Beloved,

It amazes me how often I am surprised by things that happen on the lake, especially since I have been here 20 years. Do you remember last week when I said I would just take my kayak out a little ways to be rocked by the boat waves on Sunday because it would be too hot to kayak? Well, I kept watching the lake and to my surprise although there were many boats on the water, they were not speeding around or even going anywhere. They were all congregated in the middle of the lake just sitting there. But…..the people on the boats were diving into the water and swimming around. They were having a grand time visiting with each other in the water. I have never seen that before. The air was so hot and humid that even the wind from being on the boat was too hot. It was much cooler in the water than they could get by being on the boat. I, myself, went into the water twice that day just to get my body cooler.

It feels to me that that day was the peak of summer and now the temperature and the humidity are easing their way out. I know it is the middle of August but it just feels so much like fall weather is right around the corner. Boy, summer is so much shorter than the other seasons. I am very grateful that I am not in the California fires or in the floods that are raging.

I am sure the planets and the sun are causing these different weather patterns. There is a full moon and a lunar eclipse which is the first of three that will be affecting earth in this next month. I am not an astrologer and neither do I follow my horoscope yet my spirit knows that the planet, climate change and also myself are affected by the movement that occurs in the entire universe.

http://spiritlibrary.com/dana-mrkich/lunar-eclipse-aquarius-expect-the-unexpected?utm_source=Spirit+Library+Updates&utm_campaign=dbd8512adb-Daily_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef6a5211f4-dbd8512adb-120804410

Another explanation which is fascinating.

http://spiritlibrary.com/expect-wonderful/opening-of-the-eclipse-cycle?utm_source=Spirit+Library+Updates&utm_campaign=3564e94887-Daily_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef6a5211f4-3564e94887-120804410

This is new information for me so I thought I would share it with you. I ordered these glasses for me and my two bi-polar sons. I will let you know how they work.

http://www.spiritofchange.org/alternative-health/Are-There-Benefits-To-Blue-Blocking-Glasses/

My wish is that Congress would behave in this manner. An eye opening into the reality of being human by Gary Zukav.

DEPTH, BEAUTY, AND POWER

Dear Spiritual Partner,

I am always amazed by the depth, beauty, and power of people. I see these things often at our events, and they thrill me. Last month at our first urban Journey to the Soul retreat, a large, beautiful, black woman stood to speak. She was big in size, voice, and presence, but she was trembling and struggling to find her voice. A previous sharing about loss had activated a frightened part of her personality, a part deep in terror, pain, rage, and humiliation. She spoke haltingly. “I am fed up with it. I am sick of being afraid. I am so tired of fearing the police. How many more of my black friends will be arrested, beaten, or killed?” She was sobbing with despair and rage and powerlessness. “Everyone I know who is black fears being stopped by the police. The police always have a reason. Its driving while black. Or breathing while black.” Now her whole body was shaking, and her face was wet with tears. She held to the back of a chair to remain standing. “I am fed up!” she struggled to say again. “FED UP!” Then she seemed to physically grasp herself and said in a different voice. “A frightened part of my personality is fed up. It has had enough. Enough!”

The transformation was palpable. Before she was speaking from a frightened part of her personality. Now she was talking about it. She was present again. Her shaking stopped, but her face was still wet. This strong woman was an executive in a multinational corporation. And she was black, terrified of the police, and had had enough. I could see her centering herself, scanninginterior places for painful physical sensations, and deciding not to act on them more. This was a moment of creating authentic power. It was intimate and heroic. As she moved beyond the fear of beatings and bullets, beyond the control of this part of her personality, she entered a courageous, compassionate, and caring part of her personality, and we all moved with her.

Another woman on the other side of the room stood up. She was small and blonde. “I am the wife of a cop,” she said. “My husband is not like that. I feel what you are saying, but he is not like that.” There we were, all of us, courageously experiencing the ragged tear in our country and in our world without the anesthetics of righteousness and rage. It took courage, because creating authentic power always does. It requires challenging painful frightened parts of your personality that are so strong they shake your body or so beguiling they envelop you in blaming. These two souls did neither. They cultivated loving parts of their personalities, the big black woman and the white wife of the white cop.

Our dear friend, Maya Angelou, often said, “We are more alike than we are different.” She was so right. We are all immortal souls learning how to love in the Earth school, in the domain of the five senses, in the realm of right and wrong, gain and loss, good and bad. This requires creating authentic power, and we all witnessed a moment of that creation, one of myriad moments in the life of each individual who is growing powerful – aligning personality with soul.

Can you challenge the frightened parts of your personality and cultivate the loving parts of your personality like these two women did and do? Can you create authentic power?

Yes, you can.

This video is so beautiful and so relaxing, It gives you inner peace as you get to appreciate what Mother Earth has been giving us all along.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/41225777?badge=0

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Love and Light

Mary Grace

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