Daily Dose (Jan 17 – 20)
“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve,” Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us. “You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart…
Daily Dose (Jan 10 – 13)
Tuesday -- This week... what I know for certain is that starting down that path of determining “right or wrong” life, assures the fact that we will avoid (and definitely miss) this life.So. My new year resolution is an invitation;…
Daily Dose (Jan 3 – 6)
Tuesday -- This week we’re talking about Lagniappe ("lan-yap"). (It is an old Creole word that means “something extra”.)It is the permission to receive—to be embrace by—the gift of grace.The gift of sufficiency (over and against scarcity).It’s important to pause…
Daily Dose (Dec 27 – 30)
Tuesday -- This week, we ask the question, "Instead of finishing the year strong, can we embrace the gift of finishing the year soft?" Rested and at home in our own skin. You know... Open to gratitude, and compassion, and…
Daily Dose. (Dec 20 – 23)
Tuesday -- Tell me again the reason for Advent season?What if the power is in the waiting itself, in the awareness waiting creates?Here’s the deal: With awareness comes gratitude, fueled by gladness and joy.With gratitude weights are lifted, and there is…
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…
Daily Dose (Dec 6 – 9)
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.…
Daily Dose (Nov 29 – Dec 2)
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…
Daily Dose. (Nov 22 – 25)
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…
Daily Dose. (Nov 15 – 18)
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…
