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HOW IMPORTANT ARE YOU?

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Beloved,

As I am sitting here, I am asking myself what DO I add to humanity or the world. As you get older, you can’t DO physically what you used to do so you start to feel like you are not adding your energy self or your being to the human race and the part that you have always played in the drama of being on earth. Of course, I am speaking about myself but do you ever feel like this?

Here it is January, a brand new year and I am obsessing over what the future will bring. What will I DO now that no one actually depends on me for anything? I only have myself to BE concerned with and when I was raising three children, I would dream sometimes of having some time for myself. Isn’t life a paradox? I believe that young children are the best model for being human. Until society steps in and programs the young minds that they need to DO to be valued, they are having a ball just BEING. They are extremely valuable just as they are as they are unique unto no other being. Don’t they bring a smile to everyone’s face no matter where they are or what they are doing? I don’t care where you are or where you go, there is hardly anyone who will not smile at the small child, no matter who they are. Grandparents know this without a doubt.

But…you don’t have to be a grandparent to enjoy or smile at a youngster, they are everywhere. There are no barriers between the adult humans who are enjoying this unique being. I am kind of giggling at myself right now as the picture of a fat, toothless and totally dependent child brings such delight but a fat, toothless and totally dependent adult does not bring out the same response in most of humanity. The only explanation I have ever been able to give to myself is that the young child is a model of youth, a new beginning. Whereas the adult is a reminder to us of our fragility and the possibility that we might be that old person someday so we choose not to notice them. Maybe we could start a new fad. A fad of smiling at all humans but especially the older ones who hold all the wisdom garnered from their lives and who helped society become what it is so that we would be enriched by what they experienced in their life. The old saying:”BE in the moment” came from our forebears and that is definitely the wisdom I wish to remember. Let us concentrate on BEING rather than DOING.

My little hooded merganser is still here. The lake is more thawed out, at least for now, and it is busy diving under the water and getting its food. As I open the drapes every day, I have been looking to see where he is in the lake. It started me thinking about how this little duck is all alone, there is not another one like it around anywhere. They have all gone south for the winter. I wondered if it felt alone or was concerned about its future especially with the single digits here for a while and its food source would be under ice. In fact, as I write this, the lake closest to me has developed a film of ice on it. We do humanize animals especially in videos but perhaps this hooded merganser is a model for me to just live in the moment as the future is not here yet so there is nothing I can DO. It is also a test for me to trust that this little life is in God’s hands not mine.

As I was getting my coffee, I looked out the kitchen window and noticed a female cardinal at my feeder. This is the first time in 20 years that a cardinal has come because my feeder is designed just for the smaller birds. If the bird is as heavy as a cardinal perches on it, it closes the gate to the seeds. The female cardinal kept chasing away the smaller birds and kept going around the feeder and looking up as if to say: “why can’t I get any food when these other birds can?” As I watched, the male cardinal showed up and he also sat on the feeder. In a few minutes they both flew off but when something unusual happens with animals or birds, I go to my book Animal-Speak by Ted Andrews which is a dictionary of animal, bird and reptile symbolism. The keynote or condensed symbolism of the Cardinal is: Renewed Vitality through Recognizing Self-Importance. What a reminder to me that EVERYONE is important and has an important role to play even if they do not recognize it. I want to remind you that YOU have an important role to play and YOU are here for a purpose even if YOU don’t know it.

2017 is a Banner Year, The Year of the Phoenix and you are an important part of it.

http://spiritlibrary.com/videos/magenta-pixie/golden-year-2017-year-of-the-phoenix-rising?utm_source=Spirit+Library+Updates&utm_campaign=0db7e116e5-Daily_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef6a5211f4-0db7e116e5-120804410

Here is a Heavenletter from Gloria Woodroff who gets a message from God on a daily basis and shares it with humanity. There are no mistakes, only synchronicity.

http://heavenletters.org/you-have-great-purpose-in-life.html

Living requires a lot of trust. Let’s trust each other and a Higher Power who put us together.

http://www.spiritofchange.org/politics-community/I-Trust-You/

Would you like a message from the angels that lets you know just how important you are?

http://spiritlibrary.com/ann-albers/true-freedom?utm_source=Spirit+Library+Updates&utm_campaign=fb1e725f3a-Daily_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef6a5211f4-fb1e725f3a-120804410

Are you thinking of changing banks” Want no ATM Fees no matter where you go? Here is a good alternative.

http://www.spiritofchange.org/politics-community/Massive-Banks-Are-Ripping-Off-Americans-Aspiration-Is-The-New-Alternative/

—
Love and Light

Mary Grace

http://www.IAmMaryGrace.com
http://www.TheWoundedChalice.com

HAPPY NEW YOU

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Beloved,

Mother Nature is having fun playing with the ice fishermen. We have had extremely cold weather but the lake is freezing partly and then thawing partly. On Monday, the holiday of Christmas, I noticed that my neighbor was out on the ice. My heart went in my throat as I watched him walking on that ice and I knew from watching the lake that the ice was not that thick in the middle of the lake. I was going to call him and warn him or be prepared to call 911 if he went in when I noticed that he had a couple of friends with him. I also realized that I was thinking that he would need my help calling for help when I suddenly realized that everyone (but me) has a cell phone on them and would not need me to watch out in case he went in the water.

All of sudden, up at the other end of the lake, more men were coming onto the lake to ice fish. They even had kids out there playing ice hockey.They were successful and stayed for quite a while but my neighbor realized that the lake in front of his home was not thick enough to be ice fishing so he left. He is not a year-rounder as we call them; he is a summer person and weekender as he has another home to go to. Since he has not been here to watch the lake freeze and then thaw, he is not as familiar with where the lake freezes first. Since it is a fresh spring lake, the water is always moving and fresh.

Wednesday I noticed something in the melted part of the lake. I got out my binoculars and watched as a small Merganser seems to struggle with something around his head or so it appeared. The duck did not go in the water at all which is unusual as that is where they get their food. And…he was all alone, no flock or others around him. I was concerned but there was no way to help him as I could not go out on the lake and no one else would either. I said a prayer for him and checked him a few more times. Yesterday, I noticed Oscar, the sea gull sitting on the ice and watching the merganser but the little duck was still not going under the water for food. I prayed a little stronger this time that this beautiful duck would be spared. This morning I got up and although Oscar was not in sight, the merganser was. With his beautiful white hood in view, he was going in and out of the water. He was acting normal and must have been very hungry. I was relieved and now know he will be OK even if he has a tougher time catching up with his flock.

As I was in meditation afterwards, I thought of him again and was given the message that he, the hooded merganser, was giving me a message. Here he was all alone like me. His surroundings were far from the norm, as the lake was three quarters ice so he only had a small part that was liquid (which happens to be right in front of my home). Going by future conditions of the lake, it would soon be frozen over thus his food supply would be nonexistent and he was still alone. He did not go into fear; he just went along knowing that he was protected even when it did not appear so. What an example he is for me. He is one of my role models. Let nature be inspiring for you, Mother Nature is everywhere.

Our weather is reflecting all the turmoil and confusion that our world is in. Where I live, we missed the deep snowfall but our storm was erratic. First we had snow about 2 inches, then we had rain which was heavy at times but it did not melt the snow on my driveway: just on the street where the cars were helping a great deal to melt the snow. I went out and shoveled while it was still raining as I feared ice more than snow and I could just imagine if that thickness of snow and water froze, it would take a lot of sun to melt it. There, I clapped my hands, the storm was done. Unaware of it because it was dark by now, the snow came back with thick heavy flakes and was sitting on top of the water so out again I went with the shovel. I need to admit that I could push whatever was accumulating on my driveway because it would have been too heavy to lift. Even my sup pump was working at taking the water away, there was that much.

I had not planned to do the driveway either time I went out. I was more concerned with my sidewalk and a path to my garage. At least if I could walk to the garage so I could drive away, that would be a plus. Since it was still snowing after I shoveled, I assumed my snow people would finish it up. I got up this morning and there were just a coating of snow on the ice. It must have stopped snowing right after I came in the house. The boys that do my driveway must have been very confused as I saw where the truck had come down my street, saw that it was done and turned around. I called them and left a message because I know they would be confused as to who had done my driveway.

This is a perfect reflection of who YOU are, who YOU are becoming and who YOU will be.

Click on http://spiritlibrary.com/expect-wonderful/celebrating-you?utm_source=Spirit+Library+Updates&utm_campaign=3bad9166e7-Daily_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef6a5211f4-3bad9166e7-120804410

YOU deserve it.

Another example of the NEW YOU!
https://jamyeprice.com/january-ascension-energies-2017/?mc_cid=817f1b978d&mc_eid=09df6fae4a

I know we are celebrating New Year’s now but this is a story that has to be told for next Christmas. This was a problem for me when I had to admit there was no “Santa”. Read how this family solved this and how much fun their kids had. Let’s start a new tradition.

http://www.bradaronson.com/true-meaning-of-christmas/

As we begin thinking of the New Year, let’s add these thoughts to our future. If you cannot attend, please join in Spirit and Mind. Your energy for peace will be felt globally

http://www.spiritofchange.org/events/index.php/name/Inauguration-Day-Peace-Gathering/event/9084/

Happy New Year’s. Blessings to you and yours.

Love and Light

Mary Grace

http://www.IAmMaryGrace.com
http://www.TheWoundedChalice.com

ARE YOU SAFE?

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Beloved,

12-12 rolled around and I can’t say I felt anything special. The day was OK and the energy was no different than normal. On 12-14, two days later, it was a different story. When I opened my blinds to the lake and beach, I noticed the orange safety cones that were on the raft had been thrown onto the thin ice that now covered the lake. I shifted my gaze to where the raft was supposed to be but only a green square appeared to me. The raft has been pushed or dragged or??? onto that thin ice and was sitting on it. I knew that if it did not get moved back onto the grass (the beach is 2/3 sand and 1/3 grass) that the ice would melt from the sun that day and then refreeze making it impossible to get it back to safety.

So I called Janelle, the President of the Lake Land Beach club and explained what I was seeing so she could get some male help to get the raft back up where it belongs. Since the beach is right in front of me, I can see things others cannot so I keep an eye on it. She said: “Mary, don’t you know what happened down there on the beach last night?” “No”, I said, “what happened?”
I sat stunned while she told me that there had been black helicopters with no lights, police in gear with flashlights and also police dogs combing the beach, my yard and the surrounding neighborhood. I had heard nothing and with my blinds down, I had seen nothing. It seems there had been a home invasion a couple of streets away and the police were searching for the armed masked men. Now I was feeling vulnerable especially since I had been ignorant of the entire goings on. Since this was the beginning of my day, I had not done my meditations or prayers before breakfast so I went to my meditation chair and altar to do this. As I was in meditation, I suddenly began to laugh out loud. It was the sudden realization that I had been safe and sound in my home while my neighbors were going through a lot of trauma. We are told over and over again that we are protected but do we really believe that? I guess I had not totally trusted that truth but I could deny it no longer. I had been and am in my own little world, safe and protected no matter what happens around me. Wow, is that a heart and eye opener or what.

I then went to the Post Office to find out what they knew and then proceeded to the Town Hall to get what I hoped was the truth of what had happened. You know how a story gets entangled when it is spread from one person to the other. The Police Chief is supposed to call me but he hasn’t yet. What I have been told is that it was a home invasion by masked men with guns. It appears that it was a house that had a reputation for dealing drugs and that is what they were looking for. The police finally had caught one of them in a neighboring town. There is no news on TV or even in the papers so what really happened, no one knows.

My neighbors had all different experiences. Janelle had opened her door to ask police what was going on and was sternly told to go back inside and lock her door. Her two little girls were frightened so she did her best to calm them but they had just learned a lesson in fear. The closer neighbors were even more traumatized since it was so close to their home and they will experience fear for a much longer time. A friend halfway across town received a call from another friend to lock all her doors and stay inside. Fear really explodes and shoots its energy far and wide.

All these things happening right around me and I was at peace in my home and slept peacefully through the night. I was protected and so are you. My home is a safe haven for me and that was reflected back to me by this episode. If your home is filled with fear whether it is fear from neighbors, family or even subscribed to by watching TV, it shows up until you find peace inside of you and spread that instead of fear. I implore you to make your home, your surroundings and most of all yourself free of fear.

Sooo, even though I had not felt anything on 12/12, the energies of that day were still working. Here is a message from Shanta Gabriel on the energies of that day that are still around you, are still working and what they mean.

http://spiritlibrary.com/shanta-gabriel/the-12-12-portal-of-evolution-and-solstice-2016?utm_source=Spirit+Library+Updates&utm_campaign=39d341a5ab-Daily_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef6a5211f4-39d341a5ab-120804410

And…a newer message about the energies of 12-12

http://spiritlibrary.com/shanta-gabriel/a-new-message-about-the-12-12?utm_source=Spirit+Library+Updates&utm_campaign=64359ea3e6-Daily_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef6a5211f4-64359ea3e6-120804410

We all know what Christmas is all about don’t we? Here is Abraham Hicks with a heart opening explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DobX4qhaa3U

Is it too late to view a Thanksgiving miracle? Love is Love no matter when it is shared.

http://www.spiritofchange.org/politics-community/Saving-Gwendolyn-A-Thanksgiving-Miracle/

I have been talking a lot about 12-12, how about we transpose the numbers a bit and talk about 12-21, the solstice since it will happen before we next get together.

http://spiritlibrary.com/ailia-mira/december-solstice-the-emerging-potentials?utm_source=Spirit+Library+Updates&utm_campaign=3a6c6ee0d2-Daily_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef6a5211f4-3a6c6ee0d2-120804410

Love and Light

Mary Grace

http://www.IAmMaryGrace.com
http://www.TheWoundedChalice.com