I dream the dream that lay within the hearts and souls of our founding fathers even before they sat foot upon this country we call The United States of America. From this moment forward I will not put my faith in the reality of hypocrisy and oppression. I choose instead to dream the dream [...]

Following an unseen, but strongly felt signal …
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One day you realize you have been following an unseen, but strongly felt signal. When you began following the signal’s broadcast, its pulse, it was like moving towards a light emanating from a far-off lighthouse. You didn’t know where you were going. You just knew, perhaps [...]

Investigating those things we’ve tucked away
 

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu

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When I was growing up I was fascinated with a rather large cedar chest that sat at the foot of my parent’s bed. Whenever Mom had it open I was drawn into [...]

Co-promising Your Life
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Does compromise feel inauthentic to you? It did to me. From the time I was little there was always a sense of loss associated with compromise. People have written books about the art of compromise. Supposedly, it’s deemed good to be good at it. It is something experienced early in life [...]

Fears will either play us or we can learn to play with them
 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -  I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –  Robert Frost

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Days like these can work in our favor when we let them. It doesn’t appear [...]

There by the grace of God am I. No I didn’t misquote, I rewrote. The original quote, is from a mid-sixteenth-century statement by Christian reformer and martyr, John Bradford, “There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford”, in reference to a group of prisoners being led to be execution. John saw [...]

Finding Our Way Home to That Place Where Christmas Always Lives

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie

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We feel the joy and listen with adoration as choirs sing ‘Hark the herald angels’ and ‘O come all ye faithful’. Hearts open as we [...]

It is time to focus on what you are rather that what you are not
 

We all need to decide whether to “play it safe” in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires. Which choice are you [...]

Quite backwards from what mind expects
 

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. — John Maynard Keynes (UK Economist)

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There is not one of us that, if we knew how to, [...]