A Chicago woman has built a business out of not only helping the environment, but helping to create a bright and positive future for ex-cons.

Chicago, IL – Brenda Palms-Barber has created a unique program that accomplishes two noble goals—helping troubled honeybee populations and helping ex-cons stay out of jail.

Sweet Beginnings, located in Chicago’s West Side, is a social enterprise business that turns former prisoners into beekeepers. This interaction with some of our most important friends in the natural world has a striking success rate.

According to FUSION:

“Graduates of the program have a recidivism rate of only 4%, compared with the national average of 40% and the state average of 55%. Unlike many other social enterprises, Sweet Beginnings is also profitable, bringing in a tidy $9,000 last year.”

Christmas is a day of reflection, gratitude, togetherness, cheer, warmth, giving, and goodness. It’s unique for many reasons, one of them being that it happens one day a year — a birthday if you will. When a full moon occurs, there’s an overwhelming energy that arises. The sun and the moon are in opposite Zodiac signs. And while it proves to be a time of utter charge, it also brings about a sense of balance — the solar yang and the lunar yin are congruous. When the two occasions occur simultaneously, well, that just feels extra special.

The end of a year brings about many feelings. We replay the events of the past and how we changed and grew, and we use our missteps and misfortunes as well as our positive outcomes to pave new intentions for the year ahead of us. We are sensitive this time of year, because there is such a huge transition surfacing.

When you love and accept yourself you allow yourself to shine. When you shine brightly in your truth, you effortlessly attract the perfect matches to you – the ideal partner, the like-minded friends, the fulfilling job, your highest purpose and experiences. Loving and accepting yourself is like turning on your own personal beacon, and from that empowered action everything else can easily find you. ~Archangel Gabriel

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God said:

How can One God be Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omni-benevolent and made of Divine Simplicity? None of these are thinking abilities. I do not have to remember. I do not make a list. I do not add to a non-existent list, nor do I check items off. This is not an accumulation for Me. I am not an accountant who wears glasses to read the small print. My capability is not a trick. It is not a parlor game. It is not learned. This is how it is. A Moment of Infinity reveals all. In one second, all is known.

You have glimpses of this All-Knowingness yourself. You know your Self. And you know through and through what is called My Self if you but dared to own it and own up to it. As it is, you may let My capability slip through your fingers.

I zero in on all of My Children in one Second of Infinity. I do not have to remember, nor do I forget. You may choose to call this Simple Awareness of Mine the Mind of God, if you like, yet this is more like the Heart of God, the Realization of God, the Love of God for All of Creation which is ultimately My Very Self which you ultimately are. All the Awareness I AM, you ARE. Otherwise, what else can that We Are One possibly mean?

It is not that you have Me. You don’t have Me. I am not something you picked up at the corner store. You are My Very Self. We travel in Infinity together although there is simply One of Us, One One.