True Heart

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True Heart

How do you live with yourself? This is a question of genuine curiosity, not meant in the pompous way it is sometimes asked of one who has done wrong in the world. It is a sincere query into how I live with myself, how I make my peace with myself, how I pamper or prod myself, how I treat myself on my worst days and my best days and all the days in between. It is a question of how much or how little I support my love, stand tall in my life, and live from my heart.

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The Real Question

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The Real Question

Imagery provides a powerful prompt for writing. This story moment started as a "daily intent" but quickly evolved into a scene of a soldier called before his superior to report "off the record" about something. Even as I wrote it, I sensed the "superior" could be God or some higher being to which the soldier could "confess." If you were granted an audience with your "superior," what would you say? What would you say is key to trusting life?

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Wednesday's Child

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Wednesday's Child

Wednesday’s child, says the nursery rhyme, is full of woe. But we got it wrong. It is the sound of the word, and not the sense, that is Wednesday’s gift. Whoa is the sound we use to say, “slow down.” What do you notice when you use Wednesday to slow down, to take stock of where you are at in your week (and your life), and to reconnect with yourself and your true priorities?

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