Feb 15, 2017 Calling and Purpose
He whispered to me this morning while I was making coffee. Amongst the sound of the grinding of beans, his voice spoke through my own lips. “This is not the way.” He didn’t refer to the way I was grinding the beans. I don’t think he has much to say on that subject. He...
Feb 9, 2017 Calling and Purpose
There are those moments that happen, periods in our lives, when we reach a fork in the road. The wheel of life has revolved, and we’re faced with a choice. A momentous choice perhaps. We feel it, like a beckoning from the future, or an intolerance for the present....
Jun 9, 2016 Calling and Purpose
I was with a client recently. She’s an expert in her field. She’s been teaching her work for decades. And I was enquiring into the essential nature of her work, asking her what this work was really about, and how it moved people. She was in flow. She was transmitting....
May 3, 2016 Calling and Purpose
Sweetheart, you don’t get it. You don’t realize just how beautifully valuable you are. So very precious. So very special. Because you’re like me. You forget. You deny it. You disbelieve it. It’s not your fault. It’s not a pathology – something that went wrong. There’s...
Dec 15, 2015 Calling and Purpose
In the first part of this article I talked about shame and how we’re carrying so much of it, and that it is the root of sin. Not in some old clichéd Catholic sense, where we come from some original bad stock. We’re ashamed because we’re struggling to find the courage...
Dec 8, 2015 Calling and Purpose
We’ve thrown out sin. It’s gone, along with religious guilt, dogma and other old dusty concepts that clash with our modern sense of freedom. It’s gone because it was a moral label from a by-gone past. Or at least, that’s what we think. But I’m going to tell you a...
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