Category: Meditations

“If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to [God’s] people.”
―Abu Bakr

How have you been blessed through helping others?

The dolphin’s gleeful smile is just a feature of its anatomy, but as far as we can tell their amazing above-water acrobatics are something they do for fun, just because they can. Play is just part of their “porpoise” in life.

How do you play?

The U.S. holiday honoring veterans takes place on Armistice Day, the date of the end of the “War to End All Wars.” Of course, war has raged unabated since that time, but what better way to honor veterans than to turn our hearts and minds and hands toward a world at peace?

How do you promote peace?

“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
All seems beautiful to me.
Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.”
―Walt Whitman

Who has blessed you by accepting you just as you are?

The poet T. S. Eliot has the character J. Alfred Prufrock ask: “Do I dare to eat a peach?” In a world of challenge and loss we sometimes lose track of our capacity to reach out for the joys that are actually near to hand.

What blessing do you dare to fully embrace?