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By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. Christopher Columbus Meditation: I am telling my daughter: “Please, focus. Don’t get distracted”! This is easier said than done for a fourteen year old preparing for a test the next day. “Prevail, don’t give up” and you willContinue reading “Prevailing Over All…”

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it. Alysia Reiner Meditation: Our life journey is a journey of grief.Continue reading “The Fullness Of Life…”

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Washington Thurman Meditation: When I give myself permission to fully take in God’s love and then learn to love myself, I will notContinue reading “Ask What Makes You Come Alive…”

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world. Rachel Naomi Remen Meditation: We have a president whose worldview is built on an “either-or” perspective. He often misses the complexity ofContinue reading “Life Is As Complex As We Are…”

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Paul Tillich Meditation: Sometimes Christianity is being misunderstood or misrepresented as a moral system of expectations for us to strive for “holiness” or “perfection”. The notion of “sinfulness” is being used to make people work hard as if they wereContinue reading “Sin Boldly”

The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects. Marianne Williamson Meditation: Tenderness, inclusion, honor, reverence and love… these are the valuesContinue reading “The “Zeitgeist” Lacks A Feminine Heart…”

True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together. Ricardo Montalban Meditation: I discovered not long ago that an ancestor couple of mine (Count Zinzendorf and his wife Dorothea) experienced a traumatic separation against their willContinue reading “True Love Suffers, Cries and Laughs Together…”

My mother calls it “the black tax”. Because the generations who came before you have been pillaged, rather than being free to use your skills and education to move forward, you lose everything just trying to bring everyone behind you back up from zero. Trevor Noah Meditation: What do young people of this generation doContinue reading “Being Free To Move Forward…”

Something life defining and deeply intimate is over. The child speaks what their parent could not. He or she recognizes how their own experience has been authored, how one has been authorized, if unconsciously, to carry their parents’ injury into the future. In rising above the remnants of one’s ancestors’ trauma, one helps to healContinue reading “Rising Above Intergenerational Trauma…”

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list. Michelle ObamaContinue reading “Taking Care of Ourselves…”