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Taxes with a Glad Heart
Taxes get a bad name. We complain, revile, resist, and try to escape or minimize them. Our legislatures argue about who should pay more or less, and how to divide up what they collect. What’s your fair share? Well, let’s … Continue reading
ALL ONE!
Lessons From the Garden #79: “All One!” ~ Lytingale – March, 2004 With a spring-time dose of ambition, I’m going to tackle a confusing teaching. One of the core Unity teachings/affirmations is: “There is only one Presence and one Power in my life and … Continue reading
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America, Stay Beautiful
Today is the Fourth of July, “Independence Day,” here in America, and I have such mixed feelings. Our current form of government is obviously broken, but still, the American experiment is one of the best forms of government that humans … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th of July, America, America the Beautiful, Brotherhood, Heroes, Independence, Karma, Teddy Roosevelt, United States
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Remembering Mom
The older I get, the more I appreciate – and miss – my mother. Born in 1919, Gladys Olive McLaughlin Henrickson was a woman of her times… and our relationship was somewhat a victim of The Generation Gap that widened … Continue reading
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Yin and Yang
… beyond the place of just resigning ourselves to this duality, there exists the possibility of embracing everything, without the baggage of our value judgments. Continue reading
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Precept #2: Anger
The second Reiki Precept or Affirmation is: Just for today, I will not get angry. Anger is something that I have thought about a lot. My first inclination was to change the wording of this precept to reflect a Truth … Continue reading
Precept #1: Worry
Recently I took the Reiki I Training with Jonna Rae Bartges, a Third Degree Reiki Master and a psychic, who teaches with joy and bad puns and calls herself The Happy Medium (she says “I see dead people so you don’t … Continue reading
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Gratitude
It doesn’t matter WHO you pray to. The name of the force – God, Allah, Spirit, Yahweh, The Great Cosmic Muffin – is not important. It just matters that you acknowledge something outside of yourself. It doesn’t matter WHAT WORDS … Continue reading
Empathy
Empathy One of the blessings of being sick is the renewal of my empathy for others who struggle with their health. I think of the persistence and courage of those who have a chronic illness. Day in and day out, … Continue reading
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