Category: Reflections
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The wounded heart is the healer
“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.” ― Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging I recently came…
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Life is my monastery
Last night, my husband and I finished watching the beautiful documentary, Into Great Silence, an illuminating look at the lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps. The monks live a simple, ascetic spiritual life, devoted to prayer and silence, Scheduled times are intentionally set aside for walks, conversation and, in…
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Psalm 23 Summer Faith Challenge – green pastures and still waters
He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. – Psalm 23 This week’s activity for the summer sermon series at our church, Decatur Presbyterian Church, is to take pictures of green pastures and still waters. Today, my daughter and I spent some time walking along the…
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21 Day Practice: Day 6 – Stories we tell ourselves
“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” – Pema Chödrön As luck would have it, I came down with some version of the viral crud that’s been going around. The combination of rest, Reiki self-treatment, fluids and vitamins do seem to be helping. I find that when I’m not feeling well, the…
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Perfect just as you are
The other day, I spent the afternoon updating my upcoming Classes & Events Calendar for 2013, and before bed, I spent some time reading Pema Chödrön’s new book, Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change. Over the years, I’ve received spiritual teachings in dreams, and the one I had that night was no exception. I was…
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Got groundlessness? Touch the earth.
“Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.” – Shunryu Suzuki The last few months have been full of changes,…
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We can BE love: reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the people whose example and teachings inspire me. I’ve read essays from A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to my stepson and will also read them to my daughter when she is a little bit older. There’s not much…
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Creating my Pinterest vision board
In my previous New Years’ post, I mentioned that I was considering creating a vision board. Most instructions for vision boards require thumbing through and clipping photos from print materials, then pasting it to a board. I have neither the time nor the inclination to do that, not to mention that the last thing I…
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A New Years’ revolution
Most of us begin the New Year with a list of resolutions that are often broken after a week or two. As a life coach, I know that most of those resolutions are hard to keep because the goals themselves are too weighty. If the goal is simply to make more money, for example, that’s…
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The great migration
16 years ago today, I loaded up a U-Haul truck and moved down to Atlanta from NYC. I had only planned to be here for a short time. I had every intention of moving back up to NYC once I got my life and finances back on track. I couldn’t really imagine living anywhere else.…
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