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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

A New Look at Blessing

Posted on November 28, 2016 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

Good Evening, God! Look what I stumbled upon! This Thanksgiving holiday I took it into my head to review, sort and donate some of my books. I have a lot of books. It took me all day to empty four…

Tagged with: Maurice Berquist, Psalm 103, The Miracle and Power of Blessing
Posted in Blessing, Choosing to respond, connecting, Prayer

Loving Our Whole Self

Posted on May 1, 2016 by a moment with god — 2 Comments

Good Morning, God! I love this photo of the very top of a restoration of an old stone barn designed by the Shakers. Their not being interested in sex, I guess they had a lot of time and energy to…

Tagged with: Enneagram, Father Richard Rohr, gluttony, shadow selves, Shakers, stone barns
Posted in accepting my ability to REDESIGN, Caring, Choosing to respond, connecting, Light, LOVE

Choosing LIFE

Posted on June 22, 2015 by a moment with god — Leave a comment

I guess, God, what I am calling the Big Questions are the ones that lead to Vision. A vision of what Life can be. A vision of what we are Called to be.

Tagged with: Asking, choosing, life, Questions, Vision
Posted in Books, choices, Choosing Meaning, Choosing to respond, connecting, respect

Passionate People, Critical Causes

Posted on April 26, 2014 by a moment with god — 1 Comment

And having seen — then how do we respond? Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring . . . a book that helped non-scientists to SEE and to CARE what was happening. Ah, God! Please send us more Rachel Carsons!