Everyday Grace
Chapter One
The Mystical Wands
The first thing a mystic needs is his or her tools.
When I was a little girl, every August my mother would
take me to the store to buy school supplies. First there was
the important decision to be made about my lunch box. Did
I want Cinderella on the front of it, or ballet shoes, or Snow
White, perhaps? And then, of course, there were the notebooks,
pencils and pens, erasers, and myriad other accoutrements,
such as index cards, Marks-A-Lots, and notebook
dividers. Only when I had all my supplies together was I
prepared to go to school.
Ultimately I realized that tools are essential to almost any
worthwhile endeavor. You don't go to school unprepared,
you don't try to climb a mountain unprepared, and you don't
walk the mystical path unprepared.
What are the mystic's supplies? They are spiritual principles,
much like magical wands in their capacity to turn any
situation into a crucible of miraculous transformation. They
change the world by changing us. The mystic path is a journey
of personal transformation, and while the goal of the
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