Connecting with Joplin, Missouri

I was born at St John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri and my mother's side of the family still lives there.  My family members survived the tornado that shredded a portion of the city on Sunday night.

My heart and prayers have gone out to all who have been touched by the upheavals of Mother Earth in these days of coming together as one in love through "natural" disasters.  The human side of me has staggered at the tragedies all over the world, and now it is personal.  These past few days our TVs have been centered on the Weather Channel for the latest updates from not only Missouri, but the Memphis area where my mom, sister and brothers live.

The human part of me has felt connected by having the Weather Channel on every TV in the house and disconnected when it was off. 

The human-ness sees the tragedy and feels the pain of these life events while the spiritual side feels the energy of hope and possibility that love "IS."

My angels have been showing me that heartbreaking as these events are, they are helping us to come together as one in love to disconnect from the heavy density of the third world dimension of Mother Earth and open our hearts to the love energy of the fourth dimension, bringing Heaven to Earth.  Many of us are literally experiencing one foot in the third dimension and one foot in the fourth dimension as our spiritual-ness experiences transformation.  As each individual opens their heart to love in prayer and gratitude reality shifts.

Even though I grew up (after age 3) in Arkansas farm country outside of Memphis, we spent summers with our grandparents in Joplin.  When I got out of high school I moved there for a few years before transplanting to Colorado.  I loved living in Joplin.  I always felt there was hope and possibility there - and it smelled different.  The smell of Shoal Creek in the summer promised the coolness of its water after a ninety degree day while fireflies sparkled in the woods at Grandma's house. 

Gratitude for the memories and hope for the future will heal the wounds of grief.

I continue to pray for all who have been touched by startling life events all over the world.  Be gentle with yourselves in the coming days to allow yourselves to grieve while holding to the memories in the love of gratitude.  We are a world of survivors who take living and creating something new from devastation seriously as not only a possibility but a given.

If you would like to help the victims of this or any other disaster through the Red Cross, you may click here to access their website to get information.

As my gift to you, you may download the Healing Mother Earth with Love meditation to send love to Mother Earth and her inhabitants.  Click here and follow the directions.

In love and light,
Kate

Note: If you've read the Waiting in the Other Room book you know that a portion of the purchase of the book is given to the Ronald McDonald House on 34th street - within walking distance of St John's Hospital.  The Ronald McDonald House is still intact and the people who work and volunteer there are all okay. 

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