Venerable Blog — Activism

International Women’s Day—What Her Mother Told Her

Posted by Dawn Morningstar on

We, in Venerable Women,  send kind wishes to you on this day honoring women and girls. May it be a day that leads into another day and then another, until all women and girls are treated with honor, love, and respect throughout the world.

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Blessing Future Generations—Based on Our Choices Today

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Do you feel it—that something big, something new, something grand and loving, is about to happen? I hold that vision and feeling with you, dear one, and look forward to celebrating our interconnected choice to use our free will to love, to be wise and kind, and to bless.

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Expanding Confidence & Consciousness

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The energy of the Women’s March anniversary gathering in St. Paul yesterday was mesmerizing. One of the performing Aztec dance groups led me to a conversation that showed how much power each of us has to expand confidence in another—and inspire greater consciousness, too. A beautiful blend of ages, backgrounds, music, interests, passion, connection, and communication filled and blessed the expansive Union Depot building housing this celebration of women.  Held inside this year, sheltered from what would normally be a bone-chilling day (yesterday was not so cold at all though), allowed women to look one another in the eyes and...

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Dream Awake His Vision

Posted by Dawn Morningstar on

Are we now beginning to see how much more alike we are than different? I believe with all my heart that we are seeing our oneness more—not all the way, but more. Many have walked an unkind, jagged path of separation, wounded and wounding, with tired feet and weary hearts.

The smooth and dear path of love and respect for all calls us toward the future Dr. King saw in his dreams. Let us dream awake his vision. 

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What Our Hearts Long For

Posted by Dawn Morningstar on

If focusing on all the bad news we keep hearing in our country and in our world would help and make things better, then I would focus on it all day long! But keeping attention on the negative, dishonorable, and fearful does not make anything better; it actually makes its influence expand. We have the power within us to shift the energy from fear to love, and it's simpler than we may think.

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