Synchronicity is what the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung describes as inner readiness intersecting with outer opportunities. It’s the curious way in which a person’s external reality suddenly clicks into alignment with what’s taking place in her inner world. Think about the timing when certain things fell apart or when others things came together in your…

Are there moments when you’ve wished you could go back to the woman or man you were 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago? I have. I think often about the woman I was in my 20’s and 30’s. Mind you, I don’t miss being twentysomething and thirtysomething. Reliving those years does not interest me. Spare…

The journey to discovering your inner wisdom and finding out who you truly are frequently involves being willing to take an outward journey as well. The inner journey requires you to sojourn through the impalpable terrain of feelings, memories, dreams, values and beliefs. The outward journey may take you to actual places, places of origin,…

How do you know when God is speaking? It’s one of those questions posed to ministers such as myself all the time. People expect us to know the answer. We expect ourselves to know the answer to that question also, but we don’t. Not really. We do know the answer perhaps, but not well enough…

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