Kate Loving Shenk

Dear Goddess, An unexpected thunderstorm just came up at 4 am today. Lovely streaks of lightening are illuminating  the predawn sky. The negative ions are a wake up call. They wash the spirit clean.

Let us cleanse ourselves today, take good care of ourselves and bless experiences and people in such a way that nothing that happens is a disturbance.

All things pass.

God never changes.

Om Peace Amen

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Dear Goddess, Rebecca Pearl and I are sitting watching the lightning bugs on my patio around 10 o’clock at night. This night is humid and sticky. Pearl is keeping herself very busy by leaping and chasing not only the lightning bugs but any bug that comes her way.

I am going to try another topic for a 30 day prayer challenge for the month of July. The challenge will embrace all things Nurse Healers.

Then, at the end of July, I will launch the book: Prayer Prescriptions For Nurse Healers.

I updated the book but in reality, it stands on its own. The same topics I addressed in that book in early 1990?s are still relevant today.

Does this mean no progress has been made in the Nursing Profession?

I am about to walk in to two different nursing jobs, two different scenarios, with what I hope is a greater regard for nurses and nursing.

So my month on these new jobs will help to enlighten what it means to be a nurse.

Om Peace Amen

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Dear Goddess, Today I bought a beautiful battery charger/sleek case for my iPhone. The battery charger and phone case act as One. It is called a Mophie Juice Pack!

I just got a newsletter from the Ethics Guy, Bruce Weinstein, and he wrote that those hard working, upbeat and enthusiastic sales people at Apple don’t earn any commissions on the sales that take place in their store.

What? That store is constantly busy. Expensive items are moving out all the time. I saw a man buy the most expensive computer on the market, and I made sure I congratulated him on his purchase.

Apple doesn’t pay out sales commissions to their employees. Pass it on.

Om Peace Amen

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Dear Goddess, Today, we took Pearl to the Grotto Of Lourdes for the very first time! Bill Tronolone, the Director of the Grotto, was not there to meet her. He is a lover of dogs, and loved Ulysses.

I felt Ulysses at his old haunt and I think Pearl did, too. I remember thinking of the evening we had ahead of us, and felt great comfort knowing I’d be spending the evening with Pearl.

That’s how I felt everyday when I thought of Ulysses when he was alive: Great Comfort.

As we were driving through Emmittsburg on the way to the Grotto, I saw a sign that said, “The Rebecca Pearl Gallery.”

I said to Pearl, “How do you like the name, Rebecca Pearl?”

As you can see by her picture, she likes it very much.

So that is one of her new names, including Pearlie, Girlie, Sugar, and Beautiful.

We never know how much time we will have with these Creatures Of Joy. Naturally, I yearn for a very long life with Rebecca Pearl. Yet every moment spent with her and Ulysses before her and Mukunda, too, was a lesson in contentment, calm and Love.

Dogs are the closest species to Human Beings. Rebecca Pearl is wild in her way because of her time of wild dog freedom in Rural Tennessee. She wants us to do what she is doing. Most dogs like to do what we are doing. Pearl likes to be outside all the time. The most fun in the world for her is hunting all day, walking the parameter of the property line, taking swims in the river, all of this all by herself. She eats bugs all day long, as well.

I can only imagine the fun she will have when the crickets are at their height!

Om Peace Amen

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Dear Goddess, Saying goodbye is a moment of sadness, but also of great possibility.

When my Uncle Jack was dying, Tomaso and I went to visit him. We knew we were saying goodbye to him, for now. It never felt like a final good bye.

Uncle Jack said he didn’t know how he would say goodbye to his wife, my aunt, and his son, my cousin. It was an agonizing crossroads for him, and he knew he had no other choice.

Death had come knocking at his door. He passed the very next day.

Leaving my friends at the hospital where I have worked for the past nine years is like a death, a small death, a preparation for the moment of departure from the physical body.

Last week, Sam Small was on my radio show, and the topic was what really will happen when we die? Do we really reunite with our loved ones who have passed before us? Do we work for the good of our loved ones and humanity as well as the intergalactic universe, as part of the work we must do when we pass on?

Will we work with the Angelic Realm to bring peace on earth?

Will we join with the good to balance out the bad?

Will we work for the enlightenment of human life?

The truth is, no one knows. The spiritual gurus tell us that we will survive physical death, and I believe them. But beyond that, I am open to LOVE and the spirit of life that emanates from that beautiful vibration.

Yes I am saying goodbye to my friends, but we will make sure that we cross paths as often as is humanly possible!

Om Peace Amen

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Dear Goddess, As I come to the end of my nine years at Women And Babies Hospital, I am sad and also feel a sense of freedom.

My new Position at Paoli Hospital will allow me to work less, sleep more and create more kindle and print books, and create a business around these creations.

I’ve made so many friends where I work, but since I am neither dying or leaving town, there is no reason why these relationships can’t continue.

Not to say that relationships stop with death, because as we learn from those who have passed on, we are still very much connected to them.

We must open our minds and hearts to those connections.

Om Peace Amen

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Dear Goddess, Pearl is chasing the lightning bugs tonight. She noticed them before this moment, but tonight she’s really having a great time. Seeing the world through Pearl’s eyes is a truly magical experience.

We fixed  a room for Pearl in the basement, where it is cool and quiet. Today I went off to Paoli for a pre-work physical, and when I came home, Pearl had broken out of the room and was hanging out on the patio. Pearlie is an out door girlie. She is like a bull in a China closet whenever she has to stay indoors.

Pearl was eight months old on the 15th of June. I am sure she will always have a wild streak. The infinite moment is alive whenever I am with Pearl and every other dog I am blessed to share my life with. The word that also comes to mind is blessings. Counting blessings. Loving my dog, loving myself. Feeling no pain. enjoying what is no matter what it is.

That is the gift of the canine spirit!

Om Peace Amen

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Dear Goddess, Just when I thought I would let go of the American Judicial System, a Lancaster business woman was arrested for parking tickets, and put in solitary confinement at the Lancaster County Prison.

I just had a long conversation with her at her place of business, and she told me about her experience.

As we  would expect, she had some close and intimate conversations with women who were in prison with her, who were traumatized as she was, but with less resources and would probably end up in jail, again.

I asked her if she would now be a proponent of Prison Reform.

The main thing for her, she said, was that the prison authorities would not give her a book to read and she owns and runs a bookstore herself.

Now she is taking a collection for the Lancaster County Prison to provide books to the prisoners.

We have so many books here that need a good home. I will collect them and donate them to the prison, just as I did with my mother’s books after she passed on.

I know just one book is all it takes to keep a person out of prison. Just one book. Just one word.

Books not only change lives, they save lives.

Om Peace Amen

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Dear Goddess, I have an announcement to make. I have a book that I’ve written called Nursing Career Transformation, or Transform Your Nursing Career And Discover Your Calling And Destiny.

I put that book up a number of years ago on Click Bank, and did sell a number of copies.

This week I have been studying digital e-book publication. It occurred to me that a Prayer Prescriptions series would be the way to go for my e-book writing career.

So because I am experimenting with how to put books up on Kindle, I thought I would use that book to fiddle around with my experimentation.

I renamed the book, Prayer Prescriptions For Nurse Healers, and it will be the first book in the Prayer Prescription series.

Then when Prayer Prescriptions: Spiritual Remedies For Long-Lasting Health, is published, it will automatically gain the momentum it needs to succeed, with promotion, naturally.

I should be able to publish the Nurse Healer book by next week. That is very exciting!

I am skipping with Pearl tonight in all the excitement and this is when we saw the hot air balloon slowly fly over our house!

Om Peace Amen

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