Archive for the 'Meditations' Category

How to Get what you really want this christmas

What if this short message could absolutely deliver what you really want this Christmas? Do you know what that is? What do you really want? Deep down, we all want the same thing. But so often we don’t know it until we can get quiet and listen to our deeper hearts. In fact, I think just doing that–just saying no to the destructive
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When You’re Ready to Start Doing the Work

W  henever I head to the piano to capture what I hear, I have to be so careful. Any little misstep could easily crush it. Even if I play it almost perfectly, one wrong note in the melody or harmony can make it slip away. A similar thing happens in the word work. The best times are when it comes more as something to preserve than to
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Oh, Bravery. Do You Have to Be So Hard?

“We say God uses all things for good, but we don’t know how to participate in that process of redemption because we can’t acknowledge that we are in pain, that our beliefs are shaken and that the way we think, feel and live is changed. We are unable to get to the good that God works because we cannot face
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What’s Really Left to Say?

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” – Graham Greene It’s Saturday and I’m still working. I’m tired, worn out. Tea, I think. Lord knows, I’ve had plenty of coffee.
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On Not Seeing the Miracle

Why has everyone heard this phrase, “The more things change the more they stay the same?” Who ever said things stay the same? I’m not seeing it. Every year I’m surprised how completely things change. We were supposed to have a nice quiet Christmas at home this year. With our extended families all away, we were going to start some
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