Doorways to the Soul: Accepting What Is

Doorways to the Soul: Accepting What Is

by | Jul 19, 2013 | Uncategorized

The purest and truest spiritual life begins with accepting everything that comes to you as a gift and teaching…. The most difficult times sometimes bring the most important teachings. Each lesson is another step toward learning how to accept what comes to us as...
Doorways to the Soul: The Present Moment

Doorways to the Soul: The Present Moment

by | Jul 2, 2013 | Being Present

“The present moment, like the spotted owl or the sea turtle, has become an endangered species. Yet more and more I find that dwelling in the present moment, in the face of everything that would call us out of it, is our highest spiritual discipline. More boldly,...

Hospice Austin Volunteers: A Brilliant Tapestry of Love

by | Jun 3, 2013 | Volunteering

Last week at a Hospice Austin Volunteer Forum (an educational event held quarterly for our volunteers), about 20 of us were having a wonderful conversation with one of our doctors about the physician’s role on the Hospice Austin team when a visitor to the group raised...
Repairing the World

Repairing the World

by | Apr 26, 2013 | Being Present

If last week had been a fish, I would have thrown it back.  It seemed that we couldn’t turn around without encountering another heartbreaking story or situation.  The Boston Marathon bombing; the devastating explosion in West, Texas; a destructive earthquake in China;...
Woven Together

Woven Together

by | Apr 9, 2013 | Uncategorized

I cannot exist without in some sense taking part in you, in the child I once was, in the breeze stirring the down on my arm, in the child starving far away, in the flashing round of the spiral nebula. ~Catherine Keller~             ...