Making miracles of everyday life
Here is the first video by the Barefoot Barn! It's about finding a sacred pause in your everyday life...and making miracles out of the ordinary. Enjoy! Hope it inspires you! [youtube...
Tips for Mindful Relationships #7: Regard
Recall the last conversation you had with your partner. Did you look at them? Did your eyes communicate "I see you?" Did your heart communicate "I'm listening?" Did you look at them -- really look...
The courage to heal
A few times a year, our church weaves into the mass a time of "anointing the sick." Anyone who is hurting, in any way, is invited to come forward. The priest and deacon take their time. They lay...
Sacred Softening
Sacred Softening My body knows has always known my way back to God. I dance moving in slow sensual swirls under the vastness of a moon-lit night swaying until stillness fills every cell and there...
how the fear of death dissolves
Ever since I can remember, I had been scared of my parents dying. My dad remembers when I was in middle school and we were traveling with my soccer team to a tournament in North Carolina. My dad...
Running over a snake
I have no picture. I didn't want to take one. There is one already etched in my mind. The other evening, we were all packed up in the minivan and off to our friend's house for a lovely evening to...
Regarding Life
Today, on my way to work, winding around the beautiful Cabin John parkway in DC, next to the Potomac River, at 6:30 in the morning, I saw a huge turtle trying to cross the road. I let out a gasp....
The Miracle in the Now
The miracle is finding the peace and beauty in the ordinariness of our everyday lives. Seeing it all as SACRED. A gift. May we all experience several miracles today!! (Coming soon...a video series...
Repost: Mindful Moment: My mom’s every day love…in a grapefruit
{I wrote this a year ago. I am moved by the compassion within the human spirit -- to care for another human being, to love, to "be of service" to others. I see how we are WARRIORS -- we do...
Tips for Parenting with Compassion # 8: Find the Sacred Pause
There is an opportunity. Every day. To look for, notice, see, be graced by something sweet. The most simple, quiet acts of kindness. They are there. Present. Every day. Some days, we are D.O.N.E.!...
Three ways to mother ourselves
We all have them. Parts of ourselves that we try to avoid looking at. Parts we deny are there. Parts we get furious with for being "weak" and "wanting attention." The angry, guilty, ashamed,...
Made by tiny hands with love: the best mother’s day gifts
I am that mom today. The mom who gets home-made gifts from her kiddos. This is the first time. And I am beaming. I held this two pieces of pottery painted by my children, and I instantly...
