I Have a Light within Me I have a light within me. At least I’ve been told it’s there. I can’t seem to find it. If you know where it is, please share. Is it under my insecurity? Is it wrapped around my pride? Does it get along with my ego? Where is it
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Feelings
Desire is not good or bad. Feelings are not good or bad. Emotions aren’t right or wrong. So much of the pain we feel in life stems from our need to ascribe value to our feelings. Our religions and our cultural structures have created this pain and confusion. We need less judgment and more acceptance.
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Knocking on the door
What you have right now is what you want. Believe it? On some level, what you have right now is what you want. If it’s chaos, you have played a part in creating it. I remember someone taught me that and at first, I didn’t believe it. My ego wouldn’t let me. I had lots
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The Word
I recently had the pleasure of hearing a woman talk about her experience visiting Medjugorje. (For general information on Medjugorje, you can visit http://www.medjugorje.org/) It was lovely and inspiring and a beautiful testament to faith. One of the words that she used is during her story is Invitation. She said she was invited to visit the
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Day by Day
I feel like a bad mom. My daughter has a blistering sun burn. The blisters are huge and they look painful. She is being a trooper but I can tell she is in pain. We went to the pharmacy in Florida to see if they had any advice and they said we should just wait
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Freedom
We read the book, Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, for my book club. I loved it. I didn’t love all the characters and I didn’t always agree with their opinions or their choices but I found the book worth reading. It’s about a family – mostly a marriage. I loved that he named the book Freedom.
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Choices
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices. ~ Albus Dumbledore Quoting Dumbledore is new to me. Until a couple months ago, I couldn’t have even told you who Dumbledore was. I just had a Harry Potter marathon with my kids. Actually, I’m still in the midst of
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What’s next?
I just attended a yoga retreat with Rod Stryker (www.parayoga.com). Awesome by the way. Seriously, good stuff. One of the things he said is that we have one question that we continue to ask throughout our lives. That one question is, “What’s next?” Remember when you were younger and everyone asked you where you are
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Lent
Lent starts today. In my church, this means lots of things. There are lists of what you should do, how you should eat, and ways you should pray. There are times you should go to church (many!) and times you should go to reconciliation. The entire Lenten season should revolve around Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving.