by Kate | Jun 27, 2012 | Forgiveness, kind promises, Surrender, Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will be tender with weaknesses. I yelled at my husband the other day. I was swearing and shouting. This was Not Good and it made both of us feel pretty awful. It didn’t change any part of the situation that set me off. Then I had an aha moment. I...
by Kate | Jun 1, 2012 | chronic illness, Disability, Forgiveness, kind promises, Surrender
Kind promise: I will be tender with weakness. Guess what? Weakness is not a topic our culture embraces. It is something we want to move through and get over. I was looking for quotes to enrich my thinking on this topic and it was difficult to find gentle responses to...
by Kate | Mar 30, 2012 | chronic illness, Creativity, Disability, Forgiveness, kind promises, Transformation
When I first began walking with a cane, I would watch others with a real sense of witnessing a miracle. My ankle joint no longer worked (“drop foot”) and I used the cane to steady my uneven gait. Other people were able to lift their foot completely off the...
by Kate | Dec 16, 2011 | Forgiveness
>I’ve asked the non-verbal part of my brain to tell me what it knows about forgiveness.You may have noticed that I am highly verbal. I remember, as a child, narrating my life out loud. (“She walked across the street.” I remember exactly what street I...