Christmas is much like Thanksgiving in that, while we celebrate something simple—gratitude and love—we go about it with such hell-bent enthusiasm that it is ultimately too complicated to be felt. It is like putting on a lavish Broadway production at an intersection...
There is nothing that fosters a joyous life more quickly and effectively than gratitude. Gratitude takes us from a state of perceived deprivation to an awareness of our fulfillment. Iyanla Vanzant said, “We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has...
Americans often infuse their holidays with ironic twists: Halloween, a former pagan celebration of fertility, becomes a festival of fear; Easter, traditionally a Christian celebration of spiritual rebirth, is altered to hiding eggs, a pagan fertility symbol. But...
When we clean out the refrigerator, we toss out food with great zeal, intent on finishing the onerous chore and giving no thought to what we are throwing away. Yet, it is important to take a moment to be conscious of what we are discarding. Think of the composition of...
In the heady pace of modern living, sometimes it is difficult to keep a firm hold on those relationships that give heart and meaning to our lives. It seems like we glance away for a split second and suddenly those relationships have fallen an implausible distance...
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