Eclipse & Happy Merry Everything!

Posted by on Dec 20, 2010 in ponderings, Spirituality | Comments Off on Eclipse & Happy Merry Everything!

  Hello all!  I wanted to post some sort of really fun, wise, enlightening article here for the holidays, and if there is time I still may do that.  But in the meantime, what is happening tonight is fun, spiritual and has attracted wise seekers throughout the ages. Tuesday is a total Lunar Eclipse. It is also the Winter Solstice and the World Wide Chant for Peace Day.  Some are saying this is the first time in over 400 years all of these events have happened on the same day.   Christmas is upon us, the day Christians celebrate New Light coming into the world.  So I can’t top any...

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Winter Solstice Chant for Peace

Posted by on Dec 19, 2010 in Spirituality or Religion | Comments Off on Winter Solstice Chant for Peace

Hello All 🙂 I have been a blogger slacker again this month, BUT!  Just in time for Tuesday, which is not only the Winter Solstice, but a full lunar eclipse, I wanted to let you know about the Chants for Peace.  For non-St. Louis folks, check in your own city as well– this is a nationwide event. I probably won’t make it back here before next weekend, so whatever you may celebrate this year–Happy Merry Everything.  May we all have what we need, see the Light in ourselves and each other, find warmth in the glow of family and friends, and see joy in the faces of children.  So...

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Dealing with Difficult Relatives

Posted by on Nov 22, 2010 in Emotions, Grief, Loss and Letting Go, Spirituality | Comments Off on Dealing with Difficult Relatives

Your friends, family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. -Jim Rohn   OK, so I admit it.  I’m not normally a reader of Max Lucado’s work.  But I have had many chats lately with a lot of people feeling pain about the “hellidays,” family time, obligations and expectations, stresses and so on.  Not a lot of excitement about connecting with the famdamly in these conversations.  So, I thought I’d pass along something someone sent me about how...

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Meditation and Attention Span

Posted by on Nov 22, 2010 in Events and Education, Happiness, Healing, Spirituality, Spirituality or Religion | Comments Off on Meditation and Attention Span

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of the spirit… ~~Jeremy Taylor   I took this pic of the flowers with the small Buddha out at MABA, the Mid America Buddhist Association.  It was a day of choosing focus and the flowers in direct focus with Buddha in the back seemed to capture if for me.   MABA is a gorgeous place and one of many places in the St. Louis area to learn more about meditation.  St. Louis offers meditation and prayer opportunities in nearly every faith tradition or practice, as do most cities.  If you are looking for suggestions about places to check...

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Getting There

Posted by on Nov 15, 2010 in Emotions, Loss and Letting Go, ponderings, prayers | Comments Off on Getting There

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson Hello all 🙂 I was talking with some folks over the weekend about the paths we walk…how we think the path we are on will lead to a certain place, but part of the journey is accepting when it wanders into other areas.  Staying on the path and getting there aren’t necessarily the same thing, but probably all part of the same path.  It reminded me of the wonderful poem by David Wagoner, so I thought I’d post it.  We’ve all earned this ” worn-down, hard,...

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