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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

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Beloved,

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

This is a day of LOVE and we can show it to the world without anyone thinking we are nuts.  Feel it in your heart and in your body, love yourself first and then everyone else afterwards. Love is as contagious as a smile.  Try it, you will love it. Let’s share Love with everyone we meet as well as with your beloved, your beloved family, your beloved friends, etc.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have everyone smiling on a day such as this one?  You could start a revolution of happy hearts especially to those who do not usually have a reason to smile. This morning I came across a prayer that can be used for the whole world. What a great Valentine’s Day card.

https://spiritlibrary.com/videos/patricia-diane-cota-robles/invoking-love-to-govern-this-planet-vlog-153

Here is an article from someone, Alan Cohen, who is probably not familiar to you.  He does not reach out too often and today’s words are important to you and Valentine’s Day.

https://spiritlibrary.com/alan-cohen/where-to-find-the-love-of-your-life

This is such good news and since this is the perfect day for good news, I want to share it with you. It has been a long, long haul for this country and they are sharing Valentine’s Day with you by using a red umbrella, the symbol of being saved and also loved.

The sun is shining and it is quite cold outside but in no time, these yellow flowers will be out and they are the saving grace of the bumble bees who save us by pollinating many species so we may survive.  They are quite an example of being just who you are and you help this grand planet, Earth.  Happy Valentine’s Day Mother Earth.

What a way to end this love letter, Lee Harris tells you that you are enough. Believe it!

https://spiritlibrary.com/videos/lee-harris/you-are-needed-you-are-enough

Love and Light

Mary Grace
https://thewoundedchalice.com

WHAT IS NEXT FOR US?

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Beloved,

I had one theme I had wanted to present to you today but after reading several other articles, it changed.  It is a New Year after all so we are all entitled to new thoughts and ideas and also new practices. The first one is a daily meditation I receive (you can too) from a famous Franciscan priest. Fr. Richard Rohr https://cac.org.   To me, it is such an example of what we all wish our world to be that it felt very important to share with you.

A School for Love
Friday, January 3, 2020

Today, friend and CAC faculty member Brian McLaren continues describing the three shifts Christianity needs to make in order to be true to the vision and mission of Jesus the Christ. Yesterday Brian explained the importance of becoming (1) “decentralized and diverse.” Today, he describes the need to be (2) “radically collaborative” and to (3) “love as Jesus taught and embodied.” Rather than a top-heavy institution concerned about in-house salvation, the Christianity of the future will place love of God, neighbor, self, and all creation at the center. Brian writes:

The diverse and decentralized movement we need will be radically collaborative, working with, across, and, when necessary, outside of and in spite of existing institutions to seek the common good. It will not be anti-institutional because institutions are necessary for human survival, but neither will it be institutional, in the sense that it is preoccupied with its own survival or bringing benefits only to its members. Rather, it will be trans-institutional, working across institutions, both religious and non-religious, seeking the common good of those inside and outside the movement and the institutions it involves. . . .

The . . . most important aspect of this [new] form of Christianity in the future is simple, obvious, and yet radical: it is about love, as Jesus taught and embodied [emphasis mine—RR]. . . .

The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that Jesus was about love first and foremost, in word and deed. Jesus began with love for God, but inseparably linked that love with love for neighbor [1], with the understanding that neighbor includes the other, the outsider, the outcast, the last, the least, the lost, the disgraced, the dispossessed, and the enemy. This love for neighbor was, in turn, inextricably related to an appropriate love for self. In fact, to love neighbor as oneself leads to the realization that oneself and one’s neighbor are actually distinct yet inseparable realities. In today’s world, we must add that, for Jesus, God’s love extends to the wildflower, the meadow grass, the sparrow, and the raven. He saw all of God’s creatures as part of one heavenly realm, as did dear St. Francis, and as do more and more of us.

When I think of this [new] kind of Christianity of the future, then, I think of a movement of revolutionary love. I see it as distinctively Christian, but not in any exclusive way, because if we truly see love as Jesus’ point and passion, then the depth of our devotion to Christ will always lead us to love our Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Indigenous, nonreligious, agnostic, atheist, and other neighbors as ourselves. . . .

In this desirable future, every willing Christian congregation makes every competing interest subsidiary to love, which is the fruit of all contemplation and the goal of all action. If we embody this [emergent] form of Christianity, . . .  if we become the seeds of a movement of contemplative activism in the Spirit of Christ, I can imagine hundreds of thousands of congregations, . . . each a locally and globally engaged school of love, teaching future generations to discover, practice, and live in love: love for our neighbor, love for ourselves, love for all creatures and all creation—all comprising love for God, who is all in all in all.

Things that make you smile is such a great way to begin this New Year of Newsletters.  I hope you enjoy them and allow yourself to smile. It was almost like de ja vue when all 3 of these reflected what Fr. Rohr has just finished sharing with me.

ONE             TWO         THREE

Now on to the Top Ten Medical Breakthroughs of 2019 so you can see how far we have come and look forward to what 2020 will bring us.

AND

The Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs Unveiled in 2019.  I can’t wait to see what humanity will discover in the next months.  We are on our way, baby. It’s happening and a new earth is here.

Love and Light

Mary Grace
https://thewoundedchalice.com

IS OUR PAST OUR FUTURE?

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Beloved,

 

HAPPY HANUKKAH

This is the season to be jolly and also to be alert.  We are in between the heart filling joys of Christmas and the mind blowing ideas of the New Year, 2020. We need to bring them together, the heart and the mind. WE ARE ONE!  In so many ways; we are one species, one consciousness, one voice, one energy and one with the Creator who created us. The coming times will challenge us to remember the Oneness that we are so we can become one voice yet be individual voices who are willing to come together to be the voice of this beloved Planet. There are future predictions and I give each one their due, yet we are one species on one planet.  Don’t the other species (animals, insects, etc.) have a right to live on Earth as well?  We humans inherited such a pristine planet but we have become more concerned with owning it then in sharing it with ALL.

Here is a prediction or view of what is possible.  See what you think and let your heart guide your head. It is the time that LOVE is the most important thing for our survival and for all who inhabit this beloved planet.

I received such a beautiful gift from my eldest son, Steve, and his children.  It is a portrait of Mother Mary sitting with Archangel Gabriel talking to her and the Dove of the Holy Spirit above them.  Then above them are the cherubim, the little angels all singing in praise.  It is encased in such a beautiful frame that offsets all the colors.  I am not a connoisseur of paintings but this looks like a real painting in a museum.  It is so beautiful and has such meaning for me.  Steve will come later this week and hang it up on the wall in my prayer area.  Angels, big and small. are here on Earth to guide us humans if we but listen to our hearts and their small or loud voices. Here is a message from them.

https://spiritlibrary.com/ann-albers/happy-season-of-light

Are you a New Senior Infant? I wasn’t sure what that meant until I read this article by Brenda Hoffman. I know I am a senior but to be an infant again????

https://spiritlibrary.com/brenda-hoffman/you-re-a-new-senior-infant

I received the news of this creation this morning.  Imagine the hope and joy of all of our diabetics.  This son surely knows why he chose to be on Earth at this time….to give his father the reason for HIS life.  This is only a sample of what is in store for us in the very near future.  And….the dad lives in Massachusetts.

I wanted to share this creation with you now, in case you wish to check it out further.  Imagine what our brain and heart can do when they get together. Let’s do it.

 

Love and Light

Mary Grace

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