Connect with your Gifts
I was very moved this morning, as I read the “Daily Om Inspiration” newsletter posting, entitled: “Fighting Against our Gifts,” because for me, this is the real jeopardy of our times. Many people have no idea what their gifts are and how their gifts might be used to...
You Can’t Be Neutral …
Again, as I sit down to write this newsletter, I am taken up with the question in my own life, of why I seem to focus on the narrative, that these are the darkest of times and that families have never faced such regressive and oppressive times, as these. I look for...
A Book of Blessings
My attention was drawn this morning to a writing by one of my favourite teachers, John O’Donahue. He was an Irish poet, author, priest, and philosopher. He had a marvellous capacity for nurturing a deep knowing, a Celtic understanding of all living things including...
Autumn Gathers Us Inward
As we come closer to September, I always begin systematically reviewing the story that I tell about my life. September is like the start of the new year for me. It has always been my time to begin making minor, sometimes major adjustments to my life and reflect...
The Passage of Time
In reading Maria Popova in the Marginalian newsletter I began to reflect on what stands in the way of us solidly standing among those we love with hope and promise in our hearts.