{"id":112322,"date":"2025-05-14T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=112322"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:00:38","slug":"higher-and-higher-lift-up-your-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/112322-higher-and-higher-lift-up-your-hearts","title":{"rendered":"Higher and Higher, Lift Up Your Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They came to town from California! They came to the greater Philadelphia area, to the delight of us MSIA Ministers and Initiates. John Morton, Leigh Taylor-Young Morton, Vincent Dupont, Angel Harper [DC area], Jackie Travis, and Roger Wakefield.<\/p>\n<p>Staff started off doing MSIA services, including observers in training. We had a week beginning with everyone getting shiny, clean, spiffy again through the services; and to my delight, some of us were able to create lunches as love offerings to the Traveler&#8217;s staff.<\/p>\n<p>Friday Night, walking into the room, embracing &#8211; it was a great family reunion of my beloveds. The first event was our regular monthly Philadelphia Ministers meeting. Lovingly Suzanne Blatstein, chairperson, introduced the meeting and asked beautiful Leigh Taylor-Young Morton up to call us forward into the Light. Leigh also did the exquisite planetary blessing of the heart.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/LTYPhilly1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-112325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/LTYPhilly1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/LTYPhilly1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/LTYPhilly1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/LTYPhilly1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/LTYPhilly1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/LTYPhilly1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/LTYPhilly1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was followed by John Morton, live, up front and personal, to bring in the great Mystical Traveler energy and Spirit, having us all soaring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-112338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday was the timely Spiritual Warrior workshop hosted by Leigh! After our lunch break, then came the Christ Traveler specialty of the Ministers and Initiates Q&amp;A. Lee Blatstein introduced Sally Weaver, singing &amp; playing guitar, followed by the group &#8220;The Heart Throbs&#8221;, playing guitar and singing too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/3Jsu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-112324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/3Jsu-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/3Jsu-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/3Jsu-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/3Jsu-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/3Jsu-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/3Jsu.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And next, came the Mystical Traveler. Touching my heart, as he sat and reached out to touch the exquisitely colored flowers upon the stage table. &#8220;They&#8217;re real\u201d, John shares as he points to the flowers, &#8220;you put some tiny kernel of carbohydrate into the earth, and then this happens. A good metaphor for Soul Transcendence.&#8221; And I soared up from there!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-112339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly2-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To me all flowers &#8212; from gardens or giant farms &#8212; as they start to bloom, they bring joy and upliftment and beauty to humans. They are like flower Christs. Knowing he\u2019d be cut down while still young, as a 33-year-old, Jesus was crucified so that mankind could have more Joy, and Light. Yes, the entire Q&amp;A was awesome. You raise us all up, John Morton!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly3-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-112340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly3-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/JMPhilly3-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very deep thank you,<br \/>\nMarjorie Eaton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came to town from California! They came to the greater Philadelphia area, to the delight of us MSIA Ministers and Initiates. John Morton, Leigh Taylor-Young Morton, Vincent Dupont, Angel Harper [DC area], Jackie Travis, and Roger Wakefield. Staff started off doing MSIA services, including observers in training. We had a week beginning with everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-spotlight","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}