Path of Love

Wednesday Wisdom, etc.

Allowing Life to Unfold: Living Surrender #5

By Colette Lafia / Comments Off on Allowing Life to Unfold: Living Surrender #5

This week, I wanted to share a beautiful response I received recently after I did a book reading and talk at the beautiful Santa Sabina Center. Sharing my book continues to be a journey of surrender and surrendering into the presence of others, allowing the book to live. Colette, I…

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Finding Trust During Change: Living Surrender #4

By Colette Lafia / Comments Off on Finding Trust During Change: Living Surrender #4

This post is part of a “Living Surrender” series I am writing as a way to live into my new book, Seeking Surrender, with my readers. Surrender happens in our daily life, the one we are actually living. It’s not a spiritual ideal for saints and holy people, but rather a…

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Feeling Lighter: Living Surrender #3

By Colette Lafia / Comments Off on Feeling Lighter: Living Surrender #3

Recognize the call to surrender everywhere: in your daily relationships, in how you handle your limitations, in your work challenges, in the ways you care for your family, and even in the simplest of things, like how you step into a cool swimming pool and plunge into the water. The…

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Stay Connected to Yourself: Living Surrender #2

By Colette Lafia / Comments Off on Stay Connected to Yourself: Living Surrender #2

Our everyday encounters create the platform for surrender. Throughout the day, we can bring the qualities of surrender—trust, acceptance, compassion, and release—into the way we respond to life. It’s our relationship to what’s happening that forms the cornerstone of our experiences. I offer you this sacred practice today as a…

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The Grace and Practice of Surrender: Living Surrender #1

By Colette Lafia / Comments Off on The Grace and Practice of Surrender: Living Surrender #1

I am starting a new Wednesday Wisdom series called “Living Surrender.” I hope many of you are reading my new book Seeking Surrender, and as we read it together I’d like to write and think about living surrender. When we hear the word surrender, it sounds both exhilarating and terrifying.…

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The Doorway: Life lessons from a Trappist Monk #14

By Colette Lafia / Comments Off on The Doorway: Life lessons from a Trappist Monk #14

I don’t keep focused on God all day long but I do have several methods to bring me back. I have a personal rule never to cross my legs to remind myself that I am always in the presence of the Almighty. And I always say a certain prayer when…

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