Hello Everyone, I shared this experience on our LS Call today, but I’d like to share it on this Community Board also. When Gary and Linda spoke about the Serenity Prayer on last month’s LS Call, I heard especially the words of Gary’s version on this prayer about giving the gifts I was born to give. What I’ve connected even deeper, is how challenging fps opens the channel, not just to awareness of those gifts, but also to the opportunity to share those gifts with others. My youngest daughter is an English teacher in a small, rural community in Indiana. Most of the children she teaches are from one parent families who struggle with many of life’s challenges. She had added a book called the “Glass Castle” to her reading list. It is about rising above being a “victim”, and asked me to speak to her freshman classes about my struggles growing up in a “dysfunctional” family. At first I was delighted and excited to talk with her students. A lp was active about the opportunity to share with these young people. But slowly fps began to creep into my thoughts – I had just returned from a trip to the west coast and I was still somewhat jet lagged and tired, I had to drive 3 hours one way to get to her school, what would I have to share with freshman high school students,…there were more, but all fps that wanted me to doubt that what I could share with them was that important. I knew pretty quickly they were fps, I felt pressure in my chest and solar plexus, but I made the choice to not follow their directive. I set my intention to do my best, and prayed/asked for support from my spiritual guides and teachers, and was excited to see what would happen. What a powerful, generous, loving response I got from the Universe! I spoke with 65-70 young men and women that day. I talked with them about how learning to create authentic power had changed my life. I talked about having choices, about being more than a personality, about the true purpose of our lives here on earth. I took 30 copies of the Authentic Power Guidelines with me and just offered them as the tools which helped me see what was possible in my own life. We had to make more copies twice; almost everyone wanted one. After I spoke, many of the students came up afterward and wanted to continue to share with me about their lives and challenges. One young man talked with me for about 20 minutes, sharing how he had recently overcome drug and alcohol addiction, that his mother has had little involvement in his life, how his father passed away last year after a long illness. He talked about how hearing that he could make choices reaffirmed for him what he has been trying to do in his life – reach beyond the critical judgments others had placed on him (his words) – or reach beyond the perspectives of a fp (my words). After he left, I asked my daughter if he spoke that much in class. She said “Mom, he never says anything in class”. Wow!!! I don’t have words to describe how I felt. The best I can do is to say that I knew in the deepest part of my heart and soul that I had shared the gifts I was born to give with thes young people. Challenging the fps that would have denied me this blessed experience, reaffirmed for me the power of love to change myself and the world. I am so grateful! Blessings, Pam