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  • Days 350-354 – Witness to Tears

    Caregivers are tear-catchers as well as wound-menders.  Day & night they bear witness to suffering, often hiding their own tears so that they may help others. Continue reading

  • Days 348-349 A Radiant Heart of Wonder

    Third Week of Avent, Joy Continue reading

  • Days 343-347 – Pride or Gratitude?

    It is nice to be proud of offspring. Yet, Love teaches that gratitude is far better than pride. Continue reading

  • Days 341-342 Amazing Peace

    Note: Excerpt of poem "Amazing Peace," a Christmas poem by Maya Angelou Something to consider this during this unfolding Advent week that calls us to cultivate Peace within.   We hear a whisperAt first it is too soft. Then only… Continue reading

  • Days 336-340 – How Storypower Made Illness a Gift

    After essayist Anatole Broyard learned he was terminally ill he made a transcendent choice: To change his life story. “All of my old trivial selves fell away and I was reduced to my essence,” he wrote. Thus, he took control… Continue reading

  • Days 334-335 The Hope of Advent

    Note: This reflection is from several writings, over the years, on Advent by Sister Joan Chittister         Dec 1st heralds the beginning of the Advent season, and is described as a “highly spiritual time as we prepare… Continue reading

  • Days 228-232 – Vibrations of Love & Fear

       Some believe that all life exists as vibrations; that the bodies we occupy are waves of energy we perceive as human forms.     Fear's energy visits all animals. I imagine it as traveling the air in tight, frenzied vibrations… Continue reading

  • Days 326-327 If Only…

    If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and will also probably commit great faults and do wrong things. But it certainly is… Continue reading

  • Days 322-326 – The Rainbow Romantic

    The well-matched pair that dwells in Love’s rest discovers her greatest gift is not found in rainbows but in the white light that holds all colors. Inside that light they learn they are stronger than they think they are.  Continue reading

  • Days 320-321 Little Glimmers

      A woman with a scarf over her head hoists her six year old up onto the first step of the school bus. “Good-bye,” she says. A father on the phone with his freshman son has just finished bawling him… Continue reading