*This is a true story. Names and places have been changed for privacy. The first time Heather saw Jacob was in 1998 at an early summer wedding in a coastal town north of Boston. It was the wedding of Jacob’s mother, Ellen, to Robert, the step-cousin of Heather’s husband. Heather was twenty-three, already unhappy in…
Category: Mental Health
Beauty in the Dead of Winter
It was morning in very early Spring. A light drizzle of rain fell from thin clouds to adorn the bare tree branches. Light filtered softly down upon the little town where I live, enveloping it in an iridescent hue. On this morning, my third eye opened without warning. As quick as a blink, the world…
Prayer for Married Couples
I’m saying a prayer today for married couples… for patience, kindness, understanding and compassion; for devotion, truth, partnership and respect; for love that renews and grows every day.
Tenth Anniversary
Today is our tenth wedding anniversary. I still smile when I think about it, the happiest day of my life. Even now, all this time later, he still gives me all of his heart-shaped potato chips. He still makes me a cappuccino every morning, and it’s better than the cafe. He always gives me his…
Spiritual Rehab
Milk or meat? Red pill or blue pill? Awake or blissfully unaware? When I look back on certain events in my life I wonder if my guardian angels had moments of exasperation about my progress. (Even now as I write this, the coffee maker just hissed and gurgled with a sound eerily similar to a…
Frequency Speaking
The Kybalion: “The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.” Most of those in my circle get a glossy-eyed look when I say something that has deep, spiritual meaning to me. It doesn’t register at all with them. We aren’t on the same channel. I have to remind myself that everyone…
The Ugliness of Greed
Some years ago in one of my early college courses the professor gave an assignment to prepare a short presentation on a social or cultural issue that was important to us individually. I chose the subject of corporate greed because of its adverse affects where I was working at the time. Please note this is…
Jacob’s Story – The Second Truesday
*This is a true story, though names and places have been changed for privacy. Jacob was born as a poor, inner city kid. Like so many others, his parents’ relationship quickly dissolved into the black hole of alcoholism. His mother worked three jobs to afford necessities. Entertainment for Jacob and his older sister was found…
Preaching to the Choir
We’ve all heard the term ‘you’re preaching to the choir!’ In other words, “Why are you talking to me? Talk to someone who doesn’t already know, like that guy over there who has obviously never been told not to wear sneakers with dress pants.” Oh, how quick we are to judge each other! Let me…
A Prayer for Children
Please say a prayer today for the children of the world. Pray they may have a source of positive guidance, bright hope for the future and an inspiring role model in their community. Pray they may see brotherly love in action by the adults in their corner of the world. Pray that loving examples will…
Curse Hunter 