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. …
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.
I love the following lines from the eighty’s song, Higher Love by British singer/songwriter Steve Winwood: “I could light the night up with my soul on fireI could make the sun shine from pure desireLet me feel that love come over meLet me feel how strong it could be.” Like many others, I have …
I had an epiphany today, and it feels like a big relief. I’m giving up my role as the morality police. Somewhere along the way, I must have picked up the idea that other people’s choices were my concern and that I needed to monitor, correct, or hold the line for what was right. It …