by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 12, 2015 | Cultivating Compassion, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Come Closer By Lisa McCrohan What if one day you let the sadness, the grief stuck under your ribs, the regret lodged in your throat, the shame still folding down the corners of those precious lips to come closer to not push them away or angrily shake your finger...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 5, 2015 | Soulful Poetry
It’s Time to Come Inside God won’t let me go looking for love outside myself. “It’s time to come inside,” she said. “It’s time to put your hand to your own cheek and stroke your face with the gentleness of a mother nursing her child. No, I...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 5, 2015 | Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Today, the kiddos are heading back to school. Maybe you are thrilled, maybe you feel sad, maybe you are breathing in the spaciousness, maybe you are feeling the familiar “rush to get out the door.” Maybe you don’t know what you feel but you’ve...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 4, 2014 | Soulful Poetry
In the Space of Dying Lisa A. McCrohan You are an ordinary shrub losing its leaves for the winter in a suburban yard that I’ve walked by hundreds – perhaps now thousands – of times. And yet today, I pause in front of you noticing I’m in the space of dying. Leaves...
by Lisa McCrohan | Nov 12, 2014 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Belonging My Darling, how is it that you search for belonging like a poor beggar on hands and knees frantically scrounging the dirt floor for food? My Dear Heart, if you wish, I can continue to beg and scrounge alongside you, and we can keep bruising our hands and...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 20, 2014 | Cultivating Compassion, Nourishing Our Connections, Soulful Poetry
The Ache of Monday Morning by Lisa McCrohan I watch my husband and children hop into the car and drive off to school. I stand there on the front steps, barefoot in my pajamas feeling the cold cement underneath my feet, my empty hand still warm from the toast I ran out...