Tag: the art and science of receiving

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 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 […]

“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 […]

  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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

I’m still thinking about our trip to the Kennedy Space Center.  One thing that touched me was the comments made by many of the astronauts stating that their space experience changed their perception of life and our world.  Being able to view the earth from space was profoundly moving for them.  They were struck with […]

Do you have a dream or goal that feels too difficult or complex to achieve?  Last week I visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  I discovered that I had no idea what complexity really meant! Did you know that there were two million systems on an Apollo spacecraft? Two million!  How is it possible […]