Good Night, God! Or maybe I should say Good Heavens! It is 1:05 a.m. and here I am writing a blog. But I woke up with it stuck in my mind. So here goes. We think of the Amazon basin…
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The Lungs of our Earth need help
Tagged with: changing, climate change, compassion, Farmland as Earth's Lungs, forgiving, healiing, healing, hope, humility, microbial life, Soil health and microbes
Posted in a prayer for healing, Forgiving, healing, hope
Posted in a prayer for healing, Forgiving, healing, hope
Let’s Have A Jubilee Year!
Good Day, God! A friend handed me this book and said, “I think you should read this!” She was right. It is written by Dr. Charlotte A. Tomaino, a neuropsychologist. She is also former nun which she referred to as “an…
Tagged with: Awakening the Brain: The Neuropsychology of Grace, compassion, Dr. Charlotte A Tomaino, Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, forgiving, healing, hope, humility, Pope Francis
Posted in Books, Caring, caring for the stranger in our midst, Centering Prayer, choices, connecting, Forgiving, mercy
Posted in Books, Caring, caring for the stranger in our midst, Centering Prayer, choices, connecting, Forgiving, mercy
A Jubilee Year of Mercy!
So, here we are (almost) in a Jubilee Year of Mercy. And our species really needs it! Hey, I need it too!
Tagged with: forgiving, Forgiving is Healing, healing, mercy, Repentance
Posted in confession, connecting
Posted in confession, connecting
The Road Home — into Forgiveness and Love
Apparently, God, My Mother Cat had received forgiveness, too. And since she was forgiven she could reach out and forgive me.
Tagged with: a slower pace, centering prayer, forgiveness, healing, Mother Cat, Parasympathetic Nervous System, peace, silent retreat, Snowmass Retreat Center
Posted in connecting
Posted in connecting
The Comfortable and the Homeless
Hmm. Isn’t that a definition of leprosy? Peripheral nerves that are not able to feel our nose and toes — and fingers, even? And if we cannot feel them — then we cannot protect or care for them.
Tagged with: blindness, cultural leprosy, deafness, extremities, feeling, healing, hearing with our hearts, helping, homelessness, Numbness
Posted in a series of molts and upgrades, acknowledging another's existence, being heard into speaking, Belonging to each other, Compassion, connecting, Help me to see, hope
Posted in a series of molts and upgrades, acknowledging another's existence, being heard into speaking, Belonging to each other, Compassion, connecting, Help me to see, hope
Pentecost and me
The Holy Spirit longs for me to ASK for her help . . . to request her Healing and Cleansing Presence. And to “move over” so she can do her loving thing in me.
Tagged with: Cleansing, forgiving, Fr. Meninger, healing, Holy Spirit, Our Advocate, Pentecost, The Helper
Posted in connecting
Posted in connecting
Healing . . . entering into God’s Time
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Tagged with: healing, rest, slowing, sunset, time, Timelessness, Waikiki beach
Posted in connecting, healing, health, relaxation, rest
Posted in connecting, healing, health, relaxation, rest
Once more — into Your Hands
Good Evening, God! Ambiguity and uncertainty are always with us, but, usually I ignore them! i visualize my path and I am fortunate that mostly things go pretty much as I expect. Not so for millions of people displaced by…
Tagged with: beauty, healing, Love, Prayer, regrets, resentments, safe, trash, uncertainty
Posted in connecting
Posted in connecting
The Really Big Gift of Life
But, of course, God, to heal means to go INTO the pain . . . to face the fear. To grab on to hope with both hands and dare to imagine another layer of healing!
A Moment with God 