WORRYING

Posted on March 26, 2011 by marygrace

I am a little late with this newsletter but I am here.
Yesterday I went to a Home Show where all the
contractors you would like to speak to you about
your home improvement project are there. Do you
have a project in mind for this time as Spring is finally
here?

There is so much I do not know and I know my oldest
son tries to answer all my questions but it is frustrating
for him as he is a doer not a teacher even though he tries
valiantly. I go to this yearly show just to get the
many questions I have answered and by experts.

I was planning on getting a new deck this year as mine
needs painting every two years and I wish to be without
that job. I want a deck that never needs painting even if
that means I need to give up my purple deck. Yet, there
has been so many projects that arose this past winter, that
I just may have to paint it again this year until I can financially
afford a new deck.

The contractors are great and some of them offered to
come give me an estimate anyway. At least, I will
have a ball park figure for the future and I am hoping
one of them who is a painter also may paint it for me.

I almost did not go as I know my finances are low
but I remembered a quote from Abraham Hicks:
“Worrying is using your imagination to create something
you DON”T want”. That quote struck such a chord in
me as it brought home to me the truth.

Look back at the worry you have and see just what you
are creating. We could better use our imagination if we
focused on what we DO want. The Secret says that in
other words but it means the same. Focus on the good
or positive and that is what you will create. Sooooo, I
went so I could focus on what I want and let the Universe
do what it wills.

Maybe I will win the lottery, of course, I have to buy a
ticket first. The Universe or God works that way too.
In order to get what we want, we need to take an action
that will create it. We never know what tomorrow may
bring but we can put our two cents worth in just by
imaging what it is we want.

Let’s make a pact not to give our imagination our worry,
it gives us what we do not want. In fact, let us cease
worrying. For me, I will ask my angels to gently remind
me when I am worrying so I can break the habit. Who
will you ask to help you?

I will be speaking and having a booth at the Whole
Health Expo in Northampton on April 16th and 17th.
I am giving you some links so you can check it out
in case you are interested.

Expo hours and location

Exhibit hall:
Saturday April 16: 9:30am-6pm
Sunday April 17: 9:30am-4pm
Location:
Clarion Hotel
One Atwood Dr. Northampton, MA
Take I-91 Mass. to exit 18. Click here for custom driving directions

Whole Health Expo April 16-17, 2011

Whole Health Expo Many Hands

Online ticket sales have started! Click here
to see the program guide or here to buy tickets.
Save gas — share a ride! We have a new page
on Ridebuzz.

I wanted to leave you with a smile. Are you hitting yourself
on the head hoping to create something different for yourself?

It is so unusual to get a funny, non political, non sexist, non racist, and non doomsday message that I wanted to make your day by sending it along!
I know you’ll enjoy it.

THE POTTY……

A FOUR YEAR OLD BOY IS SITTING ON THE TOILET.
HIS MOTHER THINKS HE HAS BEEN IN THERE TOO LONG, SO SHE GOES IN TO SEE WHAT’S UP.

THE LITTLE BOY IS SITTING ON THE TOILET READING A BOOK. BUT ABOUT EVERY 15 SECONDS OR SO, HE PUTS THE BOOK DOWN, GRIPS ONTO THE TOILET SEAT WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND HITS HIMSELF ON TOP OF HIS HEAD WITH HIS RIGHT HAND.

HIS MOTHER SAYS: “BILLY, ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? YOU’VE BEEN IN HERE FOR A WHILE.” >

BILLY SAYS: “I’M FINE, MOMMY. I JUST HAVEN’T GONE POTTY YET.”
MOTHER SAYS: “OK, YOU CAN STAY HERE A FEW MORE MINUTES. BUT, BILLY, WHY ARE YOU HITTING YOURSELF ON THE HEAD?”

BILLY SAYS: “WORKS FOR KETCHUP.”

Love and Light

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

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

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY & PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF JAPAN

Posted on March 17, 2011 by marygrace

I realize I am a day early but I so wanted to wish you a
Happy St. Patrick’s Day even if you are not Irish. I am
not Irish but I love the joy and celebration that the Irish
people put on for the whole world.

Even if you’re not Irish, you get an Irish Blessing. So here it is.
It is yours for the rest of the year.

May your blessings outnumber
The Shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go!

What would St. Patty’s Day be without a little humor.
Listen, enjoy and come back because there is more
information further down the page.

Irish Sick Note (sound on)

When you just have to call in sick!

Click here: YouTube – Sick Note

I know you are aware of the disaster in Japan and the
news covering it but this is from a different angle. I wanted
to share a personal and up to date account from someone
who is living it. Let us see the best in and for our
brothers and sisters

www.SacredLiving.com : First Hand Account From Japan –
Very moving! Please pass along….

So beautiful. May we BE the change we wish to see.

~~~~~~~

A letter from Sendai
ANNE THOMAS 3/14/2011
published online @ Ode magazine

Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal.
But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends
who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is
even more worthy of that name, I am now
staying at a friend’s home. We share supplies
like water, food and a kerosene heater. We
sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight,
share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.

During the day we help each other clean up
the mess in our homes. People sit in their
cars, looking at news on their navigation
screens, or line up to get drinking water
when a source is open. If someone has
water running in their home, they put out
a sign so people can come to fill up their
ugs and buckets.

It’s utterly amazingly that where I am there
has been no looting, no pushing in lines.
People leave their front door open, as it
is safer when an earthquake strikes.
People keep saying, “Oh, this is how
it used to be in the old days when
everyone helped one another.”

Quakes keep coming. Last night they
struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens
are constant and helicopters pass
overhead often.

We got water for a few hours in our
homes last night, and now it is for
half a day. Electricity came on this
afternoon. Gas has not yet come on.
But all of this is by area. Some people
have these things, others do not.
No one has washed for several days.
We feel grubby, but there are so much
more important concerns than that
for us now. I love this peeling away
of non-essentials. Living fully on the
level of instinct, of intuition, of caring,
of what is needed for survival, not just
of me, but of the entire group.

There are strange parallel universes
happening. Houses a mess in some
places, yet then a house with futons
or laundry out drying in the sun. People
lining up for water and food, and yet a
few people out walking their dogs. All
happening at the same time.

Other unexpected touches of beauty
are first, the silence at night. No cars.
No one out on the streets. And the
heavens at night are scattered with
stars. I usually can see about two,
but now the whole sky is filled. The
mountains are Sendai are solid and
with the crisp air we can see them
ilhouetted against the sky magnificently.

And the Japanese themselves are so
wonderful. I come back to my shack to
check on it each day, now to send this
e-mail since the electricity is on, and I
find food and water left in my entranceway.
I have no idea from whom, but it is there.
Old men in green hats go from door to
door checking to see if everyone is OK.
People talk to complete strangers asking
if they need help. I see no signs of fear.
Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no.

They tell us we can expect aftershocks,
and even other major quakes, for another
month or more. And we are getting
constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling.
I am blessed in that I live in a part of
Sendai that is a bit elevated, a bit more
solid than other parts. So, so far this
area is better off than others. Last night
my friend’s husband came in from the
country, bringing food and water.

Blessed again.

Somehow at this time I realize from
direct experience that there is indeed
an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step
that is occurring all over the world right
at this moment. And somehow as I
experience the events happening now
in Japan, I can feel my heart opening
very wide. My brother asked me if I felt
so small because of all that is happening.
I don’t. Rather, I feel as part of something
happening that much larger than myself.
This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.

Thank you again for your care and Love of me,

With Love in return, to you all,
Anne

—
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Here is an opportunity for you to join in
the healing of a part of our humanity
who is suffering. This is something
you can do right from your home and
it is free and yet what you are offering
to them is priceless.

Christ Vibrational Earth Healing

Monday, March 21st at 6:00pm Pacific Time
Please join me Monday evening March 21st
for a FREE CHRIST VIBRATION Healing
for Japan, the Earth and for all people. This
event is a Conference Call at 6:00pm Pacific Time.

We will join together as one light, one love and
one healing force.

We will send this healing force out together as
one knowing that the God within us can and
will heal all that is needed.

You will find this event on my home page
http://www.VirginiaEllen.net.

Thank you for joining me in sending the healing
power of Divine Love to the World.

I wish to thank all of those who wrote me with
suggestions, names and places where I can ask
for help with the promotion of my book. I so
appreciate it. You are wonderful and such a
reminder of where would I be without my
fellow brothers and sisters.

Love and Light,

Mary Grace

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

WAKING UP IS HARD TO DO

Posted on December 10, 2010 by marygrace

When I saw this video, I laughed all the way through,
but a strange thing happened. As I was watching, I
kept seeing the video in a different light. I kept thinking
about “waking up” in a whole different way. Having
an AHA moment is like waking up, you suddenly have
a different perspective about what was happening to you
a moment ago.

You are having a dream and all of a sudden, you are waking
up and realizing that it was just a dream. Whether it was a
“good” or “bad” dream, you are now seeing it from a whole
different perspective. Life is like that. Sometimes you are
disappointed in life and what is happening to you and other
times you are so happy and joyful. Which is better?

I have been on a mood decline ever since the temperature
has dropped and my body is yelling at me. It says: “I was born
to be on a tropic island where the breezes are warm and balmy
with a warm ocean to soak the stresses away. You have me in
a cold climate where I am always cold, my fingers are numb,
and I need to have three and four layers on to feel the least
bit comfortable. I have lost the freedom to go barefoot and
have light clothing on to go about my daily tasks. What are
you doing to me?”

This video was quite an eye opener, I have been seeing my
life through eyes that were choosing to see only the grey side
of living in the Northeast winter. I decided to make a list of all the
things I enjoy that I get to do when the weather has dropped
below freezing. A list of things that I would not get to do if
I lived in the South.

I now can see the birds a lot better with no leaves on the trees.
This morning I saw a beautiful red cardinal just sitting in the tree
that I do not usually see when the leaves are out. There are more
and different birds at my feeders as they fill up for the night or
after the fast from the night before.

I get to sleep later in the morning as the sun rises later and I get
to rest more in the evening as it gets dark earlier.

Getting in the chilly bed which makes it feel cozier as I snuggle
into it with the down comforter and settle down quickly with
appreciation for its warmth.

Making hot steamy soup or stew, then enjoying it as it takes the
chill out of my body while sitting in front of my electric fireplace.

Feeling so pampered as I now can start my car from the house so
it is warm when I get in. I did not have that option before.

I have more solitude as the neighbors rush into their houses because
of the cold temperatures. More time to delve into my own beingness.

The lake is completely frozen this morning and I will soon be watching
and enjoying the ice fishermen, the ice skaters, ski mobilers, and
the sledders.

The time I plan to finish afghans for my children, granchildren and
great grandchildren because it needs to be colder to have the
length of them across my legs.

The beauty of snow covered trees and lawns. I must confess that
I would be happier if it only snowed on trees and grass and not on
driveways and streets.

The studio where I take yoga classes has heat in the floor and it is
heaven to be laying there in Shavasna while being warmed. My
body soooo loves that.

People from the warmer climates come to the cold in order to ski
whereas I have it all winter. I am reaching aren’t I?

Can you see where I am going with this? My mind is the only thing
that can make me unhappy so I am choosing to “wake up” and see
the silver lining to all that happens in this cold weather. One more thing
is that I relish the spring so much more than if I was in the warmer
climate all year ( I would like the chance to see if that is true, though).

I am planning to see the “other” side of winter and I am going to keep
this list nearby as a reminder to have a different perspective. Want to
come along with me by having your own list of “waking up” to whatever
you are resisting. Remember: “What you resist, persists”. Glad to have
you on board, Let me know how you’re doing. I see you laughing!!!

VERY FUNNY VIDEO: WAKING UP IS HARD TO DO!!