{"id":436,"date":"2013-07-28T23:37:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T23:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesonline.org\/triciablog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2013-07-28T23:37:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T23:37:13","slug":"july-28-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciabatessmith.com:443\/index.php\/2013\/07\/28\/july-28-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 7-28-13 Lessons of Grace."},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday!<\/h2>\n

“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”\u00a0 ~ Francis of <\/i>Assisi<\/i>
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\nFor months now I have had a little tune running through my mind; it was a tune we were taught during Confirmation preparation to learn the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.
\n“Wisdom, Understanding, Council, and Fortitude, Knowledge and Piety, Fear of The Lord”.
\nI know that for almost a year my mind has been searching for more understanding of these gifts.\u00a0 I couldn’t help but recognize that magical number seven and wonder if these gifts taught to me as a youth in my Catholic training related to the seven chakra points of energy from the eastern spiritual faiths.
\nLast year I read “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss when I had questions about chakras.\u00a0 At that time (see 2012 part 5<\/a>) I had become interested in understanding the chakras from the little bit I have read about Reiki healing\u00a0 plus other information on Kundaluni energy and yoga practices for releasing chakra blocked energy.\u00a0 There had been information about specific characteristics to each of the chakras alluded to in the information I had gotten from the internet; Caroline’s book explained these traits to me.
\nI have come to the realization that Caroline Myss is my current Guru.\u00a0 I am continually surprised by how her books and online lectures reveal to me the answers to the questions of my mind.\u00a0 I have just finished reading her book “Defy Gravity\u201d, subtitled \u201cHealing beyond the bounds of reason\u201d\u00a0 as it was inspired by spontaneous healings that were occurring at her lectures related to her work on “Entering the Castle” when Caroline first moved into understanding the sacred.
\nIn “Defy Gravity”, Caroline describes just what I was looking for in answer to my question about the gifts of the Holy Spirit – the correlation of seven Graces to the seven chakras.\u00a0 As an addition to my lesson, Caroline also related the shadow side of each Grace, explaining the seven dark passions (aka the Seven Deadly Sins) and connecting each to its opposing Grace and energy center.
\nIt is with awe and gratitude I accept the answers to my questions and the new understanding that I now have about the childhood lessons, learned by rote, that have just sat in my consciousness without my understanding the why of each.\u00a0 This is my understanding so far:
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