Enlightened Heart

What if inhabiting the Love of God turns you and me into his habitation?

When  I become love in my way to the degree that he is love, I become a mere shadow to his light shining through me.

How do we love others until we allow others to truly love us

Depending on others. It's easier said than done, but only because I've allowed it to be that way. The voices around me echo that same...

Appearing as I really am. I am committed to a better version of myself, I really am. I'm constantly moving, changing, growing, and...

Suffering is the ticket. I used to wish there was some other way. When I naively surveyed the landscape around me, I thought there just...

Carrying the right stuff. I’ve got things that I carry with me every day mainly because they're necessary for my day-to-day life. I carry...

Trusting the path you're on. There are many times I've wished it were true. If only the difficulty of the path I'm walking on could be a...

Allowing out of love. It’s easier said than done. Sometimes in order for me to truly allow someone I love to remain where they are means...

Bearing fruit really. During the later part of the 20th century in the former Soviet Union it was often very difficult to get goods from...

Expecting the very best. If you've found yourself walking through some shadows of difficulty or discouragement in recent days, you're not...

Resting as a way to get things done. In order for some things to get done I absolutely have to do something, like wash the dishes, or...

What if winning and losing are really just the same because winning only has any substance at all when it is accompanied by great loss.

Discovering something more. I am drowning in mystery. Literally swimming in the unknown. So why do I feel like such an expert on...

Believing the unbelievable. We were in crisis mode. Our beloved Dachshund Chester had gone completely lame in his back end in the middle...

Listening to yourself. My hearing is fine. It's listening I have a problem with. It sounds ridiculously simple and completely obvious. So...

Belonging as you really are. Where do you really belong? No I mean really. Where do you and I really belong? Is it in a family, or a...

Becoming the new me. I must change. Not because I can't stay the way I am, but because my family and friends and other people, and the...

Giving what I have. It was a simple outpatient procedure with a local anesthetic, but as I lay on the operating room table feeling more...

Knowing in a real way. Things are not as they appear to be. They just aren't. Places and people, situations and circumstances, can never...

You will see the fulfillment of what you have been longing for and hoping for and believing for.

Flowers portray vivid metaphors of our own lives.

Today if you will take heart and look around you in the place where you are, I can assure you that you will see the Father there.

What are you waiting for? Or, "What are you waiting for?!", spoken loudly to the car in front that isn’t responding to the traffic...

This wild-washed shoreline of the spirit is open to you