What To Do About Violence?
“ANOTHER violent attack, this time in Manchester!??!!!” I hope the person sitting across from me devouring his breakfast croissant couldn’t hear my barely disguised “WTF Holy Spirit!!???!!!!” as I read the news on my phone. I was glad I had time to sit there and take it in. I had the time for the shock, the horror, the disbelief and the never-ending “WHY????!!!” to surface one after another until I felt like I was going to throw up. I asked 20 versions of “What can we DO about this terrible violence??” Somehow “fighting...
Read MoreThe Clarity Clause
“I just don’t know what to do….” she said softly. I could picture the fat tears slowly making their way down her cheek. “Grrrr, no news yet. Waiting is SO HARD.” “WTF?!! What are we going to do NOW?” I know several friends going through that path oft travelled where you catch yourself saying “I don’t know” a hundred times an hour. That time of fog and stand-stillness when you do not know which way to turn. It is as hard to watch another feel the betwixt and between as it is to feel it yourself. Thankfully, my Holy Friend...
Read More12. Day 29: Witness The Dawn
I can feel the realigning of focus within me. I don’t yet really know what my writing and practice will look like on a daily basis but I feel excited rather than worried; delighted rather than fearful. This is a huge shift from last year at this time when I was feeling the uncertainty of transition and my committed practice of self love and blog felt like such a crazy leap in the dark. I mean, practicing self love is scary at the best of times but doing it right out in the open was unprecedented. I leapt but was, quite frankly, terrified I would quit, falter or make a complete fool...
Read More11. Day 15: A Mighty Peace
I read today these known words in a book I randomly picked up off my bookshelf: “If thou canst but believe; all things are possible to him who believes.” It is the crux of opening up to success of any kind. And it bloody annoys me. It stirs up in me anger, hurt and shame because I again wonder, “Why and how could I have forgotten who and what I am?” This is what is being forgiven in my extending love to the fear of success. This deep angry, annoyed, entitled shame. Shame, not that I allowed the forgetting, but that I am caught out. I could not outwit,...
Read More10. Day 7: Peace, Quiet & Jet Lag
Sometimes the infinite nature of Love feels scary. I am thrilled of course that Love is infinite, all powerful and ever present; ready, willing and able to be, forgive and comfort. But sometimes I need and want just the very teeniest of Love’s expressions; a look, stillness, a breath. The idea of BIG LOVE or even extending a quality of love can seem too much, overhwelming and not-enough all at the same time. This must be the time for utter stillness…..presence……….being……… I...
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