[This meditation is an expression of thanksgiving begun by Cathy Self, Senior Vice President for the Baptist Healing Trust.] Norman Rockwell gave voice to four freedoms through his painting. One (see below) is titled "Freedom from Fear"and seems an appropriate beginning… Continue reading

The way we live gratitude gives a gift to all around us. Children watch for signs of gratitude from parents. Caregivers watch for the same signs from each other. We can all learn richer ways to live gratitude by watching… Continue reading

Responding to fear by picking the third choice of Love is the hardest thing humans can ever do. It calls us to rise about our most primitive instincts. When we make the third choice our first choice, we are, of… Continue reading

Fear is toxic, Love is healing. Continue reading

"Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came… Continue reading

Perhaps the answer is that all souls are beautiful because the soul is Love. Love knows only beauty. The meanness that flows from many people is not arising from their souls. Instead, it comes from some other place, probably from… Continue reading

The following meditation was written by Cathy Self, Senior Vice President for the Baptist Healing Trust. Work\ n: an opportunity for discovering and shaping; the place where the self meets the world." (From David Whyte's Crossing the Unknown Sea. Work… Continue reading