by Kate | Nov 20, 2024 | Chronic healing, Love
Because I live with chronic illness (MS) and have been so affected by it (gradual quadriplegia), it has been one of my greatest teachers. I share those lessons with others. It’s the music I’ve been given to sing so I offer it. Each month, I think about our theme and...
by Kate | Nov 6, 2024 | Love
We all value love. “Love makes the world go round,” goes the old song. But what is love, anyway? I was searching for a good definition, and bumped into this from a romance novel I was reading (my guilty pleasure): “There is no greater way to show love than by paying...
by Kate | Nov 15, 2023 | Love
It’s simpler than you might think leave all your tattered judgments far behind enter the tabernacle of listening make a sacred vault for their words when they are in...
by Kate | Nov 10, 2023 | Chronic healing, Love
This month, I am considering the kind promise “I will love without keeping score.” I’ve found this promise especially helpful in times of illness or disability. (For me, that’s every day.) It’s the scorekeeping that’s the problem. When you are ill, you may need...
by Kate | Nov 3, 2023 | Love
As I sat down to write about love, someone sent me this quote: “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.” If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their...
by Kate | Nov 27, 2022 | Chronic healing, Love
You may be thinking “but a silly title. Of course people who are ill are as lovable as they were when they weren’t ill.” That’s the conscious, reasonable attitude. A funny thing happens, though, in our unexamined, reactionary minds. People who...
