Posts Tagged ‘gratitude’

The Gift of Discomfort

January 12th, 2011    -    1 Comment

We’ve all been there and most of us probably agree: moving stinks. Even when it’s chosen, contextualized as an adventure, we enter the unknown. We move into the territory of transition and a massive layer of comfort – or several – is stripped away. When that layer is taken off, that layer of comfort ofRead the Rest…


Transition Prayer

January 5th, 2011    -    1 Comment

This week I could drop like a stone into scarcity. We are packing up our home of eight years – how embedded we are! So many holes in the walls. We all have colds, heavy heads, along with heavy hearts. We are leaving our little preschool – last day tomorrow. I am seven months pregnant,Read the Rest…


Gratefuls

November 17th, 2010    -    No Comments

Scarcity has dominated my mood. No one is good enough. Things not are said right enough. Expectations are not being met. All I see is what I don’t like, what is not working, what I wish were different. I am hitting the most common, my most utilized weapons of scarcity – resistance, complaining, frustration, whatRead the Rest…


Parenting from "Strength in What Remains"

January 13th, 2010    -    3 Comments

It was an accident that I started reading the book Strength in What Remains (Random House, 2009) as I also started preparation for the Parenting from Sufficiency tele-course. I had ordered the book from the library back in October, but it was so popular, the book arrived three months later, last Friday. I’ve been transfixedRead the Rest…


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