Jean Victoria Norloch's Posts - LIGHTGRID - Lichtnetz - REDDELUZ2024-03-28T23:12:14ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorlochhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3507291676?profile=RESIZE_48X48https://lightgrid.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=3eog485odq5bw&xn_auth=noFathers Day Tributetag:lightgrid.ning.com,2011-06-19:4024228:BlogPost:1008172011-06-19T19:15:14.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
Father’s Day?<br />
A whole year it has been since I wrote on this topic and my first question has to be why... Why has it taken me an entire year to rejoice in the value and worth of those men in my life who have been a loving, supportive influence? Why has it taken me a year to get back around to saying thank you to them by way of my pen to those precious male peoples who have helped to keep me on my feet over the last year of life challenges?<br />
Could it be that I have forgotten about all that they…
Father’s Day?<br />
A whole year it has been since I wrote on this topic and my first question has to be why... Why has it taken me an entire year to rejoice in the value and worth of those men in my life who have been a loving, supportive influence? Why has it taken me a year to get back around to saying thank you to them by way of my pen to those precious male peoples who have helped to keep me on my feet over the last year of life challenges?<br />
Could it be that I have forgotten about all that they have done for me? Is it that they are not always in my thoughts? Not likely, since not only are they in my thoughts but most of them are also still a very active presence in my life; sharing my joys and offering the shoulder I need during times of sorrow. Perhaps much of it has to do with this idea that there has been a special day set aside to celebrate their gift of life to me; perhaps it is that I am so used to not worrying about it until Father’s Day roles around that I forget to say thank-you the rest of the year. Naw, that’s not it either because my life as it is now entails a great deal of gratitude and passing onto others my appreciation for the love they have shown me. Maybe it is that I just figure nobody is going to read a tribute to Dad’s at any other time of the year? Except all men appreciate any appreciation given at any time and I think the ladies out there who have been blessed enough to share their time and space with truly good men would agree that there really is no inappropriate time to say thank you to these men.<br />
So why?<br />
All these reason combined might make a very good explanation of it, or something else perhaps that one might wish to take into consideration. I have written about them many times over the last year, in fact they (these incredible men in my life who lift me up and inspire me to be a better person) make up an equal 50% of those incredible people I write about all the time – the only difference is I do not refer to those writings as a tribute to Dad’s. Yet they are, very much so, in that many of the men in my life who have always been there to assist and to guide are fathers, not just to me in the respect that they are protective loving energies on which I can rely, but in the respect that they too have their own children to whom they also share their love and guidance with.<br />
Yet today is the day when we are to jump on board the society train and take the time to reflect on and show appreciation for these actions that are done out of love throughout the year. Ok – I guess I will play along for the moment, yet I have to point out that I would much prefer to encourage people to offer up random acts of thank-you all year long. In fact I would bet that for the most part people do, they just do not recognize it as such and there for it is not celebrated as much as the gift giving that will take place today. Silly? Maybe a little, still I think it is a good thing to have a day to be grateful for something, to have a day to rejoice and celebrate something as precious as our fathers as long as we do not use this day as an excuse to neglect them the rest of the year as surely they have not neglected us.<br />
There was a time when perhaps one could view this much celebrated day as merely a commercial holiday set up by our genius business minded peeps in order to make a whole lot of cash. Old world thinking that, and if we want to complain and gripe about the power that media has to convince us of things then we could in fact write a while ‘nother blog. Today however is not the day to go there, today is the day to make a choice as to whether or not we will allow our perceptions of this particular holiday to shift. Our world as it is, with its ever shifting need to get back to the simple basics of life allows us to explore our own inner desire to also shift how we show appreciation into a much more simple display of love. People just don’t buy the things they used to buy on this day, they have changed that need to spend money into a day where they have chosen to stop their own life for a moment outside of the family and simply spend time with the man who spent so much time raising them.<br />
You know, when I really think about it, it is not that we ‘need’ this day anymore to be grateful for what our Dad’s have done for us, it is that we have chosen to continue to celebrate this day in our own unique way with a more clear understanding of what it represents. So on that note – I say Happy Father’s Day gentlemen... goodness knows if we chose to continue to celebrate this day then it is because you chose to be the incredible men we are offering up this celebration for.<br />
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Jean Victoria Norloch<br />
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<a href="http://www.feenxrising.com">www.feenxrising.com</a>Hello my friends - I would like to wecome you to EVERYDAY CONNECTIONtag:lightgrid.ning.com,2011-06-09:4024228:BlogPost:965792011-06-09T16:26:54.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p>But as busy as you all are just being your amazing selves and bringing light into the world I won't take up much of your time :)</p>
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<p>I have been invited to join an old friend on a new adventure - a podcast that was lovingly named Everyday Connection. </p>
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<p>I invite you to hit the little green play button below and give us a listen to share with us in what was the first of a series of casts that we are expecting will be great fun for all involved. I am also adding in…</p>
<p>But as busy as you all are just being your amazing selves and bringing light into the world I won't take up much of your time :)</p>
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<p>I have been invited to join an old friend on a new adventure - a podcast that was lovingly named Everyday Connection. </p>
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<p>I invite you to hit the little green play button below and give us a listen to share with us in what was the first of a series of casts that we are expecting will be great fun for all involved. I am also adding in the link to the cast as we are inviting all peoples from everywhere to join us and ask questions or openly discuss issues about life as a spiritually connected human being. We would also like to encourage people to make show toipic suggestions as well as to pass along an questions they may have if they are unable to attend the show due to time confilicts we will do our best to address the questions and all show will be recorded and can easily accessed later via the internet :) thanks in advance for you support and interest can't wait to see my Lightgrid family there ...</p>
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<p>much love JVN</p>
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<p> </p>The Miracle that is my left hand....tag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-11-10:4024228:BlogPost:403832010-11-10T03:36:09.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Seven years ago due to some stupidity on my part I sustained a back injury that would prove at the time to come close to be my undoing. 6 months of intense back pain finally prompted the doctors to look more deeply into the cause of my troubles at which time they discovered an almost healed fractured vertebrae between my shoulder blades.…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Seven years ago due to some stupidity on my part I sustained a back injury that would prove at the time to come close to be my undoing. 6 months of intense back pain finally prompted the doctors to look more deeply into the cause of my troubles at which time they discovered an almost healed fractured vertebrae between my shoulder blades. At the time I was in school for auto mechanics and despite the pain and with much help of my family and friends at school I had continued both to participate in my classes as well as work part time at a garage close to my home. Unfortunately when I was finally diagnosed with the fracture the troubles with my health were far from over, due perhaps to my stubborn nature and my insistence to continue working I now had two herniated discs above and below the break. The pain was intense and as the testing went on I became weaker as my muscles finally gave up their fight to keep me on my feet. My system locked up and even the neuro-surgeon was doubtful I would ever work again; in fact they told me my chances of returning to a normal life were slim to none. I had a daughter to feed so that answer was not acceptable to me. I was blessed to have a family doctor who did not do giving up and he found for me an elderly Chinese doctor who was willing to take on my case. She asked simply if I wished to work again to which I of course I gave an enthusiastic yes. She confided in me that healing is 90% mental and that if I believed that someday I would be better then I would in the end win this battle and overcome both the pain and the loss of strength. As my muscles had locked she began an experimental treatment that included two sessions’ of 24 very long needles with which she would inject Botox into my muscles. The treatment was not covered my OHIP and it was a struggle to find a way to pay, but somehow I knew it would be my only chance. In her defence she tried to get the government to accept my case as a case study, they denied her request. Still in the end the money was found and the treatments began. A month later I walked into the doctor’s office with my daughter so that she at the tender age of 7yrs thank this woman for giving her her mother back.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Too much damage however had been done to some of the nerves and my left arm and hand remained weak and at times not exactly what you would call useful. Even as my body got stronger my hand got weaker; it felt odd and detached at times, numb like it wasn’t there. I am a waitress and was embarrassed that at times I would drop things I had picked up with my left hand, though I learned to compensate with my right. I have always been able to use both hands so these moments when my arm or hand would not do as I asked it were extremely discouraging. The funny feeling that was there would sometimes get extremely intense and it was a constant reminder that I was not quite physically whole.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Until now...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Yesterday my hand became extremely itchy in the early hours and as the day went on it began to burn. Sometime in the evening it began to swell and it turned a mottled shade of blue, red and purple. It felt like it was on fire and I showed it to my roommate who thought that maybe I was having an allergic reaction to something I had touched. We applied cortisone cream in the hopes that it would easy the burning and I put it out of my mind as being anything to worry about. The pain had eased a bit by the time I went to bed and I fell asleep thinking that in the morning my hand would be better. At the time I had no idea how right I was. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I did not notice it right away this morning when I woke, nor when I drove myself and my roommate to the restaurant are we employed at. During my shift however I noticed something, there was warmth there in my hand, and feeling... I began to poke and prod at it, then I tried to use it squeeze my other hand, something I have done many times before to see if it had gained any strength. There the miracle began, as I shut my hand I could feel the muscles tighten and I knew then by some miracle my hand had come back to life. I could in fact feel the difference right up my arm, and in the left side of my back, spots on my body that have for the last 6 years always felt like they simply didn’t belong to me. I can feel it now as I type this, there is a tingling in my fingers and my muscles that I am not used to being there and it is with a sense of awe that I am about to go back to work and embark on my evening shift. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Before I do though, I wanted to share this story because I believe in miracles and I know this to be an incredible gift. Maybe the muscles and nerves simply grew back, or rerouted themselves, maybe there is a simple explanation but for somebody who has believed for a very long time that my left side would never be in balance with or as strong as my right side this to me is a miracle...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Maybe it has no impact on the lives of most, and maybe it isn’t a life saving miraculous occurrence but it is proof that miracles happen, and that sometimes gifts are given that cannot be explained. 6 years of thinking my body would never heal, and ten minutes to type this up and share the story with you; my way of acknowledging the gift and showing gratitude for the miracle that is my left hand...</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>Keeping a Promisetag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-10-09:4024228:BlogPost:339962010-10-09T02:11:55.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">During my stay in the Philippines I was blessed to be welcomed by the community of dear friend. It was during a festival to honour one of the saints and it was a weekend to celebrate life and the living of it.…</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">During my stay in the Philippines I was blessed to be welcomed by the community of dear friend. It was during a festival to honour one of the saints and it was a weekend to celebrate life and the living of it.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Out in the provinces in the small towns these celebrations are a community affair. Families open their doors to strangers and everybody visits from house to house. There is music, singing, dancing, a strong sense of fellowship and everywhere there is food.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Being an outsider I was asked if I would be willing to walk through the town and speak with some of the locals both about my work as an author and as a film maker. In every house it was expected that I partake in the food being offered by the host family, needless to say after the fourth house I was more than stuffed. I am a small woman and do not usually eat much so for me the task was daunting yet I was so warmed by their generosity and willingness to welcome me that I simply could not get the smile off my face.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The last house I visited belonged to an elderly gentleman to whom the town’s people refereed to simply as Lolo (grandfather in tagalog) although I am not even sure how many of them were actually related to this remarkable gentleman. Well into his 90’s and not able to speak any English my visit with him left me with both a sense of peace and a strong sense of responsibility for what I was doing.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He asked me through a translator why I was there and I explained a little about my work. Seeing perhaps more in my eyes than I expected him to see and perhaps wizened by his years he told me his concerns for his country.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He explained that many of the youth, disillusioned by the poverty and a lack of governmental assistance had left their homeland in search of a brighter future. I replied that I understood but I could see he wanted something from me so I had my translator ask him what it was I could do for him.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He told me that I had to make him a promise; that upon my return to Canada when I felt the time was right that I give to the Filipino people a message from him, a respected elder from a small village.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Today I am keeping that promise.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He asked me to call his people home, with tears in his eyes he told me to remind them of their homeland. He said that through my writing I could help them remember the true heart of the Filipino Nation.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He asked me to talk about family, to write about faith; and above all to encourage them to remember that united they are strong. He said “someday they will remember, they will come back to this land and care for both it and its people; someday our Nation will be whole”.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I believe that that day has come, that someday is no longer in the future, and that someday is now...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I know, I am an outsider to the Filipino people but I went there with an open mind because I yearned to understand the secret behind the smile that never fades from your faces. I do understand now, more than ever that the smile comes from knowing that no matter where you go you are and always will be connected by your faith and by family.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Project STRENGTH – my novels, all that I do was inspired by that faith and my passion for my work is driven by that same connection. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Our world is ever changing and though there are still many problems we have yet to overcome I know that when we work together we can create a better world for our children.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So tonight I am asking you not to forget, neither your land, your people, nor the fact that we are all of us responsible for each other and that all children across the globe deserve the right to our protection so they in the future will have the freedom to live their dreams.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">As a side note - he really was very wise knowing that his was the last house I had to visit, and knowing i had already been to many others he simply offered me a few slices of watermelon which in retrospect was the sweetest most generous thing he could have done...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><a href="http://www.project-strength.com"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">www.project-strength.com</font></font></a></span></p>His Story...tag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-09-28:4024228:BlogPost:316052010-09-28T00:53:22.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">His Story,</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">That’s what we gathered last night to hear.…</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">His Story,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">That’s what we gathered last night to hear.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">His story,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">That’s why we sat huddled around a computer for hours.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">His story...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">There were four of us; all different ages, different backgrounds, different beliefs. Two women; both of them mothers, one Canadian, one Filipina. Two young men; neither of them fathers, one German, one Filipino. It was a mix of new friends and old in a quiet room at the top of the stairs and for three hours, where we had been and where we were going did not matter. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We had joined together for a short time in the interest of translating the life story of one of the young men in STRENGTH. From Tagalog to English we would carefully play the interview and write out what he had said. A simple process one would think but not for us, not this time.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">There were moments that we would have to stop, not because we couldn’t understand but because the understanding was just too painful.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">At times our Filipina friend would stutter upon hearing the next sentence, bow her head and utter a prayer, a plea or perhaps a curse before she would raise her chin and bravely repeat what the boy had said. Shortly thereafter my pen would stop, making sure first to diligently record her translation I would then pause, take a deep breath and after reflecting give them a nod to go on.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">That is how it began, and that is how it carried on until nearing the end the light and the laughter came back into our world. He spoke of hope and of faith. He shared with us a glimpse into an inner joy and peace that many fight a lifetime to attain. He is only in his early 20’s and he has endured pain and loss beyond imaging; yet there is the gentleness of his eyes and the brightness of his smile lays the miracle that is his life.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He never gave up, never gave in but what he did do was give back out of gratitude for the grace that allowed him to survive.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">It was after the last word was spoken that the true impact of what we were doing hit home. When my Filipina friend turned to me and in complete amazement and with a trembling voice shared with us her thoughts we realized neither can we give up or give in. She spoke for all of us I think when she pointed out how powerful this story could be, how beautiful it was to see that true faith and hope can overcome even the most tormented of souls. She spoke of the inspiration it could be to others, of the difference it could make in the lives of those who may for a time be lost in the dark.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I could only answer that this was why we were so determined to finish what we started.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">You see his story is only one of thousands, possibly millions the world over; but if telling his story can stop these things from happening to other innocent children then telling his story is what we must and will do.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">His story bravely told combined with many others changed my life.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">His story selflessly told by him so we may share it with the world may just change yours.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Niki leach</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>I am your flower, you are my sunshine....tag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-09-24:4024228:BlogPost:311272010-09-24T22:56:07.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I am your flower, you are my sunshine....</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">All day I walked past where she stood, head down, looking at my feet and every time I did she would grin and say…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I am your flower, you are my sunshine....</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">All day I walked past where she stood, head down, looking at my feet and every time I did she would grin and say “smile I am your flower – you are my sunshine”. Needless to say, by the end of the day I was laughing. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Oh my goodness, what a week it’s been and it seems to me I’m not alone in the realization that things are not always what they seem. I’m looking around these days and the smiling faces that were there just a few days ago seem to have withdrawn and turned away. Eyes that were looking eagerly upward shining with the light of anticipation are now turned downward in dark contemplation. Changes are occurring rapidly and even those who are prepared seem to be scrambling to keep up.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Yet even as old doors are slamming shut behind us, at times hitting us on the butt on the way out, something very unique is happening.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">For those who have just made it across the threshold there is a moment where the opportunity comes to realize they did not come out alone. Look around; how many of your friends do you see still by your side?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Yes, O.K. a sad scenario it may be to go into a place of light and suddenly have the power shut off and the candles blown out but... were you the only one to make a hasty exit?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I doubt it, which means maybe it wasn’t the place you went that mattered. Perhaps it was the people you met there and the lessons you learned that are what you are meant to take with you through the next open door. Yes, that’s right, another open door...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I see it, don’t you? It’s right over there, only a few steps away. Now, now...don’t be afraid; please. I know it’s hard to turn your back on that other place and take the chance on a new one. Downright scary in fact, but can’t we go there together? Hand in hand?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Oh you may be thinking that you don’t have the energy to do it all over again. You don’t know what’s in there and you are not up to being hurt again. I have to ask you though; isn’t walking forward better than standing still?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I was reminded this week that I cannot control the actions and reactions of others; we can only control our own. This friend is an important lesson so now that the lesson has been learned; lucky us, we can move on.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Where we are going to I haven’t a clue but I do know the walk will be much more fun if we joke with each other on the way. There’s a lot to take in on this journey, much to absorb but when you can strike up an easy banter with those you share the journey with a miracle occurs; you just never seem to get tired of walking.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So why am I writing this today? Who is it for?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">It is for the young woman who is my flower. It’s for the other young woman who I promised today that I would try and make smile. It’s for the sister who told me I did not have anything to apologize for and yes of course her family would also always be my family. It’s for the old friend who laughed at me and asked “are you surprised?” It’s for a dear sweet gentleman and his quirky Irish lady friend who suggested we recover from the shock together. It’s for the friends who are standing by me publically and those who are reaching out to me privately. It’s for the ones who thought my spirit could be easily broken and for the ones who tried to break it. It’s for me, a reminder to appreciate those with whom I share my life. It’s for you, a reminder that your true friends are never far away.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Most importantly it’s for us, so we will never ever forget and cherish the fact that we still have each other.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Really truly I am your flower, you are my sunshine; you are my flower, I am your sunshine...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">It means that your light and warmth make help me grow and mine in turn nurtures you as well, it means that we grow together and that our shared joy blooms and becomes a garden full of colour, and sweet smelling scents; all we have to do is keep smiling.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Jean Victoria Norloch</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><a href="http://www.feenxrising.ning.com"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">www.feenxrising.ning.com</font></font></a></span></p>They Call it Simply Spiritualtag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-09-23:4024228:BlogPost:309852010-09-23T19:31:51.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">They call it Simply Spiritual</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And it is...…</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">They call it Simply Spiritual</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And it is...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Simple I mean; but we’ll get back to that.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Lets’ explore that other word for a first. Dissect it a bit; discuss for a moment its meaning.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Spiritual: defined by the experts at Merriam Webster as being;</font></font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3" face="Calibri">1)</font> </span></span> <span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Of relating to, consisting of or affecting the Spirit</font></font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3" face="Calibri">2)</font> </span></span> <span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">a) of or relating to scared matters</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">b) Ecclesiastical rather than lay or temporal</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3) Concerned with religious values</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">4) Related or joined in Spirit</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">5) a) of or relating to supernatural beings or phenomenon</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">b) Of, relating to or involving spiritualism</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Which leaves us where? In my view nowhere close to simple.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The word itself has so many different meanings that are perceived by the masses in such a vast variety of ways that it would seem impossible for some to accept the word as being simple. Yet when we get back to the basics, take it down a notch, do away with all the hype and fancy explanations we can find ourselves in a place of simplicity.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">There seem to me to be a lot of rules and rituals tied up with this one simple word. There are a whole collection of do’s and don’ts, instructions and expectations that cause confusion and division. The trick I think to keeping it simple is to get past all the outside influences and get back to inside where the spirit actually resides.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">They call it connected, a state of oneness, being enlightened; I could go on since they call a lot of different things but I feel at the moment as if I would be wasting your time. You see it is in my heart to tell you today that it doesn’t matter what they call it, all that matters is what it is in your heart that you feel it is. After much contemplation and consideration I have come to the conclusion that I myself have grown weary of the teachings and guidance of self appointed spiritual leaders. My reasons for this are my own yet I imagine that if I, a curious soul who is always asking questions has grown tired of those who would force on me their answers then perhaps there are others out there who have also become disillusioned by the whole scenario.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Now don’t get me wrong, the spirit within me is very much alive and well and still at one with the flesh, but then too so is yours. Perhaps that’s where in lies the confusion, that in this quest for knowledge and inner peace we forget that it is already ours. There within you, at your core, is the part of you that is, always has been and always will be connected to all that is. When we tap into the creative side of who we are we discover that our connection to the spirit ties in with our ability to create. Now in an age when we are being told if we want a better world we have to create it we struggle to figure out with the help of others how exactly to go about it. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We seek answers outside ourselves; we go out into the world and look for that connection. We rely on the wisdoms and guidance of others to lead us to it yet it has never been something that we need to find. It’s yours, right here, right now and it’s not going anywhere. You see as much as we are human, prone to mistakes and full at times of doubt and fear we are also all born of the spirit. Being born of it, we are a part of it, it is a part of us and therefore our connection to it can never be severed from it. Immortal, never ending, not needing to redeemed or saved we are as we are perfect and complete and simply cannot be anything else but that perfection. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I guess that’s what makes it simple.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Simply put whatever it is in within you that dreams of a better tomorrow, that yearns to create a better world, whatever is in you that envisions something greater, more beautiful and more profound ; that is your you. Make it your reality...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Pick up a pen, write a tale that tells a story of love, a story of hope, a story that inspires. Pick up a brush and paint a picture that causes the viewer to stop and ponder it’s meaning. Write a poem that whispers to the reader the secrets of the ancients, the secrets of your soul. Sing, full of joy and gratitude for all that we have been gifted, or just hum a tune that catches the ear of those walking by. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">That is your connection, your creation done by you for you and benefitting all of us. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I will never understand why we choose to complicate matters, why we choose to add things to the mix that seem to confuse the issue. It’s really not that hard. Basic and simple, a thing we all feel in our hearts to be a truth that when you walk out the door you are connected to all that you see and when you lay your head down at night to rest you are connected to all that is, it will never be any other way.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Spirituality and religion are often used to teach us things like compassion, understanding, empathy and love but honestly your heart already knows these things; perhaps it is only that today your you has chosen not to listen to your heart; or perhaps you were listening but have been afraid to allow others share in what you have heard.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We are all here together, and we all hold within us a magical ability to be and do whatever it is we wish, through our art, our vision, our creative energy there flows forth the change that our world needs, longs for and will have if we learn to let go and flow with it.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">They say peace comes from within which means that it’s already there within you. So maybe, just maybe the time has come to stop searching for it and just start living it.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #92cddc; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">That would be keeping it simple.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>The Beauty of a shared experience...tag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-09-21:4024228:BlogPost:304402010-09-21T04:56:47.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have a friend who lives on the other side of the world, a good man, simple and true. I have not spoken to him in some time but he is often on my mind as I move forward in my life and my work. There are few people out there, though admittedly the number grows every day who truly appreciate the basic simple things in life. People who…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have a friend who lives on the other side of the world, a good man, simple and true. I have not spoken to him in some time but he is often on my mind as I move forward in my life and my work. There are few people out there, though admittedly the number grows every day who truly appreciate the basic simple things in life. People who have a base understanding of the importance of family values, compassion and understanding are very precious to me and very much respected regardless of their age, race or background. I would wish for him to forever be in a state of joy, so that he may continue to share that joy with others. Being the pen that I am I feel I have no better way to honour the man that he is than to pass his message to me onto to you so that we may all remember the meaning of the times in which we now live.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He told me a leader walks ahead of the people expecting that when he turns around they will still be there behind him. He chooses the road to walk and shows others where to step.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He told me a good leader walks among the people and talks with them so that they may choose their road together. They walk side by side so that if a step is taken that causes them to stumble they may hold each other up.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He told me a great leader walks behind the people, nodding silently to himself in quiet satisfaction and joy as they choose the road they wish to take. If they stumble and fall he is always there to help them get back on their feet.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He is wise, gentle and kind and the world will likely never know his name. Yet to the family and friends who know, love and respect him, he will forever in their hearts be a great leader. Why? Not because he has a position of power, status or wealth. He does not; he manages a restaurant in Manila, and works 12 hrs shifts before travelling two hours by bus so he may spend time with his family. What makes him so special is that he understands that to lead sometimes means to stay behind.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">How many different leaders does our world have? Spiritual, religious, political and social; it seems there are literally thousands around the globe who stand ready to show us the way. Which leads us to ask the question; who is it that we should choose to follow.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We were warned to beware of false prophets; warned that a time would come when only the whispers of our heart could be trusted to be our guides.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In the last few years the number of people claiming to be messengers has grown by an alarming rate, something that may cause concern for those who are leery of being led astray. Yet it cannot be denied that the messages of peace and love seem pure, and much of what is now being taught is quite logical. It stands to reason that if we wish to survive and move forward in our evolution that we must make peace with ourselves and the world in which we live. It makes perfect sense that we must learn to love ourselves, our world and each other; to know ourselves, our world and each other.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">If you really think about it, the most common sense teachings of our time are also the most commonly taught. We are all one – connected – united – what you do to others you also do to yourself – what you do to our world you in turn do to you...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Still we were warned and many may be wondering where the false prophets are and how one can tell if they are false. I wish I could give you that answer but I am not you, I do not see through your eyes and even though I am a part of the world of which you are also a part it is not for me to choose your path.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So if each person’s journey is their own why now more than ever does there seem to be so many different guides. Why now more than ever does there seem to be some many teachers and lessons available for others to learn.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I imagine it is merely so that we may choose what in the end works for us.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Perhaps if our perceptions of those who have come before could be altered just a little we may begin to view them more as friends and not as somebody that should be raised above us. Many of them have made it clear they are no different really from us, in no way more special than us and not so long ago probably just as lost and confused as us. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">That my friends is where the magic in the message is. They have not come to tell us how to make our lives better or even so much that we should. They have only come to show us how they improved their own lives so that we will know when we choose to do so that we can.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">It would seem the days of complex rules and regulations are coming to an end. The do’s and don’ts of yesterday are no longer seem to be something people wish to concern themselves with. There is a freer, more creative way of looking at our world and each other; judgements and condemnation are no longer welcome. Instead of focussing on our faults we are now spending time recreating ourselves and our world. Things are being flipped around, altered, the artists and musicians, the outcasts of yesterday are now stepping forward and using their talents and skill to help those in need. Having always lived out of the box, they have long ago forgotten the box is there and are now using the energies they have always used to create entertainment for the masses to co-create and new world for the masses. Thought and feeling are merging and becoming one and balance is being restored.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Through the shared experiences of others that reassures us that we are not alone and the creative force of those who have set out before us in the interest of freedom of expression we are leaping into a brave new world. Through the open hearted discussion of all our various beliefs and ideals and the common interest of sharing our gifts and visions we open the magical portal to our future. Through our new found acceptance of ourselves and each other our new world begins to emerge, lives transform; love and laughter are again reborn, All because we stopped saying this is where you should go and started just going, then sharing with others where we have been.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So we come to time when leaders no longer walk ahead of us and into a time when through the sharing of experiences they walk among us. We have come to a time when teachers no longer tell us what we should learn, but encourage us to remember that which we already know. We have come to a time when the guides no longer point the way but instead wait patiently on us as we choose the direction we wish to walk.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #b6dde8; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We have come to a time when the guide may be led down a new path, where the teacher realizes that there is much yet to be learned from the student and the leaders fall to the back of the line so that none may be left behind.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>We had a dream - the Truth about STRENGTHtag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-09-02:4024228:BlogPost:276662010-09-02T02:00:00.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I had a dream...</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I was lost and wandering in a world where poverty and oppression was accepted; a world where hungry children were ignored, where the small…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I had a dream...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I was lost and wandering in a world where poverty and oppression was accepted; a world where hungry children were ignored, where the small body of a sleeping child on the street was simply stepped over. This dream, it should have been a nightmare yet there in the corner a little light shone.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Through the crack of a door I could hear the sounds of laughter and joy. I followed the sounds and as I approached the door opened to a world filled with music and hope...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I am an author, the pen it is my friend, my comfort and in times of trouble my only weapon. For more than a year I have been trying to tell this tale, some have listened, some have heard but many more have walked away.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Now today, on a day when I feel at my most lost and confused by all that’s happened I feel it only fair to tell you the rest of the tale.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I went to the Philippines pen in hand looking for a story, looking for inspiration, looking for something to believe in. It was two weeks before I managed to stumble through that open door, two weeks of wondering why I was there.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I asked you see, prayed that if there was something God wanted me to do that he show me the way. He led me to a small home hidden in the back streets of Manila.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I wish you could have seen it, through my eyes, in that moment. I wish I could take you there and show you what I found. I sat in a tiny living room in stunned silence watching a small group of orphaned children pour the very core of their spirit into the instruments they played. The purest of thoughts poured forth and completely at peace with where I was for the first time in my life I prayed, “Oh God, I wish the world could see this, as I am seeing it now. It wasn’t long before my prayers were answered, things began to happen, conversations were had and the idea for STRENGTH was born. A year and a half later, and countless blogs, letters, video’s and pleas for help and our second trailer is finally released.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">A year and half is a year too long; a year gone by without the world seeing what I saw. Wall after wall; heartbreak and pain. People turning us away, petty differences, power struggles, mistakes made and promises broken. Yet by some miracle we still remain.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The dream that is STRENGTH was ever meant to be a story of hope, of light, something to uplift and inspire; a documentary that would be a beacon shining brightly on the edge of darkness calling to those who had been left behind.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Here’s the catch, the part that so many seem not to understand. I am just a waitress, a single mother who goes to work every day then comes home and tries desperately to find ways to make this dream a reality. Just a waitress who was blessed enough to see something pure and beautiful and wished with all her heart that she could show it to you. Just a waitress who came back to Canada knowing in her heart that beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was still hope. That out there in the world, a world we take for granted, a world we ignore there were still people who represented all that is good, and true and pure about the human spirit. Just a waitress...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">This project teeters on the edge of a knife and I am done hiding from the fact that it has been a desperate struggle to maintain balance and gain support.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I am just a waitress who was asked by a friend to help finance, promote and create a story that would caress the hearts of every single person who saw it. I have done, for over a year I have reached out to you the readers, to our supporters to let you know that we had not given up. That we had a story to tell, that we, that they needed your help.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">To all of you who have stood behind us I thank-you and humbly I ask your forgiveness that it has taken this long. To my friends and family I thank you for not letting me falter and fall, for catching me when I stumbled and for never letting me walk away.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">For the rest of you, the honest truth is this; I am just a waitress and just like you I struggle every day to try to find ways to survive. I battle inner conflicts, have doubts and sarcoma to fear. Yet what I saw over there buried deep in the heart of the Filipino people was so powerful that it changed forever how I view this world.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Heart and soul poured onto paper, my final plea for help, my final message of hope; my act of getting down on bended knee and asking, no, begging you to support this film, to help us tell this story, to show the world what it means to know faith and hope and have them combine to give you strength.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">My name is Niki Leach, my pen name is Jean Victoria Norloch. I am just a waitress armed with a pen who came back from the other side of the world with a dream. If you are reading this then even though I am still just a waitress the dream that is STRENGTH lives on...</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>do you remember?tag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-07-12:4024228:BlogPost:200022010-07-12T05:16:36.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do you remember?</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do you remember the other day when you saw the elderly man struggling with his bags, trying to balance himself and his cane as he stepped…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do you remember?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do you remember the other day when you saw the elderly man struggling with his bags, trying to balance himself and his cane as he stepped onto the bus? Do you remember how you took his bags from him and offered him a seat? Do you remember how you got off with him at his stop and helped him to the door?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Did you know that his heart is weak and that in the summer heat he simply did not have the strength to make it home? Did you know you saved his life?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We did, we were watching...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do you remember the little girl who used to live next door? Do you remember the day she fell and scraped her knee while playing on the front walk? Do you remember that her momma wasn’t home and that there was no one around to tend her wounds? Do you remember coming out of the house to walk the dog and finding her there crying on her steps? Do remember taking her into your house, drying her tears, bandaging her knee and giving her treats?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do you know what she does now? Did you know that she went to school to be a nurse? Did you know that she works in a children’s ward and with gentle hands she heals the hearts of angels every day? Did you know that for every child she meets she thanks you silently for showing her the way?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We did, we were watching...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do you remember the young woman you picked up by the side of the road, you know the one... Her car had broken down and you were late for work that day because you took the time to drive her to safety in a town close by where she was able to get help.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Did you know that in the car behind yours was a predator of women? That he was oh so annoyed when you stole from him what would have been his latest victim?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We did, we were watching...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do you remember in high school, the girl you found crying in the washroom? You got into so much trouble that day for skipping school because you spent the day down by the river talking. Of course how could you forget, you’ve been friends for 20 yrs.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Did you know that in her bag was a bottle full of pills? Did she ever tell you that the abuse at home had simply been too much? She had felt so desperately alone and those pills were to be her final stand. Thanks to you, she never got the chance. She never told you huh?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We are telling you know, we knew, we were watching...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">How about the lady that you let cut in before you today while you were driving home?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Did you know that thanks to you she managed to arrive at the hospital on time to see the birth of her first grandchild?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The little boy you smiled at today in the elevator. Do you remember that? He looked so very sad and you stopped to ask him what was wrong and tried to make him laugh; it seemed such a small thing at the time.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">He would not have been watching where he was going when he stepped onto the road, anger clouding his vision; he would not have seen the car. You distracted him, you did. Just long enough to ease his anger and make him forget.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We saw, we were watching</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Oh yes and one more person, how could we forget...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do you remember the young man you used to give money to on the street a few years back? He played the sax, standing on the corner collecting coins every Saturday. Do you remember how much talent he had? Ever wonder if he still plays?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">You can ask him tomorrow. You see he went to school to be a doctor and luckily for you he will be on call tomorrow afternoon. So when you wake up and after they have explained that you have been in an accident but that you should be ok thanks to the quick thinking of the surgeon who treated you ; don’t forget to ask him when you meet him if he would mind playing you a tune. It will probably make his day as he too has long forgotten. You though, you have the chance to remind him of the impact that he made.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #daeef3; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Please don’t forget, we’ll be watching....</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>For my sisters...tag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-07-12:4024228:BlogPost:200002010-07-12T05:15:46.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">For my sisters...</font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“What now?” she whispered...…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">For my sisters...</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“What now?” she whispered...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“I don’t know”, I answered quietly shaking my head; “we don’t have many options left”.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“Are they really gone?” she asked, a tear trickling from the corner of her eye.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“Yes”, I answered sadly, “they are gone...”</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“Maybe they’re just hiding?” her eyes lifted from the ground hopefully.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“No child”, my voice softened, “they made their choice, as we have made ours”.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“Then what now?” she whispered yet again.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“We keep going”, I shrugged my shoulders and got back on my feet.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“But where?” she pleaded desperately, “where is it we will go?”</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“We go into tomorrow” I answered.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I got back on my feet and started walking...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And just as every day before and everyday to come, she got up and walked by my side...</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Somewhere, out there</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have a home</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Somewhere, out there</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have a future</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Somewhere, out there</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Is where I wish to roam</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In here,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Is where I found her</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In here,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">No longer alone</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In here</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Where she protects my heart</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In here</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Where I protect her own</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Somewhere, out there</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">She called to me</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Somewhere, out there</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">She felt my fears</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Somewhere, out there</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">She whispered to the stars</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Somewhere, out there</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do not doubt, child so dear</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In here,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">She journeyed far to enter</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In here,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And fought for many years</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In here,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">She came upon me whispering</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In here,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Sister please, dry your tears</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And this is where the poem ends,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And the story yet begins</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">As a promise long ago was made,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">By an ancient group of maternal twins</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Sisters sent to earth,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">To wander through the lands</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Always seeking those they know to have,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">A loving heart and gentle hands</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Warriors of old they are,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Returned for one last time</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Their battle cry you hear in the soothing tonnes</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Of every mothers lullaby</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">One asked me where I'd been,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And why I took so long</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Another said, ‘no you’re not late’</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">‘I felt you all along’</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The third said she would walk through hell with me,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And since we’re already here</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Her word I cannot doubt is true,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So there is nothing left to fear</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">This is the story of the women of our time,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Who come for one reason and one reason only,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Can you hear the Victory chimes?</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">They did not come here to give up,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Nor to walk away</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">They did not come here to lose</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">They came to save the day</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">How many different styles have I included in this poem?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">As many as the different angels who through our world now roam...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And what would be the purpose then?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">To What end do I write?</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">To get the message out to you,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">To shout it loud and clear</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">For as many different sisters here have come,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">All warriors of light</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Different though their task maybe be</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Always and forever</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Side by side they fight</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"></p>Healing of humanitytag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-06-25:4024228:BlogPost:173242010-06-25T04:28:37.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Healing of Humanity</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In every person’s life there comes a time when they find themselves lost in a sea of doubt.…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Healing of Humanity</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">In every person’s life there comes a time when they find themselves lost in a sea of doubt. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">You know what; you have heard those words before I am sure. There is no point in stating the obvious. I vowed to myself that if I was to take on a project such as this I would pour as much of my heart and soul into it as I could without bleeding myself dry. Using outdated and overused sayings and ideals to get my message through would be an insult to you and the purpose of this work so I will not waste your time. You need to see me, hear me and feel the real me if my words are going to set your spirit free.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So this is me telling you that in my world there is no room for dwelling on mistakes and misfortunes, there is no time to whine and pout about our sorrows. If that seems harsh, then so be it; harsh is what it must be if that is what it takes to inspire you to action.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Every person reading this has known what it is to lose faith; each and every one of you has tasted the bitterness of defeat, looked into the eyes of loss. Even if it was only the smallest of things that you have been forced to give up you know from personal experience how much it hurts to have something you cherish taken away. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The magical wonderful thing about this is that you are still here. You did not quit, you did not give up, you did not walk away from or hide from the challenges that life presents. You lived... You will continue to do so, growing stronger each day in the knowledge that by the power of your will, by the discovery of your own inner strength and courage you will be here to fight another day.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What I just shared with you is the intro to my third novel, a novel I am hoping you will help me to write. You see life led me down a strange and twisted path and dumped me right in the middle of a new place to call home. Humanity Healing International has been an inspiration to me and has encouraged me to explore my talents as an author in ways I never thought to experience. My quandary up unitl now however is this; how does one give back or reward such a precious gift. I have very little money, have never been good at raising funds; I simply cannot fathom now having seen the things I have seen reaching out my hand and asking for money without giving anything of myself in return.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The only gift I have to offer is my written word; a word some of my friends sweetly tell me can caress the heart and bring forth lightness of spirit. It is that which I wish to do here, working side by side with Humanity Healing to present to you the reader a collaboration of uplifting and inspiring tales of those who have survived adversity, illness, disability, poverty and oppression.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">There are those out there who claim that merely writing the words is not enough; that the stories we share do not have a large enough impact on our world. I admit this idea had me folding in on myself. For one such as me whose passion it is to learn and share through her writing the things she has seen, the thought of my contribution not being enough came close to destroying the very core of who I am. Yet when I took the time to reflect on it, I realized just how powerful words can be. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">They say the pen is mightier than the sword so I say ‘Out pen!! – Parry parry – thrust – lunge – Out pen!! For Victory!!</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">But what does that mean? It means that there is never a time when it is OK to say ‘I give up’, it means there is never a time when it is OK to say ‘I give in’, it means there is never a time when it is OK to say ‘I can’t’</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">You can, you will, you are...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">This book is being created in honour of all those who fought their own personal battle and won; in remembrance of those who fought bravely and lost; as it is with all of our historic hero’s it is the courage they showed through their struggles that is the everlasting gift they left behind. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The idea is to bring those stories to life and put them into one inspiring and uplifting piece of work that will prove to the world that survival and Victory is a CHOICE to be made by each individual who comes up against their dark.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The proceeds of the sale of this book will go to HH to assist in the funding of their various independent humanitarian projects. Upon completion of this work the copy write to it will belong to HH. I am just the pen who is blessed enough to be able to bring you these tales of hope and faith. It will be published through my publisher Grave Distractions Publications who has agreed to back the project and in keeping with our work towards raising the bar when it comes to environmental issues and our collective desire to exceed the expectations with regards to those issues the book will only be printed to order and will be made available as a downloadable e book on kindle.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have a very close friend who often refers to my novels as my baby. Today was the birth of a new story, and shortly after her coming into the world at 11 am this morning she was named – HEALING OF HUMANTIY – She is a very precious newborn, with a very special purpose. This time however she is not mine alone, she is ours. The core of her spirit will come from you the readers, you the survivors, you the warriors, you the Victors. I ask now that you help me to raise her and bring her up to be full of the light and love we all know each child is naturally born with. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Please contact us, you may email me personally at</font> <a href="mailto:feenxrising@gmail.com"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3" face="Calibri">feenxrising@gmail.com</font></span></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">, I am waiting to hear from you so I can take the stories of your heart and offer them to the world; let us join together as a family and continue on our quest to heal humanity.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">This book will be in part dedicated to Liane Legey, DeZengo Moore, Korey Tuttle – for the fearless refusal to be beaten by life, for the courage to continue to walk forward with held high even as the tears are rolling down your cheeks and for the unwavering support and faith in my work that you have offered.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Also in part to a very special man - Vincente N.Carranza for pushing me so far I had no choice but to push back... thanks friend for rekindling the flame...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And so many more dedications to come</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Yours in Victory, Jean</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>Fathers Day Tributetag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-06-19:4024228:BlogPost:162702010-06-19T16:29:50.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">If he could see me now I wonder what he would say. Would he understand that much of who I am today is due to his loving and tender ways? Would he know that nothing ever shattered my heart as painfully as the day I had to let him go without ever having the chance to say goodbye or to thank him for showing me the…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">If he could see me now I wonder what he would say. Would he understand that much of who I am today is due to his loving and tender ways? Would he know that nothing ever shattered my heart as painfully as the day I had to let him go without ever having the chance to say goodbye or to thank him for showing me the way?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">If I had the time, surely I could tell you a tale of a truly good man with gentle hands who raised a child not his own. An incredible story it would be, an epic tale of love; he was without a doubt my best friend, the one I always turned to in life to make things right. His very existence was one of live and let live; forgiveness coming easily to his joyous heart. He brought laughter into the lives of those who for a time found themselves lost in sorrow and wisdom for those who got temporally lost in confusion. I have to wonder where I would be now if I had never been blessed enough to know him.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Yet since his passing others have come to ease the pain, some who also now have gone and those who still remain. As I sit here pen in hand prepared to write a tribute to dads around the world I have to take the time to reflect on all those who have touched my life since my dad’s passing seven years ago.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Looking back on the times I shared with all the incredible men who have graced my life with their presence and what made those men so special I am reminded of what it takes for one in our society today to truly be a great man. It is touching to me when I consider the challenges they face and the sacrifices they choose to make. In our world of materialistic power hungry individuals, who is there at the end of the day to thank them when they take the time to put aside the need to make money and instead fulfill the need to just simply be a part of their family.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">It is a hard world in which to be a good man; the expectations are high and the obstacles to their success are many. The need to provide is pressing as the economy becomes more strained and finding employment more difficult. Yet beyond the societal expectations of a man to provide and care for his family there lays an internal inborn instinct to protect and feed both the woman he loves and the children he helped to create.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So he works long hours, exhausting himself to live up to those self imposed standards of what it is to be a man only to come home and be reminded that his family need his love as much as if not more so than his money. He gives it. List the things that daddy’s do and we will be here for as long as time but from helping with homework, to playing games and cooking dinner, building tree forts and cutting the lawn to taking the time to stop off on the way home to buy his wife flowers he gives more of himself just by simply being there when they need him than many of us could hope or dream for. It is these things that are what it means in our world today to be a man.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51">As father’s day approaches it is expected that we</span> <span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">honor</span> <span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51">these selfless actions with gratitude and touching tributes to all the dads out there who give us thier everything just to make us smile. The problem is we often forget to pay homage to another amazing group of people who also take the time in their own way to do the same.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What about the big brother? Can you not always call on him to listen to you while you pour your broken heart out? The Grandfathers; did they not take the time to teach you how to build things, how to appreciate nature by taking you for walks in the park or the bush and carefully pointing out and naming all the wonderful plants and animals you happened to encounter on your adventures? The uncles who either took you camping or to movies you just know mom and dad would never have let you see had they known? Even the annoying cousins in your youth that pulled your hair or threw worms at you then laughed hysterically at your feeble attempts to beat at them with your scrawny little girl arms. How about every single male friend you have ever had who agreed wholeheartedly that yes that man simply did not deserve you or the ones who showed up at your door at 7 am on a Saturday morning half asleep and still hurting form the night before simply because yes they did promise they would be there to help you move. To present day at work and all the gentlemen you encounter who lift things for you, open doors for you when your arms are full, and open doors for you when your arms are not. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">How far do we go to show them our appreciation? How often do we take the time to show our gratitude for all the little things they do that make such a large unforgettable impact on our lives?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I remember growing up knowing that no matter what I did, what mistake I made my daddy’s arms would always be there open and waiting to enfold me, a warm comforting embrace of unspoken support until the tears would finally cease to flow. When I see the light of love shining in my daughters fathers eyes I find that same warmth and comfort comes with the knowledge that she too will always have a home in daddy’s arms.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What I’m afraid I don’t remember is ever telling any of them just how much those moments meant or how strong and lasting an imprint they made on my heart. I’m afraid I, like many others before and after me, may have taken for granted just how precious those times were. They say it’s never too late to change and if I start today and spend the rest of my days saying a humble thank you for all the wonderful things the men in my life have done for me perhaps by the time I am ninety I will have finally managed to catch up.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Think for a moment about the men in your life. How have they changed your world? Who are they? How have their actions touched you? Have the words they have spoken ever lifted your spirits when you were down? Have they made you smile through your tears when you were desperately sad? Have they made your spirit soar when you thought that you would never again remember how to fly?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Think and then ask yourself...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What makes a man; that he be strong, just and fair?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What makes a good man; that when you need him, for whatever you need him, he be there?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So tonight as I set pen to paper to write my tribute to fathers everywhere I realize that it is men not just dads who keep us whole. They are after all our balance, our other half, the part of our life that makes us complete and without them all life would be very empty indeed.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>URGENT AMBER ALERT!!!!tag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-06-08:4024228:BlogPost:144792010-06-08T03:44:08.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">URGENT PLEASE KEEP AN EYE OUT IN YOUR COMMUNITY FOR THIS<br></br>LITTLE BOY BELOW:</span><br></br><br></br></span>
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<br></br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br></br>PORTLAND, Ore. — Twenty-two state, local and federal agencies are following up on more than 1,200<br></br>tips in the search for a 7-year-old Portland boy who has been missing<br></br>for four days.<br></br><br></br>Kyron Horman disappeared from Skyline…</span>
<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">URGENT PLEASE KEEP AN EYE OUT IN YOUR COMMUNITY FOR THIS<br/>LITTLE BOY BELOW:</span><br/><br/></span>
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<br/><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br/>PORTLAND, Ore. — Twenty-two state, local and federal agencies are following up on more than 1,200<br/>tips in the search for a 7-year-old Portland boy who has been missing<br/>for four days.<br/><br/>Kyron Horman disappeared from Skyline Elementary School on Friday. Multnomah County sheriff's deputies and volunteers<br/>have been searching the densely wooded area near the pastoral school<br/>since then.<br/><br/>On Monday morning, deputies and FBI agents posted about 40 yards from the school stopped approaching cars and asked<br/>passengers whether they were at the school Friday and had any<br/>information about Kyron.<br/><br/>Sheriff's Capt. Jason Gates described the variety of tips as "leads that aren't as exciting, and other leads<br/>that are more prevalent."<br/><br/></span><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><img alt="" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2805645124?profile=original"/></p>
<br/><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br/>"We need more," he said at a news conference Monday. "Every tip, no matter how insignificant you<br/>think it is, could be the one we need."<br/><br/>Speaking again to reporters about four hours later, Gates said authorities have gotten<br/>tips from across Oregon and from Washington state. He would not<br/>elaborate but said most of the tips were from within Oregon.<br/><br/>Searchers spent the day continuing to comb through woods and brush around the<br/>school, located in hilly countryside west of downtown Portland. Gates<br/>said Monday's ground search would continue until nightfall.<br/><br/>Authorities also were questioning school employees and parents of children who<br/>attend the school.<br/><br/>"It's very important we interview every person who was at the school on Friday," Gates said.<br/><br/></span><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><img alt="" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2805648166?profile=original"/></p>
<p><br/><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br/>Kyron was last seen about 9 a.m. Friday, shortly after the boy and his stepmother attended a science<br/>fair at the school. She last saw him walking down a hallway toward his<br/>second-grade classroom, wearing a "CSI" T-shirt and dark cargo pants.<br/><br/>A search began after classes let out and Kyron didn't come home on the<br/>bus. His stepmother called 911 about 3:45 p.m., and sheriff's deputies<br/>and K-9 units began a search of the school and the two-mile route to his<br/>home.<br/><br/>Authorities have not yet determined whether Kyron was kidnapped or just wandered off, but they're describing him as a "missing<br/>endangered child." The FBI has joined the search.<br/><br/>"We haven't eliminated any possibility at this point," Gates said.<br/><br/>Visitors to the school are assigned badges, but Portland Public School District<br/>spokesman Matt Shelby said it would have been difficult to assign a<br/>badge to each visitor among the friends and family members who attended<br/>the science fair Friday morning.<br/><br/>Authorities were reviewing photos and videos taken at the fair. The last photo of Kyron shows him<br/>smiling in front of his project on the red-eyed tree frog.<br/><br/>It was unclear whether Kyron was in class Friday or when anyone noticed he was<br/>missing because police have been reticent to disclose public details of<br/>the search. Shelby said authorities don't want to give out information<br/>that could contradict a potential witness's recollection, but the school<br/>has a good idea of when Kyron was reported absent.<br/><br/>Kyron's parents didn't attend the news conference Monday. Gates said they didn't<br/>want to comment to avoid interfering with the investigation.<br/><br/>"Kyron, we're going to bring you home, buddy," Gates said as he struggled to<br/>control his emotions at the news conference. "Nothing is more important<br/>to your family, your friends or to us."<br/><br/>Tip line: <span class="skype_pnh_print_container">503-261-2847</span> <span dir="ltr" class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark">begin_of_the_skype_highlighting</span> <span dir="ltr" title="Call this <br /">phone number in United States of America with Skype: +15032612847" class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common""> <span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">503-261-2847</span></span></span> <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting</span></span>.<br/><br/>(ALSO PLEASE MEDITATE AND INTED THAT HE BE FOUND AND SO IT IS..MANY BLESSINGS<br/>TO YOU KYRON..MAY ARCH ANGEL MICHAEL PROTECT YOU AND BRING YOU HOME<br/>SAFELY AND SO IT IS)</span></p>
<p></p>A Suggestion... Posted by Deva Tarpana on June 5, 2010 at 10:21amtag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-06-05:4024228:BlogPost:143502010-06-05T14:36:55.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have to make it clear right from the beginning this is not a call to begin a united effort, the effort is there, this is a call to fine tune that united effort and concentrate it into one global focussed visualization of healing. It continues and grows both as you read this post and as you pass it on to others to read. I have no…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have to make it clear right from the beginning this is not a call to begin a united effort, the effort is there, this is a call to fine tune that united effort and concentrate it into one global focussed visualization of healing. It continues and grows both as you read this post and as you pass it on to others to read. I have no intention of wasting your time on explain the science or the spiritual and universal laws that support this idea; you all know them or you would not be reading this. This letter is written out of love for our planet and all who reside on her surface. </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Given our knowledge of the power of prayer, meditation and intent with regards to united healing efforts we are able now to use this knowledge to further our efforts with regards to the tear in the surface of our planet that is causing grief in the golf. Yet we seem to be more concerned with forcing a material fix to the problem, making or voices heard with regards to our desire for the government to step up and do its part. Are we doing ours, of course wave upon wave of healing energy has been flowing towards our planet for a month and our frustration grows as nothing seems to be done as far as fixing it. So let’s fix it.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">If our understanding is correct then one united, extremely specific visualization held within the hearts and minds of healers across the globe could in fact have an effect. What we need is that united visualization. The oil in question belongs to the earth, running through her body much like blood runs through ours; it is not supposed to be coming to the surface it is supposed to remain within. Her blood, Her oil, let us return it to her; gently, slowly and with the same tenderness that you would use when dealing with a wounded child.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Here we go.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">See the oil slowly receding and returning to its source, being drawn back into the earth and as the last of it returns back to our Mother see hands gently scooping the earth and debris surrounding the hole. As you would push the earth lovingly around a plant you are putting in the ground see the same being done to the earth surrounding the hole; lovingly covering the hole, gently patting the earth and stopping the flow.</font></font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Very direct – very simple – very easy to see within your mind’s eye and if you believe all that we are taught with regards to prayer, meditation and healing you will pass this on.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Many hearts, many minds – ONE SPIRIT...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">With much respect for all your efforts and care</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Deva Tarpana</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>May 18, 2010 Grandmothers will be holding Water Prayerstag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-05-14:4024228:BlogPost:122832010-05-14T02:25:54.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Ask you to join us:…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Ask you to join us:</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">MAY 18, 2010</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">CONSCIOUS PARTICIPATION IN HEALING OUR PLANETARY WATERS</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">OUR MOTHER EARTH NEEDS YOUR HELP!</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Along with many peoples all around the globe, and many water prayers this spring, we are calling for a</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">MASSIVE GLOBAL EFFORT</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Our main intention for this healing is to return the waters to their original pure crystalline blueprint, and to add to their abundance for the nourishment of ALL living things on the planet.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Pray in your local waterways, at the rivers or lakes or streams. Or pray with a bowl of water in the middle of the cities.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">"We are Water Babies.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do not to forget to say thank you every day for the water you drink,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">the water you bathe in.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Without our Mother water we would not survive."</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Takelma Siletz, Oregon</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The specific ceremonies being conducted on May 18, 2010:</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Grandmothers will be holding Water Prayers in the following places:</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">African Rainforest, Gabon - Grandmother Bernadette Rebienot</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Great Lakes, USA- Grandmother Rita Blumenstein</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Mountains of Oaxaca, Huautla de Jimenez - Grandmother Julieta Casimiro</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Desert of the American Southwest- Grandmother Mona Polacca</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">France - Grandmother Flordemayo</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Black Hills of North America- Beatrice and Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Plains of North America, Montana-Grandmother Margaret Behan</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Hood River, Oregon- Agnes Baker Pilgrim</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Nepalese Himalayas- Aama Bombo</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Brazilian Amazon-Grandmothers Maria Alice Freire and Clara Shinobu Iura</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Tibetan Ceremonies in Canada- Tsering Dolma Gyaltong</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Mahia, Aotearoa, New Zealand - Ambassador Pauline Tangiora</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">At the same time, people will be praying at</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Nine specific bodies of water around the planet using crystalline energy</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">· Lake Tahoe, California</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">· Lake Titicaca, Peru</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">· Lake MacKay Australia</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">· Lake Chad, Africa</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">· Lake Bikkal, Russia</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">· Lake Kissyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">· Lake Geneva, Switzerland</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">· Lake Superior, Minnesota</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">· Colorado River Complex (Healing and Purification Ceremonies for this vital USA waterway)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">"Water reflects the human soul. If you say, 'thank you' to water, it will be reflected in the form of beautiful crystals overflowing with gratitude in return." Masuru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">For more information: </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #e5dfec; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51"><a href="http://www.goldeneagleceremonies.com"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">www.goldeneagleceremonies.com</font></font></a></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>Little thingstag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-05-06:4024228:BlogPost:116762010-05-06T13:00:15.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p>The following is an excert out of my second novel (coming soon) it is as of yet unfinshed and unpublished. it will be copywritten eventually along with the rest of the book yet I am offering now here to you today as a gift and a reminder to us all while we are out doing own work to bring light into our world why it is we came here in the first place....…</p>
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<p>The following is an excert out of my second novel (coming soon) it is as of yet unfinshed and unpublished. it will be copywritten eventually along with the rest of the book yet I am offering now here to you today as a gift and a reminder to us all while we are out doing own work to bring light into our world why it is we came here in the first place....</p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Chapter 21</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Little Things</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">So here I sit wondering like you where do we go from here? When all is said and done, when all is written where is it we will be?</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">From here we go forward and when we get to where we’re headed we’ll be free. That really is all you need to know to keep you moving.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">It’s a long process, this evolution of humanity so don’t expect it all to happen overnight. It doesn’t work that way. The world was created for the living so live we must. God did say ‘the beauty of the human spirit’ and though I know there are those who do not hold out much hope there is much of that beauty to see if one looks with open eyes. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">So while you are out there taking a long hard look at what is not working in our world don’t forget to stop long enough to appreciate what is working. I call them the little things, because it is not only the big self sacrificing acts of giving that show us love and compassion, it is the little everyday sweet things that the people in our lives do to ease our burdens that truly define the divine spirit of oneness.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Little things; when you really want that cup of coffee but you are stuck at work, somebody not only brings you one but they turn down your offer to pay them back. Little things; you run out of change for laundry, your neighbour gives you a bunch of loonies and won’t accept anything in return. Little things; you are hurt and can’t quite keep up at work, but your team picks up the slack and when you thank them they simply smile and say you’d do the same for us.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Look around you when you leave your house today and see how many of those little things just happen to pop up. If your hands are full and a stranger opens the door, that’s a little thing. If you aren’t feeling well and the people you live with do more around the house so you won’t have to expend energy you don’t have, that’s a little thing. When some stranger on the bus gets up and offers and elderly person a seat, that’s a little thing.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">We had an argument the other day the demon and I, and I have now seen with my own eyes just how deadly dangerous this entities anger can be; of course as usual it wasn’t directed at me but still...</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">He told me after he had calmed down that he absolutely does not see any goodness in people, that for every seemingly kind act he has witnessed there is always a self serving purpose behind it. I asked him if he’d ever seen love and compassion, he said no not true love, not selfless love, not love freely given expecting nothing in return. I argued that I had seen it many times and would have made the attempt to prove it but his next words stopped me in midsentence.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">“If I have seen love it is because you have shown me love, if I have seen compassion it is because you have given it, but I have only seen it in you, and you are not like them. One person is not enough, one person will not save this world, one person can’t change their future, one person can’t save them”. For one of those rare amazing moments, this demon, this creature who has absolutely no faith in humanity looked very sad and lost and it was in that brief flash of time that I realized in his own way he too cares for you all...</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">You know I hate it when he’s right, but this time other than his statement that it will take more than one I do not think that he could be more wrong. So this chapter is dedicated to that idea, it is the argument I never had the chance to verbalize and it helps me understand why I had to come back.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Here is what I’ve seen through my job as a server in a local restaurant, if this does not show the selfless nature of the human spirit than I am at a loss for what will.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">A young couple come in, they have their meal, enjoy their evening but when it comes time to go the man discovers he can’t find his wallet. He goes to the car thinking he left it there but no luck and now they are starting to look a bit panicked. The young lady doesn’t have her purse, it’s her birthday and it was supposed to be his treat. He begins to explain it to me but before I have the chance to offer to cover the cost of the meal a woman from the next table quietly reaches over and lays the cash to pay for the meal into his hands. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">I remember him being completely shocked, speechless for a few minutes until he finally managed to mumble a thank-you. Then he gave the money back...</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">He spoke to management and left his ID, then went to get the cash. I remember asking her after they had left why she had done it. I thought at the time that she knew them but she had answered no, she just felt it was the right thing to do. That was over a year ago, and since that day I have seen her often but never mentioned it until last week, when I sat with her for a moment and told her I had written my first book, and was now working on my second. I explained that I was planning on putting this story in it. I was touched by the tears shining in her eyes. A simple thing, an offer to pay for a meal and maybe now that one simple act will be read by many who will see how a simple kind deed can touch more than one heart.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">An elderly gentleman dining at our restaurant had a massive heart attack. Out boss worked tirelessly for 20 minutes doing CPR until the ambulance came but was never able to revive him. We all assumed the worst and our boss I am sure was tormented by the realization that this man could not be saved. Yet a week later the man’s son came in to thank our boss for his efforts and to explain that the gentleman in question had lived for days after his heart attack. His family had the chance to say goodbye and for that the son was very grateful. It was remarkable to me that he had taken the time out of his own grieving to understand and act on the very real probability that his father’s death had affected more than just him and his family. I told him so and thanked him for his kind words to our boss.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">An elderly couple had a small accident in our parking lot; the lady had tripped and fallen and the gentleman had tried to catch her. They came in bruised and bleeding one extremely busy afternoon and waited patiently for a table. Our young hostess, harassed and surrounded by more than a dozen people asking for seats didn’t notice, but a customer passing by did. He came over to ask if they were ok which caught my attention as I was rushing by. I dropped what I was doing and went to work cleansing the gentleman’s hands, taking my time to bandage them up and stop the bleeding. I had a full section, and it was a very long time before I was able to get back to my tables yet not one person complained. In fact when I apologized to them they told me not to worry, they had seen what I had done and they were more than willing to wait. I did however do something that day that I am not proud of; I scolded our young hostess for not taking care of the elderly customer and told her she had a lot to learn about compassion; it was something I felt horrible for days after yet a month later I walked by her while she was tending to yet another elderly customer who had injured her hand. Our young woman was kneeling by the table, patiently and gently applying ice to the woman’s fingers. I whispered to her that she was a sweet girl and she offered me a little smile. I can’t say my words to her the first time were right, because it is never right to judge but I can say I am happy that I was just more than a little wrong about this girls willingness to care. The elderly couple did come back two weeks later to thank me, and the gentleman proudly showed me his hands, they were fine; no marks, no scars, no infection and as he said no worries.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">I recently got an injury that makes it difficult to do my job yet I still have bills to pay like everybody else and so have been trying to continue to work. My co-workers have shown me what it is to hold somebody up until they can again walk on their own. They lift things for me, do all the things for me that really I can’t do for myself. My boss, who could have told me to stay home until I am better, instead goes out of his way to explain to customers that I am only able to use one hand and ask them to be patient; they are.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">I have seen one young man from a table on one side of the restaurant put down his own plate of food then follow a complete stranger around plate in hand helping her get what she needed. We are a buffet and she was an elderly woman in a wheelchair struggling with her attempts to move the chair and balance her meal. I watched him walk by her, notice her, turn around, put his plate down on the nearby counter and go to her offering her his assistance. I watched as he spent time with her, getting her what she wanted then bringing it back to her table for her. Only after she was seated did he go back to getting his own dinner. I asked her if she knew him and she told me no – but added that she would like to because isn’t he a sweet young man. I had to agree.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">What about the waitress, a single mother struggling to pay her bills who went out of her way to buy 15 crossword books in large print for one of elderly customer because he was going into the hospital for surgery. He loved crosswords, his family was very far away and his eyesight was horrid. His name was Bill, her name was Jackie and I hope someday she sees this and realizes how big a difference the little things make.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">And you see, that’s the key, if you are looking for the answer to life’s dilemmas; if you are looking for the Holy Grail, God’s light as it were, the salvation of mankind. You will find it in the little things; the random acts of selfless kindness...</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Sure these people could be angels, they could but they aren’t. I know an angel when I see one, they give off a bit of a glow to the well trained connected eye and none of these people were angels. They were just people, ordinary every day, work for a living, struggle to survive people.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">And they are why we are here.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Not one of those people knew I was watching, they had no idea I’m a write or a messenger of hope and they would probably not care. I do. I care a great deal for every person out there who displays compassion and understanding for no other reason than that is simply who they are. I care, my soul cares, my spirit cares and my creator cares. Perhaps you also should care because they are the ones who will save this world, they are the reason humanity has a chance to survive. To those people I say thank-you for all the little things you do every day to bring light and love into our world. Thank-you.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Oh yes and how could I forget this...</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">There is a man who comes into our restaurant, our society would call him challenged, his name is Ernest and I do not think he has any idea what kind of impact he has on the people he meets. You see he is always smiling and he quite literally brightens any room he walks into. I promised him I would write about him in the second book, and a chapter on little things would not be complete without me saying how much he changes my life for the better when he comes in to see me. We also have on staff a very special man, his name is Wesley and he is simply put a very simple man and to me one of our most important staff members because he too is always smiling. I have never, ever seen him frown. These two beautiful people never complain and for me they embody all the amazing little things that make life and the living of it an absolute joyous experience.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Nearing the end of this chapter I realize that though I said in the beginning there would be no formal dedication for this particular book I have to at the very least dedicate this my most important chapter to the people I work with. You can find them all at Tuckers Market Place on the corner of Warden and Eglinton in Toronto ON – and now you know also where to find me – but that’s ok, I might be gone by the time you get to read this one...</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Yet gone is not forgotten.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Here is what I will take with me on the day I finally leave. A group of people who held me up, wiped my tears away, kept me whole and strong even when they had no idea what I was doing or why. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">The girl who took time out of her life to help me organize a fundraiser, the mother hen who told me today it’s ok because you still have us...</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">The young lady who brought me Kleenex when she saw tears in my eyes, the other who brought me tea when I was sick. The boss who gave me time off to write and the staff that welcomed me back when I wandered in from my adventures overseas. The poor soul who does my schedule, he tries so very hard to work around my crazy life and not ask for too many favours. The lovely lady who wrote me a note that I keep on my fridge which tells me not to give up and keep doing what I do. The smiles I get every day when I walk in the door; the hugs either to say hello, say goodbye or to let me know I’m not alone. The very strong willed young lady who asked once for some big sister advice and then took it, which makes me giggle because she never takes advice from anyone. The people who support my work both as a writer, and as a humanitarian. The one who always – and I mean always answers the question of ‘how are you’ with ‘very good when I see you here.’ The one who always calls me ‘my lady’, the young men who always make me smile with their quirky nature and silly games. The fool who sings songs throughout his shift making us all smile, customers included ( he always reminds of the Celtic God Loki ) – a young woman who read my first book and sent me the most beautiful email to tell me it had touched her heart. The other who gets a kick out the fact that I act like a little kid every time somebody says they are touched by the words I write, she says my eyes light up and I bounce around like a young girl who just got a new doll. Oh my goodness there are so many, so very many there who have touched my life in ways they never dreamed. The freak who gives me a hard time every day I walk in if I don’t go straight to him and give a quick kiss on the cheek to say hello. The crazy pregnant lady who lifts trays she should not lift because sometimes my body is just not quite as strong as it should be. I get sick often, they tell me it is because I do too much but where I work apparently that’s ok because when I am sick they always seem to find a way to get me through my day. Oh and of course our boys in the back who have to suffer their entire shift wet and dirty to clean our dishes so we can do our job; they sing a lot those guys do and their songs and raps always bring a smile to my face. If I have missed anybody don’t think for one minute you have not touched my spirit, even the silent ones, who never say much but who let me know with a little smile that they care make a huge difference in how I view the world; the world that through my writing I get to share with others.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">Perhaps they think I do not notice; I mean I can at times be distant, moody, and even irritable because when I’m there I am so very human. Maybe though that’s because they are my family and when you are with your family you don’t feel like you have to hide who you are. Well I did notice, so this chapter is for you guys, because if ever there was a place that exemplified the true nature of the little things it is the place I work. I’m a writer and I don’t always take time out in my everyday ordinary life to verbalize how much they impact my life. It is by way of the written word I have a chance to let them know that what they do matters and makes a difference. I have had a crazy busy year, what with one book just out and another being written and all the other things in between that you the reader will learn about soon enough but I am taking the time now, as I get close to finishing this my second novel, safe and secured in the loving hands of the friends and family who have been unbeknownst to them the core of my strength for the last four years. You <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">are</i> the little things which in my world is an extremely big deal...</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #f2dbdb; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51">You see I was watching, and now the world will know just like I do how very special you all are...</span></p>
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<p></p>My Thank-you Blog for all the light and love you have shown...tag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-04-23:4024228:BlogPost:102842010-04-23T21:56:23.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">This was one of the first blogs I posted on my own site and I am offering it up now to all of you as my way of saying thank-you for touching my heart and my spirit in ways that have lifted me far beyond where I had ever thought to go...…</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">This was one of the first blogs I posted on my own site and I am offering it up now to all of you as my way of saying thank-you for touching my heart and my spirit in ways that have lifted me far beyond where I had ever thought to go...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I am admittedly part of many networks and cannot always spend the time I would wish to spend on some of the sites that have been created but I do want to take this time to tell you all – each and every one of you that your love freely given has been a soothing balm to a tired soul. Through your work, your writing, your sharing you have not only inspired me but brought me comfort in dark hours and brought light into dark days. If I could I would spend the time to tell you each individual that the truths you have shared so willing with me are truths that will remain forever a part of who I am.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So I thank humbly for all the love and support you have shown through your various networks, your videos, pictures, and your blogs... The time you have given has meant more to me than words could ever convey...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">My Thank-you Blog, and you all know who you are...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Without my friends and family I am nothing...</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Ok, so the argument could be made by some that God is all you need; but then are these people not a part of God?</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Religion and Spiritual debates aside it is a basic human truth that it is though the love and support of the people we share our lives with that we find hope, faith and strength. So I dedicate my first blog on this site to that truth. It is my way of thanking all of you for your patience, your kindness and your faith in both me and my work. It is my way of giving back just a little to all those who have in the last year and throughout my lifetime given me so much.</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Giving back...</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Another universal truth; for all the blessings you receive, all the luck that comes your way try always to remember to both be grateful and to give back as much as you receive. Call it karmatic harmony, the Golden Rule or whatever your beliefs translate this particular truth into; the basic fundamental principal remains the same. Give as much if not more than you have received.</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do it for yourself, to encourage your own growth, to ensure your own continuation on the path...</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do it for others, to share the light you have received...</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do it out of gratitude for the opportunities you have been given...</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do it to maintain the balance that is so essential to the continuation and evolution of the human race...</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Do it because your soul, your spirit knows this to be the best thing for you...</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Never has there been a time when peace and unity been so important for the advancement and wellbeing of the human race; and yet though the battle rages behind the scenes the true war will be fought and won within.</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">For only one Victory guarantees rebirth. Only one war waged balances a new life birthed for every life taken. Only one battle sees life burst forth from the ashes of death. Your battle, your war, your internal struggle towards the light...Your personal inevitable Victory over your own personal dark is also your ‘egg of the Phoenix’; it is your doorway to change.</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">All you need to is step through...</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Welcome, to life, to light, to you...</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Until next time,</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Love, light and laughter to you all</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #f2dbdb; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 51"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">As I said words will never be enough but if we have spoken or connected in any way, shape or form, if you have reached out even for an instant please know that it did not go unnoticed or unappreciated. There was a time when my faith in humanity was lacking and the battle I waged within was one that without you all may very well have been lost. Yet in the past two months I have seen more love and respect given by strangers to strangers than I grew up knowing to be given from family to family. You have restored my faith, renewed my hope and given me an extremely powerful reason to continue my work. For the love you have shown, from my heart to yours – Thank-you....Truly I do love you all...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"></p>Challenge to the World – With Love From UNITYtag:lightgrid.ning.com,2010-04-19:4024228:BlogPost:98392010-04-19T21:04:56.000ZJean Victoria Norlochhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/JeanVictoriaNorloch
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So I ask you what would happen if every single person who has any interest in seeing worldwide peace came together? With one collective voice, a sharing of thought and feeling, a sharing of intent for global unity……</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So I ask you what would happen if every single person who has any interest in seeing worldwide peace came together? With one collective voice, a sharing of thought and feeling, a sharing of intent for global unity…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What would it sound like?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What would it look like?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What would it feel like?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We are aware it has been attempted before. We are aware it may seem as if it did not succeed. We are aware that it sounds like nothing more than a dream… Yet with that awareness comes the knowledge that unity did not fail; unity and the movement for peace and oneness of spirit is very much a presences in our everyday lives. If it was not, we would not be here.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Around the world millions of people work every day to spread joy and light to the people they meet and share their lives with. Millions of people who though they do not know each other do know deep in their hearts that they are all working for the same thing.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Unity is not about race, not about religion or belief.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Unity is not about age, not about status and certainly not about position.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Unity above all is not about wealth or power.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Unity is about love…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The love of humanity, the love of our world, the love of ourselves and of each other.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Unity is not a place where one goes to be awakened or enlightened, not a place where one goes to be judged or questioned. Unity is not a place where things or thoughts can be bought or sold.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Unity simply is…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Unity is me, it is you, unity is us coming together.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Unity is love…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So no matter where you live, what you believe or what you both do for a living and do with the life that has been given you all we ask is that you do it in unity.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So I ask again what would happen if every single person who has any interest in seeing worldwide peace came together?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">With one collective voice, a sharing of thought and feeling, a sharing of intent for global unity…</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What would it sound like?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What would it look like?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">What would it feel like?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Are you ready to find out?</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We all feel we are teetering on the brink of something – and that something can go either way – we all – each and every human on this planet has an opportunity to do their part in their own way each and every minute of every day to help nudge that something in a direction that will be beneficial for both humanity and for Mother Earth – but the key word there is humanity. –We at Come home to Unity believe that the human heart has a great capacity for love and compassion – the only problem seems to be that most humans don’t see this as a truth...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The idea of the Unity came from a desire to bring us all together in one quiet moment of realization that we are not alone... we all feel love, hate, fear, hope... we all need food, shelter and basic essentials to survive... the idea of Unity is to embrace that idea – that we are all essentially the same – because I truly believe that when the general public begins to realize this as a truth then all the rest will fall into place – they will begin to acknowledge their interdependence as well as begin to feel a greater respect for not just those who live in our world but for the very world itself – yes there is no question always Mother Earth is to be acknowledged and respected as the giver of life here on this planet – without out our planet we simply cannot exist – but the Unity day is to honor the fact that humans can when needed come together in a united effort – we have seen it time and time again as each and every new disaster challenges our love for one another and our faith.... Unity Day is for everybody - 9 11 was chosen out of respect for the fact that the tragedy inspired an outpouring of human compassion and love... only that – the focus was never meant to be on the negative aspects of that event – we have chosen a challenging date that for the moment represents tragedy and loss but that we can forever turn into something positive... to shine light through the dark as our troubles increase so too must out desire to come together in unity to solve the problems we all feel exist in our world.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The idea for Unity Day was born out of love and respect for humanity – let us help it grow in love and respect for all things...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Of course it is for all people - this is what unity means and by all people - it is not something that can be done by just a few - it will take the collective efforts of many to bring together many more...</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We are asking for your help, it is our intent to petition the governments and churches around the world to acknowledge Sept 11 as a Day for Unity as well as a coordinating a round the world moment of reflection and unity at Sunset on that day – the idea of sunset was chosen so it will be a continuous chain of people reaching out through their thoughts and prayers to the world. As I said we cannot do this alone so we are asking maybe for a few minutes of your time for the following:</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Please sign and pass the petition on… <a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/911unityday">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/911unityday</a></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3" face="Calibri">If you support our efforts and would like to learn more you can contact us at</font> <a href="mailto:comehometounity@gmail.com"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3" face="Calibri">comehometounity@gmail.com</font></span></a></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Or visit us at</font> <a href="http://comehometounity.ning.com/"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://comehometounity.ning.com/</font></span></a></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #ccc0d9; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Thanks and much love from the UNITY team…</font></font></span></p>
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