The Many Faces of Peace
October 7, 2104 As the holiday season with its message of peace and good cheer approaches it seems at odds with the anxiety so many feel about increasing global conflicts…
Read moreWake Up Call! – Navigating Conflict & Peace
NAVIGATING CONFLICT & PEACE The competing energies of conflict and peace shed light on where your heart is. I was talking with a wise woman about the practices of…
Read moreWake Up Call! – Love no Matter What?
LOVE NO MATTER WHAT? Celebrate the people who love you no matter what and do the same for others. In my early teens I tried to take my own…
Read moreWake Up Call! – Live Generously!
LIVE GENEROUSLY! To err on the side of generosity towards others is a choice to live well. I held open the door to the dry cleaners to allow a…
Read moreWake Up Call! – Do Not Assume!
DO NOT ASSUME! My assumptions about others may not be about them at all. I was puzzled by my colleague Beth – she’d promised to record a message about…
Read moreWake Up Call! – Let Go of Trying To Control
LET GO OF TRYING TO CONTROL Let go of trying to control or change another person and find something to appreciate. In the last year of her life my…
Read moreWake Up Call! – Pause to Take Time
PAUSE TO TAKE TIME Pause to take time with a stranger or friend and be surprised by what it reveals. A person I barely know wrote about how surprised…
Read moreWake Up Call! – Unexpected Invitations
UNEXPECTED INVITATIONS Life’s unexpected moments are an invitation to be generous. I watched as two young children on a ferry boat responded to the choppy waves by throwing up.…
Read moreWake Up Call! – Why Do You Love?
WHY DO YOU LOVE? When you love yourself loving others is less complicated! Decades loving others was driven in part by my need to know that I was worthy…
Read moreWake Up Call! – Stop Rescuing & Trust
STOP RESCUING AND TRUST Let go of rescuing and trust in the life that is yours. Marta shared an epiphany with me. “I rescue my 40 year old daughter…
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