This morning I woke up to a thunderstorm out over the water. I grabbed my morning coffee and went to sit out in the screened garage to watch it. I watched the tree across the street. It bent and swayed with the wind. It caught and held, then gently dropped the rain. It let the . . . → Read More: A Tree
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Yesterday's revelation about God giving me what I need, not what I want, was actually bigger than I thought it was. For a long time I had a children's book in my heart just waiting to be written and illustrated. For Christmas my husband bought me art supplies and sketch pads in hopes of getting . . . → Read More: I Refuse …and we pray, and we pray, and we pray….and God doesn't let it happen. Does that mean God isn't listening? Does it mean God doesn't care? Does it mean God doesn't exist? This is the usual line of thinking when prayers go unanswered and feel like they're falling on deaf ears. I know. I sit . . . → Read More: We Pray… I did it! I did it! I did the one minute camel! (Can you tell I’m jumping for joy?) You might think it’s only 60 seconds and, come on, anybody can do anything for 60 seconds. But, ah, this is camel! Lessons of fear and trust reside in camel. Everyday, still, after eight months, when . . . → Read More: One Minute Camel, for “Camel” In a novel I am reading today, I came across something that I thought was quite novel: “Perhaps almost anyone could love, he thought; it was the loving back that seemed to count for everything.” When people are nice to us, do things for us, buy us things, entertain us in their homes, regularly call . . . → Read More: Loving Back When we have been hurt and spend months healing, very often we fight closing the wound. We want it closed and healed over very badly, but it is the finality of what it represents that won't allow us to give over to it. Very often we view it as a final end – a death . . . → Read More: Closing the Wound My teaching philosophy has always been to decide what you want to learn and do it for a few seconds everyday. This worked so well for 35 years in the classroom, that I now use it on myself. I found a wonderful set of “training wheels” to use when trying to learn new concepts – . . . → Read More: Training Wheels I have looked at forgiveness from all angles in the past month. Now I ask, how does one go about doing it? Why can’t I forgive the wrongs done to me? Why can’t I, more than forgive, begin to trust again? The step to achieving the above is to drop the judgement and see through . . . → Read More: How To Forgive A month ago I came across a song that burned it’s chorus into my head. Everyday in savasana in yoga, I gaze up at the ceiling and sing the chorus in my mind in order to lie there in complete and utter stillness. This is the chorus: “I lift my eyes to the maker of . . . → Read More: I Lift My Eyes Today is a day for remembering those who put on a uniform and have the passion to fight for a cause. That cause is us, people they don’t even know. They don’t know each of our lots in life, but yet they are out there fighting for our right to have the lives we have . . . → Read More: Today… |
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