As a Gemini, I have a strong propensity to overthink and overanalyze everything. And by everything I mean things like: Am I being a great friend? Did I listen to my niece yesterday… Continue reading
Learning to love ME. Not so easy when you grow up in a culture that persuades you to forget/deny yourself and give everything you’ve got to “the Lord” and the church. I’ve written… Continue reading
I started going to church with my family at 5 years old. For 30 years, I attended church every week. I read my Bible every day. My life was Christianity, the church and… Continue reading
You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are—but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are. … Continue reading
Push it down, it comes out sideways Push it down, it comes back up ~ Travis Meadows, Sideways There was a time I didn’t understand why people had addictions to drugs and… Continue reading
“I thought it wouldn’t matter since you are a lesbian.” A comment a Christian guy friend made to me after I confronted him about his inappropriate touching and shady behavior with me. This… Continue reading
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust The older I get, the more I recognize what a true… Continue reading
It is easy for some of us to be told what to think and how to think and not spend the time finding our own individual values and ethical principles. This was the… Continue reading
I was wired at birth to be forging the way for deep, meaningful, and life-giving relationships. I take my friendships seriously, and place great importance on their place in my life. (Often times,… Continue reading
For years at Christ Church Kirkland, my life decisions were heavily influenced by my mentors. Mentors or as we called them, “discipler’s”, were those more spiritual than me that I was mandated to… Continue reading
Since I was 5 years old, I was going to church and reading the bible or having the bible read to me. When I was around 6 years old, my family and I went… Continue reading
Do you know what a polemicist is without looking it up in the dictionary? I didn’t when I read in my astrological Gemini traits of a potential career. That word popped out at… Continue reading
Worry and fear are thieves that rob us from the ability to change. Never Broken by Jewel Why do we wait to create the life we want? Do we really know ourselves?… Continue reading
…to give up all limited thinking, to take each moment into your heart, and to abandon all urges to call anything good or bad, “black” or “white”, right or wrong, enough or not… Continue reading
If you attend to yourself and seek to come into your presence, you will find exactly the right rhythm for your own life. John O’Donohue ~ Anam Cara From my last blog… Continue reading
I keep putting off writing here. It’s not that I don’t have plenty to say, but there is this unrelenting relationship I still engage in with my non-authentic self. My voice in life… Continue reading
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be. – Anne Lamott I am… Continue reading
Why not start this post off with a little humor we all can relate to about listening? Hearing is not the same as listening. Hearing is a passive activity. It’s one of the moving… Continue reading
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice… An excerpt from The Journey by Mary Oliver I realized I wasn’t living the life… Continue reading
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone else likes you except yourself. Rita Mae Brown The last few years of being a full-time member of a church, I kept coming back… Continue reading
What would life be like if we never labeled another person? She’s fat. He’s handsome. Why is she so depressed? He’s feminine. You’re aggressive. I’m shy. My dad has ADD. My wife is… Continue reading
