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.
Swimming in an enormous body of water reminds you of how small and awesome you are -- all at the same time.
Whether its ocean waves, exhaustion or sharks that we anticipate, our risk-management brains are often, if not always, on high alert when we are thinking about taking a plunge into unknown waters.
Does the "Tyranny of the Urgent" always seem to win? The good news is that there are some ways to get out of this urgency game and focus your time and energy on what you really want to get done.
I transformed judgement into compassion, just by picking up a little recycling.
The reality is that even for someone like me who usually likes change, breaking out of the expected norms and developing new ways of living are challenging.
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