Good Morning, God! Hawaiian Islands Ministries put on a marvelous two-day seminar, Life in the Spirit, this Friday and Saturday. It had a therapeutic effect on me, God. I feel closer to You and closer to everyone else. And most…
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Two Nourishing Days at “Life in the Spirit”
Tagged with: anger, First Presbyterian Church at Koolau, forgiving, forgiving ourselves, Hawaiian Islands Ministries, healing our anger, hope, humility, Jack Deere, letting the Holy Spirit shine through, transparency, trusted friends
Posted in Anger, Forgiven!, Forgiving, friends, healing, hope, humility, responding to God's Spirit, sacred space
Posted in Anger, Forgiven!, Forgiving, friends, healing, hope, humility, responding to God's Spirit, sacred space
Helpful Research on Will Power
Good Morning, God! A few days ago a friend told me about the article, “Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?” in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. The article presented research that showed that one can temporarily EXHAUST one’s Decision…
Stopping to See: The Aloha Tower and Hard Facts
Good Morning, God! Yesterday I was off to downtown to get my teeth cleaned and checked. As I was walking along, I looked to my right and there was the Aloha Tower. There were only a few yards of visibility…
What happened to MY Overfill Alarm?
Good Morning, God! I just happened to notice this small little box the other day while I was getting gas. I didn’t remember ever seeing it before. It clearly says it is an “Overfill Alarm.” My instant response was WHY…
Tagged with: adrenalin addiction, anhedonia, busy builds a wall around our pleasure center, Dr. Hart, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Margin: Restoring Emotional, overfill alarms, Physical, Snowmass Retreat Center, ten day silent retreat
Posted in Borrowing from the Body's Bank, busy, setting my life in context, systematic rebuilding required, The difficulty of changing
Posted in Borrowing from the Body's Bank, busy, setting my life in context, systematic rebuilding required, The difficulty of changing
Rereading Keats — Time and Timelessness
Good Morning, God! Listen to Myself? Listen to Literature? Me? Well, maybe. The thing is, God, that I have invested so heavily in being 1) useful 2) cheerful and 3) a happy-ending-sort-of-person that listening to my “unheard” self seems like…
Tagged with: experiment or exercise, frozen in time, Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn
Posted in healing, hearing myself, humility, Inner Journeys, Ongoing Transformation, Transitions
Posted in healing, hearing myself, humility, Inner Journeys, Ongoing Transformation, Transitions
Respecting Others: The CORE of Good Manners
Good Morning, God! A friend loaned me the book, Essential Manners for Couples, by Peter Post (yes, the great grandson of The Emily Post.) Actually, it was more like an “assignment,” so I have been dutifully chugging along, about one…
Same View — Different Vantage Point
Good Morning, God! Yesterday, while running an errand at Kale’s food store, I thought I’d take some photos from behind Queens’ Hawaii Kai Clinic. What fun to have a different vantage point! Later I was thinking about how badly I…
Watching Time Flow By — And Flowing With It
Good Morning, God! I love sitting outside at twilight and watching the movement of both the Sun and the Moon. We go to this restaurant a day or two before the full moon because I also love going to bed…
Tagged with: changing, flowing into the future, Hope brings anticipation and joy, my Hearts need for Hope, transitions
Posted in Changing, hope, Hope as a gift from God, Transitions
Posted in Changing, hope, Hope as a gift from God, Transitions
Walking (slowly) in the Light
Good Morning, God! Yesterday I intended to jog around Kapiolani Park. I thought that after my 3.1 mile “Mango Days 5K” race on Sunday it would be doable. Not so, God. Although I did jog for a half-mile or so,…
Learning from Feedback — Am I Willing?
Good Morning, God! How do these pilots DO IT? How can they fly that close and that fast? No room for error there! Our Bodies and Minds have incredible abilities, God! Yesterday in Discover magazine I read an article that…
Tagged with: being willing to learn, Blue Angels, feedback, Incognito, Incognito: the Secret Lives of the Brain, leaning by feedback, our Bodies learn
Posted in choices, Feedback, learning, Rethinking
Posted in choices, Feedback, learning, Rethinking
A Moment with God 