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Category: Community with Others

Giving thanks in the mess ...

… here comes Thanksgiving! I don’t know what you and yours are doing for the holiday, but me and mine are gathering in one big, loud, festive, dysfunctional fest! We do it every year. And every year I find myself disappointed in some aspect of our gathering … usually in myself. I don’t respond like […]

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The one prayer ...

If the only prayer you ever pray in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. (Meister Eckhart)

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Meanness ...

I wrote yesterday about the power of kindness. Today, I want to write about the power of meanness. While roaming the halls of the hospital where my son was recovering, I overheard a patient spouting the most mean-spirited, vile opinions about immigrants to a custodian who was cleaning his room. I believe the custodian was […]

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Be kind ...

Sorry for the absence. My son had emergency surgery a couple weeks ago and I had to make an unplanned trip out east. One major learning during this experience: Simple human kindness is a big deal. The morning after we received the distressing phone call that our son was in surgery I was on the […]

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Laughter ...

"... the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear." GK Chesterton

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Live gladly ...

To tie in to yesterday’s post about how God gives us everything for our enjoyment … These two quotes from the ancient mystic Julian of Norwich: “The greatest honor we can give to God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.” And … “What God most wants is to see you […]

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Welcome to Alice at Dawn. My short posts are meant to be regular reminders to keep walking, to keep living, to continue to listen to the voice deep within your spirit that whispers ... this is the way. Walk in it.

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