Gratitude helps us (allows, encourages, enables us) to see the sufficiency in the present. To embrace the gift of enough.No, this is not always easy. And pain is very real. But instead of looking at what is “missing” or waiting…
This week, we are asking, “What makes you come alive?”Our invitation to pause, to notice, to pay attention, to savor and take delight. And we take that into our work and our play and our rest.Let us use Mary Oliver’s…
Tuesday -- This week we’re talking about stillness as a healing sacred space.It’s so necessary because it feels contrary to the messages we get from the world we live in.What’s at stake here—with the sacred necessity of stillness—is not another…
Tuesday -- We live in a world that depletes us.And we need places to rest and renew and to live—to be refueled.I do enjoy the film; A Star is Born. It’s the story of two people (Jackson and Ally) trying…
Tuesday -- When life feels uncertain or heavy, what is outside of us can feel threatening, and it is no surprise that we do our best to keep insecurity and distress at bay. So, I spend my days believing that…
Tuesday -- “In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” (Thank…
Tuesday -- This week, we affirm that the bottom is solid. An invitation to every one of us, to see and embrace the epiphany of the priest in Bernstein's Mass. His eyes, transformed by God's grace, suddenly notice the broken…
Tuesday -- This week, find ways to pay tribute to our heart.I know this for certain: when we do not pay tribute, without even knowing it, we settle for less. So much less. So, it is not just a question of what…
This week, what if… wired to care, we see in this life, this day, even in the very muddle of the very ordinary, even in the very chaos, the permission to trust our sufficiency, embrace our wounds as they become…
Tuesday -- This week, let’s try May Sarton’s practice. “I spend the first 20 minutes of my morning walking the garden looking for miracles.”Garden, around the block, in the park, through the back yard. What does it mean to sanctify…
