“Intentions Practice” The New Year intention practice can be done New Year’s Eve or Day–also a practice for New Intentions any time of the year. First, become centered within yourself. Reflect on oneness with your higher light known also as the Divine Spirit within. Feel your Unity with the Divine Presence, personally indwelling and universally responsive. Then, […]

Intentions, commitments, goals, Resolutions–what we call the intentions we write on paper conveying our purposeful actions and envisioned projects are not as important as having a clear and resolute desire to act on these 2016 commitments.  Seneca wrote: “A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.” Look […]

Fear can rise and fall in our consciousness, stay with us, go quickly or cause great healing when faced, learning from and overcome. We know fear is an emotion, an indication of a real threat or imagined vision, image, thought or sensations which can be warning signals from within. The German etymology of fear at Etymonline.com interprets fear as a trial, an attempt (to […]

“What good is it to me if Mary gave birth to the Son of God 1400 years ago and I do not give birth to the Son of God in my own person and time and culture?…We are all meant to be mothers of God.” —Meister Eckhart Christmas includes the celebration and recognition of the […]

“‘Tis the Day before the Day Before Christmas”–and all throughout the body, heart, thoughts and feelings are prancing energy lights of excitement and playfulness. With the glow, shopping for the certain presents, the joy of the neighbors exchanging Christmas cards and wishes, with all this my heart is wide and open to receive as if for the first time the heavenly light, […]

“Every Gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.” —Richard Bach. Most of us during the Holidays buy, receive, and give gifts to others and sometimes buy presents for ourselves. The tradition is portrayed in Matthew 2: 1–12 when the Three Wise Men (the Magi) offered gifts to baby Jesus. We have come to know […]

‘Light and Darkness.’ “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” –Og Mandino. On December 22nd, we will experience winter solstice, the shortest period of daylight of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.  Light and darkness—we don’t have to set these opposites […]

Have you left the house feeling great and come back in a lower mood. Traffic, crowds, over stimulus, revved up energy and long lines in stores can contribute to energy drain and a shift downward in our mood. Elvis put it this way–“Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.” Being from the […]

Daily Affirmative Message: “You open your hand, satisfying the desire of every living thing.” –Psalm 145:16. The dash board display in my car lights up “ready.” It is a reminder to be engaged with the mind and body prepared to put the car in gear and take off. It also can be a reminder to have an open […]

“When things go awry with a person, friend or close ties.” Perhaps it is the time of the year and people wear their feelings on the sleeve. What do we do when a loved one, friend or associate get their feelings hurt.  We pray, go within to our center. There is a natural spiritual reaction […]