Everyday is a new beginning; this sounds like a Hallmark card slogan. However, waking up is a chance to think, “What do I give myself to today?” What is important for me to be and do today? Each day, we begin again. In fact, if we…
Category: Aha Moments
This came across my phone screen: “What’s your productivity score? This unique metric measures how well you’re handling the stress that work and life are sending your way by identifying key areas where you can make changes and achieve more! “ A…
If you come to the windward side of O’ahu, you are welcome to visit “Akua’s sanctuary” there. (Akua is Hawaiian for God.) Today the weather is rainy and windy. However, you can still see the waterfalls flowing down the 2000′ cliffs of the forest-covered Ko’olau…
Usually, I have trouble sticking with a meditation practice. Even five days in a row feels pretty good to me. A new phone app has been helping me to approach mindfulness with fresh enthusiasm by getting instruction from Joseph Goldstein, a Buddhist teacher. This is…
Beginning a new work is a hopeful time. I am teaching Spiritual Care this summer at a hospital in Billings, Montana. Of course, I feel hopeful about all the learning that will take place. We are studying cultural humility as a theme for the summer…
Hawaii has always been a place where I feel connected to what is beautiful, spiritual and made by the Creator. The ocean water is warm near the shore and the air is pure. My body, like Goldilocks, loves the climate on windward O’ahu, where it…
C.S. Lewis wrote, “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” Now is the time for New Year’s resolutions. Do you groan inwardly or do you greet this idea with enthusiasm? If you are ready to set some…
At holiday time, there seems to be more frenetic driving on the city streets than ever. People zoom through yellow-to-red lights and block crosswalks in the next block. Quickly changing lanes without signaling is common, while cutting off other cars. On a one-way, three-lane road,…
When I was jogging across Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, I had crossed four of six lanes on the green light when suddenly, a driver in a car zoomed through his red light nearly hitting me in the crosswalk. My life did not flash…
Jesus was a brown-skinned baby born into occupied territory, saved by his loving parents. They fled across a border into a safer country to escape King Herod, who felt his power threatened and who mass-murdered infants. That made Jesus and his parents refugees. As an…