Today's mediatation was written by Cathy Self, Senior Vice President for the Baptist Healing Trust.      The story of the traveler has been told and re-told for generations in West Africa. There was once an elderly and wise gentleman… Continue reading

We, as readers, have the chance to plant seeds about us every day by the actions we take and the stories we tell. The following story may plant such a seed in your heart. Continue reading

Each of us has the power to nurture Loving cultures in all of the settings we inhabit – whether they involve a short encounter in a store or the extended encounters of family or work setting. Continue reading

If we choose caregiving only because we see it as a pathway to our personal salvation, have we destroyed our goal? Does selfish intention defeat salvation even if good to others results? Continue reading

[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