compassion Category
Stop Putting Your Anger on a Hanger
Posted on October 10, 2017 Leave a Comment
“In this month of breast-cancer awareness, it’s not enough to be focused on the cancer… It is our heart’s way of raising the pink flag to signal that it is time to LOVE YOURSELF LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT, BECAUSE IT DOES.”
What to Wear for A Resurrection
Posted on April 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
We were all dressed in white. On a recent morning, I sat next to two other mothers during our children’s chapel service during which my daughter and her other peers were reading a Psalm. For a moment, I let myself be amused by the outdated notion that one shouldn’t wear white, especially white shoes, after Labor […]
Grateful for Bicycles, Cheetah-Print Flats, Spoons and My Barbie: A Remedy for Coping with Now
Posted on November 22, 2016 2 Comments
As I woke up, I could hear the sigh of cars on shuttling drivers on their way to their early morning commitments. A few birds chirped outside my window welcoming the rays of sun rising up into the sky. I stretched for a moment and gave thanks for the calm and I prayed that others […]
Loving the Dark Side
Posted on October 24, 2016 2 Comments
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope. For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing: there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you […]
Bad Moms, Good Moms, and Burnt Toast
Posted on May 5, 2016 Leave a Comment
In the glass door of the studio, I could see the ghost image of my reflection staring back at me as I huffed through a series of triceps curls during a Pilates boot camp class. I focused on my feet: wide and angular around my bunions, thanks to poor shoe choices when I was younger. My […]
