Hanging out with caregivers and church-goers, I am frequently surrounded by people who love to give. Giving is one of the most powerful ways to receive, and sometimes the gifts we get are tangible and life-changing. I received one such blessing over ten years ago when I volunteered to walk a marathon in Amsterdam for […]
Category: Learning To Receive
This blog is intended to create a dialogue about learning to receive with grace and ease. So much has been written about the importance of giving that we forget that in order to give, someone has to be receiving.
We Are One
Thanks to the wonderful Rev. Dr. Mitzi Lynton, Congregant Care Minister at Creative Living Fellowship in Phoenix, I have the habit at year-end of choosing a word for the New Year. This year my word is “One.” (If you would like help in selecting a word for yourself for 2013, I invite you to join […]
A Season for Nonviolence
A Season for Nonviolence was founded by Arun Gandhi and Michael Bernard Beckwith and celebrates it sixteenth anniversary in 2013. The Season runs annually from January 30 through April 4 with the intention to “bring interfaith communities together to teach personal responsibility for creating peace in our world.” Its website notes that nonviolence is “a […]
Promoting Nonviolence
Despite the cheerful decorations and ubiquitous holiday music, my heart is heavy today; perhaps yours is too. The shocking news of children gunned down and terrorized by another young male is all too familiar. It has led me once again to reflect on the pervasive violence to which we’re continuously exposed and its role in […]
Thanks to Wayne Dyer
“You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.” Wayne Dyer If you subscribe to Science of Mind magazine, you’ve probably seen that Wayne Dyer is featured in the January 2013 issue. This got me to reflecting on how much he has given to me over the years. I’d like […]
You Are Not What You Feel
As I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, many spiritual teachers caution strongly about the ways we phrase things. While I agree about avoiding limiting language, I do think the issue can be taken too far. For instance, when it comes to weight loss, some say we should “release” weight, not “lose” it, […]
Watch Your Mouth — Part Two
As you may have suspected from last week’s article, the list of limiting phrases it would be good to avoid is long. Here are a few more I’ve encountered: “The other half” — when people identify another “half” that they’re excluded from they’ve found yet one more way to restrict their ability to receive. A […]
Watch Your Mouth
Am I bringing back memories? Did you have an elder who reminded you to “watch your mouth” if you said something out of line? Today I suggest that you watch your mouth in the sense of the expressions you use. I’ve caught myself or others using this limiting language which in the end only short […]
Second Chances
Last week I wrote about times when I was presented with opportunities to resolve situations that troubled me. I said that I had decided to wait and that soon chances to rectify these independent conditions were more or less thrust upon me. What if I had missed this divine timing? Would it have been too […]
The Gift of Perfect Timing
As a woman of faith, I may not know how to handle every situation, but I do always have a Source of guidance and opportunity. Recently I’ve experienced people behaving in ways that weren’t what I was expecting. These friends made choices that seemed out of character for them and didn’t make me feel good. […]