Wednesday Wisdom. Love Heals. I just spent Labor Day weekend with my 92-year old mother in Palm Springs. Just the two of us. I am grateful that she is relatively well, and still lives in her own home with the daily care of people in the mornings to give her a shower, and help her prepare for the…

Wednesday Wisdom. Listen to the Sound of the Bells. I have always been drawn to the sound of church bells, to their ancient sound, to the way their ringing penetrates the air and settles in my heart. When I hear the tolling of these bells, I feel my entire being shaken; and I hear an invitation…

  Wednesday Wisdom: 10 Ways to Practice Surrender Today. I am asking for God to teach me to detach from my situation at work—in this case the details don’t really matter. How am I seeking a larger, deeper, and more compassionate way of seeing through every situation? I return to surrender, for the grace to accept the now. I remember that we…

Wednesday Wisdom: Love is a Source of Energy. What if sharing love wasn’t based on how we were feeling, but based on a daily, intentional commitment to love? There are many moments in a day when we just don’t feel good for various reasons–fatigue, stress, worry, anger, and more–and in those moments, we tend to constrict…

Wednesday Wisdom: Breaking Open. The spiritual life invites us into an intimate way of living. It invites us to ground ourselves in the awareness that God is infinite love, and we are a manifestation of that love. What would your day be like if you really saw yourself and everyone around you as an expression of this outpouring of…

Wednesday Wisdom: Flip Your Perspective. It’s always interesting to notice what is intersecting in our lives–what conversations, what books, what occurrences. Our lives are our spiritual lives, and it is through them that God speaks to us. During the month of July, I’ve been pondering the question of what is success. I know, like many…