“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John F. Kennedy

God has always lived as human. You, exactly as you are, are the Divine Expression of God. You don’t have to change one thing. Relax into your inheritance and [...]

Desire is not bad. It has no need to be transformed, surrendered, or denied. It is God speaking, expressing creatively, the ongoing breath of vibrant aliveness. The notion that desire should be chained and restrained, that it should not be allowed to flow freely, is a rejection of This That We Are. Stopping up desire impedes the flow of our abundant inheritance, the inheritance that is ours as sons and daughters of God – not servants, but children – not beggars, but rightful heirs. Everything that God is and has is ours. This is a founding principle for everyday, ordinary life not merely a concept or hope for a better life once this one ends.

Consciousness is unfolding and it’s unfolding with pinpoint precision. Even as I hang onto crystallized beliefs, unaware of my protected stance, movement abounds, wriggling through me in waves, bringing to light every ploy preventing me from being right here, right now. What grace. How could I ever become aware of ‘those things I don’t know that I don’t know’ if it weren’t for this great unfolding?

What if you didn’t need anything? What if everything you believe to be missing is already right here? What if you are already a most remarkable, creative, beautiful and powerful force? What if the purpose of your search was to make you pliable enough to accept this truth? What if you surrendered your sense of lack and your hopes for something better and settled deeply into your experience of life, trusting it to hold only abundance, health, wholeness and harmony? What would that mean to you? How would that feel deep within your bones?

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” Albert Einstein
With spirit’s relentless support, ego’s grip loosened and unraveling began in earnest.  Humbled once again and streaming tears, a great fullness poured through. In its wake innocence reappeared. The impulse to [...]

Have you ever seen a ghost? I have. It wasn’t at all what one might expect – not a sprite and certainly not a howling demon. What could have been a startling experience revealed a surreal ordinariness that added new understanding to what it means to be alive. Watching not one, but many ghost-like presences, I felt as if I had passed through the veil of one world into another dimension.

With each passing day it is simpler to stand in the middle of the tsunami pouring through my life and the lives of so many. Less effort and less apparent choice is required. Standing here, right in the middle of whatever shows up, is more natural than it was yesterday. The moment I realized there was actually no way to step out of the wave, that struggling to break free sucked me deeper into the powerful undertow, the battle ceased. Now I understand what it means to be alive on purpose.

A friend’s recent inquiry prompted me to question how well I really knew my mother. We all have beliefs about our parents that ultimately, regardless of how well phrased, come down to our sense of being loved. My friend asked if mother had gone through a mid-life crisis. It was difficult to answer. Mom [...]

When we are willing to love
For the past two years I made the pilgrimage to the Sisters, Oregon Folk Festival. It’s a pilgrimage because it offers more than fabulous musicianship. It offers mind-blowing, concept cleansing, knee-dropping spirituality when we open to finding its presence.
One entertainer, Ellis, caught my eye this year. Standing alone on [...]