By Mary Sue Rabe | Meetup
We’re taking a break for a little while and will resume our meetings in January 2019. In the meantime, please share ideas on new programs of interest to our group, whether it’s a movie or special speaker or whatever will inspire us to go forward with plans to help those in need now. You can […]
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Ho’oponopono Prayer PODCAST This was an interview that I did with Carla Rieger in the spring, an interview about the Ho’oponopono Prayer and its profound affects on my life. You can listen to the interview or read the transcription below. Time 35:42Transcript: How to Let Go of Years of Negativity Through a Forgiveness Prayer …you two were […]
Continue Reading...By Mary Sue Rabe | Race Relations , Stories
Forgiveness Freed Me from Decades of Burden Did you ever make an innocent mistake as a child that grew to haunt you as an adult? That’s what happened to me. I grew up in a plantation-like environment. There were many African American people who worked for my family, and they were not treated equally in […]
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Rodee was like a second mother to me as she was our housekeeper and my closest companion for the first nine years of my life. She was my best friend and I think that I was closer to her than to my own mother when I was little. She started working for my family shortly before I was born.
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January, this is the time of year that reminds me of another person who “lived on the place”. James was a 55 year old African American man who worked on my father’s land. He was the handy man responsible for putting up and taking down our Christmas decorations for the front of the house. He […]
Continue Reading...By Mary Sue Rabe | Social Justice , Stories , Women's Issues
In the world of healing, what needs to be healed in me is my conflict about race, which began at a young age. A few years ago, as I was applying for a passport, I finally really examined my birth certificate and noticed my father’s occupation listed as “plantationer”, which I do not think is […]
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