Happy Birthday Spiritual Lens! It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since I launched this blog. I never would have believed that I would have been able to post 2 blogs a week for a full year. I had to find out that I could do it. To trust that I’d show up […]
Celebrating Our Past – And Planning For A Different Future
Thanksgiving is a day that for many is fraught with memories. Some have good and positive, warm, happy memories. Others have negative and painful memories and associations with the day itself. Whichever feeling we have for the holiday, we can choose to make our focus for today into something positive. We can even use the […]
The Way God Communicates Is Through “God Winks”
How does God communicate with human kind? The best way I an answer is that God sends us signs which I will call, “God winks.” That is, times when unexplainable things happen all of a sudden, and everything falls into place. These times when serendipity happens, (sometimes referred to as coincidence) and things can’t be […]
The Power Of Prayer, Healing and Peace
There is a difference between curing and healing disease. Some diseases are cured but the patient didn’t actually heal nor transform. In other cases, the patient doesn’t get cured, but they are healed. I wrote more about this in a blog post a few months back. That healing comes despite the prognosis of the disease. […]
It’s Spiritual To Be Adaptable And Open To Change
Hi Friends! A lot of new things are going to be changing on this site here soon. I wanted to give you a heads up about it to let you know that change happens. And of course, that change and adaptation – that is being adaptable to new and different things – is a very […]
The Power of Surrender
What does it mean to surrender and how does it apply to one’s spirituality? For anyone who has a problem, solving the problem is usually the goal. It doesn’t occur to us that there may be a better way out of a problem – and that problem is surrendering to it. Our minds and bodies […]
The Spirituality of Solitude
“I’ve never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” Henry David Thoreau in Walden Solitude and being alone can be frightening. Many of us are actually afraid of being alone. The idea of solitude seems to be better left to monks and mystics and those better qualified to handle it. But for we […]
Why We Need Friends More Than Ever
I’m continuing my topic of friendship this week – because I think connection with others is (besides parenthood) probably the most important as well as rewarding relationships we can have. As I watch my children age, I see how having friends and being a part of something – like a group of friends – […]
The Power Of Friendship
Many years ago, I went to summer camp and sang this ditty: “Friends, friends, friends. We will always be. Whether in fair or in dark, stormy weather, our camp will keep us together, the wide and blue, we will ‘ere be true. Love will pervade us ’til death separate us, we’re friends, friends, friends…” (Yes, […]
The Need For Patience When Working Through Grief
I have found that lately, many people I know feel that they are grieving. They are seized with a sense of grief, loss, foreboding, sorrow and sadness. There isn’t any one reason for the grief – it’s more of a combination. Regardless of the reason, grief has the power to steal from us our sense […]