Daily Dose (Dec 13 – 16)
Tuesday -- This week we’re invited to let go of the cravings (or wish) for whatever we’re sure we don’t have, but are sure that we need for life to be okay (well, tidy, at least).Here’s my list: My need…
Tuesday -- This week we’re invited to let go of the cravings (or wish) for whatever we’re sure we don’t have, but are sure that we need for life to be okay (well, tidy, at least).Here’s my list: My need…
Tuesday -- Contentment is not about changing, or needing power, it is about being alive and well in our own skin.That’s not easy when we see only the “labels”, reminding us that some part of us unsightly, unrefined, or broken.…
Tuesday -- This week the invitation and the permission to unplug.Which for me means fessing up to the odd satisfaction I get from the rush. And yes, even the stress. And the mental gymnastics; if I stop, if I slow…
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…