How Can Healing Arise from Tragedy? Healing comes when you see the opportunity for growth that a painful situation has provided. Br. David Steindl-Rast This week has been difficult for many of us. As we try to wrap our minds around a deliberate mass murder of children, we find that we cannot. It is hard to imagine the devastating impact on the families of the children lost […]
Small Acts of Kindness Make a Big Difference The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ~ William Wordsworth As we go through our day, we often have opportunities to be kind. Some require very little of us – a smile or a pleasant word. Others ask more from […]
The Kindness Impulse – An Uplifting Story There are no strangers here Just friends you haven’t yet met. … William Butler Yeats We are born with an innate tendency to connect with others. Larry calls it the kindness impulse. In our culture today, many people feel disconnected from each other, even at work and in their apartment building or neighborhood. Most of us are able to create connections […]
How Do We Bring Light into a World of Conflict? Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~ William James As we participate in the emotional ups and downs of political reality in our country and observe the chaotic and sometimes horrific challenges that other people are facing around the world, we find ourselves in turbulent waters, swirling with hate, fear, anger, sadness, despair, […]
