I read a story a long time ago about a man who was miserable and knew he needed to make a change. He decided to look for something good in everyone he met. That morning, a man who had clearly not bathed in quite some time walked into his business. The businessman struggled to find something good in him but noticed his shoelaces were beautifully and perfectly tied. He talked with the man while focusing on his shoelaces.
A couple of weeks later, a well-dressed man walked in and approached the businessman. “You probably don’t recognize me. I came in a couple of weeks ago at the lowest point of my life. I was on my way to the bridge down the road to end it all but Continue Reading »
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been confident that I need or want something, only to later discover that it only brought more pain. At one point, I began to see a pattern and decided that, since Continue Reading »
We often look around for answers, for a flicker of light—looking here, there, and everywhere—but it might be time to BE the light we are searching for.
The first question that usually comes to mind is, “Well, how the heck do I do that?” And the beautiful thing is that we don’t have to know the “how”; we just have to Continue Reading »
“You are here for a reason,” the inner Voice that had become so familiar to me responded, and I knew I was right where I needed to be.
I had been living in a deep spiritual state for quite some time when every door closed, and I had the choice between living on the street or staying with my dad.
Dad and I had a long history of hostility. He was all we had after Mom passed, but he had a lot of demons and was an abusive alcoholic. I saw him through kinder and gentler eyes after I began having deep spiritual experiences, but I still didn’t want to live with him. God had other plans.
Over the next several months, Dad and I baked together and laughed while I redecorated his house. One day as he stood in the living room doorway teasing me, I knew he wouldn’t be here much longer.
A couple of months later, I lived at his hospital bedside. I read him letters I wrote late at night while he slept, sang softly to him (much to his dismay), and cared for him as he transitioned.
Even when the doctors said he was no longer responsive, I could still feel him communicating with me and felt a deep, inexplicable peace. People would enter the room and remark about the feeling in the room.
“What happened between you and Dad?” my siblings would ask. What happened? What happened is that I saw him. I saw through what he seemed to be to what he always was hiding behind a dark glass…and I adored him beyond words.
He communicated with me until his last breath, and the next morning I awoke to his voice within me. It was him, but so gentle and kind that I almost didn’t recognize him. “Thank you, my daughter, my friend, my spiritual sister. I didn’t understand the importance of what you are doing, but I do now. You helped me more than you know, and now I’m here to help you.”
There aren’t any mistakes. We are always right where we need to be. Trust and ask for help to see the gifts right where you are today.
Imagine you’re in a small boat floating in a crystal clear lagoon. The sun dances on the calm water, and all is well. Bam! Suddenly something hits your boat from behind. You whirl around, and anger rises as you see that it is another small boat.
I often write about resting. The rest I’m referring to is more than naps and even more than not doing anything. It is an inner sense of trust in something bigger than ourselves. It’s an experience of being carried, enveloped in love, guided…the real sense that we are not alone.
It’s not that we don’t do anything when we are truly resting; actually, Continue Reading »
I had deep feelings of despair from a very young age. I looked everywhere and in everything to find some sense of solace, but my despair only deepened. Only after I began to look within did I find an indescribable sense of peace.
I realized that nobody and nothing could have ever given me what I was searching for because Continue Reading »
Here’s the thing: To believe in yourself, have a sense of self-worth, and love yourself, you first need to know what and who your self is. None of us is who and what we have believed ourselves to be; we are all so much more beautiful than we can even fathom. (And I am not referring to a reflection in the mirror.)
There certainly doesn’t seem to be a shortage of opinions in the world, and the most fervently held and vocalized beliefs often surround spirituality and religion.
I began to have very profound spiritual experiences many years ago, and over the years, I’ve come to see clearly that the deeper I go, the more I realize how much I don’t know. These things must be experienced; we can’t Continue Reading »
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