Please God, help me to accept compassion in my life. Compassion with myself for feeling things that probably aren’t the smartest. Compassion with myself for wanting things that aren’t feasible right now. Compassion with myself for craving touch that likely… Read more ›
After years of wanting to do it, I finally jumped.
Posted on Social Consciousness Facebook page, October 11, 2013
A good story is about change: a character changing to overcome a difficult situation. It doesn’t matter who the main character is (could be the girl next door; a single-mom baker next to city hall; a sim lab instructor at… Read more ›
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection. ~Buddha… Read more ›
The little one fell off her bike last summer. I was jogging with her along the quiet road behind my condo, and had just slipped ahead to encourage her to speed up. Seconds later I looked back in time to… Read more ›
As I type this, car doors slam across the street as my neighbor leaves for the hospital, where her husband remains 10 days after surgery to remove a Stage IV brain tumor. I’m pretty damn lucky right now. I should… Read more ›
Lots of changes over the past couple of years: … a crazy spiritual overhaul in my little brain … … followed by upheaval in my writing life … … followed by a tectonic shift in my personal life … My… Read more ›
I am my thoughts. I am my dreams. I am my hopes. I am my nightmares. I am my imagination. I am my fears. I am the great potential I seek. I am my world, and my fellow Wanderers. I… Read more ›
That’s right, folks — today’s the day! No matter if you believe in heaven or hell, angels or ghosts, the power of love or the power of material things… for several thousand years, **TODAY** has been marked as the End… Read more ›
We’re discussing THE REASON FOR GOD: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller in Sunday School right now. I’m only a few chapters in, but so far it’s given me lots of tasty tidbits to chew on about… Read more ›
I want to be free of sadness, and of fear. I want to trust myself, and to love myself again. God wants me to love myself. Once I can do that, I can move forward.Unfortunately, life doesn’t stop while I… Read more ›
I used to be a smoker.Not that I ever called myself that at the time, not even when I went through 4 packs a week. “They’re ultra-light cigarettes.” “Only when I have a few drinks.” “Only after work.” “Only when… Read more ›
The night after I scheduled my theta healing session, I had the most amazing dream. What made it even more remarkable is that I remembered it upon waking, and managed to write it out in vivid (for me) detail… Rather… Read more ›
A week and a half ago I drove down to Beaufort, SC to participate in a theta healing session with a nice lady by the name of Cheryl Mansson. It was my attempt to help me tease out this expanding… Read more ›