The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience. -Leo Tolstoy Each of us has an inner compass. Its voice calls us to our highest good. Sometimes it requires that we altar a longstanding but stifling situation. It is difficult to face […]
God’s Timing
In a dark time, the eye begins to see. -Theodore Roethke My plans and agendas are expanded and corrected by the Universe. My life is blessed by grace, which acts with its own timing. In times of frustration, in times of fear, as loss and difficulty surround me, I release my plans and outcomes to […]
God is Extravagant
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. How do we get to this place? It begins with getting […]
Breakfast with Beckwith
Today I did an interview with Michael Beckwith with Agape of Los Angeles. There were two musical interludes– he is married to a composer, and writes music himself. We both agreed that music is the most direct route to the human heart– that a message set to music touches the soul. I told him of […]
Be Available
Writing is an activity best embedded in life, not one pursued while divorced from life. I look at interruptions as interventions. I try to channel spiritual information, rather than inventing it. When I allow writing to become a more fluid process, I feel less that I am charged with self-consciously guarding it, and instead challenge […]