HELP US CELEBRATE OUR FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF PUBLISHING ON SUBSTACK
We appreciate every one of you, our beloved readers, who make this newsletter into the wonderful and loving community of great hearted, loving folks that it is!
THE DAWNING LIGHT,Volume 7, # 670 Sunday, December 24, 2023
Lovingly written and published by Chinmayan to encourage you to pursue the dreams on your heart to use your talents and abilities to create ways for you to make a difference and serve the world!
All images in this story courtesy of Pixabay
HELP US CELEBRATE OUR FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF PUBLISHING ON SUBSTACK
We appreciate every one of you, our beloved readers, who make this newsletter into the wonderful and loving community of great hearted, loving folks that it is!
This week just before Christmas is very special for us for many reasons that make it very important…from all the preparations for Christmas Day, which we see as one of the holiest days of the year to the glowing expressions of love as the Christmas spirit grows stronger day by day.
This week marks our first year anniversary of writing and publishing “The Dawning Light” on Substack. This is a very big deal for me because it is dream that I held in my heart for sixty years that has now come true in the most amazing and wonderful ways…
The fulfillment of this dream and life long intention to publish my work is better than I ever imagined and continues to blossom more and more every day. That is because of the loving response to my work by you, my beloved readers and Dawning Light family.
When I suddenly discovered my passion for writing in 1964 and started out on this journey, I knew, even then, that I was given this talent as a way for me to serve others…that my prolific daily practice of writing and total dedication to mastering the craft and becoming the best I could be had a divine purpose far beyond my personal enjoyment. I always understood that this work was meant for being shared with the world.
I have written about my journey as writer from the beginning and the birth of what I call “Transformational Writing” in this story: https://open.substack.com/pub/thedawninglight/p/the-birth-of-transformational-writing-1f3?r=1l34hk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true.
During the past year, I have written and published over 600 issues of “transformational writing”.
There have been many changes and improvements along the way, as I have been focused on continuously improving, as I have been learning how this wonderful platform, Substack, works.
One change is that I have added 7 Sections to “The Dawning Light”, with the goal of organizing our stories by subject so you, dear reader, can find them easily.
Now when you go to our home page at TheDawningLight.substack.com
Which is the library of all my published stories, you will find all the sections listed on the navigation bar at the top of the page. By clicking on the section name, all the stories published in that section will be displayed. I think it is a cool feature and I believe you will too!
The Dawning Light Newsletter’s Sections
Here are all the Sections—-
Journey Of The Heart—Transformational Poetry and love songs for the spiritual soul by Chinmayan
Spiritual Soup Kitchen—practical, simple and easy to apply stories about the basic principles and things you need for traveling your own spiritual path
Still Mountain Chronicles—our daily life and adventures in pursuit of simple living freedom, a life of service and our spiritual path and practices in a small rural meditation center
Prayer Changes Things—true stories of using prayer to invoke and commune with the God…real life stories of prayers answered through divine intervention, miracles, angelic help or inner guidance
Meditation Training Intensive—Stories about the amazing results and benefits of establishing your own satisfying personal meditation practice, including instructions and tips for effective practice by me, a teacher with more than 60 years of training and experience
Revelations and Pearls of Wisdom—Short lightning bolts of 100 % positive energy and wisdom to jumpstart your day with beautiful images, quotes, positive thoughts and aphorisms by Chinmayan that we call “Revelations”
Child Peace Stories—Transformational stories from the heart by Chinmayan and other authors for children of all ages that inspire, nurture and support self esteem, loving ourselves and others with peaceful goodness and confident well being.
ONWARDS and UPWARDS
My teachers have always stressed the power of dedicating ourselves to spiritual growth through focusing on continuous improvement of ourselves and how we live and relate with others and the world.
This principle is now so instilled in me that everyday I seek to keep on moving up in my ability to love and serve, to be more present, more compassionate, more understanding and caring.
In the coming year, now that we have laid an excellent foundation for “The Dawning Light” you, my beloved readers, will see this newsletter getting better and better because I am giving this work my whole heart, attention and effort.
I live by prayer and follow the inner guidance as closely as I can…and I know for sure that we are just getting started on this great journey together and that “the best is yet ahead!”
How You Can Help Us Celebrate Our First Year On Substack
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Right now, we still have only a few hundred subscribers.
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I know that “The Dawning Light” is a valuable resource that is changing lives and truly helping many people because they reach out to me directly and share their stories, which definitely encourage and inspire me to keeping on doing this work and giving it my all.
I need your suggestions and feedback so we can serve you and everyone who needs this work better.
I always love hearing from you, dear reader, and I will ALWAYS respond.
I know the world we all live in and share is going through some very difficult and scary times that is affecting everyone on this beautiful planet.
“The Dawning Light” is my humble way of serving to bring more Love, clarity, compassion and higher consciousness to our world. I am asking for your help with this beautiful mission to serve as many people as possible who can be helped by this work!
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being here on this journey with me!
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
Thank you for being here today!
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