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  • Days 40-45 – Hiding

    I picked up David Whyte’s Consolations (2015) & randomly opened to this chapter, “Hiding”: Continue reading

  • Days 38-39 Slow Me Down

    Slow Me Down Slow me down, Lord!     Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.     Steady my harried pace.    With a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me,      amidst the confusion of my day,     the calmness of… Continue reading

  • Days 32-33 Our Stories

    " God made man because he  loves stories." Elie Wiesel In ancient times before the written word, familial lineage was passed on through the oral tradition. Spiritual wisdom is often transferred best through metaphors found in the magic of storytelling.… Continue reading

  • Days 27-31 – Confusion of Flowers

     Pansies know their calling: Beauty. The calling is the same for caregivers: to shine Healing’s Beauty into the hearts of sufferers. Since fatigue can cool that calling leaders must always be the sun for every caregiver.  Continue reading

  • Days 25-26 Love & Justice

    This week we commemorated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a man who has inspired all humanity with his visionary dream of a better world. May we honor his memory by working together to transform his… Continue reading

  • Days 20-24 – “Only When Love & Need Are One…”

    The merger of love & need are always at play in any fulfilling “victory.” The secret lies in the hearts of each individual who chooses to unite avocation with vocation. Where “two eyes make one in sight.”  Continue reading

  • Days 18-19 My Grandmother’s Hands

    How transparent and thin the skin over my hands has become, revealing these gnarly blue veins. Some days the joints in my fingers swell and I feel like the character, David Banner when his body suddenly bulges into The Hulk… Continue reading

  • Days 13-17 – One Who Raised The Light

    Marcy Alton had a presence that lit-up hearts. When you enter a room does the “light” go up or down? Do others feel pleased or afraid? Confident or unsure? Loving or fearful?  Continue reading

  • Days 11-12 Beyond Words

    I’ve often heard it said that much of what we communicate is non-verbal. Our facial expressions, eye contact, posture, and the tone of our voice can say so much more than mere words. Well, I had an opportunity to test… Continue reading

  • Days 6-10 – The Most Important Thing We Forget

     Every older person worries about forgetfulness. But, when Vanderbilt Divinity School intern Summer Hyche told her audience, “We are a forgetful people” she was not talking about dementia. Continue reading