Good Evening, God! It came to me Tuesday night that I didn’t want to die. Dying “seemed” to be the “threat” my body somehow posed. No doubt this was a trifle over the top, but I got the message and…
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Racing and Running, Praying and Pruning
Help me like it enough so that I refrain from excessive doing and committing. Help me do it – lest I be pruned!
The Gift of Compassionate, Forgiving Love
Last week when June very quietly mentioned the word “surrender” I cried out, “Oh no! To me “surrender” means being facedown in the Mud!”
Tagged with: compassion, Sacred Space, Safe Places, Spiritual Directors
Posted in compassion to care for myself, connections, hearing myself, Hearts, Ongoing Transformation
Posted in compassion to care for myself, connections, hearing myself, Hearts, Ongoing Transformation
What Musical Instrument am I?
Sigh. How easy it is to forget that Love is both the Beginning and the End of everything.
A walk in Downtown Honolulu
it is rather lowering to realize that my quality of life rests rather heavily on very small micro habits — like flossing. Like putting things away — right away.
Tagged with: David Allen, Dillingham Transportation building, flossing, micro habits, putting things away
Posted in choices, compassion to care for myself, Habits, walking not running
Posted in choices, compassion to care for myself, Habits, walking not running
Sitting (right now) off the beaten path
I am now beginning to understand viscerally what Dr. Arch Hart said about how “BUSY builds a WALL around our brain’s Pleasure Center.”
Tagged with: anhedonia, busy, Dr. Arch Hart
Posted in Balancing and adjustments, busy, busy as an attack strategy, compassion to care for myself, humility
Posted in Balancing and adjustments, busy, busy as an attack strategy, compassion to care for myself, humility
Looking back on a Good Day
One excellent result that comes out of being sick is that one realizes (eventually . . .) that many of our “virtues” have more to do with the level of our energy than our character.
Dang! Still More Retirement Adjustments
It is just that Turns Have to be Made!
Tagged with: living on "autopilot", making the Turns
Posted in Changing, choices, compassion to care for myself, courage to see myself, Discernment, inner paths of the heart, Prayer
Posted in Changing, choices, compassion to care for myself, courage to see myself, Discernment, inner paths of the heart, Prayer
On Feeling Like a Pile of Pick-up Sticks
Rainbows as Signs Good Morning, God! After hearing myself say something to the effect that I felt like pile of “pick-up-sticks” it came to me that I needed to do something about it. So, I called a old friend who…
A Moment with God 