Category Archives: Humor

HOW CURIOUS ARE YOU?

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I realize I am a day early with the newsletter but it is
today or Monday. Springtime brings a busyness that
is a preparation for the relaxing time of summer, hopefully.

I am in awe of the possible changes in the basic daily
life that we take for granted. How many things do you
take for granted? I personally love habit as it frees me
from having to remember the step by step actions
necessary to accomplish what I am setting out to do.
Just think of all the steps you go through just to brush your
teeth or actually eat your food. If you had to think of every
motion separately and then do it,you would never get done.

I have needed a new refrigerator for a couple of years and
have been looking at them off and on when I get to a store
that carries them. Something I was not aware of until my
oldest son brought it to my attention, was that now you have
the option to have the handle of your refrigerator on either
side so you can open the door from either side. You have a
CHOICE. I did not know I had THAT choice. My
refrigerator had always offered me that opportunity but
I was blind to it.

How many choices do you have that you are not aware of?
You can’t know what you don’t know! I wonder how many
new things I am not aware of that are in existence but I am
simply in ignorance of?

For the last 14 years I have been opening the door to my
refrigerator with the handle on the left side of the door so it
would swing open with the entire door in my way to place
anything in the sink or on the counter. The door handle could
have been switched to the right side and the door would
have opened to the left thus creating a wide opening to the
counter and sink where it would have been so easy. Come to
think of it, I have ALWAYS had my door handle on the
left.

I had been doing it the hard way and wasn’t aware that there
was a better way. How many times do we do things the hard
way because we are not open to a NEW way? It is exciting
to realize that this world is so full of new things and ideas.
Each day we could learn something that would make life
so much easier if we only let ourselves not settle into
routine. Let’s make an intention to be more aware of what
is right around us.

I now have a new refrigerator that opens from the right and
it is an exercise in remembering. I automatically go to the
left to get the handle and suddenly it is not there. I need to
create another habit yet I hope to remember to keep my
awareness alert to other “new’ things that I am not yet
aware of. A curious mind will always find new things
that abound and if not, it will create something new.
Is that the secret to staying young? A child is always
curious as life is so new, let us be like a child.

Would you like to see what is in our future? Well, come
click on the link with me.

http://myrolltop.com/

Love and Light,

Mary Grace

www.TheWoundedChalice.com
www.TheWoundedChalice.com/blog
[email protected]

PO Box 403
Wales, MA 01081, USA
413-245-3977

SLIPPING INTO A STATE OF MIND

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This has been a very interesting week and a new
beginning into Spring. I took the snow shovel out
of my house and put it in the garage. I removed
all the snow brushes and snow shovel from my car,
that is how confident I am that Spring is truly here.
Boy, does that feel good.

I am chomping at the bit to get the yard cleaned from
all the leaves and replace broken fence rails and get
ready for my flowers to show up. But……I got a big
surprise. I was pulling dead grass from under my
forsynthia bush when I struggled to reach an area of
grass that was out of easy reach and gave a tug.

Well, the grass did not give but my muscle or tendon
under my ribs did. I know better than to do that as I have
done it before. I wish I would follow my own advice
about struggle, pushing hard to achieve and being so
focused that you don’t even let your common sense
have a voice. Now it will take me three weeks to heal
as well as the pain, so what did I gain? I will not be
able to do yard work for a while or…worst of all….
not be able to kayak for about a month. My memory
got a boot to remember this the next time.

You get so involved with what you are doing that nothing
else penetrates. You don’t have to struggle so hard any
more. Struggle and pushing hard only gets you stressed
out and does not accomplish what you are trying to do.
Does that sound enlightening? Our bodies are showing
us that such stress only leads to illness and sorrow.

Have you ever taken a deep breath, ok a few deep
breaths and suddenly what you are trying to do or
remember is right there. It seems to be effortless if
you just relax and surrender your will to the One Will.
God, Higher Power or whatever name you give to
Source is right there with you all the time. Why or
why do you think you have to do it all by yourself?

How many times have you heard about staying in the
moment? That is where the power is and concentrating
on the next moment while you are in the present one
only gives your power away to the future and robs
you of the strength of the present one. I was not
focusing on what I was doing in the moment, I was
reaching and struggling hard to get to the next
moment of being finished.

The audio version of my book is about three months
behind schedule and the end of March deadline passed
and still it is not ready. Do you know anything about
tracks on a CD? I realized that I could not back track
as I was listening to the proofs of my audio book so
I requested some guidance and was told that tracks
could be added to make it easier for the listener.

As I was listening to the second set of proofs with
the tracks imbedded, I could not make it backtrack
except for a few words. I tried the CD Player in my
car, in the computer, on my regular CD Player and
still nothing. I even asked my son after his induction
ceremony to put one in his car CD Player and see if
he could backtrack. He could not either.

I was frantic as the person doing the editing was on
vacation so he could not correct this problem and
the other two errors in the CDs. I had to wait a
week until he came back home. Jennifer McLean
always comes on the telephone 15 minutes before
the show so she can talk to us and I explained my
problem. I was having trouble explaining my problem
as I did not know what was causing it. A woman
who was on the phone also said: “Mary, just hit
the arrow button twice.” I said:’ WHAT? ”

It was that simple, just hit the button twice. I tried
it and it worked. Here I had been so upset about this
because I need the audio book version of my book to
make it’s debut at the Whole Health Expo this coming
weekend. Can you tell technology is not my strong
suit? I mentioned it to my son and he: “Yes, mom,
that’s right. I never thought about it”.

How many times are we on auto pilot when we do
something until someone asks us how to do it.? Then,
you have to really think about it before you can explain
the procedure. It’s a little like running through all the
numbers of your social security number so you can
give the person the last 4 numbers.

I think I had my holy week a week ahead of time.
The worst part of this week was the LOSS of my
peace. I am usually calm and feel serenity no matter
what is happening because I know All is in Divine
Order and Divine Timing. Yet….I had forgotten and
slipped into worrying. Have you heard the quote:
‘Worrying is your imagination creating something
you don’t want.’

Just when I think I have conquered a weakness,
it rears its head to remind me to still stay aware.
I want to share something that slips me into a
different state of mind and puts me back into peace.

Come join with me, please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=RP4abiHdQpc

Love and Light

Mary Grace
www.TheWoundedChalice.com
www.TheWoundedChalice.co/blog
[email protected]

PO Box 403
Wales, MA 01081, USA
413-245-3977

APRIL FOOL’S JOKE (ON YOU?)

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Happy April Fool’s Day ! Is the joke on you?

A Northeaster storm was predicted for today. I was
not too thrilled because I wanted to see my youngest
son inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society tonight
and it is about three quarters of an hour away.

So…I asked Mother Nature if she could veer the storm
away to the mountains which would love the snow and
the skiers would be ever so grateful. She has done this
before so I was not asking for the impossible even if I
do believe in miracles. Did not Jesus say: “Ask and you
shall receive!” How often we forget to ask for what we
want.

It started snowing last night and when I got up this morning
it was still snowing and there was about 3 inches of snow on
the ground. Since the pavement retains the heat, it melted on
my driveway after a while and only stuck to my grass and
deck and stoop which I needed to shovel. I got an answer
to my request and I feel like April Fool’s Day did a switch
and gave me what I wanted. It has stopped snowing so
all is well for tonight.

I do need to say that the snow did require me to cancel
an appointment to have my deck checked out today by a
contractor but it will be done next week. A teleseminar
that I was looking forward to attending was delayed
at the last minute until next week. So the tricks are
still being played but I realize that Mercury is in retrograde
so that accounts for a lot of miscommunication.

Let us be like a child that looks forward to April Fool’s
Day or any other occasion for some laughter and
lighhearted fun.

What kind of a trick was played on you today?

I am sometimes too serious when I set a project for
myself so this link gave me a realization of just what
life is all about. Let’s BE instead of DO.

http://www.flickspire.com/m/ IAAW/LifeIsLikeCoffee

Love and Light

Mary Grace
www.TheWoundedChalice.com
www.TheWoundedChalice.com /blog
[email protected]

PO Box 403
Wales, MA 01081, USA
413-245-3977