Did you know that visualization is one of the most powerful exercises you can do? There is a book you may be familiar with called, The Secret, and the premise is that what you think about, you bring about or you manifest into your consciousness. “The law of attraction is forming your entire life experience […]
Impermanence. That which is not permanent. How quickly in your mind can you make a list of things that are impermanent? How long would that list be? Answers: quickly and long. That is life. I am always surprised but never really shocked at how my morning readings and meditations flow together. Today for example, my […]
July 4, 2020. A very different Independence Day than many we have celebrated in the past. Throughout our history, this day has stirred up unrest, vulnerable feeling and opened the door (even a crack) to the injustices we still face as a nation as we go about our celebrating, picnicking, and shooting off fireworks. Frederick […]
Yesterday my husband and I drove the second leg of our trip to see my brother and sister in law in Ohio. This is only the second time in our ten years together that we have traveled to their home. As I write this, I am sitting in their sunroom with the glow of sunrise […]
With nothing but time, as the world grinds to a halt to ward off the crippling virus, Covid-19, I have been reading and meditating on the idea of Christ’s second coming. The bible tells us we will not know the time or day and I am beginning to come to a place in my heart […]
This past weekend I had the pleasure and privilege of spending three days at the beautiful Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, with a group of amazing people from all over the east coast to hear thoughts on Encountering Silence from Carl McColman. Carl not only is a prolific author on the subject of […]
I am a sun lover. A sun worshipper if you will. I love everything about it. I adore how each day I am greeted with both a sunrise full of promise and a sunset full of peace, a spectacular show put on by beams of light bouncing off of and through clouds in the sky. […]
On a recent trip to California I took a stroll around the resort where my friends and I were vacationing. Rancho Valencia has some amazingly beautiful landscaping and some of the flowers they can grow do not grow well here in South Carolina. When I returned home and ran my photos through photoshop I got […]
I love angels. I have always believed in angels and can feel their presence in my life. Heavenly angels and earthly ones who find themselves on a mission of comfort, kindness or reassurance. A whisper on the wind, a whiff of fragrance, a glint in the moonlight, a stray furry friend — angels sometimes hide […]
“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’ ‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit. ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always […]
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