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Martin, the light you shine, the wisdom you write and the truth you share is the most nourishing and uplifting food for the soul. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Today this piece helped me turn a corner especially after this eclipse. Such beauty & love, bless you ✨

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Martin, you are a true blessing to the world. Your empathy does not go unnoticed. People like you are changing the world, one soul at a time. The fight is very real, and all too often, feelings get bottled up and trapped. I just subscribed as a founding member, I hope this blesses you in your continued journey. If you find yourself stateside in New England, may we meet up for lunch! I hope to visit England sooner rather than later, as a branch of my ancestors called County Devon home, before they migrated to Massachusetts in the 1630's!

God bless, Silence DoGood

☕✝️

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Dearest Martin. It matters not to me how many essays u write in a month... I support you because you are You.

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Thank you, Martin, and all 'commenters'--we are all better for the self reflection your words produce. It is always an incredible synchronicity for me to read your essays that relate so deeply personally to what I am experiencing in that moment...Bless you. Wish you had included a third photo of yourself today, yet I can see you, always in my mind's eye and heart. Each day we are new!

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Love you, Martin my man. Such a competent, loving person. So glad you’ve been blessed with the highly intuitive, sensitivity that Y-h has blessed you with. He is proud of the way in which you have chosen to use it. Great insight here, too. Sigh…just super glad Y-h has blessed me with you.

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Thank you once again for a heartfelt writing! You are so appreciated - you can articulate what a lot of us are feeling/dealing with and I feel privileged to have become acquainted with you and your words of wisdom. Love to all <3

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Well said. We are all in a "process of becoming". That is both Biblical, and experiential.

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We all need to keep our distance from "Energy Suckers"!! ;-) I remember quite a few years back one lady kept complaining about her abusive husband to the point that I finally told her that I didn't want to hear about it anymore until she DID something about it!! Saw her a year or so later & found out she HAD done something about it!! Each of us has to take care of our own selves as no one else is going to!!!

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I’m struggling to find a clear and concise definition of sovereignty.

Can someone help me?

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The Janus pictures of you as a boy but with different descriptions really got the point across in a memorable way 👍🏻

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Martin; You encapsulated it so well in how unresolved trauma can affect close relationships. My former husband mentioned our problems were related to unresolved feelings towards my older brother. He mentioned this after we had separated, and as another excuse as to why he was leaving me. I still contemplate his words to this day, because it would have been helpful to have had 'that' stated much earlier in our relationship.

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Thank you sir.

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It seems to me that we are all evolving slowly but surely, in our own way and in our own time, depending upon what stage of development we have reached and the personal challenges we have been dealt. When reflecting on my own life, I like to think that I can now take a more detached ‘40,000 feet up’ view and have sympathy for those who have hurt me (as they had their own demons to deal with), as well as greater thanks for those who have been kind to me. As for my own onward behaviour, I always seem to come back to seeing that it is right to try and comply with the life instructions given to us by Jesus and many others: treat other people as one would wish to be treated oneself. I now understand this means being wary of the many faults and bad deeds of others, without judging them because that is just who they are at this time - not easy. Tigers are magnificent creatures but they kill and consume other animals without mercy because it’s in their nature. Understanding and accepting this point has helped me greatly to forgive both myself and others, and to move on. I like to think that I’m progressing, slowly but surely but in truth, goodness knows. Anyway, thank you for another thought provoking piece, which is much appreciated. Oh and by the way, please just post here what you feel able to post when you can - no pressure at all for an essay a week, month or whatever. If you weren’t to publish another word you would still have my thanks and would still find me subscribed. Bless you Martin. Take it easy. You’ve already done so much.

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Coming to terms with your personal trauma is the primary aim of life in this place.

My parents were both very damaged & troubled people who unwittingly inflicted their resolved trauma on my sister & I.

It was not until my mid-forties that I began to come to some understanding & a further 20 years to fully understand it & its impact on me.

I now understand I came into this life to help my father heal, which by the time of his death he had. However I paid a heavy price during my young years.

Thankfully it now has little hold over me & I can be an effective member of the human species, but it’s taken me a lifetime.

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