We have teachers all around us if we are paying attention. Some of my greatest teachers have been the hospice patients and their families in the last decade that I have had the privilege to serve as a Certified Music Practitioner. I have several friends involved in...
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One has to only spend 5 minutes on Facebook to see this sense of “otherness” that is sadly part of the division, rage, disconnect and violence that we see in the world today. Personally, I see the enormous potential of social media to engage from a space of connection...
There are times when your world shifts and you realize how conditioned you are to thinking and feeling a certain way about things that happen in life. I am blessed by a rebellious spirit and an insatiable curiosity that has allowed me to question and shift perspective...
I began 2014 with a sense of diving head first into the unexpected by traveling to Africa to study music and dance. It changed my life in ways I am still processing, but it has led so far to an immense love of life and...
In my middle years, I move farther away from certainty about God to fall deeper into the mystery of it all. I sing, praise, dance, cry, plead, rage and wrestle my way into mystery. I remember a life changing conversation many years back with a retired Methodist...
It starts as this pinprick. The insidious nature of fear as it freezes the body and at the same time makes the heart pump furiously to send all the blood away from the organs to the outer extremities. It can happen so suddenly that it feels like someone punched...
Healing is a process. Forgiveness is a process. Spiritual author Jeff Brown eloquently speaks of forgiveness that rises organically as being real and deeply rooted rather than the willing of forgiveness which to me feels grim and determined and sometimes carries strings that are attached. In my own experience...
The past few months this phrase is what has kept my feet fully planted on the earth, my heart open and my spirit in seeking mode. I love living in the questions and in the depths of exploration of trust, even in my self perceived free spirited existence,...
The word obligation is a noun defined by dictionary.com as “something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.” I have had a life long resistance to authority which has...
Life as it is with a messy house, 5 more pounds of flesh than I would like, an imperfect credit rating, cars with serious mileage and health challenges that present themselves often into the rhythm of our family. Life also unfolds here in the sense of always having a...