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Christmas. What is there to say? Kids open presents. Kids play with new toys. Kids move on, and everyone begins talking about next Christmas. We did have a nice time. The kids gave Grammy their painted pottery gifts, and they got everything on their Santa Claus lists. The last minute … Read More
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We've been playing airplane lately. This includes packing up luggage and flying from one grandma's house to another. Today Ouest added a new wrinkle to the game and included a stewardess. "Hey, juice lady. Juice lady?" she called out once the plane had reached cruising altitude. Because really the best … Read More
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The project has already reached its goal of $80,000 and is closing in on $200,000 at the time of writing. The cheapest complete set runs $200 and you get one of the floating 'little stars' as well as the 'energy base.' That's all you need to make the item hover thanks to the built in magnetic material but you won't definitely receive a plant for that cost - there are restrictions on sending plant materials outside of Japan. The company is looking at making arrangements once the item arrives in its destination country but that doesn't seem to sorted just yet.
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Rogers Park/West Ridge neighborhood - openhousechicago EventThe Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society is announcing a partnership with the Chicago Architecture Foundation to showcase the Rogers Park/West Ridge neighborhood, which has been selected as one of six areas throughout the city of Chicago to be represented in the foundation's new event, openhousechicago, taking place Oct. 14-16, 2011.
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We Just Clicked: Visual Communications Alumni Exhibition 2011Please join us as we showcase the work of: Elizabeth Tornabene, Eric Steigerwald, Justin Schnor, and Megan Nutley, four distinguished alumni of Loyola's visual communication program,as they return to campus and exhibit their creative work in the professional arena thus far. MORE>> Reception | Thursday, October 13 | 5:00-6:30PM Exhibition | October 13 - November 19 Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Annex
Posted on October 10, 2011
Chicago International Film Festival in Rogers ParkThe official schedule for the Festival has been released and can be found on our website at chicagofilmfestival.com From there, you can sort the films by country and category. This year we are doing a "Spotlight on South Asia" that highlights films from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Included in this "Spotlight" are two films that will showing at The New 400 Theater in Rogers Park! The two films are "Flying Fish" and "Azhagarsamy's Horse" and they'll be playing at The New 400 Theater the afternoon of Sunday October 9th. The Festival runs October 6-20th and we'd love for you to come out and see a film.
Posted on October 05, 2011
Kegs for Kids: Drink Craft Beer to Help Kids Read GoodThe annual Kegs for Kids benefit for Edgewater's Helen C. Pierce Elementary is coming up on Saturday. The craft beer tasting festival has grown out of its previous location at Metropolis Coffee, and this year's event will be at Loyola University's Mundelein Auditorium. Read the whole post on Chicagoist here>>
Posted on October 04, 2011
"My Worst Day Ever" - a local resident shares her 9/11 experienceBy Elissa Jones Fastening my seatbelt, I settled back into the airplane seat. I was looking forward to takeoff, so that I could then go to sleep. The previous night, my mind had continually raced through a series of agitated, aimless thoughts, and I had gotten to O'hare on - shall we say - "autopilot." Sure, I'm still a little scared of flying, even while finding it exciting. 'Intellectually, I know it's safer than driving. We just hear more about plane crashes than car accidents,' I reassured myself. I looked out the window. It was a sunny morning. Too bad I wouldn't see much of it.
Posted on September 11, 2011
Help Family Matters' Teen Girls get $9000 GrantFamily Matters' Teen Girls Programs have the opportunity to be awarded a $9000 grant from the Women's Sports Foundation. There are four organizations competing for this grant and the one that gets the most votes wins! Please vote for our video! The grant would be used to support the girls in our community in establishing an active and healthy lifestyle through our teen-led FEEL Fit Initiative. Please vote daily and encourage everyone you know to do the same – via email, Facebook, Twitter or any other methods you utilize to communicate with family and friends. Voting ends at 11:59 EST, Wednesday, August 31, 2011.
Posted on August 26, 2011
Chicago's First Casino Possibly in the CardsBy Susanna Pak Almaz Yigizaw expanded her Edgewater restaurant Ethiopian Diamond to a Rogers Park location two years ago, in the middle of a still-struggling economy. "I just focus on food and service, and people are coming," she said. "A restaurant is a restaurant, then the purpose is serving food and drink – that's what I'll stick to."
Posted on August 24, 2011
Sip savvy: value wines at recession pricesBy Mara Grbenick - The recession has drained demand for wine and other luxuries, but one Rogers Park wine shop is sustaining its business by sourcing quality wines at value prices for its customers. Taste Food and Wine opened in 2008 and has maintained its business during the economic downturn by pricing quality wines affordably. This is what most customers want. During a recent visit to the store, most of the clients were casual wine drinkers who often spend less than $15 to $20 per bottle.
Posted on August 23, 2011
808's Youth Empowerment thru Dance to Perform on Thursday, Aug 25thBy Dominique Johns, for rogerspark.com Three highly skilled dancers, all young Rogers Park residents in their early 20s, a youth leader, and a theatrical and talented young lady joined forces this summer, out of a mutual concern over gullable at risk youth in the North of Howard community of Rogers Park. Only five short weeks ago we created 808's: Youth Empowerment through Dance. Our vision: to create a refuge for the youth that helps empower, motivate, inspire, and build hope; to help young teens be more in control of their own minds.
Posted on August 23, 2011
The End of an Era North of HowardNorth Howard Neighbors Association: In the fall of 1987, Sister Cecilia Fandel of the Servants of Mary Order (founded in 1233 in Florence, Italy) arrived at the Howard Area Community Center to begin her service to the residents of the North of Howard community. It would be the beginning of a 24 year commitment that officially ended with her retirement at the end of June 2011. Over the years, Sister Cecilia has been a dedicated 'community activist' providing leadership, direction and spiritual guidance to thousands of residents. Our neighborhood would be a far different place were it not for her work and commitment over the years.
Posted on July 28, 2011
Chez Violette offers a taste of HaitiBy Megan Millard for rogerspark.com Violetta Adrien always had a passion for cooking, and Chez Violette, a restaurant located at 2311 West Howard Street specializing in Haitian food that she owns with her husband, Samson is simply a dream come true. But the story behind this couple and their restaurant extends further back than its opening date, December 3, 2010. Violetta's love for cooking came at an early age in her native country of Haiti, where it is traditional for the oldest girl to cook for her family. "When people eat and compliment her food, she likes it," Samson said.
Posted on July 21, 2011
Rogers Park Resident Named Artistic Director of Chicago DramatistsCHICAGO- Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago Ave., is proud to announce that Meghan Beals McCarthy has been hired as the theatre's new Associate Artistic Director. A director, dramaturg, arts administrator, and Associate Artist with Chicago Dramatists for several years, McCarthy was chosen after a nationwide search of over 80 applicants for the position. She will assume her position August 15.
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Rogers Park harvests plan for open land that could become urban farmDensely and diversely populated, could Rogers Park on the city's North Side soon be the site of an urban farm? It's an idea getting a serious push, and deservedly so. Capital to build on vacant lots is hard to come by, so why not use the land to grow produce and teach agricultural and business skills? Rogers Park could get a farm at 7501 N. Ashland, a two-acre site that 20 years ago was the home of Lerner Newspapers. Royal Bank of Canada is foreclosing on the land. The city invited developer proposals for the property a few years ago, but nobody responded. Get the entire Sun-Times article here>>
Posted on July 07, 2011
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Hands of the ArtistsNot being an artist myself, I decided to occupy some of my time this past weekend taking digital shots of the hands of some of the fine artists who painted at this summer's "18th Annual Artist of the Wall Festival" at Loyola Park (Farwell and the Lake) during the weekend of June 18-19, 2011. See also, the list of winners and walk by and check out the work.
Posted on June 22, 2011
"Theater with an Accent" Reading: Three Plays @ Mess HallIn the second reading series by Theatre with Accent we are presenting three Short Plays by Mohsen Azimi, Hattie He and Ezzat Goushegir. Director: Azar Kazemi Actors: Bridget Schreiber, Adam Brown
Posted on June 22, 2011
Pratt Pier Times ThreeRegular photo contributor Mark Mullis has photographed and put together a triptych that didn't fit our normal photo format. I think it still worth seeing, so check it out below.
Posted on June 20, 2011
2011 Artist of the Wall Festival"We are pleased to announce the theme for our 18th Annual Artists of the Wall Festival. May the "Wall of Dreams" be all you wish for! Our 18th annual Father's Day Weekend event will occur over the weekend of June 18th and 19th. Applications for space reservations may be downloaded at this site, rogerspark.com, or picked up at the Loyola Park Fieldhouse, 1230 W. Greenleaf."
Posted on June 14, 2011
Concert in the Park - TonightConcert in the Park! June 10, 2011 6:30-10PM Touhy Park, 7348 N. Paulina, Chicago IL 60626 773-262-6737 Featuring: The White Saddle Band,
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My early studio practice explored the sculptural possibilities of cloth constructed around the armature of the body. In recent years I have returned to this strategy in a new arena—the stage. My work exploits the volatile, kinesthetic properties of cloth to energize the visual impact of dancers' movements, expands the three-dimensional contours of their bodies, and geometrically maps their movements through space. Experimental or traditional, these costumes are heavily researched, employing historic models and cross-cultural philosophies of color and materiality as modes of meaning.
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Wine: Winery: Ambiance: Aug 28, 2015
Stopped on a Tuesday afternoon, found the winemaker at the counter, and had a great visit. An interesting guy with a passion for wine making. They import grapes from other parts of the country, and surprisingly - only 1 Muscadine in the crowd. The wines were unique, maybe not for most wine drinkers (done dry mostly) - but did have something for everyone's taste. The building and grounds were pleasant - I could see visiting and taking a bottle outside for the evening. Put Vizzini on your list for sure!
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Favorite Wine: I don't think I had one
I visited there several years ago and can't really remember anything, so that should tell you what I thought of it, however we did have lunch there and I remember that it was quite good. The grapes are imported, and I'm just not much a fan of anything not made in their local climate
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Wine: Winery: Ambiance: Aug 11, 2011
There were only 4 wines offered the day we were there; hard to get a good idea of their offerings based on that.
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Oscars commercials continue trend of political advertisements
The Academy Awards commercials reflected the country's politically-charged atmosphere.
Simplicity ruled this year's Oscars fashion
Sharply dressed stars like Brie Larson and Alicia Vikander won on and off the red carpet.
'Oscar Who?': A Film Special Issue
The Arts & Living section of the Daily Collegian looks at a broad spectrum of film largely overlooked by the 88th Academy Awards.
The Collegian live tweets the Oscars
The Daily Collegian will provide live updates of the 2016 Oscars Ceremony. Follow along with #OscarsMDC
'Birdman' brings home the gold at the 2015 Oscars
The 87th annual Academy Awards get it right, mostly, in Sunday night's ceremony.
Whitewashed Oscars cause recognition drought for actors of color in roles of empowerment
From Sidney Poitier to David Oyelowo, Academy snubs black actors in positions of power.
The Oscars: A history of snubs and mistakes
Year after year the Academy overlooks film's greatest talents and their work.
The Collegian's live Oscars coverage
The Masschusetts Daily Collegian covers the Oscars live on Twitter using the hashtag #OscarsMDC.
Oscar-nominated live shorts offer ample emotion and artistry in the space of a few frames
The under watched gems discuss thought provoking themes.
'Birdman:' a sure-fire hit at the Oscars
Keaton delivers performance of the year.
Awards shows should not honor abusers
Elise Martorano explains how honoring abusers at award shows gives off the dangerous notion that talent is a justification for ignoring violent behavior.
The winners, fashion and crazy moments from the 86th Oscars
Ellen DeGeneres hosts an entertaining, albeit unsurprising Oscars ceremony.
Stars bring their best looks to the Oscars
Celebrities stun and set the trends for the upcoming season at the Oscars on Sunday night.
Oscar-nominated animated shorts for 2014
This year's Oscar-nominated short films include "Mr. Hublot," "Get a Horse" and "Feral."
People that deserve Oscars that haven't gotten one yet
Emily Merlino discusses actors and actresses who have yet to win an Oscar but she believes have deserved the honor.
Oscars night riddled with tasteless and offensive humor
Elise Martorano decries sexist humor from The Onion, Seth MacFarlane and others, on the night of the the 2013 Academy Awards.
Podcast: Oscars in review
Collegian Correspondent Soren Hough discusses the 2013 Academy Awards with guest speaker Josh Rosenfield of the University of Rhode Island.
Truth be told, "A Separation" will leave you spellbound and begging for more
With a remarkable cast and a breathtaking story, "A Separation", a film that takes place in modern day Iran, seeks the truth in more way than one.
The best and worst-dressed of the 2012 Oscars
Fashion blogger Nia Decailles looks at the best and worst dressed of the Oscars.
Oscar worthy, schmoscar worthy
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Eisenhower cautioned us against the military one; if only Orson Welles had warned us about the vastly more insidious assemblage, the Entertainment-Industrial Complex. Reality has become much less real (and important) in contemporary American society. America is a country that came of age with Industrialization and was accompanied by the creation of a mass media public sphere. More often than is desirable, people's favorite binge show is more important to them than what goes on in the real world.
How does this retreat into a fantasy world evidence itself in our real world politics today? Let's talk about how fantasy has bled into reality and try to understand what it means for the future of our country.
The Rare Book Room at Strand Bookstore boasts an elegant venue, the walls lined with leather-bound treasures from a book hand printed in 1480 to a limited edition Ulysses signed by Henri Matisse, the illustrator, and by James Joyce.
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Other Name: フル・コン; 全面接觸; FLCN; Full Con; Furu-Kon
Status: Completed
Author: Kitahama Kabuto , Minazuki Shinobu ,
Year of release: 2014
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When Otawa Ryuuichi is dumped by a girl because she only likes strong people, he gets really depressed. While watching karate on tv he thinks "I want to be strong too!". The same day he is forced to join a karate dojo.


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Happy Homemaker Monday - 07/15/2013Monday, July 15, 2013
Missed Happy Homemaker Monday last week as we didn't have internet up yet, but boy am I glad to be back this morning :)
I am hoping you all had a fabulous weekend and an even better work and school week ahead.
On to today's list.......
The weather.....Seems the triple digits are back this week and I'm not exactly thrilled, I mean, I did come to Idaho to get away from those temps right? LOL
This is what it looks like, not TOO horribly bad I guess, compared to 119.
Right now I am....Enjoying my morning cup of coffee, sitting on the couch typing this up and listening to hubby sitting next to me as he checks his facebook and tells me the funnies listed on.
Thinking....About next week when my brother and his family arrive in the States, I am so happy and excited though I know that this is a bittersweet and terribly hard moment for them having to leave family and friends and everything behind.
On my reading pile....Two books on raising chickens, Traditional Kitchen Wisdom and a few Amish fiction.
On my TV.....My Portuguese soaps and a few shows online to catch up on.
What I found while surfing the net....British Corner Shop, online store where I can find a myriad of products from England. *sigh*
On the menu for this week....So happy to say that I did make a menu plan and can now get back to normal cooking and shopping. Nothing like being forced away from it for almost two months to really appreciate it. For today I am going to throw in a chili into the crockpot as I still have to go grocery shopping.
Monday - Crockpot Chili
Tuesday - Turkey Breasts with Bacon, Potatoes au Gratin
Wednesday - Beach Street Lemon Chicken with homemade fettucine
Thursday - Meatloaf, Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Veggies
Friday - Crispy Cheddar Chicken w/ Basmati Rice
Saturday - Runza Casserole w/ Salad
Sunday - Fish Fillets with Cilantro Sauce, Butter Rice and peas
On my to do list....
Laundry, it's all been washed and folded just have to put it away
Finish the girl's bedroom
Need to buy two more dressers and a video storage cabinet of some sort
Grocery Shopping
Post Office Run
In the craft basket....Dishcloths for the Etsy store. Been making a few as I have time and it's felt so good to get back to my crochet and knitting.
Looking forward to this week....Getting my house completely finished, and getting ready for my family to arrive next week.
Looking around the house....It's mostly done, like I said just have a few things still laying around that I need to put away, but it's no longer packed with boxes of all kind. My husband is playing one of his space games on Facebook, the pugs are snoring next to us, Miss Lola with me and Miss Bella with hubby. Kids are still asleep and the sun is shining through the kitchen deck door....so peaceful :)
From the camera....
On my prayer list.....
My brother and sister in law as they get ready to leave their whole lives behind and embark on a new journey in the States.
My stepmother and father, after almost 34 years of marriage they are getting separated and it's heartbreaking for me :(
Bible verse, Devotional....
"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,
the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,
3 as long as I have life within me,
the breath of God in my nostrils,
4 my lips will not say anything wicked,
and my tongue will not utter lies.
5 I will never admit you are in the right;
till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
6 I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it;
my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live. - Job 27 1:6
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Oooh I should be able to do HHM more now that I'm no longer employed in the outside world. Yay for SAHMs! xxxxxx so excited. :)ReplyDelete
p.s. you have to try Marmite (from the British website) and peanut butter on toast, it sounds gross but it's divine!ReplyDelete
Just one thing, that British expat's shop looks great, but there's a British Import Shop in the US, in Plymouth, MA, where you can get almost anything British your heart would desire, and you'd not only pay less, you'd save a heck of a lot on postage and time being shipped from the UK. Here's the url. http://www.britishsupplies.com/ReplyDelete
I would love it if you posted the recipe for the fish fillets with cilantro sauce that you're set to make later this week. Sounds delicious!ReplyDelete
Are your family also going to be living in Idaho near you and yours? That is very exciting! I wish my husband's family lived closer, as most of them are in Puerto Rico. I'm glad his parents are nearby but is brother left a few years ago to pursue film music composition in California, so we miss him too. Have a lovely week!
I will HAVE to check out that website of British goodies.ReplyDelete
I love your picture of the cow! Such a great picture.
Your menu looks delicious! I hope to see some of these recipes posted because they sound amazing.
I'm praying for you and your father and step mother, as well as for your brother and his family.
I'm glad to see you are enjoying Idaho. It truly does look amazing. Have a wonderful week.
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I love it.
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Why is Justin Bieber so cute?
Because he's a girl.
best answer in the forum thus far. i knew there was a reason i liked you wrylit.
There is another reason,if I may be allowed to say it.You Are beautiful
yup.. can't top that answer..(except to say he is a Canadain girl.. and ALL Canadian girls are by their very nature "cute")
Symmetry plain and simple.
Wait until he gets addicted to drugs and then to get his fix tries to inject himself with garlic or something and the lumps of garlic will just make him stink and he'll eventually get dark circles under his eyes, and then all of a sudden from outer space an asteroid the size of a house falls on his head, then he shall know gravity exists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Baby Baby ooooh....shut the hell up Justin!!!
You're just trying to beat my answer.
Can I eat it?
go to you tube and you will be surprised at the amount of hate that pours on justine=, poor fellow (not that he knows nor cares). I wonder what makes almost everybody hate him so
good taste in music?
I wouldn't care to listen to Justin, if I were tobe shut off only with his record for the rest of my lifeBut I donot HATE him
it comes up a lot over there! oh please, let this thread die.. and get buried at the bottom of forum threads.
you looooooooooooooooooove him
I suspect the reason for the so-called J.B. "hate" is jealousy, from people who have nothing better to do.As far as cute...hey girls..it's the hair isn't it? Maybe he should try spiky retro-punk. With any luck his 15 minutes will be up in about a year or so. Relax, already.
by bieberlova6 years ago
He is a cutie, but there is always another cutie to take his place. Ever heard of Donny Osmond?
by Steven Escareno13 months ago
It was recently reported by various sites that Justin Bieber posted on his instagram account saying he was going to be the new boy wonder in the upcoming superman vs. batman film. However, later reports says that...
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Do you like Justin Bieber? Which is your fav song of Justin Bieber? Mine is 'Baby ft Ludacris.
by Lena Kovadlo6 years ago
Justin Bieber is one talented recording artist and performer. He is also an all around nice guy. What do you think of Justin Bieber's movie Never Say Never? Are you planning to buy it on DVD? And what do you think of...
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Is Justin Bieber the Next Elvis/Michael Jackson?Why or Why Not?
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who wants to talk about justin bieber
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IDF Chaplain Speaks At HAFTR Middle School
On Tzom Gedalya, the students at the HAFTR Middle School heard from Rabbi Eli Skaist, a lieutenant and chaplain in the IDF and rebbe at the Ashreinu Yeshiva in Israel. Rabbi Skaist spoke to the students about the meaning of teshuvah and suggested that it is a response to Hashem's calling out to us. He challenged the students to think about what kind of year they want to have and told stories about chayalim who answered their call in heroic ways. He made specific reference to two dear friends of his, Ezra Schwartz, a'h, and Rabbi Nechemia Lavi, a'h, who were killed in Israel last year. The students were very inspired to hear directly from a chayal who is defending Medinat Yisrael on many fronts.


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The following are stunning analogue photos of daily life in floating markets in Asia.
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|The Floating Market, Mekhong Delta by Binar Sknoom
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|Pasar Lokbaintan by naugastyle
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Whip was part of the team Seven Men of Death, despite the fact that she is a woman.
As part of this team, Whip was summoned to Gotham City to retrieve the Suit of Sorrows from the Order of Purity. During the attack, Whip was strangled with her own whip, but she managed to free herself and stood against Azrael, the Order's protector.[1] Azrael used the Sword of Sin to cut Whip's whip and then he knocked her out by dropping a big stone crucifix on her head.[2]
Some time later, the Seven were sent back to Gotham City to find and eliminate the reporter Vicki Vale, but they were confronted by several members of the Bat-Family. Whip was confronted by Manhunter and after a long struggle, she was defeated.[3]
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These last few years of healing, haven't only been healing my body. They have been healing me as a person.
I started this adventure being diagnosed with celiac, my health sliding downhill and eventually falling into a pit of illness and misery.
I don't know which came first, the illness or the misery. Okay, that's not true – the misery.
Illness was a wake-up call that I was not happy with who I was as a person and what my life had become. Illness was my opportunity to really take a look at all the shadow aspects of myself, that are hard to look at but mean you can change them.
As I started studying more and more about holistic health and healing the body, I realised that I was going to need to get my shit together – and do the deep, soul-searching healing work.
I have always loved learning new information, and my world view was always shaped by evidence and facts. Before illness, that meant I was a left-leaning science-focused atheist with a very black and white view of the world.
After illness, after really learning what it takes to heal, and looking at the evidence and facts that aren't common knowledge, aren't recognised by mainstream science – I realised how wrong I had it before.
The world isn't what we think it is, doesn't work the way we think it does, and there is more that we can't see and don't know than there is. (Oh, and mainstream science is completely bought by vested interests.)
So I started by looking at me – why wasn't I happy? What could I do to move towards happiness?
I realised I'd been lying to myself about so many things. Who I really was, what I really wanted, even down to the books and music I liked and my hair color.
I realised I was still holding on to guilt and shame and anger and sadness about things that had happened years before.
I realised I'd been cutting myself off from the world more everyday, and I didn't feel safe in the world anymore (did I ever?).
I began to heal my relationships with people – forgiving them, letting go of things, and really letting go of my expectations of other people and way that I wanted them to play their roles in my life. Okay, so maybe my Dad didn't act like a Dad in the movies – but he was still amazing and I was missing out on the relationship we could have by holding onto these false expectations.
I went from barely speaking to my parents, to having an amazing and close relationship with both – and it was all ME! They changed nothing. Actually, after I let all this go and changed myself, how they acted towards me did start to change – they didn't do the stuff that used to trigger me anymore!
I realised that the relationship I was in wasn't for either of our best interests, and I let that go.
Every day, every week I was doing this work. I was watching my triggers, observing my thoughts, working through blocks, changing my beliefs, and getting deeper and deeper as time went by.
All this work sounds like a lot of effort – but I can tell you it's so worth it! This is what we're here for, in this school of life, to learn these lessons, work through these challenges, heal ourselves and then we can help heal the world.
Maybe for some people happiness comes easy. But I had all these mental and emotional blocks that wouldn't let me get there. And now that I've cleared them, it does come easy.
So how did I do all of this? My toolbox! EFT, journalling, meditation, kinesiology and a whole process I go through to workshop it when something comes up (ps. I'm teaching this process in Detox Done Different!).
If you're trying to heal your body and ignoring the mental and emotional work – you're only doing half of the puzzle. They work together, and you need to be healing both.
Which brings me to today. Where I've hit the deepest work I've done so far – past lives. To me, past lives are the deepest soul healing work we can do.
BUT, you have to be ready for it. Because it's hardcore. It's my belief that you have to work through the other outer layers, before you can get to these deepest layers.
If past life regression interests you, and it keeps coming up for you, then it's likely that it's something you need to do and to heal. Ever since learning about it, and the work of Brian Weiss, I've been fascinated and my intuition kept telling me to do this eventually. I met a past life regressionist back in March, and finally the timing worked out for me to see her.
Let me start this off by saying that if you don't believe in past regressions, that is totally fine! I get it. Three years ago I didn't either. But over the last few years, I've opened up to the spiritual side of healing and of life, and my eyes have opened to all the things we don't know, all the things we can't see, all the things science can never prove or disprove.
The only thing I would say to you is: stay open. Don't close yourself off from possibilities or ideas. If you think you know everything, then your only showing your ignorance.
"Wisdom is knowing how little we know." – Socrates
Now, lets get to the juicy bit! The actual past life regression.
We started by chatting about what I've been working on lately – my body is holding fluids and not metabolising them properly, so my body is feeling a little heavy. We also talked about my issues with independence and responsibility, and a feeling of not being quite safe in the world and feeling defensive around others.
She does the regression through a form of light hypnosis – so I'm fully aware of what's happening, fully in control of my body and can remember all of it. Basically, it feels like a deep meditation where I'm talking through it and seeing images in my mind like when I do visualisation.
We start the actual regression, and she asks me what heavy feels like. I say like I'm being pulled down. She asks me if any word comes to mind when I'm being pulled down, I say 'sinking'. I'm in the water, and I'm drowning.
She asks me if I can see anything, I say I can see the sun above the water, and my long dark hair is floating around my head (it's funny, because I dyed my hair dark brown/black for years and didn't really know why).
I tell her there's someone on the boat I have to go back to, that I think it's a man. She asks me go back in time, to when I was safe and things were good in that lifetime.
I can see myself in a cottage, with stone floors and possibly stone walls. It's cute and small, it's cozy. There's a fireplace. It's in the English (or around that area) countryside. It feels like its around the 1600's, give or take a century. I live in a little village.
She asks if there is anyone else there with me. My family is, I have an older brother with dark, shoulder length hair. I have a little sister, although I can't see her as clearly.
Our parents died when I was 12, one of pneumonia, one of a virus. So I did the cleaning, the cooking, and took care of my little sister, and our older brother took care of us and provided for us.
We were running out of my money, and my brother and I decided it would be best if I got married, so I wasn't a financial burden on them anymore and I was planning on sending money back to them as well. He set up an arranged marriage, and I had to say goodbye to them.
I travelled first by horseback, and then by cart and horse to get to the ship docks, where I was getting on a merchant boat that also transported small numbers of people.
I was walking up to board the boat when I saw him. He was a sailor, a merchant man, working on the boat. He didn't see me yet. I boarded the boat, and I was sad that I had to leave my family, my perfect little life at that cottage where I was happy, that I had to go marry this person that I didn't even know, but I was also excited to be somewhere new, to be doing something different.
It was that night that I first really met him. I walked out onto the deck, where he was still working on the boat, doing something with the sails and he looked up at me. He was surprised, shocked in fact, stared at me for a minute, and then averted his gaze. It was instant falling in love – love at first sight.
The next day we spoke. I couldn't see what was said, but just the feeling of being safe and 1000% sure. I could see his green-amber eyes, his sandy blonde hair. I could see my hand on his face. I know that this is love, but I know that I still have to marry this other person. I'm not willing to disappoint my family – my whole life is about taking care of them.
A few days later as we're sailing there's a storm. It's wild; no one was expecting it to be this bad. There's lightning and thunder and rain hammering down. I'm in the cabin, but I know he's out there, working on the boat trying to keep it sailing and not sinking. I run out onto the deck, I guess just to check that he's okay.
I see him, but he doesn't see me. I get hit in the stomach by something that is flying – a boom? a barrel? a crate? It hits me hard, and I'm thrown over the boat. No one sees it happen.
I'm in the water and I'm sinking. I've never swum before. I try to get back to the surface, but the water is insane because of the storm. I stop struggling and give up pretty quickly – I feel like this is easier because otherwise I will just have to go back and give up this man I've just fallen in love with to go marry someone else.
I give up, and then I drown. I know that it's painful and horrible but I don't feel the pain of it. I'm just aware that I was suffocating, I can't breath, I'm filling up with water. I can feel the water filling me up and pushing from the inside out – swelling my body.
Then it stops and I feel relief. I feel myself slowly being pulled upwards, but my body is staying in the water. Then everything goes white. All I see is white, and I'm feeling relieved, but also lost, I don't really know where to go now.
Then I feel a presence that I'm familiar with. It's my guide. (In my life, I do feel this presence beside me, especially when I meditate). I know what the lesson of that lifetime is: I did everything for everyone else, I gave up everything for everyone else, fixing everything for them, serving them, and never made any choice that was what I wanted. I gave up my life and this person that I loved, just to not disappoint my family. I gave up too easily, instead of looking for a solution and figuring it out.
My guide tells me I'll get another chance in a future life with that man, to do things differently. I know that I haven't met him yet, so who knows what the future holds.
After the session finished we were chatting, and she asked me why I got the tattoo on my hand, the anchor. I told her that I didn't really know, I just like anchors. She said, 'you've got him with you on your hand' (apparently the merchant men/sailors all had anchor tattoos?). It's also on the same hand that I kept seeing me put on his face in that life.
I got that tattoo when I was I was 20 – the same age I was when I died in that life.
The day I did the regression, I was also wearing a nautical themed shirt with an anchor on it – actually half my wardrobe is nautical! After 19 is when my health issues got really bad and I started pulling back from life. Ever since I have felt like I was being pulled under, sinking, drowning, and that I've been struggling to breath again, to get to the light at the end of the tunnel (or the sun above the water?). It's felt like swimming against the current to get where I want to go – healed and happy.
And in the last few months, I've been struggling to breath deeply and fully. I've only been able to shallow breath and often find myself not taking breath in at all. It feels like theres not enough room in my body to take in the breath. Now I see why and am working on healing it.
In that life and this life, I am definitely a 'fixer' – if someone comes to me with a problem, all I want to do is solve it for them, to fix it for them, no matter the personal sacrifice or cost to me. I feel responsibility for others happiness.
In this life, I also tend to not be able to carry through with anything that I don't really 100% want to do – I never liked school so I wasn't good with attendance, I didn't like TAFE (it's basically Aussie college), always getting out of things if I'm not really into it. So I've taken on this 'giving up' what I don't want to do to the extreme and always trying to figure out a way to only have to do things I really want to.
But if there's a personal cost to someone I'll stick with it until it's killing me.
I always put other peoples feelings before my own, often keeping my feelings to myself to spare others. I hate making other people feel uncomfortable or unhappy. Which often means I don't express what I'm feeling and follow my intuition on things – and I end up the one feeling unhappy in the end. I'm a recovering people-pleaser and yes-ser.
It also got ingrained in me in that life, that when you leave the warm safe cottage, bad things happen (you drown!) – which is a possible reason for not feeling safe in the world.
I feel like I missed out on something, everything, in that life. In this life, I get stuck on making decisions because I don't want to make the wrong move or miss out on anything.
She helped me change my subconscious associations with all of this, and had me let go of the pain of drowning (lots of coughing and deep breathing!), the feeling of missing out in that life.
After the session I felt light. It felt like something huge had shifted within me. It felt like all my cells had been restructured. It felt like I was different. I felt like I could let some things go that I'd been holding onto. And I felt like I could see the bigger picture in everything, in that life, and in this life too.
I'm still settling into this new me (the regression was a week ago), but I'm excited to see how things unfold – if my body starts metabolising fluids properly, if this breathing issue clears up, if I meet this sailor man in this lifetime.
I hope that by sharing these deep parts of my healing, that it will help you to go this deep too.
PS. Want to go deeper with healing the mental and emotional piece? Join us in Detox Done Different! I'll be teaching all my tools and workshopping through your beliefs, blocks, thoughts and anything holding you back from healing.
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For my last night in town, we went to Mas , one of NYC's best dining experiences that not many people know about. Just from the cocktails that take a solid five minutes to create properly (above my Manhattan with homemade bitters, soaked cherries, and an ice block without a single bubble), you know the food is going to be beyond fabulous.
The patrons are a little older, the linens are stark white, but the atmosphere of the tiny venue is still cozy and pleasant.
As I said, the food is delicious. American fare with unique preperations and cooked to perfection. Ask the friendly staff for reccomendations on the wine because you're likely not to order one of their rare French selections.
After dinner, take a stroll in the Village and you'll realize why people fall in love with New York.Tweet this!


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Breakfast is such an important meal! As you know, we usually have an abundance of eggs from our chickens. I am always looking for new egg dish recipes! Johnsville had a challenge for me this month; create a recipe using Johnsonville Breakfast Sausage and tortillas. I came up with this simple recipe that looks so elegant. Plus it is pretty healthy as these cups are baked!
These egg cups can be made with just a few ingredients. Or you can get fancier by adding spices, vegetables and cheese!
Spray a muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray. Cut a flour tortilla in half and fold into the muffin cup. If your tortillas are stiff, you will want to microwave them for a few seconds so they are flexible.
Crack an egg in each tortilla cup. Add the uncooked sausage and any seasoning.
Bake for 20-25 minutes and the end result is this beautiful egg and sausage tortilla cup! Serve with picante sauce or your favorite toppings!
- 3 Soft taco Size Flour Tortillas
- 6 Eggs
- 6 Johnsonville Breakfast Sausage Links
- Salt
- Pepper
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray.
- Cut the tortillas in half with a sharp knife. Place half a tortilla in each muffin tin, wrapping the tortilla around to make a cup.
- Crack an egg in each tortilla cup.
- Cut sausage links in half and add to each egg cup.
- Sprinkle the egg with a dash of salt and pepper.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until egg whites are set.
- Remove from muffin tin and serve with your favorite toppings!
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Yesterday I ran a post on how to recognize story structure in movie trailers. You can also see it shine through in book jacket copy and, if the reviewer is any good, reviews.
I offer that because today's title might confuse you, at least if you spent any time with yesterday's post. Because today isn't about that. It's about what I have planned in the near-term for this site. Which means, for you.
First off, as we near the 1000 subscriber milestone after six months online, I'd like to offer my heartfelt thanks for your support.
I'd also like to state my goal for 2o1o. I'm one of those self-help seminar grads who believes that throwing it out there is an important step in making it happen. So here goes: I'm shooting for 3,000 subscribers by the end of next year. Double the growth rate of the first six months.
This is good news for you. Because to accomplish that, I need to really jack the quality and relevance of the content you find here on Storyfix. Which is just as important a goal as the number itself.
So count on it.
Also, I could use your help. The best growth strategy strives for referrrals from satisfied subscribers. So if that's you, and if you know a writer who might benefit from this material, I'd appreciate you sending them here. You snag 'em, I'll bag 'em… with killer content.
Upcoming Guests
I've recently launched a series of posts from published authors, who bring a unique perspective on both process and product. If you haven't read the articles by Jim Frey, Jennie Shortridge or April Henry here on Storyfix, then you've missed something special.
There are more on the way. Bestselling YA author and National Book Award nominee Deb Caletti is up next, within the next two weeks. And I have commitments from New York Times bestselling authors Chelsea Cain, Phil Margolin and Lisa Jackson, so look for those within the next couple of months.
There will also be guests who bring expertise in specific narrative skills, such as Bill Johnson on characterization, and Pat Bertram and Carolyn Howard-Jones (see below) on using social media and newsletters to build an author base, as well as their take on writing great stories.
Next Killer Skill Series
Among the most impactful offerings here on Storyfix have been two series — one on Story Structure and the other on building compelling characters. I've been thinking about the next series, and I think I have one you'll like: getting published.
I'm planning a ten-part series on the requisite steps authors need to get published, and in a legitimate commerical manner. Not that I have anything against self-publishing or small presses (doing the latter myself), they're certainly legit. But let's be honest, we all want that New York logo on the spine of our published work. Having been there, I know what it takes and what it means, and it may not be what you think it is.
Look for this to begin in December.
Reviewers Wanted
Not long ago I announced that I'd found a publisher for my next novel, Whisper of the Seventh Thunder. It's coming out in February from Sons of Liberty Publishing, a small but hugely courageous and big-thinking east coast house.
If you are a book reviewer who places reviews on established sites and/or newspapers and magazines, and if you'd like to review it, let's talk. I can arrange to have a ARC sent your way.
And if you're not a professional reviewer, I'd welcome your online reviews to sites like Amazon.com and elsewhere once the book is released. If nothing else, you'll see all the principles I write about here on Storyfix put into play in this story of apocalyptic prophesy gone terribly, inevitably wrong.
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Story Structure – Demystified
Yeah, that's my new ebook, which has been out nearly three weeks now. It's selling pretty well, but the most gratifying aspect of the experience for me has been the reader feedback.
Here's one from Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a published author on writing well, a writing coach and guru, a writing teacher at the university level (see the credits below her quote, pretty cool). I'd sent her the ebook to review, here's her initial response:
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A Case Study in Soft-edge Structure in a Character-Driven Story
On a final note, here's a movie you should see. It's called An Education, with a script by noted novelist Nick Hornby.
Why? For starters, it's the best-reviewed flick out there right now, bar none. And it's worth every gold star it's receiving.
If you're a writer, though, it'll deliver more than a terrific movie-going experience. It's a clinic in story structure, and it's not remotely a high concept thriller. Thrillers often make it easy to spot the Plot Points and the Mid-Point, which thus makes it easy to sense the progression of the four contextual parts. Character-driven stories can be harder to analyze, even though those same parts and milestones are there. You can see them in this film if you know what to look for, and moreover, you can sense how and why they empower this story to greatness.
In addition, this movie is one of the strongest thematic narratives I've seen in a while, and the character-arc is astounding.
It's a case study in serious, even literary storytelling, and I recommend you run, not walk, to the nearest theater to check it out. And take a notepad to jot some notes (sit in the back so you can use the light of your mobile phone).


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Last year I attended a conference offered by the Healthy Medicine Academy called Advanced Cancer Strategies. It was a conference for doctors, given by doctors who are studying new approaches to treating cancer. It's where I learned that an ablation might be a good strategy to treat my lung tumor that was diagnosed as metastatic breast cancer. (I had this done successfully in November, 2012.)
One of the speakers was Dwight McKee, MD. Dwight McKee is a Board Certified Medical Oncologist, and Hematologist, and is also Board Certified in Nutrition, and Integrative and Holistic Medicine. He created some of the treatment protocols I followed in my 23 years of living with cancer, and I have great respect for his work. His talk at that conference was a great analysis of why we haven't been able to find a cure for cancer with the current medical model, and how that is changing. I have wanted to share that talk with you and finally have a way to do that.
Healthy Medicine Academy just introduced a new journal called Cancer Strategies Journal. The inaugural issue came out in January and includes that talk as an article by Dr. McKee.
He says that "Integrative oncology" is an oxymoron. Oncology is the study of tumors and ways to attack them. We also need to consider the person who has the malignancy and the terrain that is the microenvironment within which tumor cells are living. He says "Integrative cancer medicine" is what science is discovering to be the most effective way to treat cancer.
One of the basic ways to alter the terrain of the microenvironment in which the tumor is growing is through nutrition. Healing Journeys has been offering The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen workshops. This year is the first opportunity to experience this popular workshop in South Carolina. Because of the funding provided by the local community in South Carolina, the workshop in Greer on April 13th is being offered for an incredibly low price. I can guarantee it will be a fun, informative, inspiring, and empowering day, and you will love the food. Healthy and delicious really can go together.
If you can't attend the workshop, the DVDs of this workshop offered last year with Jeanne Wallace and Rebecca Katz are available for purchase in our webstore.
In Dwight's article, he says, "The microenvironment is finally beginning to be a focus of laboratory researchers and we are at the dawn of that era. There is a huge amount happening in the interplay between the tumor and its microenvironment, and the interaction of that tumor and its microenvironment's interaction with the body of the person who has that tumor. We are now learning from basic research that stress can powerfully facilitate the process of metastasis in animal models."
You can read the rest of the article here.
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Fr. Roger J. Landry
Domus Sanctae Mariae Guadalupensis, Rome
Sunday of the Ninth Week, Year B
March 5, 2000
Dt 5:12-15; 2Cor4:6-11; Mk2:23-3:6
When Jesus was examined by the lawyer about the greatest of the 613 commandments of the Old Covenant, he responded that it was to love the Lord our God with all one's heart, mind, soul and strength. He then volunteered the second greatest commandment, which he said was like it: to love your neighbor as yourself, saying that all of the Law and the Prophets hinges on these two. But one unasked question that I have always wished that the lawyer would have asked in follow-up that day would have been, "All right, Jesus, what's third?" On the basis of everything he said, did and taught during his public ministry, I think that if Jesus would have said there was a third, it very likely would have been "Understand truly and keep holy the Sabbath day!"
The Sabbath was the cause of — you guessed it — SEVEN major disputes between him and the Pharisees, Scribes Herodians and Sadducees, including the one we read about in today's Gospel. It was on the basis of Jesus' teaching and healing on the Sabbath, as we just heard, that these groups first started to plot to kill Jesus. And hence, Jesus obviously thought his teaching by word and deed about the true meaning of the Sabbath against their misinterpretations was something worth dying for. It was that important for him. Why? I think ultimately because without a true understanding and living of the Sabbath, no one can truly keep the two greatest commandments and be Christ's disciples, i.e., without properly keeping holy the Lord's day, no one can truly love God, himself or herself, or others. Hence since the Sabbath is so important to Jesus, it should be just as important for us. It is fitting on this Christian Sabbath day, therefore, that we spend some time reflecting upon just why it is so important in God's plan.
I was originally planning — since this is a Sunday, and therefore a time in which you have all day to pray and I have all day to preach — to give you, on the basis of my own reflections and those of the Holy Father in his recent Apostolic Letter Dies Domini, seven reasons why the Sabbath is so important, one in honor of each of you! But I don't want you plotting with the Pharisees and Herodians to destroy me… Instead I'll try to summarize the great treasure of the Church's teaching on the importance of the Lord's day into more manageable three headings, three you'll easily remember, in the hope that it might give you something for your day-long conversation with the Lord. We'll focus on how the Sabbath is a great gift of God to man to renew him in faith, in love and in hope.
So the first point: the Sabbath is a gift to renew us in faith. When we think about the centrality of Sunday in the faith, how can we not reflect on all that God has done on this day? Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday and appeared to Mary Magdalene. He then appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus, made their hearts burn when they listened to his revelation, revealed himself to them in the Breaking of the Bread, and inspired them to go share that faith with the disciples in Jerusalem. He then visited the ten apostles in the Upper Room on the same day, and then all eleven with Thomas one week later, transformed his doubt into faith, breathed on the apostles and gave them power to forgive sins. The Holy Spirit likewise descended upon the Apostles and Mary on Pentecost Sunday, the Church was founded, and then Peter went to preach and about 3,000 received baptism.
When we turn to our own journey in the Christian faith, we can easily see the centrality of the Sabbath in it as well. Probably everyone of us was baptized on the Christian Sabbath. Probably everyone of us received the Lord in Holy Communion for the first time on the Sabbath as well. We proclaim the Creed every Sunday precisely because of the link between Sunday and our baptism wherein we or others for us proclaimed this faith in words and we proclaimed it in our death and resurrection from the font. The Christian Sabbath as well is the day par excellence of the expression of the Christian faith as a whole in the Eucharist. While we worship and receive the same Lord at weekday Masses, there is, as the Pope says, something distinctive about Sunday Mass, because it is on Sunday that the whole Christian community comes together in faith to give thanks to God for the wonders of creation (and our creation!) and most especially for our salvation, achieved for us in the paschal mystery we share in the Eucharist. Like God, who rested on the Sabbath in order to contemplate all of creation and pronounce it "good," so the Christian is called on Sundays to look on all of God's marvelous works, particularly the great gift of salvation offered him by Christ, and in similar contemplation of God's big picture for him and world pronounce them good. It is therefore for good reason that the Church from the earliest centuries has called the Sunday Eucharist, Little Easter, because it summarizes for us all of salvation history.
The Christian sabbath is a gift made for man to renew him in faith, but so many men and women today have lost their faith in the gift of the Sabbath. Sunday Mass attendance is only about 25% in the States and about 7% here in Italy. Of those who still attend, a large portion looks at the Sunday obligation not as a gift, but as a sort of religious "tax" on their time by a Divine IRS agent — six days for you, one day, or at least 45 minutes, for me. For most, Sunday has become just an extension of the weekend, a day for diversion rather than conversion, time to watch athletes compete for fleeting championships rather than a time to be refreshed in one's own marathon toward an imperishable crown. Even among priests, seminarians and religious, there has been a gradual secularization of Sunday. Sure, we add First and Second Vespers, a Second Reading and the Creed, but too many of us look toward Sunday as a nice block of time when we can get work done, rather than a day of days in which we can be worked upon by God.
So we need to return to the original meaning of the Sabbath. We find it in the first reading. After God commands the people of Israel, their slaves and their animals, to keep the Sabbath, he gives the reason for it. At first it even seems like a non-sequitur: "For remember that you were too once slaves in Egypt, and the Lord, your God, brought you from there with his strong hand and outstretched arm. That is why the Lord, your God, has commanded you to observe the Sabbath." God ultimately gave the command of the Sabbath as a new exodus to set and keep his people free, free from all types of interior slavery, free in order to love him and love others. This is what the Scribes and Pharisees had forgotten, and why Jesus opposed them so much. They had made the Sabbath a day of slavery, hoisting unbearable burdens on the shoulders of others without lifting a finger to move them (Matt. 23:4). They used the Sabbath to oppress others, rather than set them free. They made it an end in itself — made "man for the Sabbath" — rather that saw it as a day made for man, a means to free man from the burdens of daily life. By his words and actions, Jesus brought the Sabbath back to its original meaning, inviting his followers who were weary and burdened to come to Him, who is the True Sabbath, so that he could give them rest for their bodies and their souls. He restored the Sabbath to its ultimate purpose, to free man from slavery to his material needs, worries and most importantly his sins, so that he can put God first in his life and therefore find his true primacy and dignity with respect to social and economic life. God gave the Sabbath to man so that man, through faith, could give himself back to God and thereby discover who he really is and the supreme destiny to which he is called.
This destiny to which man is called leads us to the second point: The Sabbath is a gift to renew us in love. The supreme calling of man is, in imitation of the Lord, to give of himself in love to God and to others, and the Sabbath helps us to do that. The Sabbath allows us to love God with all we've got and to love others as ourselves. How? By freeing us from most of our daily duties so that we can devote ourselves to concrete acts of love, to loving God and receiving his grace in the sacraments, by spending quality time with Him in prayer (as you're doing today during this day of recollection) and by spending quality time loving the Lord in others, reaching out to those in need, who are elderly, or sick, or lonely, or in need of a real shot in the arm of faith, hope, or love.
Jesus is our model in everything, and he is our model in how to spend the Sabbath as well. When you look at how he spent the Sabbath day, we see clearly that Jesus used to go around doing good on the Sabbath, proclaiming the Good News, freeing all types of captives, and healing those in need. His example provides an examination of conscience for us as to how we spend the Sabbath. The sabbath is not just about us or just about our relationship with Jesus in the restricted sense. The Sabbath is also about going out to the world in peace to love and to serve the Lord, about bringing Jesus, his good news, and his healing to others. You may reply that you don't have the gift of healing, but you'd be wrong. You may not have the gift of physical healing… yet… but, sisters, all of you, with Jesus, really do have the gift of being able to bring emotional and spiritual healing to those with withered hearts. Please don't underestimate how Jesus, through you, can touch people. A simple smile from you can change someone's whole day. A brief phone call or short letter telling someone you're thinking about them and praying for them can be a great instrument of grace. Even just your joyful presence can have an extraordinary leavening effect. And we haven't even mentioned the corporal works of mercy. Listen to the words of the Holy Father: "From the Sunday Mass there flows a tide of charity destined to spread into the whole life of the faithful, beginning by inspiring the very way in which they live the rest of Sunday. If Sunday is a day of joy, Christians should declare by their actual behavior that we cannot be happy "on our own". They look around to find people who may need their help, who … precisely on Sundays feel more keenly their isolation, needs and suffering." These people, whoever they are, are gifts from the Lord to help us learn how to love him, love others, and love ourselves more, and Sunday is a privileged time when we have a chance to grow in this gift of ourselves to Him and to others. Let's not bury this gift, but take advantage of it!
This focus on acts of love leads directly to the third and final point: The Christian Sabbath is a gift to renew us in hope. Our living of the Sabbath is in itself a powerful prophecy of the things for which we ultimately hope. From the beginning, the Fathers of the Church have looked upon the prophetic character of the Christian Sabbath, which was not observed on the seventh day, as it was for the Jews, but on the eighth day. On the seventh day, Jesus, the God-man, rested, rested from all the work he had done, contemplated it and called it good — while he lay in the tomb. But on the following day, the first of the week, he rose from the dead, and, basically this changed everything. They referred to it as the eighth day because it was day of a new creation, after the God-man had rested. The Israelites had prophesied by their observation of the Sabbath of the Lord that God is the Lord of time, of history, and of the Covenant of salvation from slavery in Egypt. They sang about the Sabbath in their psalms, "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!" What obtained for the Jews likewise obtains for the Christians, but Christ upped the ante. We are called to prophesy and proclaim by our living of the Christian Sabbath, the eighth day, that God is Lord of time, of history, of the New and Eternal Covenant freeing us from sin and for Him forever. We are called to sing "This is the Day the Lord has remade, has remade creation, has remade us. Let us rejoice and be glad in Him!"
Rejoice and be glad. This is what Christians are called to do on Sunday, and too few Christians really live this. Too many Christians seem begrudgingly to come to Mass, without smiles, without joys, but because they feel they "have to" be there and fear the eschatological consequences of Sunday truancy. It is not to be this way with us! We are called to live Sundays with joy! The Holy Father spends three whole paragraphs in Dies Domini describing the joy that needs to be characteristic of Sundays. Just like the apostles gathered in the upper room on that Sunday of Sundays and "rejoiced to see the Lord," so we, too, are called to overflow with joy. Listen again to the Holy Father: "If we wish to rediscover the full meaning of Sunday, we must rediscover this [joyful] aspect of the life of faith. Certainly, Christian joy must mark the whole of life, and not just one day of the week. But in virtue of its significance as the day of the Risen Lord, celebrating God's work of creation and "new creation", Sunday is the day of joy in a very special way, indeed the day most suitable for learning how to rejoice and to rediscover the true nature and deep roots of joy." Sunday is the day we learn how to rejoice and resdiscover the source of our joy, who is Jesus, who has conquered sin and death once and for all and has invited us to share in the spoils of this victory. Sunday, therefore, is a time for celebration, a day given by God to men and women for us to celebrate and rejoice in the greatest event of all time, which happened out of love for us.
Ultimately, the way we live Sunday is what we prophesy about the faith. Sunday is a gift of God to us so that we can anticipate heaven, and we should live Sunday the way we hope to live in heaven, when every tear will be wiped away, when all our needs will be left here in this valley of tears, and when we can spend eternity in the loving presence of God in heaven. Sunday is a day on which we can put into reality our belief in the communion of saints here on earth, so that we can come together with others and worship God here in this world, in preparation, we hope, for doing so eternally in heaven. It is also a day on which we can anticipate, with St. Therese, spending eternity doing good upon earth. If this is what we hope to do on that eternal eighth day, the eighth day that will know no evening, we can start here on earth, showering those who need it with roses and so many other acts of love.
The Holy Father says that "as a day of prayer, communion and joy, Sunday resounds throughout society, emanating vital energies and reasons for hope. Sunday is the proclamation that time, in which he who is the Risen Lord of history makes his home, is not the grave of our illusions but the cradle of an ever new future, an opportunity given to us to turn the fleeting moments of this life into seeds of eternity. Sunday is an invitation to look ahead; it is the day on which the Christian community cries out to Christ, "Marana tha: Come, Lord Jesus!" With this cry of hope and expectation, the Church is the companion and support of human hope. From Sunday to Sunday, enlightened by Christ, she goes forward towards the unending Sunday of the heavenly Jerusalem."
Sunday is a gift ultimately given to us by God to renew us in faith, to replenish us in love, and to refresh us in hope, until that day when we can stand astride that heavenly altar, beholding the Lamb looking as if he has been slain, and hear him say, "Come, all you blessed of my Father! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you since the beginning of the world!"