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2/24/2007
7:36:45 am EST
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Grief Purchase Becomes New Hope
Author: Stacy Smith Segovia Source: The Leaf-Chronicle
Title: GRIEF PURCHASE BECOMES NEW HOPE
Susie Clark has tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise staring her in the face. All of it must be sold by Wednesday.
Despite that pressure, she feels lighter, freer and happier than she has the last two years.
Clark is owner of Body, Mind, Spirit, Mocha and More. At 8 p.m. Wednesday, she will close the store she has owned since July 2005. On March 10, she will celebrate the grand opening of a new store, called A New Beginning, Mocha and More.
The current inventory, with a heavy focus on the metaphysical, crystals, spirituality and Wicca, all must go. Clark's new store will have a radically different focus — Christianity.
"I've had a change of heart," Clark says. "I've gone back to church, gone back to following my path of Christianity."
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| Such A Shame | Feb 27th. at 11:36:28 am EST
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MamaLaiste (Clarksville, Kentucky) - Email Me
I have tried to keep silent on this entire issue, but I can no longer do that. The store in question is Body, Mind & Spirit, Mocha & More located in Clarksville, TN at 1960-G Madison St. They are changing their name to A New Begining, Mocha & More.
Ms. Clark claimed financial distress as the reason she was changing the focus of the store, back the end of December. She asked me to come in and work with her to help her straighten the store out and figure out the inventory and the POS system. After telling me that I would be making a certain amount of money, I worked 72 hours per week--- until I found out that she was only paying me less than $1.00 per hour. I told her that I couldn't do it. She then hired others to come in and try to help her. She couldn't pay them either. Susie's comment to me and other Pagans in the community was that the Pagans didn't spend enough money at her store and with a church on every street corner, maybe the Christians would support her.
This new found spiritual change in Ms. Clark comes as a huge suprise to many. Yes, she does attend church services on Sunday mornings, but what is her life actually showing others? She still lives in an out-of-wedlock relationship, still smokes like a freight train, still cusses like a sailor, still berates the majority of her once-friends and associates, and hasn't really changed anything.
I wish her the best, but not so sure that the Christians will support her any more than the Pagans did.
All of her inventory (mystical related) was sold to Cosmic Journeys in Nashville, Tn this past Sunday.
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| Goddess Bless You ,Suzie | Feb 26th. at 10:37:32 pm EST
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Spirit of the Earth Church (Hopkinsville, Kentucky) - Email Me
I would like to send blessings to Suzie on her new adventure. I visited her store before the switch to Christianity.. its funny, the reason that she gave me for the switch was purely money related. I guess she was trying to be nice, considering our group spent over five hundred dollars in her store that day!
Well to each her own!!!
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| Clearly Not A Convert | Feb 24th. at 9:28:53 pm EST
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Bookworm (Saint Paul, Minnesota) - Email Me
This quote jumped out at me:
"It didn't turn out that way," Clark says. "I had some people on staff that were completely Wiccan. Then there was what the customers wanted. My whole vision of what I wanted to do went out the window."
She never embraced any kind of Paganism. She latched on to some Spiritualist beliefs because she wanted to communicate with her husband so bad. She obviously wasn't thinking too clearly about what the store was about when she bought it, and quickly found out she was uncomfortable with the atmosphere.
I'm glad she figured things out. She'll be happier, and she'd probably be better at serving people in her own faith group.
I do hate the fact that the article had to imply that she got sick because she turned down some dark, evil path. Plus, I have to wonder about a diety that smites you for making a bad decision while in the throws of grief.
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| Follow Your Own Path | Feb 24th. at 8:43:44 pm EST
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
It is obvious that this woman was never a religious pagan of any kind, she just wanted to hold on to her dead husband and avoid the place of his funeral. Operating a store that surrounded her with people and ideas she did not have any connection with clearly made her ill. I would not like to run a christian book store and coffee shop for anything - I would be stressed out and sick within days.
This is a clear example - not of god punishing her for straying from the path as her minister would like, but of what can happen to you if you try to fit into a "persona" that is not yours. I am glad for her that she realized what she was doing to herself and went back to what she believed in. It is a shame, though, that the christians will use this as an example of what happens when you stray from their narrow path.
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| Witch Wars: A New Hope | Feb 24th. at 4:55:30 pm EST
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
"Clark sees a clear relationship between her spiritual suffering and her physical suffering.
Jeff Stark, associate pastor of Clarksville First Church of the Nazarene, says the God he worships is a loving, protective God. While he doesn't believe God caused Clark's illness, he does believe God communicates through people's lives."
If, as diagnosed, she was turning from her spiritual family, as a remedy, it could have been a poor remedy, and could have induced exactly those symptoms.
Is this a Clark of Clarksville? Her move might be politically valuable.
Of course, if she's to return to the Christian Fold, I'm sure that Jesus wouldn't mind, so long as she doesn't denigrate those she used to do business with. She might even keep her back door open to the "Darker Trade."
Drawn is the Three of Cups Upright, where the girls look to be practicing Sangraal: Resolution of a problem; Conclusion; Solace; Healling; Satisfactory result; Fulfilment; Compromise. It could also mean that her store could profit by Sangraal...
Arawn
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| To Each Her Own | Feb 24th. at 3:49:08 pm EST
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Erihu (Sunset Beach, North Carolina) - Email Me
I have no problem with this woman, why should I? She is obviously following her heart. Goddess bless her. It's the whole tone of the article I find offensive. The minister implying (note that he wasn't about to actually articulate the thought) that these ills befell her because of her path really p'd me off. On the other hand, in a twisted way this may be true. I have no doubt that there were people whispering dire warnings into her ear for a long time. If she truly believed that bad things would happen to her if she didn't 'return to the fold' then that's just what would happen. Self-fulfilling prophecy. At any rate, I wish her the best. I was glad to see them interview the Wiccan who was neither raving nor silly. That was nice.
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| A Glimpse Of The Future | Feb 24th. at 3:00:34 pm EST
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Finn (San Marcos, Texas) - Email Me
While this particular woman is a rather sad, extreme case, better than 80% of those start life as Christians and try alternative religions will eventually return as "Prodigal Sons & Daughters." Some of you should consider this story a quick peek at your future. In the case of many of you, the sooner the better.
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| One Line Says It All. | Feb 24th. at 12:42:06 pm EST
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Riding A Pale Horse (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) - Email Me
"Clark says the change is all about being true to herself."
The death of one truly loved can have many effects; it can help one lose their way, or it can help them find it. It seems to me that this poor woman lost hers and was simply looking to excape. Now, down the road a ways, she realized who she is inside; this is not about losing a pagan-friendly shop, it's really about the struggles this woman has been through and finally finding herself again. To think of this as only "losing a pagan-friendly shop" is shameful of us. The true story is that this woman seems to have done what each and every one of us is trying to do, she found herself. Is it truly news-worthy? No, not really, but then either would a christian store being turned pagan, but we'd still see news articles on it.
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| So What? | Feb 24th. at 12:26:45 pm EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
I'm glad she made her choice and is going back to it, but that's not really new. I'm very sorry that a pagan friendly shop is going under.
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| So... | Feb 24th. at 12:26:14 pm EST
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Lora (Leominster, Massachusetts) - Email Me
So if bad things continue to happen to her as a Christian, which religion will she pick next?
*ducks and runs*
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| No Big Deal ! | Feb 24th. at 12:18:11 pm EST
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Libertarian (Langley, Washington) - Email Me - Web
She tried Paganism and found that it didn't meet her needs so she returned to church. From my point of view she needed to be forgiven for something she feels guilty about. It's true in my own life but I have the presence of mind to realize that nobody up in heaven is going to bail me out of my S%$T. I have to turn within and seek my spirit guide there. Nevertheless, I wish her well.
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| Big Deal | Feb 24th. at 11:30:00 am EST
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Candleberry (Port Angeles, Washington) - Email Me
a Christian returns to her church. So what? Where is the news value in that, it happens all the time. The only sad part is we loose a pagan friendly shop.
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