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Breadcrumbs to the No-Self
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Nothing to Fix
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In Search of the Peace of God
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Hell: Resistance to Life
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Love Leads So Gladly
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Dreaming of Exile (In the Name of Escape)
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Rules of Engagement
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Pride Goeth Before the Fall: Ignoring Intuition; the Power of Shame
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There is No Gap
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(Without God)
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Resistance is Hell
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Pronoia: Love is Everywhere
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Power Cannot Oppose
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Pi Day, Hawking, and Forgiveness as the Path to Healing
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Unfairness and Attack
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Trusting in My Brothers
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Trust Fall into the Arms of Reality
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Errors of Thought When Life is Tugging
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Trying to Usurp God’s Power: Why I Don’t Listen
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God is My Strength, So Why So Nervous?
Nothing to Fix
I am no longer trying to fix things. There IS nothing to fix. Letting go of this inclination may not seem like a gargantuan feat – after all, it is infinitely easier to NOT do things than to do them, but trust me, it is. It’s huge. It is the taming of ego. It is […]
In Search of the Peace of God
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God. I have studied long enough to realize that when I encounter stress, I am looking at a place within that needs healing. It is resistance to what is. It is fear. It is lack of trust. Yesterday, as I once again […]
Hell: Resistance to Life
“There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.” ~Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape. When I am in hell, I need to write. The part that is screwed up (of course!) is that I resist writing, as well. When I am in […]
Love Leads So Gladly
How easily I have fallen back into my old slacker habits! The up side to this is that I spend a good portion of every day in prayer. I have to. I go around feeling bad. I think about Anthony Bourdain’s recent suicide and I understand too clearly how deceptive appearances can be. I am […]
Dreaming of Exile (In the Name of Escape)
As much as I tell myself I want to heal my life, I find that I regularly slip into avoidance behavior. It is the home of addiction. It is hell, and even though I “know” that the path to healing it is to face it, it is the great battle of my life. I fritter […]
Rules of Engagement
As a child, I remember rehearsing my defense. In my imagination, I was being attacked and I needed to lay out arguments to ward off the assault. These days, I don’t spend a lot of time running through such scenarios in my head, although when something or someone is really getting to me, I still […]
Pride Goeth Before the Fall: Ignoring Intuition; the Power of Shame
When I was in my thirties, I returned to college and got my degree through an independent study program. During my first semester, I delved into women’s studies and in the course of those studies, I read Clarissa Pinkola Este’s Women Who Run with the Wolves. The one story that I remember above all others […]
There is No Gap
What if I were able to see the perfection in everything? It’s a tantalizing question and one that begs me to release the frustration I presently feel over the perform issues of doing anything on my website on the day when, for the first time in three weeks I am endeavoring to write. In our […]
(Without God)
I am clawing my way back to certainty. As human as I am, I too often believe my own illusions – act as if they are somehow apart from me and that I had nothing to do with them. I find myself eternally grateful for my Tuesday night ACIM group because no matter how far […]
