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Sometimes hope can be hard to find.  Sometimes when we have had evidence to the contrary, actively choosing hope can feel painful.   But it’s easier to find hope when we’re in the practice of doing so.  Sometimes something silly helps crack me open – like pondering on the way to spell muscle.  Maybe I’ll have mussels ...

I’m having a hard time cultivating compassion in these days of… all the things. Compassion is action oriented – it requires four steps from us: recognizing, understanding, empathizing and responding.Compassion is an action word.  Sometimes I don’t have any energy for action anywhere in me.  Carrie Newcomer reflects that: Perhaps the place to start is not ...

Today I think of swimming and being in water as a kind of freedom.  I know the water will hold me and when I get in I can let all of my worries and my body be held by a force that’s not me. I can float away.   But for my almost 8 month old, swimming ...

Joy is all around us.  Sometimes we just have to search it out.   How many times have you heard the saying “Just for fun!”?   These “just for fun” moments can bring us so much joy.   This month how will you practice joy? This month will you dismiss the opportunity for joy?  How often have you heard yourself or someone else ...