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If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy. Corrie ten Boom Meditation: The current president is manipulating the media. He is keeping the reporters and TV stations busy so that nearly hourly they would report many distracting messages. And the media acts like a sponge. It has not shifted its paradigm, butContinue reading “He Will Make Us Busy…”

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars. Mother Angelica Meditation: It is disheartening for me to see how some of our evangelical brothers and sisters have joined the nationalist political movement of hatred that hasContinue reading “Evangelical Blindness…”

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha Meditation: One of my daughters loves the moon. So she knew that tonight the world will experience the longest lunar eclipse of this century. This “red moon” event according to my daughter means cosmic “new beginnings”. And so she, her twinContinue reading “Not Hidden for Long…”

Don’t ever feel bad for making a decision about your own life that upsets other people. You are not responsible for their happiness. You’re responsible for your own happiness. Anyone who wants you to live in misery for their happiness should not be in your life anyway. Isaiah Hankel Meditation: What is my happiness? TheContinue reading “Free to Say “No””

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others. Erik Erikson Meditation: When I am living mindlessly, I often think of myself as “right”. When I am tired, hungry or stressed, I am easily harsh and impatient with those around me. When I don’t take good care ofContinue reading “The More You Know Yourself…”

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote. William E. Simon Meditation: The past days I have felt paralyzed. How in the world can a democratic system sell out to an oligarch and align itself with an oppressive regime? How can an elected Western president betray his country’s legal system andContinue reading “Now Choose Life…”

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Gustave Flaubert Meditation: Writing is a process of discovery. Often we do not take the time to formulate words and express what we believe, but when we do, we get to know ourselves better and others get to know us better as well.Continue reading “The Purpose of Writing…”

I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human. John Trudell Meditation: While I was in Germany, many protesters gathered recently in several large cities to protest against the inhumane torturing of children and families who are looking for asylum in theContinue reading “I Am Just A Human Being…”

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.  – Marcy DeMaree Meditation: My daughters love my mother, their grandmother. She is the only grandparent they have ever known, as their grandfathers died before they were born and their African grandmother lived tooContinue reading “Grandma”

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing. Irina Shayk Meditation: My daughters and I have travelled to Germany to see their grandmother, uncles, aunts and cousins. We try to come every year if possible, as living in the United States we do not have any extended family membersContinue reading “Going Home to Family”