Trust

Give your best and trust

Do you have a compass in life? My compass goes something like this: “Give your best and trust.” For example, I’m finishing work right now on a new book. The title is, Stumbling into Bliss: Insights and Adventures of an Octogenarian Blogger. It’s actually a lot of fun working on this new project, despite the challenges. I’m [...]

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Hang in there and trust

Are the winds of change blowing more strongly in your life? They sure seem to be blowing more strongly in my life. But there is one thing that isn’t changing at all — and that is the balance that undergirds this universe of love. Life loves balance. It loves to get busy, and move, and [...]

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Innocence — door to true meaning and happiness

           

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Trust your body, love your body, listen to your body

JoAnn and I saw “Secretariat” on the weekend. What a terrific movie. Highly recommended. One of many touching aspects in the movie was the strong bond of mutual trust and respect it depicted between “Big Red,” considered by many to be “the greatest racehorse in the world,” and owner Penny Chenery, played by Diane Lane. [...]

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Trust your own being and be free

Taking my tea with me, I went outside early this morning to sit on my porch for a few minutes, as I usually do. I like to admire the beautiful Colorado morning and, of course, the big blue spruce tree that sits the other side of the little walking path outside our front door. Just [...]

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How to live a truly satisfying life

We put our house up for sale a couple of days ago and it seems a good time to stop, take a deep breath — and give thanks for the trustworthiness and simple perfection of life. The past three months have been a bit of a roller coaster as we finally faced the clutter we [...]

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The surprises (and delights) of a complementary relationship

This happened about six years ago. It’s embarrassing as heck, but what can you do? Our RV, a nice little 22 foot Winnebago that we call Tanner, needed an emissions check. I drive the RV by the way, because JoAnn isn’t comfortable with it. We took Tanner over to a nearby garage and sat in [...]

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“Invictus” and the truth at the core of Christmas

It matters not how strait the gate/How charged with punishments the scroll/ I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul. — W.E. Henley JoAnn and I saw “Invictus” the other day. What a gift. My thanks to the director, Clint Eastwood.  Invictus” (Latin for “unconquered”) is the name of a [...]

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Trust life — like the cottonwood and the squirrel

Our house was built in 1981. There are two large trees in the backyard, no doubt planted at that date. One is a cottonwood — huge, masculine, towering over our tri-level house. The cottonwood tree is rugged. It has to be. Cottonwoods are prone to damage in storms, and we get quite a few during the [...]

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Giving our gift like a champion

There was a touching story in the Loveland newspaper this past week about the world’s fastest man and the animal kingdom’s fastest sprinter. The picture that went with the story showed Olympic champion Usain Bolt, of Jamaica, holding a three-month old male cheetah cub in his arms in Nairobi, Kenya. Bolt has adopted the cheetah [...]

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What is integrity?

A writer speaks about putting out words into the ether — not knowing if anyone will hear, or even care — and the joy that happens when an answering voice says, “thanks.”

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Healing into wholeness and happiness — with the help of Freddy the fox

Author Christopher Foster describes how a three-week visit from a fox he named Freddy helped him heal from a severe depression

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A middle way to God?

“We are becoming a nation of spiritually anchored people who are not traditionally religious,” said Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, recently.  She was commenting on a 2009 poll that showed interest in organized religion has been dropping in the US — but more people are exploring new spiritual frontiers. It [...]

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