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Everyone is a father….
Last Sunday at Unity Center, we celebrated Father’s Day. Peeling back the typical associations we have with the word “father” — maleness and parenting and age-difference and such — we acknowledge joyfully that each and everyone of us shares the traits associated with fatherhood: love, strength, wisdom, protection, and comfort. And we share these traits […]
In: Happiness, Love · Tagged with: Joy, Love, spiritual simplicity
Spiritual Smile or Perfunctory Nod?
As I took my run Saturday morning, I came up against the impact of smiling. The impact of a smile on me, a life-long smiler. When I worked in New York City, I smiled constantly at strangers in the subways, though many friends encouraged against. Walking down streets in my friend’s New Jersey town, my […]
In: Affirmation, God, Happiness, Love, Oneness, Spirituality · Tagged with: God, Love, Smile, spiritual simplicity
Om, my God!
I usually meditate to a mantra. I usually mediate to my 108 mala beads, 1 bead per breath. Being a rather wordy sort, I used phrases as my mantras: I love God. God loves me. I breathe in life. I breathe out love. Thank you, God. Bless you, God. But yesterday I didn’t want to […]
In: God, Love, meditation, Peacefulness, Prayer · Tagged with: Affirmations, God, meditation
Why God is “dog” spelled backwards
God works in wonderful ways The job interview went wonderfully well. Two interviewers were prepped and primed and passed the questioning back and forth with graceful energy. I felt at home answering their queries about training and education and transitioning from corporate employment to self-employment and back. We laughed a lot. We traded stories. We […]
In: Affirmation, God, Happiness, Love, Prayer · Tagged with: Affirmations, God, Love, Prayer, spiritual simplicity