Spiritual Journeys

We live in a society today which is dominated by self-help books and self-improvement guides promising to increase the quality of your life in such-and-such way, or your money back! What’s going on? It seems everyone feels perpetually imperfect and is constantly seeking something new and better “out there” to satisfy a craving to feel better “in here.” As usual, this stems from the ego’s distorted perception of reality. In reality, Life is in a state of complete perfection. You are perfect... Read Full Story

Last night it happened again.  Feel free to call me crazy, but an angel woke me from my sleep.  This is the second time that it’s happened in a year.  Both times that this happened, I was in the middle of a dream.  Last night, I was dreaming that I had upset my uncle by joking about his hounddog.  I was snickering to my hubby about how stupid my uncle was to think that we could affect the dog’s health by stressing it out and making it bark.  In this dream, while I was laughing, I saw the... Read Full Story

Thomas Merton penned these words a number of years ago - No man is an island - Merton was an interesting man who lived a pretty wild life, or so many think, before becoming a monk. Much of his life is told in the book Seven Story Mountain. Merton was also the last monk allowed to become a hermit. Somewhere along the line the church realized living totally alone, in silence, was not a healthy thing. As a matter of fact in all of creation there’s only one time the Creator said “This is not good... Read Full Story

I'm really excited about my upcoming book MESSAGES FROM A GODLY PLACE. It's already available as an eBook on Amazon and other eBook sites, and the printed version will be ready soon. This is a book of messages that came to me during my meditations, and quite frankly, the information is amazing! It covers all kinds of topics from future events to science. Please check out my website and let me know what you think about the content. Thanks for stopping by! Read Full Story

There is only one job I've ever had where I truly felt I was in every single way unqualified. Sure, there have been jobs with high learning curves and difficult odds, but only one left me shaking in my boots, well flip flops. Parenting. That's the one. When Jeff and I found out God had decided it was time to start our family we were elated, but in my heart, I was petrified. According to my plan, we would be married about ten years--plenty of time to work out all the kinks and do some... Read Full Story