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Beginnings or Endings Which
Part I Photo by Szabu00f3 Viktor on Pexels.com It is the beginning of a new year and to begin this two part series of blogs I have included 3 poems for you to reflect on and I will say more about this topic in part II. Those of you new to poetry, be sure to read them slowly and two or three times. One of the many things I love about writing and reading poetry is a person can say a lot in a few…
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Taking Care
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Mars Poeticaby Wyn Cooper Imagine you’re on Mars, looking at earth,a swirl of colors in the distance.Tell us what you miss most, or least. Let your feelings rise to the surface.Skim that surface with a tiny net.Now you’re getting the hang of it. Tell us your story slantwise,streetwise, in the disguiseof an astronaut in his suit. Tell us something we didn’t…
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The Edge of Hope
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com While rounding on the staff and patients and their families in the critical units of the hospital, we chaplains bring a different perspective to what is unfolding in each room. We get to be observers of the healing process in whatever form it may take. That is, recovering here on the earth plane or leaving the physical existence and shedding the body.…
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I AM…..
Photo by Hasan Albari on Pexels.com “A young student of surgery, who wished to make himself proficient in his practice, saw in the beginning of his study the great necessity of having perfect control over the nerves and muscles of his arm and hand. Therefore, he invented this training for himself: every day to carry a goblet, full to the brim with water, up and down stairs, without spilling any…
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It’s All Energy
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com “Before you respond to someone, remember that your response is an agreement to establish an energetic connection with them, which may change your energy field and vibrational frequency.” 1 It all began with my truck door not closing properly. Because I had locked it, I couldn’t open it back up to fix it. Reaching into the back slit of my briefcase for my keys,…
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Intuition Energy
Photo by Captured Moments on Pexels.com Lyrics for the song: It’s in Everyone of Us It’s in everyone of usTo be wiseFind your heartOpen up both your eyes,We can all know everythingWithout ever knowing why,It’s in everyone of usBy and byIt’s in everyone of usTo be wise,Find your heartOpen up both your eyes,We can all know everythingWithout ever knowing why,It’s in everyone of usBy and by It’s…
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Erasing the Black Cloud
Rainbow over the River Forth taken from the esplanade in Kirkcaldy, Fife. WorldPhotographyDay22 by Craig is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 It was an hour later and the patient having Dialysis had another code white. A code white can be that the pt was unresponsive, a possible stroke, or having respiratory challenges. He was unresponsive for a second time. By the time I arrived, he had been responding…
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An Angel by Easter
Photo by Roberto Nickson on Pexels.com In last week’s Palm Sunday post, I introduced you all to Aiden who was resurrecting his life from the breakup of a long-term relationship by first surrendering control to God. Fast forwarding to the present day to where Aiden has been a chaplain at a large corporate hospital. The social worker in the emergency department had paged him to support the husband…
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Solar Eclipse and Thoughts – Metaphysics
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The Heart of Joy
“We cannot always control the situation we are in, but we can always control our attitude toward it.” – Victor Frankl Aiden remembers how his dad died. He died the way he lived, as a gentle man and a gentleman. His name was Wilbur Ernest Wolf, and he grew up on a farm, becoming a jack of all trades and a master at some of them. Dad was a…
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Hope in a Robin’s Egg
“Hope”is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tunewithout the words, and never stops – at all. —Emily DickinsonOne day as Aiden arrived at his house, he was surprised to find that there was a bird’s nest that had been built and wedged between the outside light and the side of the house by the back door. It had been there more than a week. That was why the sound of the…
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Hocus Pocus Focus
Three lady slippers in the top third of photo One morning when Aiden was coming back from a walk with his dog, he saw a lady slipper. Most of us know it is an endangered wildflower and not to pick or transplant it. After taking care of his dog, he went back into the woods to take a picture of it. He found it and thought it was the only one which had normally been the case for him. He began to…
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A Coloring Book World, Part I
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com “Life is a coloring book and yes, I have the crayons.” — Rev Patricia Bessey This week, I was moved by the above morning message from my minister. I instantly loved it. I had not thought about life in this way before. So, I am inviting you to think about the colors you use to color your world with as you go about your week. The following quotes, poems and…
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A Coloring book World Part II
“Colour, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder. As the saying goes: “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” The Nature of Things review of Living Colour documentary 1 Last week I introduced the idea of reflecting on how you color your world by using quotes and poetry. I have always loved brightly colored things such as a red plaid shirt or a plain read chamois shirt.…
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Was Always a Dream, Part II
Photo by Meruyert Gonullu on Pexels.com ‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But…
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A Simple Act of Forgiveness
Updated from 2012 “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.”— Richie Norton This was one of my first posts when I began blogging. I don’t think many of you have seen this unless you did a search or you scrolled back to read all my posts. It provides a spiritual tool that gives you freedom in your life, in particular, as we celebrate the 4th of July every year. Is this another one of ‘those’…
Surfing with Spirit
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”— Jon Kabat-ZinnWhat is it like to let the Spirit, as in the Holy Spirit,run and operate in and as your life? What would that mean? The sport of surfingis a great metaphor and example that can explain how well we can have Spirit,run and operate in our lives. When one allows themselves to let the Spirit guidethem, one can flow more in their…
Surfing with Spirit, Part 3
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoingand right doing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”― Rumi This week is the final post on surfing with Spirit. Using this practice is a great way to grow spiritually. Learning to trust your intuition by listening in the silence of your mind during meditation then becomes a habit when you are…
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