Month: January 2022

We believe in kindness even when we don’t see it. We believe justice prevails when it doesn’t seem to be in our courts. We find hope when hopelessness is all around us. We move forward when everything seemingly knocks us backwards. We do so because there is something inside us…

We all carry pain with us the pain. But that pain doesn’t tell us what it weighs. We decide how much of a burden we allow that pain to become. Pain is a result of a negative situation, not an addition to our core being. It is however purposeful in…

We bury ourselves many times before others ultimately bury us. Sometimes we say goodbye with a sigh of relief. Other times, it feels as though we are dragged from that which we hold. And then there are times we walk away because there is nothing left for which to stay.…

If we expect someone else’s choices to benefit us, then we fail to understand the true nature of free will. Each of us are given the opportunity to build the life we seek. So it is not expectation we should seek, but hope that within others’ choices is also conscience,…

What you wrap yourself in will become the blanket which either comforts you or invites the chill. It is true we are woven together as individual threads into one fabric. But the cold will penetrate if we choose that part which is tattered and torn from the lies and deceit…

Multitudes may ask for wealth, many will ask for strength, some will even ask for knowledge and maybe a few might ask for wisdom. But I shall ask for faith, for it is the only request that shows I believe only God knows what I truly need to be fulfilled.…

Sand under a microscope are tiny works of art with different shapes, sizes and colors. But that is not what we see when we walk on it. If we could see that beauty with the naked eye, we would probably walk on it more carefully and even stop to admire…

Never let someone else’s burden become your priority.  What they hold onto is given to them for a purpose and is theirs to let go in the appropriate time. Empathy does not equate to responsibility of ownership. It does, however, require acknowledgment that their suffering should be eased by all the…

For some, today will be a destination. But for others it’s only a leg of their journey. It is imperative that we understand and accept this. We all wish to accomplish and move forward. But today is purposeful and requires our attention more than what is to come. There is…

You may be on the verge of a breakdown or swimming in a misery that seems all consuming. But know that it is in the midst of such hardships that the most moving forms of art ever created, the greatest discoveries of self and the breakthroughs which changed the world…