Celebrating Birthdays

Celebrating birthdays is a beautiful tradition of love and the passage of time. Moira's birthday party signified the end of summer for most of us last night. Kathy planned yesterday's early dinner to accommodate her grandchildren's' first day at school starting this morning. I looked forward all weekend to spending time with the Murphy's. The demands of life make it difficult to find time to be with the Murphy family. After a beautiful meal, Tim and Patty's daughter Emily, who will start second grade today, sat on my lap. Her very presence was a gift of pure love. School begins today in San Mateo County, playful summer ends and life goes by too fast. Thank you to the Murphy's for reminding me that despite all of the career pressure, the best part of life is just being present to children, the love of family and to the celebration of each other's life.

Kingdom Building

Choose today to build up people, our leaders and our families. With all of the negativity in the press and world chaos, now more than ever, let's lift up each other and build a kingdom of support, love, generosity, service and compassion. Over time I have learned that we can criticize and tear down very easily, however, I have also learned that with the same ease I can build people up with kind words, service and prayer. Kingdom building literally brings joy and a renewed energy and strength. Build up someone today and feel the energy flow heal yourself and our broken world.

Peace and Justice

Keeping the peace has been my way of life mostly out of fear of the consequence of speaking the "truth." During a recent conversation with my wise friend Traci, I discovered what I now understand justice to be. She indicated in my keeping peace, I may not be contributing to what is right and in the end what is right will provide the basis to bring peace to the situation. Without sharing the work story details of the situations we both face, what I found from our conversation was that I must learn to have courage to do the right thing, the fair thing, the just thing so that the real peace follows.

No Metric System

No Metric System? What if we had no way to measure things? Think of the joy that would be. What if we could just accept a give and take of life, not balancing the scales of service, and or doing for each other because they did for you? What if we could just love without expecting anything back? Often there is a quid pro quo in life; you scratch my back I will scratch yours. How about we change that thinking to let me scratch your back with nothing expected and or needed in return. How lovely the world might become if we remove the metrics of life? No more determining if there is evenness to life, but filling people's cup of life to the full with service, love and kindness. Wishing you into loving just to love.

Lazy Saturday, well for me.

Finding catch up time is rare, alas today I find moments to do laundry, write in the blog and stroll to Burlingame Ave. Ah, I know what they mean by Lazy Saturday. Well for me this day gave me moments of time to just putz and move and have my being be. Wishing you all a Lazy Saturday even if it's tomorrow.

Heaven's Back Gate

Heaven's back gate is wide open for all. God of mercy stands ready to welcome and to heal all. On my walk yesterday I was suddenly inspired that God had a back gate for all to enter. We often hear depictions of Peter at the pearly gates, saying yes or no. Many jokes and stories imply that some come in and some are turned away from this place called heaven. Today, on my walk, I had this beautiful realization/revelation that there is a back gate where all enter and none are turned away. When invited home or to my good friends' homes, I know to just enter through their back gate. My back gate is open and thank God heaven's is too.