Ancestral Goblins

My Husband's

Grand Aunt Lou, Great -Grandma, Grandma Anne and Grand Uncle John

1920's Chgo

Grandma Anne's Daughter Virginia (Ginny) Michelon - My Husbands Mother 1956

Last weekend I spent a good part of Saturday and a bit of Sunday scanning in old family pictures into a website for sharing photos with your family.  As I stared at these photos of whom I knew some of the people and some I did not know - I thought - what is the back story?  

How - in the end were these people that I love - able to release themselves...   

What "family stories" kept them from reaching their full potential?  

Maybe they did reach their full potential - accomplished all they had come here to do - "earth" rules are probably much different than "universe" rules - what "we" hold near and dear could actually be a by- product of life and not the mission for which we came.

What are your "Ancestral Goblins" - have you looked at your beliefs and wondered "Why do I believe that?"  Did I get that belief from my family? my friends? society? Who is right?  

Is a good life story more important than the love you leave behind?   

Looking for a recording of this for my ringtone - but don't want to pay 10.00 a month for one paragraph - anybody know where I might find this?  xoxo

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

----from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson.