Do you think it is too frivolous to pray for stuff like this? This kind of thing doesn’t seem to rise to the occasion of mentioning it to God…

I wish that the path you walk on leads to all the happiness you wish for, and that your journey is filled with Light.

You can have Spirituality without Religion. You can have Religion without Spirituality. Or you can have both Spirituality and Religion. What is the difference between the two?

Like physical exercise, no spiritual practice will work if it isn’t something you enjoy. In this article, I help you to choose the right type of spiritual practice for your everyday life

Hello from Delaware. I've been here three days. It all started after a snow/ice storm that delayed my movers arriving to the house by a critical day. Then a threat of a failed settlement because the inspector's approval wouldn't load on the county website. Then a freak snowstorm that left my new driveway icy, deliveries not made, shall I go on? I can list all the little signs that have been thrown on my path. But what do they mean?

I am moving. Moving into the unknown and moving away from what I have loved for over six years. On the surface, the idea of a mother and her twenty-something daughter living together sounds fraught with problems, yet when my daughter was 27 and her son was only 5, we did just that. It has been the happiest time of living I have ever had.

I was in Thailand about two years ago and experienced some time with a Buddhist monk. He expressed his life philosophy essentially by asking, “why wait until you die to experience Heaven, when you have the ability to experience it right here, right now?” He believed in Heaven on Earth. What if he is right? What if we are meant to rediscover what our soul already understands and has experienced.

We love new things. New shinny things. It lets us shed the old, worn out, no good, useless (or worse yet, harmful) things of the past to make way for something different that we have either never had before, or we want to try again as if it is new. Ahhh. Such a good feeling.

I have been with a group for many years. The group is dying. The people are getting tired -- all of them -- they are not being refreshed with those who are new, rested, and energetic. The group is dwindling in size. It's getting quieter but when there is sound, it's the sound of critical disappointment in how things are going.

I love having friends. They are fun, they provide a partner in adventure, expand a loving feeling, give such caring nurture and joy, and expand my spiritual energy into another person in a way that multiplies all the goodness of being connected. For me, they are a manifestation of Divine presence that bursts out with all the bells and whistles!

Which would you rather do -- fall into a cactus plant, or get bitten by a spider? How do you make a decision when both choices have serious drawbacks? How can you open yourself up to the presence of the Divine and feel Godly influence or spiritual direction when your choices simply leave you uncertain of the outcome either way you go, and either could be a disaster?

I am standing in the eye of a hurricane and feel the swirling of the dangerous, tumultuous winds around me, knowing that once the eye passes, I will be vulnerable to the unknown storm. I am in such a place as I contemplate the swirling of multiple transitions. Mostly, with the book PRESENCE coming out, I am about to step into a spotlight I have shied away from most of my life. My spirituality and my path have been private.

It has been a mostly quiet time for writing over the last two years. I don’t know if it’s me or the topic, but most people don’t ask me about it. “How is the book coming?” “What is it like to be writing a book about a person’s spiritual path?” “How are you?” “How has this process affected you?” Nope, I don’t hear those questions. So I just keep going quietly and yet, with the book actually being so close to being an actual book, I’m anticipating some kind of change to that quietness.