Posted by Sharon
Mar 08, 2013
It is so easy to come into someone else's world knowing with certainty precisely what to do....
...and yet be totally wrong.
Because I work with Habitat for Humanity where I regularly meet with strangers in brand new communities, I have...
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Posted by Sharon
Mar 01, 2013
Hannah Brencher sends love letters...
...the kind you sit down and write on paper with a pen. Love letters to strangers. She says she’s strange. I am too. I like her. Check her out here:
http://loveletters2strangers.com/
...and...
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Posted by Sharon
Feb 13, 2013
I suddenly stopped blogging about a Course in Miracles...
...not because I have stopped reading it, but mostly because I found it was becoming very personal and I did not want to share it in a public forum. Having said that, I would encourage ...
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Posted by Sharon
Jan 13, 2013
Take a deep breath and step back….
French composer Claude Debussy said:
Music is the space between the notes.
This is an exceptionally profound lesson for me, "I do not need to give meaning to everything I observe". I remember...
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Posted by Sharon
Jan 12, 2013
My ego needs to make me right…
It needs me to make a world that I think I need. Anything created by the ego will be meaningless, so when the world appears that way, I have created the experience. I give the drama filled, meaningless-ness of...
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Posted by Sharon
Jan 11, 2013
My thoughts determine what kind of world I see...
When I see a world that is not working for me, I try to fix it, rethink it, reconcile it, fear it and then spiral. So what next? I blame someone or something, I become a victim of the world...
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Posted by Sharon
Jan 10, 2013
This is the second time the writer comes back to this point….
It seems she wants me to know that even though I have done some exercises, my thoughts still do not mean anything, at this moment. It feels like, although I am wading through the...
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Posted by Sharon
Jan 09, 2013
What? I may need to think about this...
I get that I can only see what is now. But to say I see nothing as it is now requires some deliberation. If I look out the window and see a tree, do I not see it as it is now? Or if I call it “tree”,...
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Posted by Sharon
Jan 08, 2013
Today I am trying to identify things from the past that I just can’t let go of...
It’s amazing how old pain can make us feel safe. Isn’t that ridiculous? Oops, I think that was me judging. But really, I find that I hold onto things that were...
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Posted by Sharon
Jan 07, 2013
Not only do I hold onto and wallow in the past...
...I use it to make enemies for the future. I make an enemy of myself too, as I refuse to let go of guilt and anxiety from past experiences.
How can I ever know anyone else in the present...
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