Fear prevents us from seeing how we can help. It blocks us. We can’t know where the need is because our compulsive self-preservation consumes us.
Category: self awareness
Ambition
There are more of us “everyday heroes” than there are superstars.
Love
Love exorcises the demon of selfishness and replaces it with contentment.
Love is still the answer
Growth
Work was a hustle, I was lonely, and felt like a stereotype of who I was. I learned that I was suffering from spiritual pride.
Rest
On January 1, 2020, I crashed. Well, “crashed” is a rather dramatic word. I laid down. I rested. I surrendered. Many of us had a terrifically emotional holiday season. For me, it started the day after Thanksgiving. Grief came in with the Christmas carols and set up a cot in my heart. With each “Herald […]
Speed
Performance-based self-love is ineffective and harmful. If we are to create a world full of peace, we must start within.
The Spiritual Path
God isn’t walking about here on this earth, swiping his card at the Starbucks.
Life on Life’s Terms
How to do we cope when life tosses a balloon full of oil-based paint into the cogs of our daily groove.
Gratitude
“Gratitude research is beginning to suggest that feelings of thankfulness have tremendous positive value in helping people cope with daily problems, especially stress.”
Practice
My dad is an amateur musician. He started playing the guitar when he was 14 years old, playing along with the Kingston Trio, learning finger picking from Peter Paul and Mary, taking bluegrass classes from the guy up the street, and quietly swearing through Bach. By the time I came along, he was an accomplished […]
