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“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.”  (Mary Oliver) aging brings us to the abyss facing our mortality wondering if we lived fully truly wholly did we take the time to revel in life’s wonders cherishRead more

If you were to look at your life right now, is there one thing (or more) that you feel provides you with safety and security? Now imagine what it would be like to live (happily and peacefully) without that security blanket! As we are called to step into our bigger, vaster selves, we are givenRead more

loneliness overtakes you you wonder how can it be when you are connected to all that is you know it’s true most times you feel it too but then this emptiness descends vacuum-like feeling adrift and alone in a sea of unknown faces somewhere there is a disconnect as you learn to maneuver between yourRead more

Note from Elise:  Occasionally I invite guests to post their thoughts for you.  I think you’ll enjoy their ideas and unique voices.  At the end of each post, you can read a brief bio about the guest author. Enjoy! ******* Jim Gerlach Editor’s Note:  The following was written by Jim as a celebration of hisRead more

a humble request for light to grace my path a conversation with the divine within a shower of light and blessings upon another a soulful melody of praise and gratitude a deep, silent listening for divine will and guidance a sacred dialogue with All That Is a dipping into the pool of our oneness aRead more

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.”  (anonymous, seen on a greeting card) To live on the edge means to continually step out of your comfort zone, to push yourself to try something new or to do/see something differently.  Living on the edge creates an excitement and passion aboutRead more

soft and distant it beckons me muted and opaque shimmery and glowing i can’t resist its pull venturing forth i find myself feeling freer, lighter clearer, surer then ever before purposefully now i move toward its luminescent gleam as i reach the diaphanous edge it envelops me completely immediately like a warm embrace by a favorite auntRead more

Note from Elise: While I’m traveling, I have invited several guests to post their thoughts for you.  I think you’ll enjoy their ideas and unique voices.  At the end of each post, you can read a brief bio about the guest author.  Enjoy! ******* Chris Allen Have you ever noticed that everything in life seemsRead more

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.  Happiness never decreases by being shared.”  (Buddha) No matter how much joy and love you spread around, you will never run out.  No matter how much laughter and happiness you share with others, your reservoirRead more

“Would any one of us undertake even a journey of a few hundred miles without knowing why, without having some purpose?  And yet, so many of us live, undertaking not a chance task, but the great Task of Life itself. . . and yet we ask not why.”  (J. J. Van Der Leeuw) Seems kindRead more