What if you were born with a promise that your life is intended to fulfill? What might that promise be? One way to explore this is to do free writing, without editing, using the writing prompt: According to the promise born in me, I am here to...
Read MoreI have a habit of keeping a very long to-do list and many items carry over from day to day. This can easily lead to judging myself as lazy. I often come to the end of a day and wonder what I accomplished. This is the plight of work on the mental and emotional plane, where results are often not as apparent as they are with physical labor. I work in a sheltered enclavve, in my little home office, hammering away at....what? This raises the question: Does my to-do list leadto what I love?
Read MoreToday is the spring equinox, the turning of winter into spring. Spring is the season of hope, the season when seeds give birth to buds and buds become blossoms. To the soul, it is the season for planting the seeds of our future vision and to nurturing them until they burst into being. This is a time to pray for the conditions to ripen our effort into abundance! Are you planting and nurturing the seeds of your future vision? How so?
Read MoreTo survive in the world, we must find the means to support our lives. For most of us, that translates into working hard to make money in order to have a life. Unfortunately, that life is often consumed by the pursuit to get it. How often do you run on autopilot? What keeps you tethered to the "rat race?" What life waits for you on the sidelines? What if you took your life off-track?
Read MoreThe sense of ownership -- this is "my cup," or I have "this habit" -- creates a kind of attachment, a closeness to our "selves," that we often take for granted, just as we do with loved ones, and do not notice how the relationship serves us or what role it may have in our life. I've been pondering the relationship between ownership, belonging, and responsibility. What do you think? Are these maters related, and if so, how?
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