Archive for the tag 'courage'

February 24 2011

A Mother’s True Calling: Not to Fix But to Be With

It was the disturbing quality of the scream coming from one son looking at his brother that alerted Cindy and told her something was terribly wrong.  Her fourteen year old son Stephen was lying as stiff as a board in the middle of the family room having a seizure.     The doctors were quick to tell [...]

February 7 2011

It’s Never Too Late to Start Again

It has been a challenging few weeks for me, both writing and personally.  I am in that dead of winter space where I know things are happening, they just aren’t visible.  I am in the editing phase of my book and it gets quite tedious moving forward and backward through all the pages, looking for [...]

January 20 2011

Holding Sacred Space

Walking through a doorway at the public library, I greeted the gentleman stepping the same way. “Nice smile,” he said.  We talked about the storm  moving in on the wind, and then he said, “Peace be with you.”  I returned the sentiment.  A tiny healing was sent out between us, and in that moment, all [...]

December 1 2010

Waiting with Hope

We do a lot of waiting in our lives.  Standing in lines, waiting for the train or bus, waiting for the right job, waiting for the money we need to sustain us.  Yet there is a difference between waiting in hope and waiting in fear. We wait in fear when we become impatient with the [...]

August 15 2010

Tell Your Story

Yesterday we celebrated family birthdays at my sister-in-laws house. As she handed my daughter her birthday gift, she handed me a gift too and said she couldn’t wait until Christmas.  Congratulations were in order now. It was a beautiful hanging angel that says,”Tell Your Story.”  I nearly cried because I was so touched that she [...]

August 12 2010

A Healing Presence

I am committed to being a healing presence in the world. This statement came to me as I was finishing my third healing touch session for the day.  I was playing over in my head my heart virtue, or at least what I thought was my heart virtue- something about inspiring others to awaken to [...]

July 15 2010

Gettin’ Ready

Getting ready to write… I lock myself away, light the candle but find the candle first, then find the matches.  I read that lighting a candle each time you write helps inspire creativity.  Oh yea, where’s my phone?  I don’t want any calls to disturb me. I have filled my water and warmed my tea. [...]

June 19 2010

Power

Power When she learned that she didn’t have to plug into something or someone like a toaster into the wall When she learned that she was a windmill and had only to raise her arms to catch the universal whisper and turn turn turn She moved Oh, she moved and her dance was a marvel [...]

June 14 2010

Not just fair weather friends

Yesterday, my daughters and I went out in the rain to support our friend Jen Koralewski who has epilepsy.  We did a 5K walk with a thousand other people who know someone affected by this disease. 43,000 people in Colorado have epilepsy.  One sign that got me was the one that said, “I have epilepsy [...]

May 7 2010

The Women in Our Lives

In one of my favorite books about feminine spirituality, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, by Sue Monk Kidd, Sue talks about Matryoshka dolls, or nesting dolls where one fits neatly inside another until you get to a little baby doll.  She bought one for her grandmother and mother, letting them know that all women [...]

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