Startled, I looked around and my breath caught. There was my mother, emerging out of the luminous landscape, floating towards me, beaming joyfully. Read more
Startled, I looked around and my breath caught. There was my mother, emerging out of the luminous landscape, floating towards me, beaming joyfully. Read more
Would you let total strangers open your kid's bedroom window and chat with them at all hours of the day and night? I would hope not. Here's a different way to consider the energy of chat room apps and how they can potentially be harmful to young and impressionable teenagers. Apps are energy! Read more
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” ~ Napoleon Hill In a digital age of Smartphone texting and Twittering sound bytes, do we have the time to pause—even for a nanosecond—to consider the possible repercussions of what we say? Hardly. So how do we express the essential, dispense with the fluff, and ultimately leave all interlocutors in the thread unharmed and whole? Here’s what... Read more
At some point in our lives, most of us have experienced the unexpected delight when light breaks through dark clouds… closed minds… wounded hearts. “When light breaks through” is the image that captures what I felt when I heard Spotlight won two Oscars: for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Spotlight is a movie I recommend everyone see and engage in conversation about. Dialogue is one way cultural change is accelerated. This is especially true in situations where historically the “We don’t talk... Read more
Standing in the kitchen, I heard Paul say, “Even though you know it’s coming, it’s like being punched in the stomach.” Paul’s Mom had died three days before on Valentine’s Day. This video excerpt from my homily Sunday highlights the incredible legacy of Paul’s Mom’s love! Walking down the center aisle at the viewing stood the fourteen adult children in age order from youngest to oldest. A powerful statement in itself! What a tribute to the woman who loved and cared for: Mary Margaret, Philip Bernard,... Read more
Dive into the sparkling stream! Try out this 6-minute meditation to cleanse and refresh your system with a cascade of Heavenly Waters. Read more
We were talking last time about how all the Star Wars episodes contain a primary motif referred to in mythology as supernatural aid, or in the films as the Force. This is sometimes subtle yet always present to ensure that things happen the way they are meant to happen. Myth, though, is very misunderstood; it is not a falsehood as popularly believed, but rather, in the classic sense, a true story passed on from generation to generation about an important... Read more
How can teenagers practice gratitude? Does that seem like an oxymoron? My daughter raises one of the most difficult questions in human existence and reminds us all that we do have things to be grateful for, even when we are teenagers.... Read more
My personal awareness of the centrality of the soul came early in life, and by sheer happenstance. I started life as both an adventurous and awkward child—I took risks but was prone to freak accidents. I had one such accident on a hot and humid summer day at our neighborhood pool in suburban Cincinnati, and it was fate-filled. This strange event changed my life, but it took place in all of ten seconds or even less. This incident provided a... Read more
While Donald Trump sparks with the Vatican over his proposal to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, Bernie Sanders waxes eloquently on the pope’s Spirit of Poverty in a culture of obscene wealth. In an interview with the Canadian Catholic television network Salt + Light , Sanders, a self-styled democratic socialist, said he believes Francis shares the same ideology because the pope “talks about wealth being used to serve people, not as an end in itself.” “What he has also done is... Read more
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