This episode is being recorded on July 5th.  It was exactly one year ago today that I uploaded the first trailer for Spei Lumina — Light's of Hope podcast.  This 20th episode is the season finale of season 1.  I hope that you have enjoyed the podcast and enjoy this episode.  Please leave me some feedback or rate the podcast and show on iTunes.  The show's email address is [email protected]. It's been a very patriotic and political week here in the United States.  It began with the first debates amongst the 20+ Democratic Party candidates running for nomination by the DNC to be the 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate and ended with the 243rd anniversary celebration of our nation's declaration of independence. Of the candidates on the stage for the Democratic debates, only one, in my opinion, spoke with conviction and such positive energy as to speak to the renewal of the soul of not only America of each and every American.  Her words were not words of derision and disdain for our sitting president, but one calling America to a greater duty, a greater response that reaction and anger and name calling.  Marianne Williamson's words and responses that night called us all to the transformative power of love and to the dire need to work for peace in the world. Her message was not just a sound bite of words chosen to speak because they "polled well" nor were they words spoken to pander to large groups of the Democratic electorate.  They are words from the heart, and true to her calling.  22 years ago, she wrote a book entitled Healing the Soul of America, in which she said: It is a task of our generation to recreate the American politeia, to awaken from our culture of distraction and re-engage the process of democracy with soulfulness and hope. Yes, we see there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right. Such is the divine authority of love: to renew the heart, renew the nations, and ultimately, renew the world. — Marianne Williamson - Healing the Soul Of America. Awaken from our culture of distraction and re-engage the process of democracy with soulfulness and hope.  Wow.  Marianne Williamson's quote from 22 years ago inspired the imaginal prayer exercise we are about to embark on.  May this imaginal prayer exercise inspire us to awaken from our distractions — distractions celebrating America's independence with a show of military might and strength and readiness to wage war at any moment, distractions leading us to believe that to seek peace is to be weak, to be meek is to be weak — and explore helping being a part of establishing the peace and freedom of the Kingdom of God. I hope that you will find a spot to relax and get comfortable and join us in setting aside our distractions, hoping to awaken from our culture of distraction, and join us in our imaginal prayer.  The great Catholic Saint Padre Pio once said, "Prayer is the oxygen of the soul."  May our souls be renewed and illuminated as we set aside time for this imaginal prayer.

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