by Kate | Jul 20, 2012 | kind promises
Kind Promise: I will share strengths. My brother wanted to take some planters from our house to his. He brought his truck and was getting ready to load the planters. My friend Joshua offered to help. I assumed they would each take it an end of the dirt-filled-3-foot...
by Kate | Jul 10, 2012 | connectedness, kind promises, meditation
Last Friday I planned to write about discovering our strengths. Instead, I was sidelined by a three-day migraine. Sometimes we find our strengths by taking character tests or paying attention to activities that make our hearts sing. My return to what a fellow migraine...
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 15, 2012 | chronic illness, Disability, kind promises, monsters, Surrender
Kind Promise: I will be tender with weaknesses. “For every ailment under the sun There is a remedy or there is none If there be one, then seek and find it If there be none, then never mind it.” — Mother Goose ...
by Kate | Jun 8, 2012 | Disability, kind promises, meditation, Surrender
Kind promise: I will be tender with weakness. Wednesday I had computer problems. While I could read e-mail, I couldn’t respond to it or use my assistive software to do any typing. Visiting new websites wasn’t working well. I was very frustrated. I spend...
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...
