It happens from time to time, as it did this morning…..someone comes up to me and says, “I read what you post on Facebook” (often with an encouraging additional comment). Mostly they are names I rarely see on a comment or...
Jordan B Peterson on The Purpose of Memory: “People think that the purpose of memory is to remember the past. That’s not the purpose of memory. The purpose of memory is to extract out, from the past, lessons to structure the future. That’s the...
From a post 11/15/2014…. “And if they ever saw your heart, they’d see too much…..You are treasured, you are sacred, you are His……You’re beautiful……. Listening to WOW Christian mix on ipod and reading some of...
Posted after contemplative prayer classes in 2014…. “…..discovering the work of Fr. Thomas Keating as I have learned about Centering Prayer in a women’s prayer group. “The Silence that is sheer is-ness” ….just learning to be...
Abraham Maslow said that humans NEED peak transcendent experiences with the divine for becoming their fully best selves….. how sad that Western institutions lopped off the top part of his “hierarchy of needs”, omitting spiritual transcendence, and...
For family and friends Bill and I had the opportunity to assist financially on occasion. It’s hard to think how desperate people can feel at times when money is tight or non-existent. In some difficult years I, too, knew the feeling of wondering how we’d make a...
Heard today: “How often is God’s heart broken by our insistence on “playing it safe”…. As if not getting hurt is the most important thing in the world.” Taking a risk, stepping out on faith, being obedient and trusting God when something seems contrary to what the...
Learning to live with transparency can be difficult. Because it also often means learning to live in anonymity and with being overlooked or disregarded. The more I discover, however, the joy of transparency, the less the downside bothers me. It is an exercise in...
Three months before my 65th birthday the news from the orthopedic doctor was not what I expected. Recent foot pain in my left foot took me there thinking I might have a stress fracture. Alas, no. He says I have advanced arthritis in the joint on top of my foot that...
“God doesn’t love you any less when you throw a temper tantrum. He doesn’t owe you an explanation, but he is never afraid of what you have to say. So tell him. It’ll be the beginning of healing.” — Pastor Rick Warren Yesterday in a prayer group, the...
