It’s Never Too Late to…Start Something New

24 Nov

It’s Never Too Late to…Start Something New

Christine Black Cummings Uncategorized 0 0

Thank you, Louise Hay and Reid Tracy,

Hay House CEO and emPOWERing communicator

Forgiveness Frees

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.- Louis Smedes

Louise Hay is along the elite inspirers who sit atop the mountain of many who have walked with me on my healing journey. Louise instilled in me the courage to speak my truth after a lifetime of hiding it—and to share it. One result was Black-Eyed Susan—A Love-Child Finds Her Father and Herself (BES), published in 2013. This website, www.black-eyedsusan.com, is part of my publishing package with Balboa Press, the self-publishing arm of Hay House. Thank you, Louise, and Hay House CEO Reid Tracy, who assures your legacy continues to uplift others. I credit and thank Reid Tracy for inspiring my desire to realize “It’s Never Too Late to Start Something New”—including Blogging on my long-ignored BES website.

Blessed to be on Hay House’s mailing list, I paid attention, several months ago, to an email in which Reid noted that authors, upon completing a book, tend to move to what’s next instead of freeing up time to PROMOTE their published books. Reid’s words prompted me to renew this BES Blog…and this time to learn how to use it. My intention is to Blog on a regular basis. My goals are to PROMOTE BES to a wider audience and to introduce and PROMOTE my next two books that Balboa Press is currently publishing and that will be included in a future Hay House catalogue. Stay tuned.

On to today’s topic: The healing, freeing power of Forgiveness…

On a solo healing retreat at Big Bear Lake in 2001, shortly after CONNECTing with my biological half-brothers, Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life opened me to the healing, freeing power of Forgiveness. The following excerpts (edited for clarity) from BES pp. 265-6 describe what happened shortly after I arrived:

I pack(ed) a boxful of books, among them Louise Hay’s, You Can Heal Your Life. I open it the first evening of my stay. Three years earlier, my energy depleted and trying to rid my body of a fungal infection and food allergies, I began reading the book and using positive affirmations. Favorites were, “I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the universe,” and, “My body is in perfect balance. I am healthy, trim and fit.” The next morning I write in my journal: It’s interesting that I still suffer from a number of the physical ailments that bothered me three years ago.

The following is a conversation —on page 266 of the book—between me (Christine) and Susan (my higher self):

Christine: I open the book (Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life) to where my bookmark is still in place. Mid-page is the word, “Forgiveness.”

Susan: You stopped highlighting before you came to these words, “Love is always the answer to healing of any sort. And the pathway to love is forgiveness.”

Christine: It’s as if Louise Hay is sitting in the chair next to me.

Susan: Whatever else you have planned for the month evaporates into the mountain air.

Christine: My new marching orders are, “Let go of anger. Forgive.”

And thus began the accelerated healing that freed me to write a book that was free of blame and that became a JOY to write. And that many have told me, is a “page-turner” and has helped them heal and to CONNECT with biological family—parents, siblings—for the first time.

And so I ask that you consider my questions and add some of your own:

1. Is there someone I am to forgive?

2. How will I benefit when I forgive others?

3. Is it important for me to forgive myself? If so, how?

4. In what ways will forgiving FREE me to better live and give the gift that I am created to be?

I am sure Amazing Grace was at work to deliver from Hay House my package of Louise Hay’s “I Can DO IT” 2022 calendars in time for me to include this photo…and to PROMOTE them too. They are a favorite holiday gift I love to share…a gift that keeps giving…and keeps me feeling CONNECTed to the recipients of my gifts.