I love books that are not only a great read but actually give me practical ways to apply their principles. In my latest blog entry, I talk about "The Intimate Life" and "The Path of the Yoga Sutras", both from Sounds True Publications. To learn more, check out my blog.
"I stood before the one I loved. Tears had stained what I could see of their red puffy face. Their whole body was shaking. They were petrified to tell me this secret of theirs, this secret that was haunting them, weighing on them, crushing them...."
Am I grateful for my depression? Definitely. I can't imagine where I would be in life right now if I didn't have this illness. It's a curse and a blessing - I don't know how else to describe it. I certainly don't want to make it sound like depression is like winning the lottery and that everyone would be lucky to live with it - but since I DO have to live with it I've decided to stop fighting it and learn from it instead. Our life is a journey in self-discovery. My depression has led me this far - and led me to wonderful people and places.&n
I love my kids, and being a stay-at-home-mom. But I had a rough day yesterday, and couldn't help but think about how life would be different if I worked outside our home. Being content with where I'm at right now is always a struggle for me. No one is constantly happy all the time, but how do you maintain contentment with where you are at in life?
The other day I posted a link to house in Boulder, listed at just over $2 million dollars. Why would a working mom with an out-of-work husband and three kids post anything about that being her dream home? Because I believe that unless I dream big, nothing big will happen. I am challenging my readers to post their big dreams...and then start making them come true. Are you up to the challenge? Do you believe it's possible?
Pornography, what a topic to choose...but it is something that has been weighing very very heavily on me lately, and I feel that God is prodding me to use this outlet of mine to spread the word on some issues.
sometimes i sit and think, what am i doing here?, what is my mission in this world? i feel ready to give up, life just never seems to work out for me.......
we all face our troubles,our worries,our fears.
we all have those times when we just feel like giving up.
we all have those times were we feel like never smiling again.
Dear Diary, This morning after a blustery and perfectly pleasing walk through my neighborhood, stomping into puddles of surviving snow in my new rain boots, I returned home windswept in the here and now and drank in the intoxicating smell of hazelnut coffee waiting in the kitchen. I love my home so immensely. Not because it is anything to boast about, but because it is a receptacle for all things I hold dearest. I welcome friends talking with freedom of time and mind -
I've gotten a few strange looks from people after telling them that I am trying to make things myself. When it comes to food, people seem to think that making it yourself is really cool, but when I tell them I want to make my own laundry detergent or that I use cloth diapers it's like I've gone too far and now I'm just being eccentric. My dad, jokester that he is, tells me that I'm turning into a hippie although he is secretly proud that I'm gardening and preserving food and making an effort to live the way he raised me.
Synchronicity is simply "meaningful coincidences" or "happenstance" - which occur in our daily life. The key, however, is in being aware of them and in taking notice. You might not understand what the message may be at first, but time (and the universe) will eventually let you in on their "little secret". These coincidences could be considered by some to be trivial or they could be life-altering! But regardless of the impact, I believe they are all beautiful reminders from God that we are being taken care of ~ and it always fills me with joy ea
Last night at church, my pastor said something that really made me think. I don't remember the exact words, but he said something like, God has given you everything you need to accomplish the things you are meant to do.What a great statement! That means he will not ask you to do something, or call you to do something, that he has not already equipped you to do! I had never really thought about it that way before. So because, God knew you were going to be a teacher, a lawyer, a nurse, etc.
Young adults are flocking to mega-churches by the mega thousands. Many medium and smaller churches that surround mega-churches feel the drain as more and more of their young families slip away to the "big" church down the street. This is incredibly frustrating to surrounding churches. Some fear that mega-churches will eventually be all that we have left as young adults continue to flock to them. Will the success of mega-churches lead to the downfall of evangelicalism as we know it in America?
This weekend I attended a different charity function: “Hope for the Children” – a Benefit Concert to raise awareness and funds to help the over 50 million orphans in the world. Many of these children have no home, want for food and clothes, and lack the gift of love. American Idol’s Brooke White volunteered her time and talent to provide the headline performance.
For intuitives and sensitives, Paranormal Day is everyday. The thing is, we don't often get to talk about this way of being, so the fact that real people are out there having extraordinary experiences round the clock is unmeted. Maybe fear is part of that omission. Maybe.......
“Your voice has the power to lighten a heart of a friend. To encourage the doubt of a child. It also has the power to hurt unlike anything known to man. You have the choice of how you use your words and your voice. Consider wisely.”
I’ve never really thought about the meaning of faith. People just say it, its like a throw away comment. “Have faith, he’ll show up on time or you’ll pass that exam” It’s wasn’t until I was really in a mess and felt out of control, suffering such bad anxiety that I was rooted to the spot and couldn’t eat, barely breath and crying that I really started to think about the meaning of having faith.
I'm a firm believer in prayer - then again maybe not because I do so little, but I'm sure I think a lot. I think way more than I pray. Meditation is another word used in conjunction with prayer. So, yea, I think I think more than I should - pray and meditate less than what will bring fruition. I actually went to a seminar on prayer in the 80's and the thing I came away with is that prayer is like a pregnant woman. One needs to be pregnant in prayer before it can give birth.
In both the wedding world and politics, gay marriage is a very hot topic. First, there was a the passing of Proposition 8 in California, which had banned gay marriage in the state. Then, Martha Stewart Weddings featured its first ever gay wedding in their magazine.
What’s the next evolutionary stage for humanity? If, like Abraham says in the above that we are not finished as a species then where do we go from here? What do you think? Will our next leap forward be spiritual in nature, bringing us closer to the Divine.
This post is about how hard it is to explain the reality of the Gospel to those who do not understand the reality of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, especially those who are antagonistic to the religions built around them. Our faith is built around the beauty and magic of the Gospel and these realities...it is so hard to explain it to those on this side of the "waredrobe." It ends with a prayer asking the Spirit to move.
Please read and see if you can relate or add your own cries to God for him to move.
