“Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you …” – Genesis 12:1 I dream vividly every night. Some of my dreams are rather significant. Two years ago (yes, I keep a dream journal with dates), I dreamt that I was standing on the shores…Continue reading Navigating the Great Unkown
This is My Story
“We cannot wish old feelings away nor do spiritual exercises for overcoming them until we have woven a healing story that transforms our previous life’s experience and gives meaning to whatever pain we have endured.” Joe Borysenko When was the first story ever told? We do not know. We do know that storytelling has been…Continue reading This is My Story
The Disappointing Messiah
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Several years ago, we had the opportunity to visit beautiful France. Our time in Paris included a trip to the famous Louvre Museum. It was everything I imagined. Every step left me stunned and mesmerised. I do confess…Continue reading The Disappointing Messiah
The Colours of Autumn
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. – Faith Baldwin I love Autumn. I love watching the light change to thick, plush gold as our planet tilts on its axis while we orbit the sun. In our Southern Hemisphere, the temperature begins to drop in March. Well, that…Continue reading The Colours of Autumn
Laughter: Tonic for the Soul
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. — W. H. Auden A couple of days ago, I was sitting in my car at the traffic lights, deep in thought and paying very little attention…Continue reading Laughter: Tonic for the Soul
Welcome to the Dark Side: Understanding Your Shadow
“There is no other way. To be known is to be pursued, examined, and shaken. To be known is to be loved and to have hopes and even demands placed on you. It is to risk, not only the furniture in your home being re-arranged, but your floor plans being re-written, your walls being demolished…Continue reading Welcome to the Dark Side: Understanding Your Shadow
I See You!
“ … for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.” – Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Empathy. A word flung around in many contexts today. It…Continue reading I See You!
Lent: A Summons to Live Anew
Lent is a call to weep for what we could have been and are not. Lent is the grace to grieve for what we should have done and did not. Lent is the opportunity to change what we ought to change but have not. Lent is not about penance. Lent is about becoming, doing and…Continue reading Lent: A Summons to Live Anew
The Weed Mat Trap
It was over seven years ago that we began to build a new home in a semi-rural part of Melbourne. Building on a slope presented its own set of challenges. Large portions of slopes that needed to be turned into garden was one of them. In my frenzy to create order out of chaos, I…Continue reading The Weed Mat Trap
Anxiety and Eating Disorders: Tash’s Story
In the previous blog post, I presented an introduction to anxiety disorders, which affect a large percentage of the general population. I would like to keep the conversation going in the hope of creating further awareness and chipping away at the ridiculous stigma that often surrounds mental disorders. Anxiety disorders are one of the most…Continue reading Anxiety and Eating Disorders: Tash’s Story