Love or Fear – What Do You Choose? What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. – Jane Goodall This moment is an opportunity to look at our lives and to evaluate where we are and what we choose to create in the new year. What do we see when we look at our world today? We see […]
Candles Light Our Celebrations In times of deep darkness, we not only need light, we need to be light for one another. Parker J. Palmer At this time of uncertainty for many people, we want to focus on things that sustain us and bring us peace and joy. Many of us are uplifted by our spiritual traditions. We want to acknowledge three celebrations happening at this time – […]
Reflections on Giving and Receiving When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou This is a season of giving and receiving. In our hurried lives, we often get so caught up with the making or buying, then wrapping and maybe mailing of gifts, that it becomes more of a chore than a celebration. For many people, the season brings unfulfilled expectations, or feelings of guilt […]
You are Creating the Future, Not Just for Your Life, but for the World We can’t heal the world today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness. ~ Mary Davis Do you believe that you have an influence on the future of the world? I believe that we do, and when we realize this, we take our daily choices […]
Meeting Today’s Challenges with a Pandemic of Love When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou This week, as I was checking our “Nextdoor” feed online, I saw a post titled, “A Pandemic of Love Asheville.” Suzi Israel, who runs our local Pandemic with Love chapter, had posted the story of a young man whose life was changed because of local volunteers. I shared […]
