The Leg Lamp

Christmas Eve’s message is about being a “Novelty Light.” In prep for that, I purchased the Leg Lamp for our living room. We have a table that doubles as a dog crate, and before I could plug the lamp in, I put it on the corner of the table and ran an...

The Longest Night

There’s an exact moment when the darkness gets shorter/smaller, and the light begins to have a larger impact/presence. That’s true scientifically and also true in our lives. Today is the Winter Solstice. It’s the shortest day of the year, the “darkest/longest night”...

A rebel and a dictator walk into a bar . . .

We have both within us. A rebel and a dictator. What are you today? Within us, we have two different ways of being. We have our True Self and our False Self. From Richard Rohr: Our False Self is our ego, who we think we are, but our thinking does not make it true. Our...

Saying it does not make it so!

How many times have you heard, “Do not be afraid!”  We talk about it in messages. The past weeks of meditations were all about not being afraid. But. Let’s get real. Just because someone says to you, “Do not be afraid.” It does not make the fear go away.  Fear is...

We need a “yes” to begin.

I just felt weird. I wasn’t sure what was up, but I felt weird. It was a stressful time, lots of “drama” at the school where I was teaching. A group of teachers were trying to get the assistant principal fired (for no reason other than she was a harda** and didn’t put...