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POINTS OF INSPIRATION

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Beloved,

I wish to honor all the veterans and their families on Monday, 11/11 for Veterans Day.
They give us what our Congress will not give us..,.trust and safety. Let’s thank them in any way we can.

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/family-life/pets/vets-dogs-denied-on-airline-wrigley-heiress-lends-private-jet.html

Has the energy of the past weekend brought up emotions or challenges that you thought you had already dealt with? Nov 1 is the on-going Uranus/Pluto Square as well as the weekend we set the clocks back an hour so it gets dark seemingly so much earlier. November’s Scorpio new Moon, occurring on November 3, is a Solar Hybrid Eclipse. It has been a week of events that shake us to the core. An astrologer said : It has powerful karmic overtones and poses the question: what do you deny and how do you do it?
This an email I sent to my friend in California:

My surgery is scheduled for 12/3/2013, only a month away. The closer it gets, the more apprehensive I get. Just the surgery is enough to get my heart pounding because of the pain afterwards and the incessant physical therapy. Yet, I have given my body, my knee 11 years to mend itself as I still believe in miracles and also in the body healing itself. I want my freedom back, freedom to grocery shop without pain, freedom to go for a walk, freedom to go anywhere I choose, freedom to pick a vacation I would like rather than one that is more sedentary, freedom to go on bus trips which all require some walking. I guess I just want to be free again. I was diagnosed with MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity about 35 years ago and you can’t have surgery without chemicals. In fact, the glue they use in my knee replacement – one had antibiotics in it that I can’t have and the other one is on the list that I get a reaction to. Right now, after much prodding from me, they are going to do a patch test on me with both to see my reaction. I wish they would hurry to do this as I need time to recover if I react. Then….the anesthesia, I have been trying to get a talk with the actual anesthesiologist to see if he had the only anesthesia my body will accept and if he does, will he use it?My body does not like antibiotics and that is a requirement as well as having to be on pain medication which does not set well with my body. I have to wait for a week before surgery when all of us knee replacements spend the day getting tests and talking to everyone under the sun including anesthesia. I will have lists for all of them so I am busy compiling the lists. With having to be gluten free and all of my other cannothave food, it will be interesting.

Guess what? The phone just rang and the surgeon cancelled my knee replacement because of all of my chemical sensitivities. He is uncomfortable doing the procedure with so many possibilities of me getting a reaction. I am in shock right now. I know the Universe has a reason for this but all I am feeling now is disappointment in not getting the freedom I so want. Talk to you later.,

This is an example of what the energies are helping us look at. I am trying not to judge myself for the tears and the huge let down I feel after I worked so hard to “steel” myself for the surgery. Nowadays I usually only cry tears when I am happy but this has stirred something in me that I cried tears today as a beautiful conifer tree was taken down. When I opened my blinds for breakfast, I saw this HUGE black thing sticking up into the sky on my neighboring street. It looked like a TV or phone tower had been erected. Suddenly it started to move and sloped with a huge rope at the end. There was a huge magnificent fir or spruce tree that would have made New York’s Christmas tree look small in comparison. It took the man in the basket many times to hook up the rope and then cut the tree in pieces so it could be brought down by this huge crane(?) Each piece he cut looked big enough to be a whole tree on its own. I could not help myself, my hands went to my mouth as I saw the top come off and then the tears flowed.

I am going to have another “patch” test but that will not be until the middle of December. I am checking into the possibility of stem cell therapy per my friend, Jan, In California. Another friend, Katie, took me out to lunch today ( a real mood lifter) and she told me we have the best hospitals in the Nation…New England Baptist where all the athletes and actors go and also Brigham and Young where stem cell research is prominent. She is a wealth of information so there is a light
at the end of the tunnel. And….it is not a train.,

There is light at the end of the tunnel
Quiet the mind
Follow your heart
Take your first step
Make your way step by step as the first rays of sunlight pierce the darkness
Continue on to the end (or is it the entrance)
and be bathed in the light of new presence
Cathy Olsen <[email protected]>

This video is quite a reminder to me that TRUST is the secret ingredient to manifesting what it is we would love to have.

Daisy, the Little Pup Who Believed

It is not often we get the chance to see something in real life so uplifting. If you enjoy this video then be sure to share it on to all your friends.

Just click on the web site below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=IFPnwpkGioc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is an article that touched me deeply and it spoke of truth. I could not have said it any better than she has..

http://spiritlibrary.com/oakbridge-university/your-robotic-self?utm_source=Spirit+Library+Updates&utm_campaign=4261dbda70-Daily_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef6a5211f4-4261dbda70-120804410

Love and Light

Mary Grace

http://www.IAmMaryGrace.com
http://www.TheWoundedChalice.com
http://www.waleson5.com/marygrace.html

I FEEL LEFT OUT

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I feel left out – left out from the doings and celebrations
of my family and friends. I am restricted by Multiple
Chemical Sensitivity.

I don’t know if any of you suffer from this but it is
so subtle and insidious. If it caused physical pain
when I was exposed to chemicals in smoke,
perfume, exhaust, or any of the multiple ways
that it hides in many seemingly innocent things, it
would be so much easier to avoid.

When exposed, my body goes into shock and shuts
down. I run a fever, suffer depression, tears start flowing,
I suffer exhaustion and my brain goes haywire and won’t
focus or behave in a rational manner. There is no cure,
no pill I can take to offset the symptoms, there is only
avoidance. The worst effects last three days and then
dwindle away.

I have sometimes had to move at Mass four times to
get away from the fragances that are worn by people.
I have learned to sit in the front pew, that way I have more
fresh air around me.

It is not the fragrance itself but the chemicals that are
in it. Going to any crowded place like movies, dances,
gatherings, airplanes, and even other people’s homes is
kin to entering a mine field. I just never know what to
expect and who to avoid. I need to be on my most
alert self to detect any odors that might give these
chemicals away.

There was to be a baby shower for my newest
granddaughter but it turned into a Welcome Baby
gathering because she decided to make an appearance
a month early. I am not able to attend because my son
and daughter-in-law do not want to ask their guests to
be fragrant free. It is a simple thing to not spray yourself
with perfume or after shave but it is a deeply personal
thing which people seem to think defines who they are.

I understand but am still feeling left out because I cannot
attend such a celebration. I gifted the party with a diaper
cake – lavendar of course, for those who know me, and I
knit a baby afghan for Baby Victoria which is also in lavendar.
I can contribute in that way but still feel left out.

Do you remember when my daughter’s husband died and she
requested that I not attend the funeral because she did not
wish to speak to me? I was in quite a quandary about sending
her a card and you all gave me such encouraging words to do so,
which I did.

Well her daughter, my granddaughter, is graduating from college
this Sunday and has invited me to her commencement and to the
party afterwards. She had been upset that I was not allowed to
be with the rest of the family at the memorial service so she is
taking it into her own hands to make sure I am not left out
this time. For this I am so grateful.

The weather is promising not to cooperate and my granddaughter’s
apartment is way too small to allow her guests to be inside out of the
rain. Guess what is happening? My daughter is offering her condo
for the party knowing full well that I am invited and will be attending.
God works in mysterious ways. I do not know what will transpire
but am trusting in Spirit that all is in Divine Order.

There is only one hitch, the condo is small for all those people
and still have fresh air so the chemicals are not overpowering me.
It is too late to ask them to be fragrant free so I will be
winging it. I am not sure I will be able to attend the indoor
party but I am showing up. I am being given an opportunity
to at least see my daughter hopefully and I do not want to pass it up.

We always have choices, no matter what life brings to us. I
choose not to be ill and lose a week out of my life being sick
and not being able to function very well. This has been the
quandary that I have lived with for the last 35 years and
sometimes I throw all caution to the wind because I want
so badly to be part of the celebrations.

Part of me struggles because I know we create what we
focus on and I do not wish to create this sensitivity. Yet
when the effects show up, I need to apologize to my body
for subjecting it to such harsh treatment. It has been a tug
of war between my mind and my heart for ever so long.

If you have any family or friends that appear to be evasive
or never want to participate in gatherings, perhaps you will
give them the benefit of the doubt. They may get reactions,
not be diagnosed and have no idea why they hate parties
or gettogethers. It took me many years to discover what
was happening and I paid for an expensive test that the
insurance would not pay for in order to find out just what
was going on with my body.

I will keep you posted on the results of the opportunity
that God is giving me and my daughter. The following is
a prayer of encouragement to all who need to make a
choice.

Dear Lord,
I thank You for this day, I thank You for my
being able to see and to hear this morning. I’m blessed
because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God.
You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me.

Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me
to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.
Let me make the best of each and every
day to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.

Please broaden my mind that I can accept all things.

Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over.

And give the best response when I’m pushed beyond my limits.
I know that when I can’t pray, You listen to my heart.

Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others.

Keep me strong that I may help the weak…
Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others.

I pray for those that are lost and can’t find their way.
I pray for those that are misjudged and misunderstood.
I pray for those who don’t know You intimately.
I pray for those that will delete this without sharing it with others.
I pray for those that don’t believe.

But I thank you that I believe that God changes people and
God changes things.

I pray for all my sisters and brothers, for each and every
family member in their households.

I pray for peace , love and joy in their homes that they
are out of debt and all their needs are met.

I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no
problem, circumstance, or situation greater than God.

Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.

Love and Light,

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

3 Brows Beach Dr
PO Box 403
Wales, MA 01081, USA
413-245-3977

Monstrance of the Mother

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Do you know what a Monstrance is? It is a repository for
the Holy Eucharist. There are many designs but most are of
gold with a lot of glitter and starburst designs.

I went to the yearly Catholic Women’s Conference last
Saturday expecting to find humor, comraderie and
teachings which I did. I met some women whom I
already knew and made many new friends.

One of the women I met that day was my exhusband’s
exwife, that is quite the mouthful. We certainly have
much in common but we did not speak of it. That is
the past and we are both in the present and looking
forward to the future.

I met a former coworker whom I had not seen in years.
We had both worked for the Postal Service but in
separate buildings. She is retired now and when she
found out I wrote a book, The Wounded Chalice,
she insisted on purchasing it. That is the ultimate
compliment for an author.

Knowing that I could not partake of the lunch they
were offering, I have Celiac Disease so need to be
gluten-free, I had brought my own food. They all
had wonderful looking lunch boxes of sandwiches
with fruit and desert. I brought my staple, chicken
chunks with walnuts and cranberries which I love.

I finally got around to going into the chapel where
the Holy Eucharist was exposed for our benefit.
I went into this small room and went down the center
aisle. I had to forcibly prevent myself from swooning
into a Resting in the Spirit right there on the floor.

I was literally blown away by the energy emitting
from this Monstrance. As I said before, most
Monstrances were in a starburst circular pattern
and most ornate in their presentation.

It is 3 feet high, individually created of layered
wood with hand-carved features and carefully
painted shadows to reflect Mary’s humility.

Her hands gently encompass a luna where Jesus
is the focus of adoration. A small light shines
through the luna creating a soft illumination of the
Sacred Host. It is securely suspended over
Mary’s heart and is called Mother of the Holy
Eucharist.

I believe the reason I was blown away is because
of its simplicity. Words cannot do it justice and here
I am trying to pass on to you what I experienced.

In hindsight, had I known She was there, I would have
spent a lot more of my day there in the chapel.

It never entered my mind that Mary would be honored
in this way and yet, She was the first Monstrance.
Her womb held Jesus first but I never saw the womb from
this perspective. Mary’s body was the first Tabernacle!

Mary asked me to write my book, The Wounded Chalice,
specifically to help women understand the value of their womb
and the mission it is accomplishing. Without this organ, there
would be no future human race.

My book is also about the many ways I gave my power away
and the different ways I took my power back. When I had a
hysterectomy, I demanded that it be returned to me so I could
honor my children’s first home.

I had wanted to include a picture of this beautiful holder
of the Mother’s most precious gift to the world but so far
could not find it anywhere. I spent two hours searching the
web but no luck. I finally called the designer so I could
get more info to share with you.

The designer will be returning my call but as I did not
want to delay the delivery of this newsletter, I decided
not to wait but I will share the news as I get it.

Last Saturday was quite the day for reflection and
exposure to our powerful feminine models. After the
conference, I was invited to an evening with Swami
Nirmalananda (Rama, Founder of Svaroopa Yoga).
I have been going to Svaroopa Yoga for around
8 years but had never had the opportunity to meet her.

It was a full day and very pregnant with experiences.
Do you have any you would like to share?

If you want to find out more about my book and my
life experiences, go to my website, blog or email me:

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