freedom! conservation from the workers

reconciled by the light

a new book.....reconciled by the light;  about the unthikable.  Teen suicide.  hard to say.
 

"There is a saying - Grief shared is halved and joy shared is doubled. Your story together with Josh's has the power to heal that grief."  ~

Patricia Titus, RN, Duke University Hospital

Glad my friends could do this;  the grief work is similar to trauma work, just a bit different. 
But the healing is the same;  profound. 

We live in the spiritual world NOW ~
Now is the time to prepare for out eternal life.
let's start by listening to one another;  living for one another.
it takes skills we need to learn, and we CAN~!

Father and son reunion

Currently Cielito Lindo: Que Viva Mexico By Various Artists see related

Winter season-stillness envelops re-birth

    Today.....a friend was feeling sorry she couldn't get up and around after  DOUBLE hip replacement;  ouch!  It made me think of a time I had to just be quiet.....

after a huge campaign, Washington Monument Rally 1976,

those of us left in DC got a special gift.  

$$$~ The debt!~   $$$

ALL what was left....and it was substantial. 

One day, our fundraising team went to picnic at a park. all crosed this ravine..... EXCEPT ME!!!  I slipped, on that tiny thing, and fractured my arm......the doctor said....motionless for TWO WEEKS! 

OMG  what torture?   I just laid in the bed.   And experienced so much grace!  

Memory after memory flooded by me.....   Things that seemed insignificant;  things that were meaningful.....and surprise!  

CHANGES

to old memories:  additions, mutations.....experiences of deep heart. 

Good and Bad.

Now, I understand the science~ but the grace is still there!~

My point is - appreciate TODAY, it is all we have!  But to do that, is a great gift.  We have seasons, and if we use the season we have NOW.....we "graduate"  to be able to be MUCH more in the next season....

from    to   , again and again

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When burdened with incompletely processed trauma memory - we get "clogged up."  

But....we are made well.  We can De- clog!

watching predators, scientists learned the physical process they do.....

have you EVER seen an uncomfortable cat?they invented yoga 

and they have helped us unlock secrets to re-remember;  CHANGE our trauma....and our past.....thereby change our present and future!   Our past becomes.....just another story.  Sometimes  great, sometimes sad.  But NEVER imprisoning.

Let's become the awesome wonderful co - creators with our Parents, God - as we were meant to be!

Currently The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Giant hardcover edition By Eric Carle see related

acessing grace - get in the Gulf Stream!

   The last post I did on the 12 steps to heailng mentioned realizing the pulsations in your suffering; 

actually, it is realizing seasons - within us, without us - to quote the Beatles!

things flow, pulse - have timing.   So do we.  Biorythms are very important to our performance.  When I was in school, I would play Ms Pac man (dates me, yes?) in the Marvin Center GWU prior to tests to check my bio rhythm.   I played it enough, I knew an optimum of my eye- brain- hand coordination on the game.  how I played was a guage for me on how to stratgegize that particular test taking.  

    When you

KNOW  the TIME and PLACE you are in,

you can do well.   Catch the wave, dude!

"Outliers"  by Malcom Gladwell is about studying success, or those who "catch the wave"    It is useful.  There are streams in civilization, and we are created for a purpose. 

Joy

So- how do we DO this joy? 

 we don't.  

It is a gift, that grace makes possible.

we can only make ourselves available for grace - and be ready to catch it.....like that wave,   like the gulf stream connecting us all together

Seasons.   currents.  Fight them, or find them......

next post, about some contemporary examples of these seasonal opportunities.....

Currently Outliers: The Story of Success By Malcolm Gladwell see related