“All That I Have Is Thine”
The story goes that the young man who had left home and wasted his inheritance returned home humbled and grateful. His father celebrated his return without a trace of punishment or rebuke.
His brother was dismayed. He had not left home, but had stayed and served his father well. Why ...
//Witness The Master Multi-Tasker At Work
I heard their honking first. Widening my vision, I saw three geese, one leading, and two walking together, honking as they waddled over the rise to their little pond. One saw me and slowed down to watch me as I jogged/walked by.
We kept glancing back at each other, ...
//Counterfeit Attraction
When I was ten my parents purchased their first home. As soon as we settled in, my dad planted a little garden. Every summer night he would come home from work, change into his shorts and he and I would tour that little garden together.
Now that we have purchased a ...
//Coming Alive
“Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive… then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman
This is one of those quotes that sounds lovely, we may agree with, but then have to step back and ask, “And ...
//Spring Cleaning Thinking
Light does that. It reveals.
What happens next is up to us. Either we can let the dirt remain, or we can clean it up.
Here’s where the many choices, or free will, comes into play. It is the choices of what we want to perceive or think about what ...
//Our Bodies And The Grace Of Movement
Perhaps we forget that since everything that is present is the presence of God, or Mind, or Spirit then what appears as our body and all its parts is not separate from God. Remembering this we don’t negate our bodies and turn away from them thinking that someday we will ...
//Frozen Moments
We were shoveling snow - again. We had so much snow that some of the piles we were tossing snow onto were way over my head. As we shoveled, I thought of my garden buried under the many feet of snow. “Will I ever see it again,” I wondered.
Abundant Moments
Four teenagers went to see a staging of the play called “Our Town” as guests of the show Sunday Morning. The question the show wanted answered was, “would this play resonant with the ‘twitter and instant gratification’ generation”.
After the play the two boys and two girls were interviewed and ...
//Spiritual Inspiration in The Power of Dissolving
The world is dissolving, drip, drip, drip, right outside my window. It’s a January thaw. The temperature has risen above freezing, and when the sun comes out its warmth increases the dripping and dissolving.
The tops of the lights along the garden path have appeared where just yesterday they were completely ...
//Breaking Rules
We were having lunch at a little café during a lunch break at a Utopian Conference where my dad was both a key speaker, and the founder of the conference.
The waitress was either busy, or ignoring us. Either way my dad wanted more coffee and someone else at the table ...
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