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We Already Have Everything

“WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.”
― Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

The Way we Talk to our Children

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”

– Peggy O’Mara

Two Great Days

“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” — William Barclay
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Friends with Chocolate

Chocolate Cupcakes
Copyright 2013 by R.A. Robbins

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

A Friend who Cares

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

Is There More to Easter?

This is the Easter message I gave last year on Facebook Live. Don’t worry it is brief — just over 5 minutes. I hope you will take time to watch.

I Am Woman (video)

This song became an “anthem” for women of my generation. It is just as powerful today. And so is Helen Reddy. Thank you Helen!

Saving the Soul of the Nation

“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved I believe that you must become it’s soul.” — Coretta Scott King, Author, Activist, Civil Rights Leader.

You Cannot Soar

“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.” — Marian Anderson, African-American contralto

To That You Were Called

“If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road – abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.” — Elisabeth Elliot