My wife recently bought local peaches from the Farmer’s Market. Yesterday, I decided to have one as a morning snack; nothing was particularly unusual about a morning snack nor my eating fruit she brought home. The peach I chose from the bowl cut easily and was ripe. The first bite was a heavenly experience and … Continue reading For Everything A Time
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Being Undivided
What brings you peace? Peace has become for me a sense of wholeness, completeness, and relationality. Rather than understanding peace as the absence of something- for instance, distraction or pain -I understand peace as the inclusion of these as part of my whole daily path. One of my teachers taught that human beings tend to … Continue reading Being Undivided
Therapy Is a Good Beginning
What profession do you admire most and why? I admire the work of psychotherapists in helping people find ways to cope with their trauma and life challenges. I benefitted greatly from the therapeutic process in dealing with life events from my past in ways that helped me live daily less like I was on a … Continue reading Therapy Is a Good Beginning
Making Breakfast
Describe one habit that brings you joy. Every morning that I am home, I arise with my wife and while she is gone on a walk with our dog, I make breakfast. It is simple fare; we share oatmeal and coffee together. I am thankful as I measure out the water and then set it … Continue reading Making Breakfast
Patterns of Living
Daily writing promptWhat are your daily habits?View all responses Participation. I begin my day with preparing and sharing breakfast. It is the opportunity to participate in the lives of those I love. I get to offer a bit of myself and time to feed family (sometimes other guests, too!) and prepare them for the day. … Continue reading Patterns of Living
Getting caught up… again
I have a morning daily practice that includes meditation, reading, journaling, reflecting. It is a helpful practice and sets me up to keep practicing presence throughout the day. While I know better than to attach a value to my daily practice, this morning was especially good! And having labelled it, I find myself smiling even … Continue reading Getting caught up… again
What I learned from Jesus
When I look at the stories of Jesus of Nazareth, I see a person teaching and modeling a path for living. Jesus taught about healing and wholeness, and facilitated others finding the wholeness about which he taught. Jesus practiced being in the moment, with whoever he happened to be with then. He would stop at … Continue reading What I learned from Jesus
A Good Failure at “Little Things”
I spent the last several days spinning in frustration. After all, I have had a meditation practice for more than 10 years and little things are not supposed to trip me up. Hadn't I arrived at some deeper place? That is what happens when I start to imagine I have arrived and move from a … Continue reading A Good Failure at “Little Things”
Afraid of embarrassment
What fears have you overcome and how? I have spent a lifetime trying to avoid being embarrassed. Maybe not a lifetime really. Just since I was six which was some time ago. I was at a neighbor's house for dinner when something I said left me being the source of everyone else's laughter; only what … Continue reading Afraid of embarrassment
Reconnecting
Do you practice religion? Religion is from the Latin ‘religare’ meaning to bind together, perhaps even to re-bind. In many ways that is what I am learning to practice. I began a long journey of “binding together” (practicing religion) as a follower of the path of Jesus. In the early days of that journey, I … Continue reading Reconnecting
Infinitely Precious 