Perhaps you have heard this wise phrase: "our job is the effort, not the outcome." How often do we embrace it fully? Generally, we want to “secure” the result that we have imagined is the p[...]
Perhaps you have heard this wise phrase: "our job is the effort, not the outcome." How often do we embrace it fully? Generally, we want to “secure” the result that we have imagined is the p[...]
Get a small notebook that you carry with you everywhere and be ready to use it. Begin noting how others on your path demonstrate their hope. Do this for a month. Imitate them, in fact. Ke[...]
The Miracle of Sponsorship My more than three decades on this spiritual path have convinced me there is a mystical element in sponsorship. Sponsoring someone means to guide them, to offer one[...]
1. Look carefully at all the people you interact with over the next few days. Take a moment at the end of each day and write down some reasons you think certain people crossed your path. 2.[...]
I just returned from a wonderful experience in Augusta, MO. I have been facilitating a writers' workshop at the F.R.E.S.H. Renewal Center for 9 years and each time I think, "How could it ever[...]
I was rereading something I had written in the late 70's and it reminded me that I have been saying the same thing for years but unfortunately not always remembering to live the words. In the[...]
Letting yesterday go, whether it was a wonderful day or one that tripped us up, is the only way we can experience the joys that await us today. This is not an easy transition for many of us.[...]
Are you currently trying to make any kind of change in your life? Perhaps you are trying to commit to an exercise program or take time for daily prayer and meditation. Maybe making a life s[...]
There are innumerable personal situations that can cause creeping hopelessness. You have been diagnosed with a terminal illness with only months to live or a parent dies unexpectedly. Maybe[...]
I was at a wonderful meeting this morning. We talked about God's will and life's purpose. The sharings were intimate, as they always are in a setting like that. And the messages were clea[...]