Last night, as this great gift of forgiveness poured through me, I felt refreshed. Perhaps being half asleep made it easier for my deep inner unconscious to hear Your Words of forgiveness — Your Words of New Life and New Beginnings.
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Inner Sunsets and Twilight Times
Tagged with: forgiveness, New Beginnings, New Life, Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Posted in connections, Good News!, Grief, LOVE, Mothers
Posted in connections, Good News!, Grief, LOVE, Mothers
My Inner Unforgiving, Wilderness
Yes, God. It is not lost on me that there are many, many explanations I will never get to hear — and about many, many things. Please God, help me Open my Heart and my Mind to the existence of unknown explanations.
Tagged with: An Unforgiving Spirit, Explanations, forgiving, resentments
Posted in awareness, complexity, connections, Forgiving, humility
Posted in awareness, complexity, connections, Forgiving, humility
Organic Gardening as A Healing Model
As it happens, I am embarking on a fearful moral inventory. This is not easy and it gets tangled and confused because it seems that as a Mother I am Responsible for Everything. I know this is not literally true. But, it feels true! And I am learning to Go with my Gut! The Gut is where changes grow
Tagged with: 12 Step Programs, gardening, humility, Peer Support, Spiritual Direction, trust
Posted in being planted, being repotted, connecting, connections, courage to see myself
Posted in being planted, being repotted, connecting, connections, courage to see myself
Leaving Cape Cod
Perhaps the writer who dubbed Pets as Vitamin P was right, God. Pets do center us. But, a connection with wild creatures seems even more powerful.
Tagged with: Beech Forest, Cape Cod, chickadees, opening, wild creatures
Posted in connecting, connections, friends, small meaningful moments, web of life
Posted in connecting, connections, friends, small meaningful moments, web of life
A Touching Beijing / Honolulu Moment
. . .a busload of visitors from China was coming up from the beach — getting ready to go. It came to me that I should “acknowledge” their presence — so I looked up and caught the eye of one of the older women and smiled.
Tagged with: a Smile, Beijing, Eye Contact, Honolulu, Waimanalo Beach
Posted in connecting, connections, interactions, seeing
Posted in connecting, connections, interactions, seeing
A Good Day! A Good Life!
But, then, I am not the one who in the last two years brought the Library up to just about Perfect! I’m not the creator . . . it is not my “baby.” When the Parent App is running it’s so easy for it to overwhelm us!
Tagged with: overwhelmed by instinct, Stuck, The Mama Duck app, the power of the Parent App, Thinking Outside the Fence
Posted in connections, hope, interspecies contact, responsibility
Posted in connections, hope, interspecies contact, responsibility
A Touch of Warmth and Color
People make the routines and work of life richer and warmer. It’s so important to make room in our days for real interactions with fellow humans — taking, or making, time to connect. Time to hear and see one another. That requires building margins into our days.
Tagged with: Gleaning, human connections, making time, Margins
Posted in caring for the widows and orphans, Colors, connections, listening, time
Posted in caring for the widows and orphans, Colors, connections, listening, time
Towel Wars! Who Knew?
The basic bedrock importance of territory was revealed to me — once again — this morning!
Tagged with: awareness, compassionate awareness, hidden rules, territory
Posted in awareness, Communication, connections, Territory
Posted in awareness, Communication, connections, Territory
99 year-old Bea Burglund faces eviction
Anyway, I am sending this blog off to a B of A lawyer — in hope that maybe there is still Time and Will and Heart to let Bea live out her life undisturbed!
A Series of Road Trips
I have unpacked my suitcase. But I have barely begun to “unpack” the hundreds and hundreds of images, memories, and Connections. Precious Connections.
Tagged with: Daughters, magical moments, Road Trips
Posted in connecting, connections, family visits, friends
Posted in connecting, connections, family visits, friends
A Moment with God 