by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 21, 2016 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
{I talk, God listens}. It’s 2:30 a.m., God. And I am awake – silence, darkness, my pen and notepad, and my warm covers. Without the distractions of the day, the darkness provides a holy opportunity to listen and connect. Keith is dead {*Keith is a dear friend of...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 16, 2016 | Cultivating Compassion, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Yes to the Mess Yes to the mess of ribbon and wrapping paper on the floor. Yes to the perfect gift you picked out and no one thanked you. Yes to the laughter and joy. Yes to the quiet ache of loneliness still lingering within you. Yes to the “best china” and the plate...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 10, 2016 | Following what delights your heart, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
I hear it. I sense it. Within you. Within me. A fire growing. A wave forming. A revolution of the heart-body-mind-spirit rising. We are done putting our attention (effort, energy, time…our sacred time) into what doesn’t serve us, what doesn’t feel like “right...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 3, 2016 | Following what delights your heart, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
There is a holy wildness growing louder within each of us. I hear it in my clients. I hear it pushing against my own ribs. The beginning of September can still be hot here in the D.C. area and, at this point, many of us are tired of it and ready for the cooler...
by Lisa McCrohan | Aug 7, 2016 | Following what delights your heart, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
It was our last day on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. We had tried to hike up the Sleeping Giant mountain when we first arrived, but the rain started to pour down in buckets. As we looked at the mud running down the path, we knew that the further we climbed up, the...
by Lisa McCrohan | May 3, 2016 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
It was a little, “nothing out of the ordinary” moment the other night. My husband had just left for a meeting. My daughter was over a neighbor’s house and I was taking our son to practice. We were getting into the car when I saw that our neighbor was calling. I...