It’s a New Year and I am making another commitment to write. I’ve made these commitments before… And yet, somehow this one seems different. I want a ‘Forever’ commitment now. This year in April, I will be entering my 78th year. I’m in the last 1/3rd of my life. Years
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In a preliminary call before a radio interview, Greg said: “I’ll be asking you what you are grateful for.” He didn’t want an answer today, he simply let me know. The Awareness has been ‘playing’ like music in my heart ever since that moment. The first feeling that came was
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We now come to one of the most important parts of this journey without distance. It’s you…and the Unique Gifts that no one has in the same way, just you. It’s the Song of Your Soul that only you can play. It is in Gifts of Genius that you can
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The beauty of Faith and Trust, for me, is It doesn’t change in the Invisible. I know that as I breathe into my heart and let my human mind dissolve into That, I Am That. It is formless and changeless. It can be another story when we get lost in
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How do we access the invisible dimensions of our soul? Is it even possible for us to ‘do it’, or does it simply come upon us, into our awareness, in moments of grace? What is the soul, and how do we even know it’s there, if it is? So many
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I woke up seeing it…spectrums of rainbows. Then I realize they were coming to me all day yesterday. Now it’s clear, it is all spectrums of consciousness. It’s only that I ‘get it’ in smaller pieces that I can ‘sort-of handle’. Even so, I may not notice, I may not
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THE IN-BETWEEN TIMES There are lines that I love from an old song, ‘All The Way’, by Frank Sinatra. One phrase especially pops into my awareness: “Through the good or lean years, and for all the in-between years…” Other phrases are also important to me. They also come: “Who knows
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What words do you associate with “Endings”? Pause for a moment and see what drops in. For me, sometimes words like grief, or confusion, sadness, disappointment and even anger, chaos or fear have been there. Sometimes they were associated with endings that I did not want. Other times, I did…and
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October 31, 2015 7:10am There are so many meanings and moments in time when I think about the ‘trimesters’ of my life. They span the spectrum from ‘unknown meaning’ to childbirth and meanings that take me into the Vastness of the Beyond. The ‘creation story’ of my childhood became the
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In the last year of my seminary training, one of the ‘benchmarks’ was giving our Chapel Talk. It was about bringing together everything we had learned in a new creative, passionate form. Having completed the ‘Defense of Dissertation’ in my doctoral program at U Mass, I saw some equivalency in
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