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    Reduced to Abundance
    Reduced to Abundance
    Reduced to Abundance
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    Reduced to Abundance

    By Patricia K Ballentine

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    Many childhood experiences tragically set the stage for lives filled with grief, pain and shame. Yet Reduced to Abundance is one woman’s story of beauty as she chose to create her own recipe for healing physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Incest, a shattered family and the core wounds associated were aspects of her tragic beginning. She courageously chose to break family patterns, abandon religious and social norms, and create a life that embraces the essential and purposeful aspect of each experience in her life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatricia Ballentine
    Release dateMay 7, 2015
    ISBN9781513062556
    Reduced to Abundance
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    Patricia K Ballentine

    Patricia Ballentine has been described as an "integrated" artist. With over 40 years of experience in engineering and heavy equipment design, she is also an exhibited artist, inspirational author, public speaker, ordained minister and ceremonialist. She describes herself as having an engineer's brain and an artist's soul. Her passion takes her along the path of reconciling perceived opposites, and her abundant life is a testament to her work.

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      Reduced to Abundance - Patricia K Ballentine

      REDUCED TO

      ABUNDANCE

      BY

      PATRICIA BALLENTINE

      Copyright © 2015 by Patricia Ballentine.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher, except where permitted by law.

      Manufactured in the United States of America.

      Cover work by Patricia Ballentine.

      First Ebook Edition

      This book is dedicated to the matriline, or mother line, within all families.

      With abundant gratitude for the generations before me,

      And abundant blessings upon the generations that come through me.

      I change the world

      And so do each of you

      Reduced to Abundance is my personal story of transformation.

      From Victim of Incest

      To Incest Survivor

      To the Responsible Creator of a life

      Filled with opportunities

      To love more deeply,

      Live more responsively,

      And soar more freely.

      The journey I am sharing with you through this series of poetic essays is not intended to minimize an early childhood experience that is clearly inexcusable. I was sexually abused by a family member when I was five years old. None of the adults in the family took action to remove the perpetrator, or to protect me or other children who were abused. The responsibility to stay out of harm’s way was placed upon shoulders too young to bear the load. The even greater crime was that of being molded into the next generation of secret keepers.

      Incest is a plague that survives by being transmitted through generations. In my case, it was not a blood relative who sexually violated me. It was, however, my mother who made me responsible to stay away from my aunt’s stepfather who lived on our farm. It was my mother, grandparents, aunts and uncles who allowed this man to continue to live as a member of our family. They had their own legacy as secret keepers. I was an adult long before I realized that my mother had also been assaulted as a child by a family member.

      The key to stopping the spread of this plague is not found in the sexual act, but in the keeping of secrets. It is often the victim who, as an adult, becomes a survivor and then a responsible creator of a family environment where the plague is not tolerated. Thus, the pattern is broken.

      I began writing what has become Reduced to Abundance when my mother died in 2005. It was not with her death I felt the freedom to break the silence. That step had been achieved years before. Rather, it was through the experience of her dying that I realized the profound impact my relentless quest for truth, healing, and wholeness had created within her. She died with fewer secrets than she carried most of her life. We shared something that transcended a need to forgive or be forgiven. We achieved a level of empathy, which allowed us to understand each other more deeply. She died knowing I loved her, and that I was authentically grateful that she was my mother.

      Drama and pain are often what draws humans together. As I gathered the pieces of my life into the pages that follow, I realized that my essence was so much larger than the drama I once allowed to define me. I also realized that I could tell my story with an economy of words that were carefully chosen, deeply honest, and reflective of the abundant goodness and magic in ALL experiences of my life.

      Reduced to Abundance

      When all you have taken on faith

      About God on High

      Has been reduced

      To connecting with the Divine Presence in all things.

      When all you have thought

      About wisdom

      Has been reduced

      To knowing in your bones what is real for you.

      When all you have been told

      About when to speak and what to say

      Has been reduced

      To your own authentic words.

      When all you have shared

      As love

      Has been reduced

      To integrated thoughts and feelings flowing from the heart. 

      When all you have manifested

      From a position of power

      Has been reduced

      To a powerful, personal presence.

      When all you have desired

      From a relationship with others

      Has been reduced

      To the dance of the Inner Lover. 

      When all you have felt was safe

      And provided shelter

      Has been reduced

      To essential existence. 

      When all you thought you knew and felt

      Has been reduced

      Through the flames of change and transformation. 

      You emerge

      As the ABUNDANCE

      Of YOU!

      Reduced to Abundance

      Like the simmering pot on my Grandmother’s stove, where nothing is wasted and slowly but surely the complex mixture within is reduced to the absolutely essential texture and flavor, my life has been Reduced to Abundance. Once reduced, the transformation is so complete that often I am not able to distinguish the individual pieces that went into my personal blend. And yet, I know the result is abundantly flavorful, undeniably rich, and uniquely seasoned.

      My grandmother was a farm wife who wasted no energy. Whether she was cooking or sewing, no scrap was too small to transform into something delicious or beautiful. Although she was a devout Baptist (I state with loving blasphemy), she and my grandfather were great magicians. They provided seemingly endless food and shelter, love and support in the best way they knew to an ever-changing household of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

      There were no material excesses in that home and, the fullness of the truth be known, many aspects of this farm life were

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