Galactic Love Reporter Gloria Wendroff ~ The Heaven Letters ~ Raising Your Children ~ 19 January 2012

God said:

Love is meant to be amiable and no-nonsense. For example, love doesn’t mean giving your child everything he wants, and, yet, at the same time, love is not stern. Love gives all it has to give. Give your child all the love you have to give, and that is a lot. Acknowledge your child’s innate goodness and beauty a hundred times for every time you correct him. And hold him on your lap while you correct him.

There is no necessity for your being angry with your child any more than there is necessity to indulge your child’s every whim. Whatever you do or say with your child, do it with love. You can over-indulge to your detriment and your child’s, yet you cannot love your child too much.

M-FLARE: Today at 1318 UT, Earth-orbiting satellites detected an M1-class solar flare (SDO movie). The source is a new sunspot emerging over the sun's northeastern limb.

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CORONAL HOLE: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is monitoring a dark gash in the sun's atmosphere--a coronal hole. It's the dark vertical feature in this extreme UV image taken on Jan. 13th:

Coronal holes are places where the sun's magnetic field opens up and allows the solar wind to escape. This yawning hole is about 120,000 km wide and more than a million km long. Solar wind flowing from its UV-dark abyss will reach Earth on Jan. 16th or 17th, possibly sparking auroras for high-latitude sky watchers.