Marianne Williamson, in Everyday Grace, shared..."Feeling in various ways unreceived in my childhood, I desperately sought to be received by others in my later years. But I didn't know how to genuinely accept others into my life, because the pattern had not been modeled for me. It took a lot more than rational analysis to interrupt that pattern. It could not be broken by finding another person who would finally, ultimately, accept me fully. That could not and would not happen until first I repaired my own underlying wound by learning to accept myself..." (pg 237)

Marianne's revelation awakened 'something' within which helped me understand a piece of my Self.  Being so excited, I had to share Marianne's writing with a friend, hoping she would have an AHA-moment to spark her inner light too. And it did!!

She emailed, "I kept searching for someone to want me. I constantly had to have someone--it didn't matter who, want me."  I repaired my own underlying wound by learning to accept myself. "This is EXACTLY what I am focusing on. Now, I'm wanting me. I want to be happy with me--from my curly hair to my love of sweets."

Thank you, my friend, for sharing your life changing moment! One baby-step-at-a-time, we blossom into who we are meant to BE !!

by Bonnie Woodard

Email blwoodard@shaw.ca so others may come to know of how your life changed when you finally came to accept yourself.

Everyday Grace by Marianne Williamson
http://www.marianne.com/

"When you change the world changes!" (Brahma Kumaris)

"In my everyday life, I rush about doing a million things, almost all of which I enjoy.  It is important for me to stop several times a day and open up to silence where God can reach me...open up to the Divine residing in me."

by Sylvia (good friend)

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Change has come!
I am finally
ready to
let go of
the me
I was pretending
to be.

I've laid
down my
mask!

Let go...
Let go...
Let go...
I show up
for Life!

Amen

by Bonnie Woodard

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I surrendered today!
all day--
every moment--
I remain in surrender
to the Divine
within me.

I show up to life
free to let go
and embrace the
Love and Peace
of God.

Change has come--
my world will
never be the same.

I embrace God's
Love within me
and I share
His Love with
the world. 

Amen

by Bonnie Woodard

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Stress-Free Living...

The root cause of ALL STRESS!!! is our thoughts. 80% of our thoughts are negative and wasteful!!

• Negative thought...steals energy--critical, angry, fearful, egotistical.
• Wasteful thought...worry about what has or might have been; things we can't control.
• Necessary thought...appointments, etc. that need to be kept.
• Positive thought...pure and elevated--hightest level of thought!

Stress-Free Living classes at...
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization
Email:  calgary@ca.bkwsu.org  P: 209-2988 (403)

My girlfriend's husband, her soulmate, passed away this summer...we never let a visit go by that we don't remember him in a loving way!

Recently, McInnis & Holloway Funeral Homes hosted A Living Tribute at their Memorial Forest, Tree Program.  It was a cold, rainy day and all that could be seen spreading out before you was a sea of brightly coloured umbrellas.  These represented all the families missing a loved one. 

Reflecting on this for a couple of weeks now, my friend realized that this was not "closure" for her, yet.  But she decided that she could choose the type of tree that will be her husband in this living forest...a Fir tree, because a Fir tree is always green, alive...all four seasons!

She, like another friend of mine, can only turn one-page-at-a-time...grief is a slow and loving process.

by Bonnie Woodard

McInnis & Holloway Funeral Homes
http://www.mhfh.com/ 
Information: 276.2296 (403)

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Believe and All Will Be Well

Li'l Miss and her neighbour couldn't help wondering at times if their good fortune would continue.  But as quickly as their minds wandered down this slippery path of self-doubt, they were brought back to their senses by Grandma's repeated exhortation: "Believe and all will be well." Chapter Sixteen

excerpt from Li'l Miss Red Mittens and The Ice Cream Garden
by Garry D. Kilbourn

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