That’s the love nudge I needed.   In a big way.   Loving harder requires a lot of courage and vulnerability…and trust.   A nugget to tie in from a previous blog…we are called to love the PERSON, free of their choices, actions or words.   Now to take this into personal relationships…what a…

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  The power of choice…the most incredible tool we have in our possession at ALL times. The reality check comes in how often we choose NOT to use the power of choice. It is also of importance to clarify that choosing happiness doesn’t mean sugarcoating the fullness of emotions that we experience. It is about…

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  I love the fact that this quote spoke to me and then received an affirmation of this at the last of our parish mission sessions with Jeanne Cotter. She shared a pretty incredulous story with us, leaving us all in shocked silence…and concluded with the message that everything is a gift. Forgive and love…

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  I almost have to laugh at myself for the resistance I am experiencing to sit down and be with this quote. Part of my journey right now is an increase in noticing the pain in my physical body. My left side is finding its way to healing, opening and balancing and experiencing a fair…

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  There are many levels of knowing what you must give up in order to get what you want. For clarification, when I am speaking of “want”, I am looking at it from the perspective of dreams and aspirations.   When it comes to fulfilling dreams, we are often required to give up a level…

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  Pause…Purposefully Accessing Unlimited Spiritual Energy. One of the best ways to pause is to breathe. Slow down to take in Spirit around you, letting it guide you, fill you, and open you to the moment. I know that this message is one I return to…often. Sometimes I pause…and sometimes I don’t. When I don’t,…

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  This picture speaks to me as much as the quote does. The levels of immersion and emerging are quite profound, not to mention the water, moonlight and lotus. There is a face that appears blindfolded, looking deeper. There are faces expressing serenity, focus and determination, intensity and peace. There is an arm reaching out.…

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  I was torn between using this quote of Saint Augustine and his message that we would not be searching if we had not already been found. Both of these invite me to simply sit and be…allowing the truth of the words to penetrate my heart center.   Let’s just start with faith alone. Faith:…

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  I have found that a key element to all of this for me is getting into the heart of what exactly is ‘darkness’. Ego monkey mind has attached a rather ominous quality to darkness, but it isn’t full of evil maliciousness. Darkness is essentially all of the ‘stuff’ we don’t want to look at.…

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  I have found myself to be much more intentional about my prayer time since the start of 2018. I don’t even know how to explain how liberating it feels to be able to say “prayer time” without a slight recoil. Once upon a time, I had to do some hefty soul work around the…

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