Guidelines

If you could see whatever comes your way as a gift, that would itself be a great gift. One morning last week, after I had been up late and determined to sleep in, the phone rang early. I answered it and a situation presented itself requiring my time and attention, changing the course of my […]

No worry, no hurry. Or, no hurry, no worry. Pick one. The order doesn’t matter. I tell myself these four words, in fluctuating order, most every day. I figure I am finally old enough to fully apply them. I have spent far too much time in my life in a hurry; and somehow connected to […]

We cannot live long or well without hope. Hope lingers on between our breathing in and breathing out. While there is breath in the body, there is always be some residue of hope in the soul. And being one of the most important gifts of the Spirit, we can always ask for greater hope. Hope […]

We are here to make a difference in the lives of others. Looking back through five decades, my work has really been to make a difference, and at times to make the difference, in the lives of others. Yet I rarely knew which or even when I did either. And it is just as well […]

Much good would come if you began and ended each day focusing on that for which you are grateful. Melody Beattie said, “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. gratitude makes sense of our past, brings […]

Treat everyone as a treasure. Every person is in fact a unique work of art, with more in them than they imagine, let alone us. Sometimes our task is to help them discover and embrace what is already within them. As a part of that task, we may have to help them believe enough in […]