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BOB HOPE’S CHRISTMAS AND 2012

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Beloved,

I hope your Christmas was all you hoped for. Sometimes
the day after can be a bummer. All the preparations that went
into the selection of gifts and the decorating and the cooking,
the things that kept you so busy and hardly finding time for
yourself. Well, this week is the time to take time for yourself.

Sometimes there is a let down because the transition into quiet
and less hecticness can feel like a sudden drop and you feel a little
melancholy. Use this sudden letdown to go inside and “feel” what
you would like the new year to bring to you. It is a perfect time for
reflection of this year and to focus on what you wish to create in
2012.

I am sending you Bob Hope’s Christmas’ so you can laugh a little
or a lot and feel lighter. He was such a gift to us and to the troops
that he inspired year after year. He sets such a positive tone that
we cannot help but feel lighter emotionally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=L-HeETwJSUc&feature=player_ embedded#!

After this lighthearted play, I wanted to let you know about
an event that will be transpiring on the First of the Year, 2012.

PREDICTION WEEK
We have a WONDERFUL new and free event for you starting on January 1st — PREDICTION WEEK!

Each year the first week of the new year we offer Prediction Week… this year it is SEVEN shows (Jan 1 – 7) where each night our resident intuitives on MasterWorks Healing Membership Site, PLUS a few guest speakers, offer insights on what their impressions are for this powerful year of transformation.

AND you might just get a reading! For most of the speakers we open the lines and offer one-on-one readings THIS MIGHT BE YOU!

So JOIN US FOR PREDICTION WEEK its F*R*E*E!

http://www.mcleanmasterworks.com/predictionweek/

Many blessing and much gratitude for you,
Jennifer

Jennifer McLean
CEO, McLean MasterWorks
Host, Healing With The Masters
[email protected]

I was thinking of you and I wanted to share
this with you even if it was not my regular
day to do so. Have a blessed week and
reminisce about all you accomplished this
year and then design your goal for 2012.

Love and Light

Mary Grace

www.TheWoundedChalice.com
www.IAmMaryGrace.com

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND TO OUR BELOVED SOLDIERS

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Merry Merry Christmas Beloved,

Christmas Eve is tomorrow night and the holiness and
sanctity of this Holyday has me feeling very quiet and
introspective. My shopping is done and so is all the
wrapping. My youngest son needs to work Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day so he came over for his holiday
visit yesterday.

I will not be doing The I Am Mary Grace Show live as
it was decided since it is so close to Christmas, that
the station could run the reruns. I will give you the link
to the second of my shows that you can look at if you
wish. http://www.waleson5.com/gallery.html

I was going to send you some Christmas cartoons but
somehow they did not seem as funny as when I first read
them. I have several things about Christmas that I could
share with you so I settled on the ones that truly reflect the
Spirit of Christmas although all emotions are equally valued
and laughter is high on my list.

One of these is the most clever way I have known to answer
a child’s question of: “Is there really a Santa Claus”. It came
from a grandmother and her wisdom knew no bounds. Here it
is.
Cute Stoory….

Love this story! Merry Christmas Everyone!

I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I was just a kid.

I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb: “There is no Santa Claus,” she jeered. “Even dummies know that!”

My Grandma was not the gushy kind, never had been. I fled to her that day because I knew she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told the truth, and I knew that the truth always went down a whole lot easier when swallowed with one of her “world-famous” cinnamon buns. I knew they were world-famous, because Grandma said so. It had to be true.

Grandma was home, and the buns were still warm. Between bites, I told her everything. She was ready for me. “No Santa Claus?” she snorted….”Ridiculous! Don’t believe it. That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad!! Now, put on your coat, and let’s go.”

“Go? Go where, Grandma?” I asked. I hadn’t even finished my second world-famous cinnamon bun. “Where” turned out to be Kerby’s General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. That was a bundle in those days. “Take this money,” she said, “and buy something for someone who needs it. I’ll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of Kerby’s.

I was only eight years old. I’d often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping.

For a few moments I just stood there, confused, clutching that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy, and who on earth to buy it for.

I thought of everybody I knew: my family, my friends, my neighbors, the kids at school, the people who went to my church.

I was just about thought out, when I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker. He was a kid with bad breath and messy hair, and he sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock’s grade-two class. Bobby Decker didn’t have a coat. I knew that because he never went out to recess during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but all we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn’t have a cough; he didn’t have a good coat. I fingered the ten-dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat!
I settled on a red corduroy one that had a hood to it. It looked real warm, and he would like that.

“Is this a Christmas present for someone?” the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down. “Yes, ma’am,” I replied shyly. “It’s for Bobby.”

The nice lady smiled at me, as I told her about how Bobby really needed a good winter coat. I didn’t get any change, but she put the coat in a bag, smiled again, and wished me a Merry Christmas.

That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat (a little tag fell out of the coat, and Grandma tucked it in her Bible) in Christmas paper and ribbons and wrote, “To Bobby, From Santa Claus” on it.
Grandma said that Santa always insisted on secrecy. Then she drove me over to Bobby Decker’s house, explaining as we went that I was now and forever officially, one of Santa’s helpers.

Grandma parked down the street from Bobby’s house, and she and I crept noiselessly and hid in the bushes by his front walk. Then Grandma gave me a nudge. “All right, Santa Claus,” she whispered, “get going.”

I took a deep breath, dashed for his front door, threw the present down on his step, pounded his door and flew back to the safety of the bushes and Grandma.

Together we waited breathlessly in the darkness for the front door to open. Finally it did, and there stood Bobby.

Fifty years haven’t dimmed the thrill of those moments spent shivering, beside my Grandma, in Bobby Decker’s bushes. That night, I realized that those awful rumors about Santa Claus were just what Grandma said they were — ridiculous. Santa was alive and well, and we were on his team.

I still have the Bible, with the coat tag tucked inside: $19.95.

May you always have LOVE to share,
HEALTH to spare and FRIENDS that care…

And may you always believe in the magic of Santa Claus!

I am jumping with glee and glowing inside with happiness that most of our
soldiers are home from Iraq. I would like us to remember though that there
are many members of our families who are in countries around the world and
cannot come home for Christmas. This is in Thanksgiving and remembrance for their service
to us.

A Christmas Poem

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=kfp07-9YsKY&feature=share

Love and Light

Mary Grace
www.TheWoundedChalice.com
IAmMaryGrace.com

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

SHARE YOUR LOVE WITH THE WORLD

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Are you “over” the holidays yet? It is a wonderful time of the
year yet it is also harried. Sometimes we are disappointed, either
by schedules or unforeseen circumstances. Or….worst of all,
disappointment in the interactions of our friends or family.

It is almost a catch 22 as this time of the year brings out the
love in families but also the jealousies and resentments. As
humans, we tend to think that others have MORE of what we
wish we had. Either more loving interaction with friends and
family, more glamorous parties to attend, more time to do all
we need to do, more money to buy more presents, more
decorations, more….more….more….

Why do you think that you are not enough…for yourself and
for everyone else. The simplest of celebrations sometimes
can be the most enjoyable. Everyone is relaxed and simply
reveling in what they are experiencing. The Holidays are not
simply one day. one “EVE”, one gift or even one person.

Actually, when do you begin preparing for your Holidays?
I shop all year. My children and most of my grandchildren
are all grown up so I do not purchase one gift for each.
I fill stockings for each. Throughout the year, as I am
going along doing other shopping, I keep an eye out for
small things that I think they would enjoy. Sometimes
it is a funny gift or something I heard them say they would
like or something I am guided to give them.

My children and grandchildren have no idea what is in
their stockings because I “disguise” the gifts. I wrap
each one individually and sometimes I am able to
change the shape or put it in a bigger box than it actually
calls for. Even after the wrapping is off, they are never sure
if the box is empty or if it actually contains what the writing
on the box says is in it. It was so heartwarming to hear
my granddaughter tell her son, my great grandson, that
Memere wraps things in ways or boxes that you can’t
recognize so expect to be surprised.

I have a grandson who has his own car now, so he has
graduated to getting a signature item….a coupon for a
free car wash. My adult children look forward to getting
that each Christmas as they know that their car will at
least get one car wash during the winter with all its mud
and salt. His sister is old enough to have a car but she
hasn’t saved enough for one yet, so I wrapped a $10 bill
in a very small box. Another signature item is a calendar
from my church that is actually like a lottery ticket. Each
calendar has a unique number and there are drawings all
year that give prized from $25 and up. Usually one of my
children will win at least once and then the stub is put
back in for other drawings. Sometimes they get candy, or
even small tools that are so useful in the “junk drawer”. Things
that you only need once in a great while but are so grateful
that you have it when you need it.

When I discussed Christmas with my children as the family
had expanded and I was buying toys for the young
grandchildren, they agreed for me to stop buying gifts for
them but the thing that they wanted to keep most of all was
their stockings. It is exciting to have a lot of gifts to open,
never knowing what it is,even if it is nonsensical.

I have also graduated to using paper shopping gift bags for the
stockings so they each can carry their gifts back home with them.

Would you believe that my little tree is still up and there are bags
(stockings) under it? My oldest son and his family were supposed
to come the day after Christmas. He fell ill while they were in
New York on Christmas Day and was hospitalized . He is still
recovering but at home. We are hoping to celebrate Christmas
tomorrow if he is up to it.

So you see, you can have Christmas even after New Years.
Christmas never actually ends. It is truly a state of mind. I must
say though, that it will be nice to put my tree away and for
things to get back to normal. I am looking forward to
sharing the Christmas spirit with the rest of my family tomorrow.

I sincerely hope that you had the opportunity to listen to
Jennifer McLean’s Predictions Week. It was great and
we did a lot of laughing as well as hearing all the great
things that will happen in 2011.

Jennifer did it again and she came up with the most
fabulous idea of creating a Healing Circle that all
of us can participate in. Just imagine the prayer
energy that we can send to the world as well as
to each other. You can make a difference. I
know I will be registering as I love the opportunity
of joining with all like minded people once a month
and making a difference in my life and the lives of
others.

Check it out here!!! I hope you will join us…

==> http://www.mcleanmasterworks. com/1111PrayerCircle

Love and Light

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

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