Archive for March, 2010

Maybe it was being told I was dying. Maybe it was realizing my marriage was doomed from the beginning. Maybe it was the extreme fatigue and pain that had become so normal I couldn’t imagine anything else. Maybe it was the little voice inside of me that was whispering, “All of this can change in a moment, Anita. You can co-create a new [Continue]

Faith in your Higher Power, in your doctors, and in your own resilience, reinforced by public prayer, can get you through a serious illness like prostate cancer. [Continue]

Butch Hovis finds new insights for St. John’s teaching on imperfections from NPR interview with Cornell players and style experts. [Continue]

Acceptance of the changes and vagaries of the seasons depends upon our capacity to keep those changes in perspective; so the changes from youth to adulthood to maturity demands a perspective that only spiritual insight can offer. [Continue]

My own words stared me in the face tauntingly. Feeling quite frustrated of late, I had (yes, I said “had!”) to take pause and yesterday, after an intense but beautiful weekend of service, I took the day off and prayed. [Continue]

This week’s entry is offered in celebration of the beginning of Spring. What Spring is happening in your personal journey? How do the nuances of Spring, and in particular the budding of trees, speak to our own hopes and experiences? [Continue]

Without saying it, I surmised that Karl’s homophobia was not that at all. He hated the gay community because “they” gave his son AIDS. Well at least that’s what he believed. So as long as I kept my sexuality in the closet, Karl and I got along fine. [Continue]

Butch Hovis relates the teaching of St. John of the Cross about “GLUTTONY” to our sometimes frustrating experience of “TRUE LOVE”. [Continue]

Life provides us with unexpected twists and turns and even false starts and dead ends. Why does life treat us so badly? What are we expected to do with all our wasted time and effort pursuing goals and dreams that never panned out? What sense did it make to have to endure all that suffering for nothing? [Continue]

I’ve long been heard sharing several foundational teachings found in the work we do with the Power of Our Way Medicine Wheel. Lately, due to the themes I am seeing, one of the most significant of these teachings is; All conflict is sourced in the beliefs we hold within our mind; a mind conditioned through [Continue]