Relational Spirituality

Relational Spirituality

New Book! Receiving Peace #3 Relational Spirituality suggests that strengthening one’s relatedness to other people and to other sources of interest beyond self interest produces joy and vitality. To be sure, not all people produce this effect. But long-term isolation...
Reconciled Life Perspective

Reconciled Life Perspective

Receiving Peace #2 Whether you consider yourself religious or not, caregiving and chronic illness soon leads you into inherently spiritual terrain. These scenarios are frustrating. They make us mad and sad; and they prompt us to cuss and pray. Everyone experiences...
New Book! Receiving Peace!

New Book! Receiving Peace!

Receiving Peace #1 Whether or not you consider yourself religious, the experience of adversity soon leads you into inherently spiritual terrain. Like most of you, I do not wake up every morning with the proverbial bluebirds of joy and serenity on my shoulder. They...
Compassion

Compassion

Moments That Open Your Heart #1 Guarded. Tough. Skeptical. For survival purposes, you may have gotten very good at putting up a strong exterior. So much comes your way that it seems necessary. No blame. Most of us do this, especially as we travel through adversity,...
Making Up Your Mind

Making Up Your Mind

You and Your Brain Isn’t this a funny turn of phrase? Making up your mind?But, it’s a phrase you may have used, and if so, you know exactly what you mean by it. In small ways, we may often make up our minds to do this or that. But often, this phrase belies...