Negativity can keep us in a dark place, and its effects often spread to those around us. Sometimes we may feel justified in our anger over what is happening in the world, yet we must remember how deeply that anger can affect us. Like a virus, negativity can spread quickly, taking over our thoughts and emotions …
Sometimes the greatest spiritual shift begins with a simple shift in how we see. Simone Weil taught that pure attention is a form of prayer – a way of opening the heart. When we see others from a viewpoint of love, they feel valued, worthy, and seen. When we pay attention and see with new …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …