We are rare, not perfect. With our hands full of groceries, our heads full of things to do, our hearts full of memories, and our dreams full of plans, we tend to think if we could only get away or finish crossing off the things on that list, if we could only undo...
If you try to comprehend air before breathing it, you will die. We can only consider things so long. After a while, all the information—all the options and opinions — will begin to weigh us down. After our deeper eyes have seen the situation, all the well-meaning...
“The pain was necessary to know the truth but we don’t have to keep the pain alive to keep the truth alive.” This is what has kept me from forgiveness: the feeling that all I’ve been through will evaporate if I don’t relive it; that if those who have hurt me don’t see...
‘Few situations can be bettered by going berserk.’ Melody Beattie It was the philosopher Michael Zimmerman who told the story of being a boy in school when someone passed him a pair of Chinese handcuffs, a seemingly innocent thimble like casing with an opening at...
The time has come to put our stones down. For hands clutching stones can’t freely drum. And hearts fisting the past can’t freely sing. It only took me a lifetime to learn. But the lesson is as profound as it is simple. As long as we clutch to one thing—be it a stone,...
