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Thoughts about Choices

Posted on December 15, 2019 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Evening, God The planets and moon are predictable . . . their paths known. Not so we humans who have been given the power to make choices. I hadn’t thought about this as a key part of being human…

Tagged with: everything matters, small acts of hope, Vaclav Havel on hope
Posted in choices, choosing HARD, Choosing Meaning, Choosing to respond, Climate Crisis, connecting, gusts of hopelessness, hope, Hope as a gift from God, Meaning, small meaningful moments, the essential nature of hope

Coming Back

Posted on July 9, 2019 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Day, God I’m back . . . after a long time away. Time during which I grieved over our oldest daughter’s reactions to EMF radiation. Grieved (and raged) over the millimeter waves blanketing the city she lives in. .…

Tagged with: starting to blog again
Posted in adjusting, balancing free with supported, Cherishing our Bodies, Choosing to respond, connecting, daughters, EMF radiation, Energy

A Reminder from the Pope

Posted on April 10, 2018 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Morning, God! I am not doing enough . . . or much . . . for refugees! This massively avoidable fact was brought home by the morning paper doing a piece on Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation titled “Rejoice and…

Tagged with: Pope Francis, Rejoice and Be Glad
Posted in Caring, choices, Choosing Meaning, Choosing to respond, connecting, delight, LOVE, rejoicing, The daily details of love

Using My Mistakes/Wounding to rebuild

Posted on January 18, 2018 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Night God, Believing as deeply as I do that You love us . . . I am coming to believe that my Painful, Long Hidden — Wrong Responses — can be used to help me rebuild. The idea seems…

Tagged with: Deeper Safer Place
Posted in Choosing to respond, Compassion, connecting, courage, God's Time, Intentions, recovery time, self care as self compassion and humility, self-compassion, time

Learning from Regret

Posted on January 10, 2018 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

A KEY QUESTION (a meditation after Centering) If I could do it over again . . . What would I do? This question is key to Learning From Regret Was there a point at which I could have Turned? To…

Tagged with: accepting freedom through repentance, purposes of regret
Posted in a hand up, a prayer for healing, being a Slow Learner, Centering Prayer, Changing, Choosing Meaning, Choosing to respond, connecting, Possibilities, Regret -- acknowledging and releasing it, Repentance, responding to "nudges", responding to God's Spirit, Rethinking

A Brand New Year

Posted on January 1, 2018 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Happy New Year, God! First, Thank You for the year past . . . a year in which I actually took some growth steps! Who knew how incredibly scary it was to violate family taboos and actually Speak the…

Posted in a New Year, A Spiritual Spring Cleaning, awareness, Changing, choices, choosing HARD, Choosing Meaning, Choosing to respond, courage, fears, Filling up my suitcase and my days, God wants to nourishes us, God's Attention, God's Time, growing toward up

It’s hard to be a human nowadays

Posted on April 30, 2017 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Evening, God! I laughed out loud when I read this Dilbert comic this morning. A rueful laugh of recognition! We humans are barely able to maintain Continuous Intermittent Attention — let alone real focus. Except, of course, on video…

Tagged with: AI, algorithms, Google Maps, Robots
Posted in accepting my need for help, adjusting, Artificial Intelligence, Changing, Choosing to respond, complexity, connecting, Future, Help me to see, Perspective