The gift received from giving

Recent realization that the better hugs I give, the better hugs I receive prompted this past week’s lesson. It’s a flat out truth that the more love and blessings any of us invest in a hug, the more love and blessings we come away with as well. It is more blessed to give than to […]

Posted on August 1, 2012 at 7:34 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Loving God with Beginner’s Mind

“Imagine rediscovering your beloved for the first time every day–not trying to make anything special, amazing or perfect, but simply being totally present, as if you were newly experiencing each other and bringing your full nature to your relationship. To be free to meet in such an open, clear way requires a mind free of […]

Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:06 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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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 […]

Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:27 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Joy is ours to make

I went for an early (read, before-it’s-too-hot) run this morning. On Monday runs I push my smile harder, more often. The Monday Syndrome was hard at work on the minds — and the faces — of most of the drivers this morning. Smiles seemed miles from the fronts of their minds. (Here’s something to think […]

Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:30 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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