Several posts now I’ve talked about grief from the perspective of losing someone one loves. Grief takes on many forms, though. We can grieve the loss of a friendship, despite no one actually passing but just the friendship falling away for whatever reason. We can grieve the loss of a career – in the moment… Read More
As Christmas approaches, people are preparing their homes for guests. Maybe you’re preparing your own home or possibly traveling to the home of someone you know. Regardless, maybe there is someone who is going to be attending who has just experienced a great loss in their lives. Maybe that someone is you. In that… Read More
One has to nearly stay in bed in order to evade the negativity all around us today. You can’t turn on the news, go on the internet, pick up the phone, or even go out and about in our own communities without being exposed to negativity. I’ve been reduced to actually going to Google to find good… Read More
The following is an excerpt (prayer) from Marianne Williamson’s book, Tears to Triumph. Dear God, I surrender to you the pain that is in my heart. I give to you my failure, my shame, my loss, my devistation. I know that in you, Dear God, all darkness is turned to light. Pour forth your spirit… Read More
Why do we procrastinate on the things that we strongly desire? This is a question I have been confronted with recently. Not that I haven’t dealt with procrastination before, but in reading back over what I did and didn’t accomplish in February, it was blatantly clear, I have been procrastinating. I think just allowing myself… Read More