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The New Year’s ‘Bump’ & Attitudes Toward Change
Here’s why we waste money on new gym memberships and struggle to make change at any time of year.
Here’s why we waste money on new gym memberships and struggle to make change at any time of year.
Too often we rest into the feelings of when we lacked it or lost it. These Advent and Christmas seasons give us more than four weeks to remind us that Divine Love is ever present and abundant.
Joy emerges most dramatically when we experience the full range of life’s feelings. We often experience the greatest joys, the most extraordinary kindnesses, the most exquisite grace, when our lives are at the most bleak, despairing, and painful.
Peace is not something we find simply in the big miracles, like the day of Jesus’ birth; we find it in the everyday movement of breath in the midst of conflict.
Glaring lights that we put in our porches, trees and balconies may bring temporary holiday cheer, but they may also prevent us from delving into our deeper questions, our uncomfortable emotions and our persistent anxieties.
This lovely Buddhist meditation practice showed me that these loves of which Christian scripture speaks — God, neighbor, and self — are inexorably intertwined. They are not felt in spite of life’s challenges, but because of them.
What if we approached change as a process of becoming more of who we ARE rather than LOSING who we used to be?
This many years feels like I’ve earned the right to tell it like it is — I’ve thought about leaving ministry more times than I can count in those 15 years.
Though the goal for most people when they schedule a Reiki session is to alleviate some uncomfortable physical symptom, the practice is much deeper for me. Reiki creates a connection between myself, other people in the Divine in caring, compassionate and…
As I — and my practice — aged, I came to need something else. Rest. Part of that rest became silence.
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