Category: Miscellaneous

True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay and needs protection. ~Michael Singer I set a goal at the beginning of 2015 to write one blog post a week. You have’t heard from me…

Community empowers us. Isolation weakens us. Community is a critically important element in growing into conscious elderhood and enjoying this new chapter in your life. Conscious Living, Conscious Aging Ron Pevny   “I’m amazed at the number of groups you…

“The key…is community, which is so necessary for physical, emotional, and spiritual health throughout life and especially as we age. Ron Pevny, author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging For my emotional and spiritual health, after retiring from my profession as…

The special moments in which we individuals receive a grace show how the universe loves to become personal, to incarnate itself in time and space. David Richo   Photo taken by Joshua Thomas of Red River, New Mexico   For…

An intention for 2015: Increase my awareness of the light of grace in the midst of life’s messiness. Linda A. Marshall   On January 1st I posted this intention on my blog. On January 2nd messiness entered my life. As…

Look for God’s realm peeking through our imperfect world. Deb Kaiser-Cross My friends, Kathryn, Sharon, Karen, Jennie and many others speak of feeling closer to the Divine in nature than anywhere else. Jennie, one of my writer friends, writes eloquently…

Recently Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the celebrated memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, posted this Paul Tillich quote on Facebook. I added it to my page noting that the reason my memoir, A Long Awakening to Grace, has that title is because it…

Writers are encouraged to read widely in the genre in which they are writing. As a result, I have been reading and listening to a lot of memoirs. It only recently occurred to me to share the bounty with you….

When the radiance of the human spirit shines through in a transformative way, I am inspired. That is especially true when the transformation happens in the midst of a journey into darkness.   A House in the Sky Amanda Lindhout…

Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn’t. Claire Gillian Fifteen years…