{"id":1242,"date":"2013-12-24T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T00:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2014-07-20T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T19:01:18","slug":"end-of-the-year-and-the-grateful-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"End of the year and the Grateful Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grateful-Dead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1539 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grateful-Dead.jpg\" alt=\"Grateful Dead\" width=\"244\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grateful-Dead.jpg 244w, https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grateful-Dead-220x115.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a> Ojai, CA\u00a0 2014<\/p>\n<p>The Grateful Dead lines from the revolutionary sixties might currently apply to some of us; that &#8220;once in a while you can get shown the light \/ In the strangest of places if you look at it right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The last few months have been a terrific challenge with the death of a parent, family disputes, legal mazes, and work. In my latest book, I write about the growth of the soul, self-healing, and creating a deeper dialogue with the Self. 2013 has created a time to practice what I am teaching and writing about.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all about awareness and using whatever comes our way \u2013both positive and negative \u2013 to integrate and learn from. \u201cLife is what happens when you are busy making plans.\u201d Lennon was right. Family and other duties have made it necessary to put my own writing on hold which is in itself a terrific challenge as I feel more myself when I am writing. Patience has always been the toughest lesson and this past year I have been called upon to exercise patience.<\/p>\n<p>A series of setbacks played havoc with my usual positive outlook. Then this morning which happened to be Christmas Eve, I awoke with this message streaming in.<\/p>\n<p>(I should mention that often messages come through upon awakening from spirit guides of counsel to ideas for stories.) This was the message which came this Christmas Eve morning: \u201cI embrace life as it is, knowing that joy and bliss and faith will return. My answer to such times of challenge is \u201cyes to life!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the major themes of <b><i>Heal Your Self with Writing <\/i><\/b>is that there is always choice. Even when there are times when we have no control over outer events, there is always choice of perspective: how we see and mobilize what is happening, how we learn and grow from all that transpires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0&#8220;Once in a while you can get shown the light<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0 In the strangest of places if you look at it right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Challenges come to test us, to push our souls to grow.<\/p>\n<p>What is required is to never lose faith in this process we call Life. May 2014 for us all be the best of years!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/headshot_logo_200.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/headshot_logo_200.png\" alt=\"Catherine Ann Jones\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ojai, CA\u00a0 2014 The Grateful Dead lines from the revolutionary sixties might currently apply to some of us; that &#8220;once in a while you can get shown the light \/ In the strangest of places if you look at it right.&#8221; The last few months have been a terrific challenge with the death of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}