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

Take a look at yourself. You are a poem. You are work of art. You are a human drama. And you are a gift from God. Continue reading

Caregivers, I sing your praises today and everyday. For you are the ones who offer your loving energy to meet the needs of bodies and souls who experience the pain of living in this world. Continue reading

 Today's meditation was written by Cathy Self, Senior Vice President for the Baptist Healing Trust.      Agape is a love that is pure and unlimited for every human being without exception. According to Sir John Templeton, all of the world's religions,… Continue reading

   Like any big contest, the day after any national presidential election can bring strong feelings one way or another. These feelings will depend, for you, on how invested you felt in the victory of any one candidate.    The… Continue reading