Breathe Love--- Even on a Rainy Day: Joy and Sorrow...

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Joy and Sorrow...

Beloveds,

When we lose our confidence, our jobs, or our homes...

When we learn that we are ill and cannot be cured...

When we find that our sons and daughters or other family and community members have been brutally murdered needlessly...

Or when we say our final goodbyes to Loved Ones...

We Discover what it Feels like to be Broken.

Sometimes, it seems like Sorrow is forever knocking at our door.

How do we pick up the pieces of our broken lives?

We Open the Door to Love.

With Love will come dear, old friends Compassion and Mercy.

They are like Sunshine to the Clouds of Sorrow.

And then, there are the tender moments and times of forgiveness and healing that bring the Rainbows of Joy.

Rarely in life does one travel without the other.

Today Breathe Deeply and Exhale Slowly at least 10 Times.

Through Hope with Integrity, we must try always to find the place within our hearts that allows us to offer ourselves, and others Compassion and Mercy.

Time and time again, it has been proven that even in our brokenness, somehow we can become more Energized.

Somehow, we find the Courage and Faith to Speak Our Truth...

We Reaffirm and Live with Good Purpose.

And through our efforts, we are given the fortitude and new understanding so that we are better able to extend our hands and hearts with Cooperation!

And so we learn that even when Sorrow comes, Hope and Joy visit through simple acts of Kindness and Unity; and are ever-present to see us through disappointment or difficult times; and hold us tenderly with Love!

This We Call Grace!

Today, Breathe Deeply and Exhale Slowly Many Times.

Let Us Honor Our Hopeful Ancestors by

Re-membering....

Peace of mind, body and heart, as well as Spiritual Prosperity Are Possible.

It Is Time for our consistent actions of compassion, cooperation, courage, creativity, entrepreneurship, forgiveness, fortitude, hope, integrity, kindness, mercy, patience, respect, understanding with wisdom and Unity...

It Is Time to Honor and Embrace...

The Gift of Love!

Always, Melony

Rev.Melony McGant aka Miss Mellie Rainbow

Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real). She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth." And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression. She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."

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About Melony...

Rev. Melony McGant Bio

Rev. Melony McGant, aka Miss Mellie Rainbow loves to travel, explore cultures, connect with people, and dreams of a compassionate World with safe, loving communities, equal opportunity with justice and peace for the next seven generations (and beyond) of All the Earth's children.

She truly believes that "peace is possible through compassion, cooperation, courage, creativity, deep listening, faith, forgiveness, good purpose, healing, hope, humility, integrity, joy, kindness, mercy, patience, respect, understanding and the gift of Love!", and uses social media platforms to inspire others.

She is a storyteller, thought-leader, poet, & compassionate communications professional with more than 30 years’ experience in assisting both people and organizations discover and promote their professional or personal life missions. From business and not for profit CEO's to job seekers, elders, parents and children; through deep listening, Melony has quietly impacted, coached or supported thousands of people on their life journeys.

Currently a resident of New York City, Melony has worked as a marketing professional, owned her own full-service marketing firm and was assistant to cultural icon, choreographer and Oprah Legend, Miss Katherine Dunham. She worked for many years as a Labor Services Representative for New York State Department of Labor where she was able to hone her skills as a career/life coach and personal empowerment workshop facilitator; has a BA in Communications from Marshall University, is a Certified Level One Trainer in Kingian Nonviolence (University of Rhode Island Summer Institute), and is a Vietnam era war veteran (United States Navy).

An avid reader, in 2018 she appeared in two episodes of the Great American Read, an eight-episode national television show on PBS that "explored the many ways in which novels affect, reflect and connect us all."

An ordained Interfaith Minister, and author of the coming of age novel "Sunshine & Olivier: A Parable of Love" (IUniverse), which will be reissued for the 20th anniversary of its publication in the fall of 2019, Melony is also the primary author of "The Healing Adagio: A Love Symphony In Five Parts" and the journal, empowerment workbook "Seeker Dreamer: Amazing, Brilliant, Compassionate YOU!" (both published by Authorhouse). Her books are available on Amazon.

Rev. Melony McGant's writing is also featured in several other books, magazines and newspapers including the first edition of The Poetry Cafe (Art for Awareness), W & Art (an international women's premium art talk magazine), African Voices Magazine, MBE/WBE Magazine, Our Time Press, and the Chicago Citizen. Early in her career she was a columnist for The New Pittsburgh Courier.

Her writing also appears in GLORY: A Life Among Legends by Dr. Glory Van Scott (Water Street Press), "Passing It On: Moving Stories of Activists 1960 to 2000" by Bev Jenai-Myers (Archway Publishing), "Go Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to Michelle Obama" (SUNY Press), "The Book of Hope" and "The World Book of Healing" (both by Beyond Borders Press).

While living in Pittsburgh, PA, Melony served on the boards of Big Brothers and Sisters and the Pittsburgh Branch NAACP. An avid supporter of the Andrew Goodman Foundation VOTE EVERYWHERE program, she strongly believes in embracing the values of good citizenship.

She has received the New Mexico Not Even One Service Award, the 911 Red Cross Volunteer Award in NYC, the Pittsburgh City Council Women's Recognition Award, and the Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund Award for Service (MBELDEF).

To contact Rev. Melony McGant, email: melonymcgant@yahoo.com

Breathe Love--- Even on a Rainy Day

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Joy and Sorrow...

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