times to balance previous experiencing, but instead only repeated it. So in that respect, it can be considered that the “nation” incurs karma even though today’s national boundaries are so very different from the empires in ancient times, when souls’ choices began piling up “negative” karma. Nations in the area now called the Middle East and in Africa are areas heavily affected by souls’ repetition, thus it takes longer to release the negativity from those lands and transmute it into light. Earth’s karma is comprised of the countless souls that have inhabited the planet since the first civilizations in antiquity, and her balance is being restored by increasing numbers of souls becoming enlightened throughout your world.

Another reader asked if the same two souls always work out their karmic connections as long as it takes to attain balance. While souls may choose to do that, it is not necessary, especially not during this period where every aspect of life in your world is in acceleration; and because unconditional love is the basis of all pre-birth agreements, souls are eagerly helping the souls who most need a lift to evolve. My family is an example. My mother and father had experienced many very satisfying lifetimes in a number of relationship roles that strengthened them spiritually, and in an agreement with many other souls, they took on the heavier karmic experiences needed by the weaker ones in a soul cluster. Thus my parents’ union was marked by unresolved conflict and trauma that they could handle but the weaker souls could not; that enabled the weaker ones to choose less difficult emotional karmic connections that they could bring into balance and strengthen the soul cluster. Although my three siblings and I were not part of that agreement, the dissension between our parents provided the ideal environment each of us needed to flourish in ways we required for balance.

A large scale example of souls helping souls is what you call “walk-ins,” which are far more prevalent than at any other period on the planet. The original souls that inhabit the bodies fulfill their contracts that call for turmoil or illness or severe deprivation, and the souls who agree to enter the bodies infuse them with light and the will to overcome the difficult conditions and proceed to accomplish their reasons for wanting to embody. The advantage to the latter souls is that in many cases, they enter adult bodies with academic and experiential learning, a running start so to say for succeeding in their chosen ways to help manifest the Golden Age.

First, there does not appear to be a consensus on Earth as to what constitutes a “starseed.” From our perspective, every soul in this universe is a “starseed,” but I shall reply to the questions as if these are exceptional beings who came from advanced civilizations to take on a more complex or more arduous mission than the majority of the populace. Because the planet has greatly more light than say, ten years ago or even five, there is much less risk now than previously of such beings becoming trapped in third density. The worst that can happen is that “trapped” individuals succumb to the frailties of unfamiliarly dense bodies; they may retain inklings of some special purpose for the lifetime, resonate with truthful information and feel attuned to universal laws, but due to dense bodies’ limited brain functioning, the rest is forgotten or distorted and the lifetime may be a series of frustrations instead of achievements that lighten hearts and minds. There is no penalty—that is, no incurrence of karma to balance—but at soul level there is disappointment along with understanding and compassion for the personage whose experience on Earth does not happen as intended.


Moving on to diverse topics of interest, the plane that made a forced landing in New York’s Hudson River was much more than the capability of the captain — with all due respect for his capability, he had a host of heavenly helpers because no person in that plane had a contract that “was up.” The plane was sabotaged, and those responsible cannot understand why their diabolical plan failed just as it did when the intent was to assassinate Obama in a plane crash. They cannot even imagine his protection within the impermeable grid of the light of Christ consciousness just as they cannot accept that the long reign of darkness is over.

We cannot give a specific time when the truth about “9/11” will come forth publicly, but we assure you, it will. Part of Earth’s cleansing is truth replacing lies in every nook and cranny of the former strongholds of the darkness.

The increasing sightings of spacecraft are a preface to the appearance of such a large fleet that their presence no longer can be denied by those governments that have long ignored, ridiculed via “entertainment” or concocted foolish stories to prove that UFOs and ETs don’t exist. The little grays living underground will not emerge en masse—the time has long since passed when the Illuminati could have managed that, and the same is so regarding a holographic representation of an invading force descending from the skies.
Now, in the same spirit of exultation and brilliant light of hope that is pervasive in your world, we bid you farewell even as we lovingly accompany you every moment along your pathway.
NOTE: Read the story behind Suzanne Ward and how and why she began writing the Matthew Books in the late 1990s. It's an incredible tale but I happen to be a friend of both Suzy Ward and her brilliant son Matthew, who maintains I'm a colleague whom he once rescued from a particularly dangerous situation (though he was too coy to elaborate further :-)! In any case, having read Matthew's messages over the past seven years or so, I have found them invariably helpful, lucid, totally balanced and absolutely reassuring - especially when things get overly murky on the political plane.