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HURRICANE KATRINA/RITA – RECOGNIZE GRACE Are you feeling moved more than usual, perhaps more alive and interested? Do you notice when something tragic or disastrous is happening that you are in a different state, possibly more open, or vulnerable, or calm, or grateful for what you have, who you are with, or you feel how precious life is? These are some experiences of grace, and there are many others. Grace gives you an experience of what your life would be without your fears. It is a temporary but very valuable experience if you recognize it and use it. Your fears will return but when they do, you will be able to address them instead of being controlled by them when you realize that you are able to permanently create in your life the experience that you were given by grace. In fact, you were given it for that reason. If you have these experiences while you are watching the great suffering of the people on the Gulf coast, or if you are one of those people and you are having these experiences, you are being touched by grace. Do not dismiss it as fantasy, pain avoidance, or flight from reality. Knowing that you are safe in the midst of the greatest danger is not a fantasy when it touches you and calms you and nourishes you. It is an accurate perception that your fears have masked from you all your life. Grace gives you a glimpse of the fearless life that is meant to be your life, and your job then becomes to make that glimpse of a possibility into the permanent reality of your life. You begin by acting on that glimpse – of gratitude, or calm, or aliveness, or sense of safety – and continuing to act on it, even after your fears return, as though that glimpse were of something real. It is. Email us what you have learned from this Learning Opportunity so that we can share it on the web. Read what others have learned. Click here to see previous OPPORTUNITIES (it is never too late to learn from an OPPORTUNITY). With love,
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