Born To Receive
  How comfortable are you at accepting gifts, praise and compliments?  Do you embrace them; holding them close to your heart or deflect like them as if they were arrows that jab you or chafe like an itchy sweater? For many women (and I am guessing some men too), sadly, the latter is so. Ev

posted 10:22:57am Mar. 08, 2014 | read full post »

He Likes To Love
  Sometimes words tickle me to such a point that I get the giggles and need to share them, partly because they are so contagious (the words and the giggles) and because I can't hold them in. Such was the case today when I read a post on Facebook written by Tamara Mark, who lives in Pasade

posted 11:22:11am Mar. 07, 2014 | read full post »

God's Too Big To Put In A Box
  This evening, I was noticing a thread on a friend's Facebook page that included a lively conversation which began this way: "I am God in Garb You are God in Garb We are God in Garb God is everything Everything is God in Garb" He was expressing his perception of the Divine in all

posted 9:55:46pm Mar. 05, 2014 | read full post »

Poison Ivy
One of my clients in the outpatient drug and alcohol counseling center where I work with folks in recovery had a brilliant analogy that he shared. As someone with a long term addiction, he thought he could manage it by 'controlling' his drinking until he realized it was controlling him. It was when

posted 10:28:21pm Mar. 04, 2014 | read full post »

God's Instrument
  My friend Lew Doty is an uber-talented musician. His songs are nothing short of spiritual sustenance that make my heart dance. I was introduced to him back in the early 2000's perhaps and have been hooked ever since. He is kind of the 'musician in residence' at CCL (Center for Conscious

posted 4:20:49pm Mar. 02, 2014 | read full post »