AN AMAZING GIFT FROM OUR SUBSCRIBERS and CELEBRATING our first 10 months on Substack
Of publishing every day, with more than 500 transformational stories and poetry!
Written and published by Chinmayn…
As my way of bringing more Love and Light into the world.
The Dawning Light, Volume 7, Issue Number 536
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AN AMAZING GIFT FROM OUR SUBSCRIBERS and CELEBRATING 10 MONTHS ON SUBSTACK
This Sunday, October 22 marks our first ten months of publishing every day, with over 500 transformational stories and poetry sent to our wonderful family of subscribers
AN AMAZING GIFT FROM “DAWNING LIGHT” SUBSCRIBERS EXPRESSING HEARTFELT APPRECIATION
One of the truths of being a published writer is that you rarely know all the ways your work is affecting your readers.
A few months ago, I gave a year’s subscription to “The Dawning Light” to a man and his wife when they came to Still Mountain to look at a trailer we were selling.
I could see that both of them were going through a rough patch in their life, and believed that reading our newsletter each morning could be of help to them.
Recently, the husband called to ask if he could come back to Still Mountain to meet with me and give us a gift.
A few mornings later, he arrived for our meeting which became a powerful sharing for both of us.
He told me that reading “The Dawning Light” was a lifesaver for both himself and his wife because there was something important that they could learn or apply to their life in every issue.
He thanked me for this work and being a loving person who is dedicated to serving others in any way I can.
Then he handed me the gifts he had brought…a beautiful gourd vase he had made and a white envelope, which I thought contained a card.
We were so deep in our heart sharing that I just glanced In the envelope and saw the corner of a hundred dollar bill.
I thanked him for the generous gift and was deeply touched because this was the first offering anyone has given to help support this work.
I have been serving as a spiritual teacher and counselor since being asked by Kalu Rinpoche to take up this way of serving people over 40 years ago….
and I was able to serve the husband with some insight and simple practices that the husband and wife can use to clear through the challenges in their relationship.
It was a high vibration, heart opening and tearful meeting which we closed with a long loving hug.
It wasn’t until after he left that I opened the white envelope and discovered that he had given us 5 crisp new $100 dollar bills!
It was a major moment for me, for I was humbled by his generosity, blessed by being appreciated and encouraged by it.
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LAUNCHING “The Dawning Light” REQUIRED Faith in Myself and this Work, Courage and Unstoppable Determination
In a lot of ways, finding Substack and finally creating a vehicle for publishing my writing was like leaping off a high cliff on a dark and foggy night.
It was a “now or never” situation.
It was time to turn my dream into reality.
It was time to give my writing a space where it could be read by almost anyone in the world…
And starting to do the work that it was created for, which is to help people through inspiration and sharing the knowledge and the tools I have gained from a lifetime of training with my teachers and pursuing the spiritual path.
I had to push through a vast thunderstorm of opposing inner and outer forces that had been keeping me stuck and stymied for years.
When I launched “The Dawning Light” newsletter 10 months ago by publishing our first story, I had no idea how challenging and rewarding this journey was going to be.
I am grateful to myself for finally taking the leap.
Now that I have been working on this newsletter every day for over 300 days, I have tasted the rewards of persevering through obstacle and begin to see the greater possibilities….
This is the work I was born to do, that my entire life has been preparation and training for, and that I intend to keep on doing until my last breath.
Even though I have been writing every day for than sixty years, I consider myself as a beginner with so much that I want and need to learn—
How to write more clearly and be more in tune with my reader’s needs…
How to publish, do effective marketing, and keep on growing our readership and community…
How to constantly improve through studying the work of other writers, of listening to my readers and following my own inner guidance.
My heartfelt appreciation to every one of you, my treasured subscriber family for sharing this journey of Love, caring and spiritual growth with me!
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Calligraphy by Chinmayan
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