Mixing the not so New Christmas Traditions with Newer Ones.” I visited a friend’s home yesterday elaborately decorated with Christmas items from gingerbread figures and little houses to miniature Christmas scenes made up of tiny homes, people, trees, greenery, candy canes, bright colored bows and Christmas figurines. She had lots of decorative lighting, homemade Christmas wreaths inside […]
Without the heart-throbs of falling in love, we would not dearly love another. If not for the perfect-love-filled mother loving a new-born baby, would baby and mother bond and do as well? How about the shift taking place in a person’s heart and dropping the charges, softening their voice, or giving us back the over-charged […]
“I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you’re going to be taken through.” –Louis C.K. Hallmark movies are great for the comfort of happy, predictable endings. We like things to end joyous and upbeat. It is great to have life flow […]
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, Lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.” ––Germaine Greer. Some of my most enjoyable places are libraries and bookstores. I find grace there–in the books in the people I meet and exchange ideas and conversation with. Friends, bodies […]
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their islands of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” —Henry David Thoreau “Launch Yourself on Every Wave:” We are told to Release Yesterday […]
Too much of the time we focus on the spot on the floor and miss the beautiful floor it rests on–there is so much good in our lives. Somehow though and too many times we may look at the one not so nice or bad thing that happened or that is going on in our lives, that […]
There is enough peace inside you and in the outer world for serenity to be felt in your heart; there is enough substance in the ethers for you to have financial prosperity and needed manifest things; there are enough friends in the world for you to infuse your feeling nature with contentment; there is enough humor around […]
” When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.” –Catherine Ponder Sounds like an uncommon way to look at people who rouse us. They can serve to wake us up in some way. When any of us is out of sorts, not having […]
When there is a healing need, our own or another, we turn to the one Source of life, God, the Divine Presence and Power within every part of our total being. The Divine Presence is our health, well-being, peace and calm in every need. We affirm the absolute truth in the first person whether for ourselves […]
“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.” –Meister Eckhart. Good and goodness are sometimes overused in Unity and New Thought writings and oral communications. Good is a word with spiritual meaning as noted in Mark 10:18 NRSV: “Why do you call me good? No one […]