Category: Inspirational

Acknowledging the sacred beauty in nature is not often disputed. Acknowledging these same qualities in each other is less common and too often disputed. During…

You may love this season of giving … and dread it too! Each year you promise yourself to start earlier, or better yet, to make…

At least it was a few moments ago … is it really already time to say good-bye to the magnificence of the golden, red and…

I hear the wind rustling through the trees, I think it is my mother She is speaking through the tones of bamboo and tall giant…

Are you ever afraid to go outside into the rain and wind…into the unknown of any given day? It is hard to know what you…

Visionaries are talking about change; it is in the air … everywhere! Recently, Jere Stocks, President of the Washington Adventist Hospital in Maryland, spoke of…

I absolutely love the title of JJ Michael’s latest novel. I do not read fiction often; however, each one of her last three titles represents…

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti – I am not sure why I feel so astounded that The Shrine, Fela’s club, is thriving on Broadway. Perhaps it is the…

“All stages of life are marked by meetings under the conversation tree” – Joseph Ki-Zerbo. Every culture, every major piece of writing highlights and celebrates…

We know that cells have their own intelligence, capable of operating in organisms in both cooperative and adverse ways. I once read that each human…

I expected to be alone for the day – touring London on the big red, open top, hop-on, and hop-off bus.The last time I actually…

Feeling your way, finding your rhythm takes time when you are facing something new. We have to propel our way forward, get some movement going,…

In my travels, I have seen many historic sites that chronicle the rise and fall of great civilizations – sometimes we know what happened, other…

I do not claim to be a photographer, though I have a newfound pleasure in capturing nature, odd pieces and the simple and exotic experiences…

I have never been a Girl Scout…until last week, well, sort of! Many of us volunteer our time – year round – to make a…

It was a beautiful, striking sight – and because the sun does look like it is falling, I could hear a panicked Chicken Little declare,…

Take a good look at the word “mindlessness” – does it have a negative or positive ring to you? Imagine for a minute a space…

As a young student in Uganda, one of the many poems we were required to recite was “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is…

Being in the driver’s seat requires both a steady hand and one flexible enough to adjust one’s navigation plan to accommodate the inevitable bumps in…

Most of us have run into the phrase that states we must have a “burning desire” for what we want to achieve in life. In…