Mindful Advent: Sharing Love
This Christmas of 2020 with its “normal” rituals turned upside down may be the perfect invitation to feel into and learn more clearly the infuriating complexity of living out perfect love in an intensely imperfect world.
This Christmas of 2020 with its “normal” rituals turned upside down may be the perfect invitation to feel into and learn more clearly the infuriating complexity of living out perfect love in an intensely imperfect world.
Happiness is often something that glosses over or even numbs unpleasant emotions — suffering, loss, challenge and hardship. ... Joy, on the other hand, happens amidst the discomfort of the challenge and hardship, and is held in tension with tougher experiences.…
Peace is always available, perhaps even more available because of the chaos.
Sometimes sitting in meditation just sucks. There. I said it. People often regale us the stories of blissful, releasing, or enlightening experiences they have. Those times happen, but they are few and far between. My typical practice often starts with the…
The reality is that we all awkwardly learn new things, walk or drive slowly, or just flat out make bad decisions. Remembering that we were once in the shoes of another — meaning that we have been that slow person at…
Mindfulness practices have healed me — both the scars of my past and the wounds of my present — for more than a decade. They have been my life preserver when I thought for sure I would drown. Now I need…
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.
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