Today – December 2 – is the first day of the Advent for 2018. It’s a time of anticipation and a countdown to the aventus (meaning arrival or coming in Latin). But arrival of what? Its symbology has swirled among our earliest religions, folding in layers and layers of traditions, just like Christmas itself. It’s…
Category: Spirituality & God
December 1st, 2018
December is a welcome blast of Northern air to clean out the death and dying I associate with November. The eleventh month is one, which – for me – embodies endings and memorials. The last traces of the summer have gone, but the winter has not yet begun. It’s the No Mans Land of the…
If you died today … what would be your biggest regret?
Facing death is something I have to do at least every six months with my scans. The grim reaper has come calling once, but it wasn’t my time. I came back with a new appreciation for the moments we have and with whom we share them with. If you aren’t in my life, there is…
The Meaning of Life
If you happened to see someone dancing on the street this morning as she walked her two dogs … that was me. Headphones and iPhone, two bewildered dogs and a dozen cars honking because I was just that happy! I hope I made someone’s morning. But I am also content to beat my own drum…
Lesson 7 ~ “I only see the past”
Humans are obsessed with their future. We want to know what will happen tomorrow, the day, month, year or decades after that. We read horoscopes, visit fortune tellers and try to predict the stock market. We are less capable adults if we don’t plan ahead for rainy days, education funds and retirement. I spent a…
Lesson 6 ~ “I am upset because I see something that is not there”
“I am upset because I see something that is not there.” Search your mind for a moment and find what is bothering you most. What are you feeling? Name the form of upset you are experiencing: Sadness: depression, despair, disappointment, hopelessness Anxiety: fear, worry, concern, nervous, panic, dread Anger: irritation, frustration, annoyance, rage Shame/Embarrassment Guilt…
Lesson 5 ~ “I am never upset for the reason I think”
I had to let this lesson for today sit with me awhile. And remind myself of the research I did into the psychology of abuse. The abuser’s overwhelming need to control comes from a place of fear. The root of anger is fear. It may look like fearlessness, but it isn’t. It’s usually a warning…
Lessons 3 ~ “I do not understand anything I see”
This lesson from A Course In Miracles was tougher for me because I try to understand everything, even when I don’t understand it. Especially when I don’t understand it! It’s my inquisitive nature. But this lesson is necessary to tear down the walls of what we think we know. I know nothing. We view everything…
A Course In Miracles ~ Lessons 1 & 2
Several days ago, I read a book called A Course In Miracles I found it via my usual route … a winding path on a journey to enlightenment through philosphy, theology and science. I don’t believe they are mutually exclusive, yet struggled to find my place in the world of religion. As part of that…
Standing On Thin Ice
This piece of flash fiction was written for Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challege: Pop Culture Mash-Up Edition I chose – by random number generator – #15 The Stand by Stephen King and #20 The Bible. What, pray tell, do these two books have in common other than their epic size? A significant amount of their…
Solitude
I crave solitude. Which is quite the about-face for a confirmed card-carrying Extrovert. In the final quarter of 2017, my world spiralled out of control, careening from side to side like a car spinning on ice, bouncing from one concrete life barrier to the next. I had to stop and get off the rollercoaster to…
The Moonlit Path to God
“… the form of the moon can only be known through one’s own eyes. How can it be known through others?” ~ Aldous Huxley – The Perennial Philosophy Why does no one seek God? Have we completely lost the our ability to see? And why doesn’t religion show the way? Because “they” don’t see the…
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