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Wisdom for Life

Category: Soul Signposts

  • A Little Miracle, All Its Own

    A Little Miracle, All Its Own

    Beauty.  Stillness. Expansion. Oneness. Joy. Timelessness. A moment of awe. What exactly is awe, anyway? With most emotions we can easily start spouting a definition. Ask what love is, or anger, or pride, or despair, and the words come freely. But awe… we can instantly remember how it FEELS, can often recall a specific time…

  • Sharing Your Great Work

    Sharing Your Great Work

    Last week I was listening to spiritual teacher Gabby Bernstein and she made the statement, “It’s my responsibility to share my great work with the world.” She said that it was a mantra that everyone should adopt, that each and every one of us had a unique and great work and that we needed to…

  • The Difference Between Your Ego & Your Soul

    The Difference Between Your Ego & Your Soul

    The ego cries,”I am poor” The soul smiles, “I am rich” Learning about our ego and our soul is one of the most important steps to a well-lived life. The ego is the well-intentioned part of our psyche that started growing in early childhood as a way of protecting us from a scary and unpredictable…

  • To Grow You Must Outgrow

    To Grow You Must Outgrow

    We all want to grow in wisdom, in strength, in joy. But a principle often overlooked is that to grow, we must always outgrow, we must always be willing to leave behind and go beyond what, where, and who we have been before.

  • Will You Hear God Today?

    Will You Hear God Today?

    Francois Clemmons listened to the voice of love and acceptance for years, but didn’t really hear it. When will you?

  • Joy Is an Inside Job

    Joy Is an Inside Job

    Joy: it’s easy to know when we don’t have it, but not always easy to know how to get it. Looking to see joy as an inside job, as the fruit of how we live our life, helps us along the path.

  • Heal Fear Back to Faith

    Heal Fear Back to Faith

    We all deal with fear, but instead of struggling with it, we can heal it. We can heal fear into faith.

  • Every Life Lesson Is to Choose Love

    Every Life Lesson Is to Choose Love

    Every person that God brings into our life is an opportunity for us to learn to choose love, but when that person is toxic then the love we choose first must be our own.

  • Plan to Be Proud

    Plan to Be Proud

    How can you make sure that you’re going to have a great day? The simple technique of planning to be proud of yourself, focusing on what’s within your own control, is a mindset that’s easy to implement and that works.

  • Guilt Will Only Get You So Far

    Guilt Will Only Get You So Far

    Think about a big change that you’ve attempted in your life: it may be a diet, or giving up an addiction, or leaving a toxic relationship, or accomplishing a big goal. How did you break through? How did you finally pull the trigger, make the decision to start, get up off your butt and start…

  • Unfurling Into Your Life’s Desire

    Unfurling Into Your Life’s Desire

    When we have the courage to be open, we can find grace that will help carry us into the fulfillment of our life’s desire.

  • Healthy Love Heals

    Healthy Love Heals

    While a love of “beautiful trauma” may be exciting, a spirit-focused love that heals us is a much healthier choice.

  • How to Live Today Like a Lion

    How to Live Today Like a Lion

    The image of what “living like a lion” most of us envision may be very different from the reality. Read about what the life of a lion can teach us about stress and health in our own lives.

  • Today Life Will Give You an Opportunity

    Today Life Will Give You an Opportunity

    Today life will give you an opportunity, to grow, to give, and to get. Choose to take those opportunities today.

  • Your Heart Creates Your Treasure

    Your Heart Creates Your Treasure

    Jesus once said, “Wherever your treasure is, there you will find your heart.” He saw the connection between our heart and what we value, and instructed us to be mindful of both our treasure and our heart. As we live our life, our heart doesn’t just value our treasure or follow our treasure, our heart…

  • Use the Bible as a Guide to God’s Love

    Use the Bible as a Guide to God’s Love

    After my #soulspresso talk on Live a Life of Spiritual Love not Spiritual Rules I had a friend send me this question: A church that I’ve attended for years has a leader who is homosexual. A person recently told me they would ‘never’ attend this church because the leader was a sinner who was continuing to…

  • Live a Life of Spiritual Love not Spiritual Rules

    Live a Life of Spiritual Love not Spiritual Rules

    Over my adult life I’ve attended a broad variety of churches. I’ve been in a rural one room Fundamentalist Baptist church where the pastor sincerely believed that any Bible but the “King James” and any church that belonged to a denomination was against God’s will. I’ve been in an urban United Methodist church pastored by…

  • Marriage: Moving From Yours & Mine to Ours

    Marriage: Moving From Yours & Mine to Ours

    As we do the complex and beautiful dance we call marriage, we need to learn to shift the rhythm of our steps from “yours” & “mine” to “ours.”

  • Live Grounded & Free

    Live Grounded & Free

    In this mystery we call life, we encounter soul needs which at first appear to be opposites or even opposed to each other. However, when we look deeply, we can see that both needs are meant to work together to create a true life journey. Such is our deep soul needs for security and freedom.…

  • Choose Your Meaning,  Create Your Experience

    Choose Your Meaning, Create Your Experience

    I was in Yin yoga. I was in hanumanasana. I was in pain. For those who don’t know, yin yoga is a practice of deep slow stretching, and hanumanasana is a deep stretch we would call in English a split. I preferred to call it torture, because I have very tight hips and hamstrings, and…

  • Create Your Spiritual Bucket List

    Create Your Spiritual Bucket List

    Have you ever created a bucket list? A list of exciting places you wanted to go, things you wanted to accomplish, experiences you wanted to have before you have to leave this life? Probably just mentioning the words “bucket list” start your mind popping with images of exotic locales and adventures. Many people have put…

  • Every Experience Is A Growth Experience

    Every Experience Is A Growth Experience

    When you’re going through a difficult situation, have you ever wondered “I wonder if I can grow from this experience?” or “will I grow from going through this?” You don’t need to wonder about whether you will grow from an experience. The truth is that every experience is a growth experience, because we are always…

  • Succeed in Life by Taming Your Blame Banshee

    Succeed in Life by Taming Your Blame Banshee

    When we are trying to achieve success in life, there’s one force that can foil us again and again. That force is what I call the banshee of blame. Let me give you an example: this morning I woke up at 5am. Not because I had planned to get an early start on a glorious…

  • Life Needs White Space

    Life Needs White Space

    Did you know that there’s something that’s exactly the same in a well-designed life as in a well-designed website? It’s called white space. In web design, white space refers to leaving some areas of a web page deliberately blank or empty. This is vital both to make the content you want people to see more…

  • The Magic of Taking Life As It Comes

    The Magic of Taking Life As It Comes

    Have you ever had a dream where, when you took a moment to reflect, you knew exactly what the dream was trying to tell you? Whether you think the symbols and images in a dream are bubbling up from your unconscious or you believe that they are your spirit or God speaking to you, sometimes…

  • Life: Enjoy the Ride

    Life: Enjoy the Ride

    This morning I woke up pondering the nature of the human mind, what it meant to have conscious existence, and how that related to what purpose we seek in this life. That’s actually not an unusual way for me to wake up– yea, that’s how I’m wired. Even though I know all of those questions…

  • Life Is Opportunity not Outcome

    Life Is Opportunity not Outcome

    There’s the old saying, “Sometimes life hands you lemons, and you have to make lemonade.” But there’s something fundamentally wrong with that statement. In essence, it’s saying that some days life gives you “good” outcomes, and some days life gives you “bad” outcomes, and on bad outcome days you have to come up with a…

  • Change: How Do We Thrive In It?

    Change: How Do We Thrive In It?

    I was walking through briers and thick weeds, picking my way carefully to avoid stepping on any Copperhead snakes. Kicking away vines and undergrowth, I could make out traces of what had once been a cinderblock foundation. I saw the remnants of a road which looked like it had been a hundred years since anyone had walked…

  • How We Handle Worry & Decisions

    How We Handle Worry & Decisions

    We all worry. It’s part of being human.We all have those “what if?” thoughts that haunt us. We all seem to have an endless supply of things to worry about, too. I’ve lately been worrying about an upcoming decision I have to make, so I’ve been thinking about the nature of worry, especially in the area of…

  • Are You Living in Your Shack or Your Palace?

    Are You Living in Your Shack or Your Palace?

    Once upon a time, a man received a letter stating that he had been named in the will of an obscure third cousin of his half uncle. Upon arriving at the attorney’s office, he was astonished to find that he had inherited two houses, tax-free. He was promptly handed the deeds, keys, & directions to…