Favorite Pet Picture: In honor of National Caffeine Awareness Month allow me to introduce Coffee. This happy guy loves to hike and play ball. He’d enjoy a calm, loving place with a nice yard to call home. He’s currently being cared for by the Pacific Coast Dog Rescue. If you know his furever family, pass this along and introduce them!
Favorite Book Quote: Caleb’s Story by Patricia MacLachlan
Background: Caleb is talking with his father about what he wants for his birthday and tells him that this year he doesn’t want books or tools or even a horse of his own for his birthday - he wants something different. The answer to what he wants touched me. Not because he wants it, but because of why he wants it.
“This year I want most of all for you to forgive Grandfather. I want you to forgive Grandfather so I can grow up and be just like you…”
Random Favorite: Chinese Herbs
We have food sensitivities in our house. Accidental ingestion of a certain food can cause behavioral and emotional issues that last for days. It can also cause horrible nightmares and screaming fits throughout the night. Thankfully, we have a Chinese herbal formula that can calm the effects of this food and everyone (except me because I’m taking advantage of this situation and getting some work done) is sleeping!
Do you have any favs to share with us this week? I’d love to hear them!
Question: How do we work toward equality?
This is a bit of a different question for me, but it’s an important one. So here we go…
I don’t believe equality can exist within the system we’re in and I think that trying to make it happen is damaging. Why? Because it creates “teams”. In the United States, at this time, some of those teams are the Black Lives Matter Movement, the police, the “White Privileged”, and “People of Color”.
(Are you discounting my words because I’m a white Karen who couldn’t possibly know anything about anything - especially this? Interesting. Notice that.)
This just leads to more discrimination, more hate, and people feeling guilty for how they were born. Equality can not, and will not, exist in a system where people have to fight for it.
Even the people who put signs up that say “Hate has no home here…” contribute to the hate. Why? Because they hate hate.
We must begin to love those that hate. It is only love that can heal the hearts and the beliefs that lead to hate.
What is really required is that we honor and accept everyone for who they are and what they believe, even if that belief is not palatable to us.
But, you say, should I love those people who harm children? I say love everyone. (Isn’t that true Equality?) That’s not to say that you should not protect those who need protection by all means necessary. You absolutely should. But do it with love and honor. Because, chances are, the person who desires to harm another has made the choice to do so because of an early childhood trauma. The same energy can not heal a person or the society in which that person was created. Only love can do that.
But as far as “equality”, I think that it also discounts people’s strengths (which typically come from overcoming hardships - the same hardships that you want to erase with “equality”). When you try to make everyone the same you take away what makes them special. When you begin to honor people for their differences then, I think, you create a system in which Equality is available - a system in which everyone has the opportunity to contribute just because, as Dr. Seuss says: “Today you are You, that is truer than true, and there is no one alive that is You-er than You”.
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Question: What wisdom do I have to share?
Question: I still step back into my old patterns. What do I do about it?
Question: You’re always talking about “surrender”. How do I do that?
Question: I'm a parent and I'm spent - what do I do?
Question: How do I know what to do next?
Here is the subscriber-only content you may have missed this last week. Remember, the daily energy updates are relevant for the day, but the meditations and exercises can be done at any time!
Friday: Watch your Emotions
Saturday: Walk Away from that Person
Sunday: Create Structure Around Intention
Monday: Accepting Change
Tuesday: Walking Slowly
Wednesday: Malasana
Today: Snapshot of Peace
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