Monthly Archives: February 2012

For Those Times When You Believe It Is Finished!

I have always loved Louis L’Amour’s statement: “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished…that will be the beginning.” I suspect I’ve loved that statement because more than once I’ve believed it was finished…as if it were … Continue reading

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“Starry, Starry Night…”

“Paint your pallet blue and grey, Look out on a summer’s day, With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.” Don McLean’s lyrics tell the haunting story of the darkness…the emptiness that was the soul of Vincent Van Gogh. … Continue reading

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Live Your Life Crazy…

“It is not what you’ll accomplish today that completes you but what you’ll experience that will,” said the spiritual guide Mark Nebo.If that is true, then what is it I’ll experience today that will contribute to my completion? What will … Continue reading

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You Lookin’ at Me?…

Confucius said, “When you meet a noble person, emulate them. When you meet an evil person, look within.” But why? Because you only ever do unto others what you’ve done to yourself already. Conversely, you do to yourself what you’ve … Continue reading

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Like a Miner Who Pans for Gold…

More and more, I live from this place of awareness that where I am this moment is precisely where I’m supposed to be. And never more so than when I’m feeling as if where I am is the last place … Continue reading

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Trapped in a Cycle of Madness…

Do you ever feel you are trapped in the same cycle of madness? Or, sadness? Even despair? That you just keep making the same mistakes in judgment? In choices? In decisions of importance? Well, who doesn’t feel this way at … Continue reading

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Are You and God One?…

If Jesus and God were one, as he claimed they were (John 10:30). And, if Jesus prayed, as of course he did (John 17:21) that you and God would be one, too. Then, are you and God one? The implied … Continue reading

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