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Yesterday, I was struggling with anger at a person over a perceived injustice. I was feeling all self-righteous and puffed up and angry. I’d been struggling with being angry at this person on and off for months, and really was getting tired of feeling angry.  I’d tried just avoiding them and ignoring them. Didn’t work at all: I still felt angry. And yesterday, their name kept coming up and I kept getting angrier and angrier. At my wits’ end, I grabbed my new KJV Bible that I’d gotten myself specifically for the red letters of the words of Jesus, and popped it open to the first red letters I could see.  What did I see?

Matthew 5:38-39 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:  39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on they right cheek, turn to him the other cheek also.

That took the anger right out of me. Here I’d been just making more negative energy and wanting some sort of "payment" for this perceived injustice instead of just letting it go and making peace. And WHAP! here comes the Universe with a message straight to the heart of the matter. I can be awfully dense sometimes, but I couldn’t miss this message. I felt very humbled, and pretty silly to have held on to my anger so long. I went and sent off a nice note to the person who I felt had unjustly treated me, who after all, has her own huge set of problems and issues, and likely enough didn’t mean to "do" anything to me anyway. Even if she did, so what? My creating more negativity surely wasn’t adding anything positive to the world.

Today, I still feel humbled. And grateful to the Universe, God, the Divine by whatever name, for the message and the lessons: Forgive, Create Peace

[tags]forgiveness, create peace[/tags] 

Yep, I almost missed it. Eni Oken has another new tutorial out there. This one is for an ethnic style ring. Go get this one, too. Why? See my previous post on her tutorials for the answer.

[tags]jewelry tutorial, tutorials, ring tutorial[/tags] 

Due to repeated times where CrystalsAndJewelry.com is inaccessible lately, I’m forced to move to a new webhost. Actually, I’m moving CrystalsAndJewelry.com back to my old webhost Lunarpages because they almost never go down.  I had thought to save some money by combining all my sites under a different host, but boy that was a mistake! I guess the old saying "you get what you pay for" counts with web hosting for sure.  And the joke on me is that Lunarpages isn’t even expensive! I must have had a bad brain day when I moved from their hosting. If you have a website, I highly recommend Lunarpages who I’m moving back to. I shouldn’t have left in the first place.

The move should be transparent to you, but there’s a slight chance things will work funny while the domain name CrystalsAndJewelry.com is pointed to the new and better host. If you get caught in a funny thing, try reloading or refreshing, and if you want, let me know it’s giving you trouble. 

The road trip was great. I enjoyed the drive, and adore hanging out with that many crystals and stones and beads. Oh my! I picked up beads I needed for various designs like worry beads, plus restocked on some favorites, like the tumbled stone mixes. I also got some new goodies. Woo hoo! We’ll be getting them out there for you as quickly as possible.