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In seven days, I went from being sober for eight months to sitting in a chemical dependency center after a relapse, being evaluated for a potential outpatient rehab program. I remember the bitterness and resentment that I felt as I exhaled into a breathalyzer until it clicked,…
I love this short piece on making meditation easy by Sandy Evans Pullin, a fellow member of The Wellness Universe. It reminds me of what I learned to do during lamaze classes 45 years ago now. Before you read her article, let me invite you to look at at all the welcoming, heart-opening WORDS in her graphic…
Right where I am, God is, and it makes no difference whether I am feeling healthy and happy or whether I feel angry or guilty or terrified or even if I am dying, as one day we all do. Wherever, whenever I am, God is, and the Peace of God is my sustaining manna.
THIS POST IS ABOUT LOVE. More specifically it is about experiencing the LOVE that you ARE inside, the Love you are born as, and using that Love to heal the wounds you may have picked up during your time on the planet. It is about Showering Love on your Self. I used to think self-love = self-centered…
Take a walk with me through the forest. It’s a fine summer day, the sun is playing with the shimmering aspen leaves and the forest is cool and fragrant. Pine needles soften your steps; you hear a little stream running cheerfully over rocks in the distance and birds chirping in the trees overhead. As you amble…
It’s a lazy Saturday morning, and I’m feeling relaxed and happy. Looking out at a sunny day, and a fun excursion later today. I get to see my OCEAN. Well, OK, it’s your ocean too. But it is a very personally spiritual place for me. Each of us get to have our own ocean, I think. A place to realize…
Namaste. My sermon today is a meditation, a Psalm, a Communion. I invite you to read it softly aloud to yourself, and to allow its power to bring you Comfort and Strength. This psalm is unarguably my belief. Each path is different, this one is mine. One all-giving Grace Sources and Grounds me, abundantly Blesses…
Yes, really, my morning spiritual practice occurs on facebook. It is like an extended meditation practice for me. I have discovered hundreds, probably thousands of spiritually-oriented facebook fanpages where beautiful people post gorgeous photos with inspiring words every day, and also share posts from others which speak to them. My own Open hearted Musings facebook…
Blessing Oneself – I read a quick post just now over on Writing into the Light, and after years of spiritual practice, found something new I had not previously considered. The idea is to Bless ourselves with happiness, health, peace and freedom from suffering, and then move the blessing out into the world.” In my practice I…
Gotta love Arizona. It gets cold sometimes, we have hard freezes most years and even had snow on Easter one year, but this winter has been positively balmy so far. Highs have been in the high sixties-low seventies, while the rest of the country has been in “polar vortex” deep freeze. We pay our dues…
"We are love, we are one, we are how we treat each other when the day is done. We are peace, we are war, we are how we treat each other, and nothing more. " (The Alternate Routes, from the lovely song Nothing More)
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