Enough! Here I am again with this concept that I often struggle with. How do we know if we have enough or even if we are enough? I have struggled with the idea of ‘enough’ in both the having and being sense. Our portion size servings of food have gotten so huge, that we eat […]
How To Eat An Elephant – Spiritual Endurance part 2
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Besides, even metaphorically, you can’t eat an elephant in one sitting. It would be overwhelming to do so. What we are talking about here is endurance. Endurance is what we need to go the distance. To reach the goal of the finish line before […]
Lack Of Integrity Equals Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts
Integrity. It’s a loaded word. The simple meaning is “the state of being whole and undivided.” It means having strong principals.Integrity comes from the same root as integer – a whole number. I define integrity as my outsides match my insides. When both are in harmony, I can glide through life unencumbered by strife. I […]
Doing What’s Right vs Being Right
I had something happen yesterday that I wasn’t prepared for. My boss called me to let me know that someone complained about me and that I needed to go apologize. I bristled. It’s not that I wasn’t willing to apologize- I just didn’t think I needed to do so. I wasn’t in the wrong in […]
Wherever You Go – There You Are
Peace It’s an illusive feeling. I find that I chase after peace at times. Why? Because I’ve been victim of the illusion that I could find peace if only some situation were the way I wanted it. Have you ever changed situations (like a job, a relationship or a location), hoping that things would be […]
How Having Patience Builds Spiritual Endurance
Most of us are taught, as young children, to have patience. We learn by having to wait, to fidget, be bored and then get our reward. However, as each generation has grown up, and technology has shortened our having to have patience, it has become less of a need. If we get bored, we whip […]
The Pursuit of Self-Esteem Through Struggle
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. […]