“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” ― Ellen...
Enjoy today’s walk through the archives of Christmas 2014 Be kinder than you feel. The Practice of Kindness Nothing challenges me more than waking up with “practicing kindness” on my heart. I used to tell my children, on a regular basis, that the...
(For even more on this short study on practicing discretion, subscribe to my E-Newsletter.) The Practice of Discretion Isn’t discretion a little outdated, you might ask? One would think. In a social network driven society, where you can say whatever you please,...
The Quaker teacher, Douglas Steere, was fond of saying that “the ancient human question, ‘Who am I?’ leads inevitably to the equally important question, ‘Whose am I?’ for there is no self hood outside of relationship.” “When a woman becomes her own best friend...
Praying Through Fear I woke up with a certain anxiety tangling up my insides. It has everything to do with a certain drive to UVA Medical Center today. I can be so darn brave for everyone else in the entire world…in fact, it is a huge part of my vocation. But...
It is in the arena of feelings that most of us get tossed around unwittingly. Sometimes feelings (especially those we label as ‘negative’) can be so powerful that we let them rule our lives. We tend to resist and push away the feelings we don’t want...
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