Seeking Wisdom and Power

by | Jun 25, 2015 | Lessons Learned

With the world seeming to increasingly spin out of control, seeking wisdom about and power over the events in my own life sounds like a good idea. However, I often find myself in more distress as I use my own wisdom and power to manipulate the issues of my day. Is...

Oh, no . . . I cannot wait!

by | Jun 11, 2015 | Lessons Learned, Priorities

Waiting is an anathema to me. A long check-out line in the grocery store or a line at the ATM machine causes me great angst. My mother once told me that cooking was not to be my life's work because the culinary arts required patience. And yet the famous last lines...

Where did my spiritual appetite go?

by | Jun 4, 2015 | Lessons Learned, Surrender

"Many foreign students who come to the United States for their college education are affluent and privileged. This special status has numbed their spiritual appetites. Only when crisis comes, and it will, does the spiritual hunger return." This observation...