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Think that little spat you just had with a spouse, friend or driver of another car was merely accidental? Think again!             Every single event one experiences, no matter how grand or insignificant, has personal enlightenment as its driver.  If that is the case, and enlightenment of some sort is beckoning or nipping at one's heels at every turn, how can one use a minor spat (some hard heads require major spats) to move the enlightenment "light meter" up and over a notch

One of my favorite parables in the Bible is one Jesus uses to urge his readers and followers to release the old in preparation for the new. Known as the parable of the wineskins, Jesus made it clear that one must “prepare” for the new.             In biblical times, wine was fermented in a leather pouch. Pouches used for wine fermentation stretched out as the wine expanded making the wine pouch unusable for future fermentation. In fact, to drive the point home about not reusi

Whenever I walk along a beach, I bring a small plastic bag to collect the garbage that seems to accumulate at the end of rolling ocean waves. Collecting trash helps me feel like I’m karmically balancing a time in my younger days where I was unconscious and ignorant in respecting the beauty and abundance of our planet. On one beach walk I came across a high-top tennis shoe that had become a sanctuary for a family of mini-clams. Seeing that garbage shoe filled with life reminde

Even I am sometimes flabbergasted by the amazing power of intention. I’m wondering why the unlimited force of intention isn’t more widely observed and utilized. Or is it? The power behind intentions is non-discriminatory. That is, “intention force” does not decide whether an intention is good or bad. Intentions filled with light produce in the same manner as shadow-filled intentions. It is the human mind behind  an intention that fuels an intention’s outcome. The “force” does

I’m going to blame the planets. Yes, that must be the reason that wherever I looked last week whether it was the news, my team players, my son or my husband that criticism of EVERYTHING was the main banter of the moment. For some odd reason, I’m on high alert when I hear people judging others in a critical sort of way. It feels like I want to shake them and ask them, “don’t you know what you are criticizing in others you are actually doing yourself?” My son judged his free me

Almost without fail if you ask someone if they journal the response is “not in a long time” or “I have a journal I just haven’t started journaling yet.” Most people think of a journal as a record of events of a personal nature chronicling vacations, a love affair, personal feelings, etc. There is great resistance in taking the time to journal but the rewards can be well worth it. People journal in a myriad of ways they don’t consider journaling. My favorite is the checkbook –