by Kate | Dec 19, 2018 | Forgiveness
Rather than thinking about forgiveness I send my love to the child who dies at our southern border attempting to flee from a changing climate to the grieving father who thought he escaped from a dark future to the patrol agents caught in a broken system to the...
by Kate | Dec 12, 2018 | Forgiveness, kind promises
Sometimes, it’s the old hurts that seem deepest and deadliest. Those are the ones we hang on to. They come to define us. They seem inescapable. For example, the national leader of a religious community with which I have a small connection was charged with sexual...
by Kate | Dec 5, 2018 | Forgiveness
Each time I settle down to write about forgiveness, I realize that I am lucky enough not to have been attacked or damaged in any real way. So the forgiveness I write of here is the petty forgiveness of a privileged life. This is not to imply that small injuries don’t...
by Kate | Dec 12, 2017 | Forgiveness, kind promises
The folks at Greater Good Magazine have identified forgiveness as one of the keys to well-being. They offer a lovely, succinct definition: a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you,...
by Kate | Jan 24, 2017 | Forgiveness, kind promises, meditation
Why even have a kind promise about forgiveness? Forgiveness is about letting go of the stories. The stories about what you did or who you are, what I did or who I am that mean we cannot imagine ourselves enough and we cannot risk opening to each other. This is not...
by Kate | Jan 18, 2017 | Chronic healing, chronic illness, Forgiveness
I can no longer feed myself. It is as if my arm has weights on it. It’s difficult to lift my hand as high as my mouth, especially if I’m holding a spoon full of food. The adjustments your hand makes in order to get a spoon full of food into your mouth are miraculous!...
