Posts Tagged ‘gift’

Last night I finally had a chance to watch the season premier of Little People, Big World, albeit only two days late.  Like many others watching the show I was deeply moved by the bleak outlook for the three Iraqi kids if they didn’t receive medical attention.  But what impacted me the most was the depth of the human spirit to find joy in even the worst of conditions. continue →

One of the most personally enlightening chapters I have read in recent memory was Chapter Eleven in “The Call” by Oriah Mountain Dreamer (and read the poem if you like). This chapter describes the idea we are each here to live one word to the fullest of our being. We are challenged to look deeper than such words as Love or Joy or Peace because we are all these words. Oriah asks us to look deeper into ourselves, perhaps into places we would like forget, and identify the word we have to stay the most conscious about and pay the most attention to in order to fully live this word. continue →