Category Archives: Thought for Today

A Simple Discipline: Silence

Silence can be hard to come by in our hectic, fast paced and often LOUD world.  Sometimes is seems that everywhere we go we are bombarded with sound and often it is just too loud to ignore.  As someone who is very sensitive to sound, if it is too loud it sends shock waves throughContinue reading “A Simple Discipline: Silence”

A Few Simple Disciplines

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”  — Jim Rohn I was looking for a good way to start the new year when I happened onto this quote.   Most of us tend to over complicate our lives don’t we?  We think we have to do it all and we haveContinue reading “A Few Simple Disciplines”

2015 in review

Well it must be that time of year again, time for the WordPress annual report.  Thought you might like to take a look.  Thank you for your faithful following this year, we appreciate it.  Please feel free to tell your friends and family about Espirational.  Next year let’s fill that Opera House 10 times! TheContinue reading “2015 in review”

The Awakening

“Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee, O Lord”– Saint Augustine Recently I read something that caused me to reflect on the beginning of my spiritual awakening. I had enrolled in a college religion class on the Old Testament prophets.  Over the summer things changed and when I arrived for class I discovered that notContinue reading “The Awakening”

Thought for Today

“The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;– The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that out of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down eachContinue reading “Thought for Today”