One of life's challenges is understanding that the ability to wait, to allow circumstances to unfold, is powerful. It requires faith or trust in one's self, in the Divine and/or in the flow of life. It requires that I release the need to control all of the details, the timing, and the results. Over 50 years ago, when I was attending university, I sought the counsel of our Dean of Student Affairs. It was a serious situation and my parents were overseas, not readily available by phone. I went into my meeting with the dean assuming he would gently tell me the right choice to make. I can't even type that without chuckling! Of course he wasn't going to do that - he understood far better than I did that this was an opportunity to learn about life, making decisions, and growing up. He began by teaching me just that. I was with him for over an hour, taking notes and asking questions. We explored many possible ways to approach the situation and possible choices I could make. The key was...

There are some fundamental truths that cannot be said any better or clearer than they have already been said. So, with respect and reverence for their work, I will simply quote others.

Daily Quote, August 20, 2015, from Abraham/Esther Hicks:

Even in your rightness about a subject, when you try to push your rightness toward another who disagrees, no matter how right you are, it causes more pushing against. In other words, it isn't until you stop pushing that any real allowing of what you want can take place.

Desiderata (excerpts), by Max Erhmann:

As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Many fears are born of fatigue & loneliness. Beyond a wholesome...

The only constant in life is change and the dawn of a new year is a good time to look at your awareness level and beliefs about change.

Change can be everything from exhilirating to frightening. It can be dreams come true and it can be nightmares to hopefully avoid. Some people thrive on change, moving through life without ever settling anywhere in particular. Others resist change in any form, wanting everything to remain the same. Most of us live somewhere between those two extremes.

Even when change is desired and planned for, the actual transition can feel like being scooped up by a tornado, tossed around by the wind and then suddenly dropped to the earth. Physically, mentally and emotionally, the energy rages and swirls as we cope with all of the logistics of transition. It is exhausting AND...

It is inevitable. Human beings, by and large, resist this one constant in life. Why? We all want to feel safe and secure and, somewhere along the way, we came to believe that keeping...