A few months ago, I heard Dave Gieselman (on a Facebook Live) speaking about “faith in or access to” God/Source/Creator. It impacted me enough to make a note to myself – what do I believe? Do I have faith in? Or do I have “access to”?
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Nurturing God: Mother’s Day
Yesterday, in Panama, was Mother’s Day. A day everyone travels home to visit Mum. Like a sacred pilgrimage.
And this got me thinking about what is the source of a woman’s strength & energy? How is it that a “masculine” God could possibly fill us with energy to be tender, merciful, compassionate, & caring?
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Taking Stock – Spiritual Growth
Before you start any journey, it’s key to know where you are. It would be hard to travel from London to Paris, if you didn’t know that you were in London! You might head west, instead of east – and then where would you end up?
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Selfishness vs Self-Care
How many times do we run ourselves into the ground with compassion fatigue – burning ourselves out because we are always putting others first? While we were put on this earth to serve others, we also need to establish healthy boundaries in our lives, ones that allow us to love and show compassion to “me” as well as to other human becomings.
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Contentment or the pursuit of happiness?
A few weeks ago, Kain Ramsay – a coach and trainer that I follow online – asked this question:
What do you think might happen if everyone in the world stopped defining themselves by their vocational roles, how they feel, what they believe or their personal preferences?
Also, if pursuing happiness was no longer an option, what might many people devote their lives to instead (and how might this be even better than happiness)?
Let’s get this week off to a reflective start…
Transformational coaching: Jesus
A few weeks ago I stumbled across Doug Firebaugh’s article, titled Jesus, The Original Networker—9 Business Lessons from the Bible 1st Sept 2016 issue of Networking Times). My curiosity was piqued about number of the points he made from the life of Jesus, particularly since Jesus, in Mark, asks 65 questions to his disciples, followers and pharisees.Overall, throughout the gospels, Jesus asks some 307 questions.
Pity versus Compassion
I was recently reading on compassion, and I came across the following thought:
Pity is when your fear touches another person’s suffering.
Compassion is when love touches their suffering!
Lady Wisdom…
What does it take to become an exceptional woman – a truly wise woman? A woman of valor & courage? A strong woman?
The tongue is a fire…
How many of us have heard the warning – play with fire and you will get burned?
What does it mean?
I recently discovered some of the works and thoughts of the Russian writer, novelist and philosopher Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He was an Orthodox Christian with a deep faith, a faith which had “a strong emphasis on giving Christian love a social application”. But what I really have treasured have been two quotes that I have found in his writings.
Divine Presence: Letting the Infinite flow in my life 