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<\/p>\n2007 comes to an end and I have been blessed with many Lessons.<\/p>\n
Lessons primarily through heartache and loss – it seems that is my Journey’s path.<\/p>\n
I do not know what 2008 will bring – but I pray I will bring Love and Light to all I’m blessed to encounter.<\/p>\n
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EDIT – New Year’s morning<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n I had an epiphany of sort and wanted to make sure that 2008 got started on the most positive path possible so am going to edit this a bit.<\/p>\n When I said my 2007 Lessons were “primarily through heartache and loss” I should have clarified that a bit – it sounds very depressing and that is not what I intended!<\/p>\n As I have reflected on the whole of my Life’s Journey, the Lessons that have had the most impact have been those learned upon experiencing personal heartache and emotional loss. I am most certainly not morose and want to be clear about where that bit of self-awareness came from.<\/p>\n To expand a bit, 2007 (and 2006 as well) were life-changing Lessons in cyber relationships. All of my adult life I have been painfully aware of my own desire to avoid small talk and shallow, meaningless relationships. It has never been my forte to relate to people on a superficial level. If we don’t have anything of substance to share with each other, I usually avoid interaction. I brought that propensity to this cyber environment as well.<\/p>\n Funny thing is though many seem to find cyber relationships disposable<\/b><\/i>, to put it simply. My inherent approach in relating to people was, for the most part, not reciprocated. In fact, I found that this media provides those with significant emotional and\/or spiritual wounds a very safe and secure mechanism for pretending to be healthy<\/b><\/font>.<\/p>\n Now some may say that ‘faking it until they make it’ is a good way toward self-awareness but woe to those without discernment and wisdom who find themselves on the receiving end! Being attracted to very intelligent, self-confident and spiritually aware individuals requires a significant level of discernment and wisdom to avoid engaging those who are less than authentic in this new world of cyber interaction!<\/p>\n THAT is my most significant Life Lesson for both 2006 and 2007!<\/p>\n My prayer continues to be that I will bring Love and Light to all I’m blessed to encounter but I’m editing this prayer to add with considerable Discernment and Wisdom!<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2007 comes to an end and I have been blessed with many Lessons. Lessons primarily through heartache and loss – it seems that is my Journey’s path. I do not know what 2008 will bring – but I pray I …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}