Lately, I’ve been feeling rather uninspired and it may very well be because I haven’t been working toward progress when it comes to this project (ironically entitled Work4Progress) for a bit and it’s leaving me rather discouraged. I had set a date for releasing this project and on the eve of the scheduled release date, […]
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Life… who dictates whether it is to be? I am torn this evening as I consider the recent bills passed in Alabama and Missouri. I’ve seen many of the posts about this topic on social media and find myself feeling a little divided because of my spirituality. I know that the church wholeheartedly agrees with
Recently, I came across a flyer at my yoga studio for a retreat to Rishikesh, India and it has really been on my brain since. I’ve been pondering whether I want to sign up and put a deposit down and have noticed the resistance that has come up for me around this. It’s become quite
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My fiancé is in the process of gutting and rebuilding an old decrepit home for us to move into. As he goes through the process of removing layers and building new ones, I can’t help but to realize how similar homes are to living and breathing organisms. So often we don’t think about everything that
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I just finished reading “Wayne Dyer’s book, “Your Erroneous Zones” and overall I’d say it was an amazing book that has the ability to help it’s readers become more inner centered rather than outer oriented. As I was reading some parts, especially the chapter on dependency, I could see how some of the information could
I attend church every Sunday and this year, my grandfather has been accompanying me. Usually I pick him up, but the past couple of weeks, he’s insisted on meeting me there with his own car. I find this slightly odd, but haven’t asked about it. As we were waiting to go into church this weekend,
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Time heals all wounds is a fallacy, is only something people say when the cut was just skin-deep Unknown Why is it that people long for confirmation that they are “normal”? I’ve had so many conversations with people throughout my life that contain the sentence “Is that weird?” or, “I thought I was the only
Be shepherds over the flock God has entrusted to you. Watch over it as God does: Don’t do this because you have to, but because you want to. Don’t do it out of greed, but out of a desire to serve. Don’t be rulers over the people entrusted to you, but be examples for the flock
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We live in a fast-paced world. If you are a working parent, you realize that there is barely enough time to spend quality time with our children before they go to bed when we are putting them to bed at a reasonable hour to ensure their physical health and mental acuity for the next day.
We’ve heard it said that we should bless our enemies, and I want to emphasize the truth within blessing the hell out of people. An eye for an eye doesn’t change anything, it simply adds to the # of hurting people out there in the world. I believe we literally can bless the hell out
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Something rubbed me the wrong way the other day after my yoga practice to the point where I went from peaceful bliss to increase blood pressure because my blood was boiling at the audacity of the yoga instructors “teaching” after class. I almost got off of my mat and walked out and had an awfully
Devotion to God or Harry Potter? Read More »
Movie night with my family led us to watch “The Lorax.” I’ve often spoke of how I enjoy children’s movies more than adult movies for the sole reason that I believe they speak to the soul more deeply with spiritual lessons. I’m enthralled with Dr. Seuss and convinced he was an enlightened being that graced
Courage… it’s an odd thing. So often we think of courage as some sort of “hero” quality, and it is. However, we discount the “hero” that lives within us that enables us to step up to the plate in small acts of bravery every day. For instance, today I celebrate my bravery of this week
Yoga is really interesting because some days you have a really steady and strong practice where you walk away feeling like you are on top of the world. Other days, you are off balance and your negative self-talk creeps in. Both days are progress, though the off-balance days can feel off-putting, sometimes I feel there
I’ve just gotten home from church and it’s really trippy how my writings wind up coming out of my pastor’s mouth. There are plenty of topics to choose from in the Bible and yet my pastor and I seem to be riding the same wavelength for awhile now. It seems that I have an inspired
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Sometimes I get caught up in pondering this world and how it operates. I like to think about what comes next after this life is over. I enjoy musing in my mind of the various spiritual teachings that are out there. While in the shower tonight, I was taken back to one of Jesus’ final
Yoga is all about practicing different states of being. As we journey through our practice we experience different bodily states of self-induced stress followed by calmness. In riding the wave of our practice, we coast on the crest of intensity followed by the crash of the wave back into peace. The practice lies in staying
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Last Saturday, I found myself feeling a bit off the day before I was going to my friend’s baby shower. You know, those moods where you find yourself in a funk and just feel like you need a pick-me-up. I was in the midst of telling my fiancé that I wanted to get a new
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Today in therapy, my therapist was thrilled with something I’d said as we had a conversation around Jesus, which really made me wonder how many others don’t quite understand this. I felt as though her hug signified that I was a secret member of some enlightened club. My comment was, “A lot of people misunderstand
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“I believed in God so I spoke” 2 Corinthians 4:13 This morning I came across this beautiful verse and it comes at such a wonderful time. I was just speaking to my therapist this morning about how old mental scripts die hard and indicated that I am feeling like I’m doing a good job counteracting
For a long time, I believed that some were just more capable than others. I believed that some were just naturally happier than others and it was all a matter of innate disposition or outer circumstance. The only thing that I was right about was the fact that happiness is innate. Everything else was erroneous
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So many spiritual guides speak of going within to find the truth. What does this really mean? For me it means unraveling the truth from the lies and seeing who we are underneath the falsities. When we go within and start taking the time to truly know ourselves, we start to realize a lot of
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This morning I was reflecting on last nights’ meeting with my women’s church group. We call it “crew,” but really, it’s a group of women who get together to get deeper into the messages at church, help one another, learn from one another, and grow together. It’s refreshing to be surrounded by like-minded women who
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As my fiancé and I were having a discussion this evening, I used an analogy that was really good and helps me to further explain what it means to operate in the present moment. Sometimes, God graces me with beautiful words in the midst of a conversation and it’s as though I’m preaching to myself.
I used to dread having birthday parties for my daughter. I would feel really anxious the whole week leading up to the party and even more anxious the day of. I would stress about all of the details and become really irritable with everyone because I was stressed out. It wasn’t as though we ever
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Fairly randomly, last night my daughter asked me to write a book entitled “The Book of Love” since she knows I’ve often dreamed of writing a childrens’ book that is just as amazing as my favorite childrens’ book of all time, “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. I’ll admit, I haven’t been as inspired around
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In Luke 2:49, Jesus responds to his parents who have finally found him after frantically searching for him in the crowds of people at the temple by stating, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” As I sit here today reading “The Wind and the Rudder” by
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This morning, I had an unexpectedly amazing conversation with a woman I worked with a few years back. I’ve been keeping in touch with her on social media and have been seeing her journey from afar after the loss of her child to drug addiction. Her journey is one of the many events that have
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The universe is always speaking to us when we are willing to listen. As I finally grew some wings and decided to move forward with investing in this project, I began having some doubts about whether it was a good idea. I questioned whether people would actually enjoy my work or whether I was attempting
Someone Has Already Done It Read More »
The purpose of taking is so that you may give. Like the roots of a tree seek to take the nutrients from the soil so that it may give it to the tree so that the tree can in turn provide shelter, oxygen, and nourishment to other creatures. So too must we be both taker