My remedy when I’m feeling overwhelmed by people or sounds and other external stimuli is to get alone in the silence and dim light and do some quiet yoga and meditate, allow my feathers several hours to settle back down around me.  Or I’ll go outside for my evening routine of hand watering the plants and listening to the sounds of the birds and the crickets,  the wind in the tree tops, watching the squirrels knock pinecones onto the ground, watching the sundown critter walk across the back path, the racoons, armadillos and opossums. That routine is my remedy for coming back to center each evening.  This remedy is like any other: it works when I work it. Continue reading →

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I love Danielle Rose, especially her Litany of Humility you can listen here on YouTube.  She released several albums then entered convent life in 2007.  Her message today is, “God is pursuing every soul, in every moment—in every vocation.” While Danielle knows that no one can be certain of the future, she trusts God, and says, “I will allow God to lead me in the dance of His will, one step at a time.”  Read the lyrics below and be inspired.  I was. Continue reading →

I mused this morning that everything we do touches someone.  I bought an iPad2 16GB WiFi and have been getting used to the touch screen.  I went through the tutorial and spent the afternoon customizing settings and navigating through pages, giving it some muscle memory so my mind didn’t have so much to remember.  Often I’d accidentally touch the wrong icon on the screen.  The only place this seemed to be a problem was on Facebook.  I’d not yet learned the iPad version of Facebook and not yet installed Social Fixer, so I didn’t have all the features shown on my main computer.  Like deleting stupid mistakes I’d made in typing. A couple of times I frantically ran into the office and turned on the main computer so I could correct the error before too many people saw it.    It made me think of errors I’d made in the past that often unknowingly affected other people’s lives.  It reminded me that everything I do touches someone’s life in some way.  It also reminded me I should always be mindful who I am touching and how.  And sometimes why.