A Path of Healing
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After saying goodnight to other students, Megan and her three friends walked back to their cabin. It was late, but they were still energized and stood outside in the dusk.
“Hey, in case this gets hard, why don’t we make a pact to stick by one another no matter what?” Carly suggested. The others agreed. They positioned themselves around the tall stump near the front of the cabin. Each put her right hand one on top of the other.
“I swear on my pink high tops that I will do my best to help us all get through this course,” Stacy began
“I swear on my flute that I will be there for each of you,” Jana added as she looked each girl in the eye.
“I swear….” Carly paused, “on my Uncle Jake’s blessing.”
Megan was left. She had no idea what to dedicate in this case. Looking down at the pile of hands, she blurted out. “I swear on my...HANDS!” Megan could not explain why she said that or what it meant.
The brief swearing in was completed. The girls then raised their hands up from the stump in an arc that reached upward and then to the outside of the circle. In that moment, something happened that each of them experienced quite differently.
“Hey! What was that?” Stacy shrieked. “Did you see the flash of light? Was that your uncle’s blessing? I’ve heard of things like this in science fiction stories.”
“It was like a sparkly rainbow of colors,” cried Jana.
“I didn’t see any light or colors, but everything looked different for a moment–like a ripple…like the way heat on pavement makes ripples in the light,” added Carly.
Megan saw nothing. Instead, she experienced a split second of peaceful openness where she felt expanded, as if her spirit were part of some larger or greater being.
“Maybe it was a distortion in the space-time continuum,” Stacy added, “like in science fiction stories.”
“Yeah,” Megan nodded. She wondered if anyone else felt what she had felt.
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About the Book
Thirteen-year-old Megan is miserable. Filled with resentment toward her younger brother, Zak, who seems to take all her parents’ time, Megan thinks she might as well be on another planet for all anyone cares. When she is sent by her parents to live with her oddball aunt Crystal in Alaska for the summer, Megan feels like a castaway. Once again, her brother Zak has won.
Things begin to look up, however, when Megan meets other teenagers who invite her to a drumming ceremony and soon convince her to go to wilderness school with them. As Megan endures the rigors of training with the group, she is brought closer to her new friends Carly, Jana, Stacy, and J. D.—and she hopes J. D. might one day become more than just a buddy. When the group leaves on an expedition, Megan’s physical strength and emotional stamina are tested as she struggles through the rigors of backpacking, climbing, and kayaking in the wild.
In the exquisite beauty of the natural environment, Megan finally begins to mend her wounded spirit. But just as she discovers her own ability to heal others, she must face her biggest challenge ever.
About the Author
Mary Szczepanski, known to many friends and colleagues as “Mary Z”, is a seasoned nurse whose holistic nursing private practice offers sessions and classes in imagery and several forms of energy healing, including Healing Touch and EFT. Mary has enjoyed hiking, river rafting, kayaking, and skiing both in the southwestern United States and in Juneau, Alaska, where she currently lives.