Just because you don’t name the direction, doesn’t mean that you aren’t going in one…

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Category Archives: Peace

Unchartered territory…

February 1, 2010 – 4:16 pm

“Each moment is a place you’ve never been.”

mark strand

Does this help?
Does this give the permission (and the freedom) to being open to learning?
Does this hold the potential, the promise,
and the possibility for growth?

If each moment is a place you have never been, could that make room in life for you to accept any imperfections or [...]

Endless opportunities to give…

December 12, 2009 – 2:06 pm

“A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle.”
Author: Unknown
Amazing, isn’t it?
We aren’t lessened by what we give, we are greater for it.
Love, compassion, respect, patience…
When we take care of ourselves, we never run out of these,
yet so many ration these out as if they are about to.
Some feel like showing too much [...]

Forever

December 7, 2009 – 4:38 pm

This was written after sitting with a mother,
as she tried to explain how she feels living through another day
of her daughter’s addiction, and was first shared in December 2007.
I am posting it again, because there have been several people
that have recently shared stories of addiction that they are facing in their families.
This is an issue [...]

Courage

November 14, 2009 – 7:55 pm

“Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that something else
is more important
than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
When you’re driving, you can’t always see what’s coming on the road, can you?
But yet you keep moving forward.
You drive, and you trust that even when you can’t see what is ahead,
you know that there is a road,
and that [...]

The Impact of You…

October 4, 2009 – 12:36 pm

“Think you can’t change the world?
Too late, you already have.
It was changed for the better the minute you were born.
There are more people than you can imagine
who will never be the same because they came in contact with you…
if only for a fleeting moment.”
Gail Pursell Elliott

Sometimes, during a group or a training, people express feeling [...]