4:55AM
It is coal black and cool. The Sun is only a contemplation now. I have awakened ahead of it. The only human sound is the beating of my heart.
Transcending Pain, Finding Joy at 50
You have made it through your wild 20s, hardworking 30s and challenged-filled 40s. Now you are approaching, just turned 50 or are just on the other side and the bottom has dropped out of life. You wonder at 50 how to handle all that has come to sit in your lap and if you will ever be able to come back from the losses: deaths, serious health issues, financial hits, deep emotional and spiritual crises.
The Great Thanksgiving 2016: Day 10
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks — St. Ambrose The Great Thanksgiving 2016 Gratitude is a powerful energy and whomever you direct gratitude’s energy onward, that’s where it goes. It is like sprinkling magic dust over people. This powerful positive energy affects them. The people you meet on the bus, in the elevator, while shopping, at a restaurant, at an amusement park, on an airplane — all are affected by the magic dust of gratitude that…