Perhaps you saw the Barbie movie. I did and enjoyed it. Barbie and Taylor Swift have lifted the hearts and hope of many folks this summer. We take ourselves so seriously, it is a relief to play, to pretend and laugh and wear pink with a crowd of other folks, all worn down and exhausted from constant “Breaking Bad News.” It is delicious to step out of someone else’s fantasy of reality and find the freedom to defy the burdens of our own expectations, as well as the expectations of others. Finding out that who we thought we were, is not who were, and that who we are becoming is still unknown and just winking over the horizon is the beginning of transformation. Learn more about that process of shedding an old self that has become too tight and uncomfortable, and discovering a self just coming into your awareness. The hard part is the waiting and not knowing. We may feel lost and abandoned.
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Back issues of this little newsletter can be found in every stack of papers in my house – I move them from my desk to the kitchen counter to the pile of mail on the dining room table, until they eventually become dog-eared and fall apart. I just can’t seem to throw an issue of Holy Ground away. Why? Because Loretta Ross an ordained Presbyterian clergy woman and a fine writer, puts equal amounts of inspiration and whimsy into every issue. Even though Holy Ground is a thin little folder – 7 or 8 pages, one essay, really – it’s always refreshing, renewing,; an awakening of sorts.
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