The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr. Here we are at the midpoint of the year and a perfect time to pause and reflect. Are you moving toward the goals you set for yourself? Have you learned and grown from some of the challenges? Have you forgiven and released what no …
Where is she going now? I intend to be one of those older women who is rarely found home at predictable hours, not because there’s anything wrong with it. It’s simply not who I am. I want people to look up and say, “Where is she going now?” Still walking toward bridges. Still exploring. Still …
Synchronicity is the experience of meaningful coincidence. We might be going along mulling over a problem and suddenly the answer becomes clear through a billboard, something someone else says, or other mysterious means. It is part of the unseen mystery of life that surprises us at times. It is the magical, mystical moment when the …
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My friend and spiritual teacher Lorna Byrne asked us to dedicate tomorrow to sending “A Wave of Love” across the world. I love this idea so much and want to support it. So, with Lorna and me, would you do this please? A wave of love across the entire Earth – May 10. With this …
I love this poem by Emily Dickinson: If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain.[i] She suggests that life doesn’t have to be filled with big accomplishments to …
How easily do we slip into abstraction while real people are counting coins at the grocery store? Loud voices are saying, “They just need to work harder,” as if effort alone could outpace rent and medical bills. Then there is the spiritual bypass of saying, “It’s all part of the divine plan,” as if that …
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder… Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” Rumi This quote by Rumi really speaks to my heart this morning. We can easily become discouraged when we look at challenges in the world that are so big that we wonder how we can help. When I …
When the outside world gets angrier and louder, that is when we need the Sabbath the most. It gives us the opportunity to rest in the Stillness and to be held in God’s love. It is an opportunity to restore, renew and reframe what is occurring in the outer world and our place in it. …
Read this slowly. Let it settle into your heart. Visualize the atrocities being committed around the world in the name of justice, protection, untamed power, and spite. Imagine your own home destroyed. Your family gone. Your loved ones called to war, returning in a box. And then ask yourself: Do I still support this? Judy …
I quiet my mind and listen to the still, small voice. I trust the way will be revealed. I allow truth and clarity to come.