Living Grace

Today, I want to explore a very important principle in the context of a personal mission statement: the creative power of thoughts and words. Everything that humans have ever created began with a thought, a word, and an articulated vision.  Our capacity to think...

Today, I want to explore more deeply the importance of having a personal mission statement. As a starting point, it is crucial to understand that a mission statement can arise from two very different sources, the ego or the soul. Egoic mission statements are typically...

I ended yesterday’s reflection by saying that we need to pay attention to our stories because our stories determine what we see. Dark stories see only dark possibilities. Frightening stories see only danger. Angry stories see only aggression. By contrast, stories...

This week, we will be exploring the importance of having a personal mission statement, but first, we must step back and look at our perceptions. Every day, life offers us a shoreless ocean of possibilities, a field of virtually unlimited opportunities, some remote and...

Far too often in the religious world of my youth, God was presented as a frightening and punitive figure. The damage caused by this mis-representation of the Divine continues to poison the hearts of many people. Over the past three or four decades, however, God has...

Monday: Spirituality is very, very simple. It is the ever-deepening process of opening the door of our hearts to the Divine Beloved. In other words, spirituality is our childlike consent to God’s presence!  Tuesday:  Our discontentment is actually God...