Step into the sky

Step into the sky

It’s the beginning of a new month, but before I send my newsletter out, so I am caught between two kind promises: I will love without keeping score and I will forgive with wild abandon. This morning, serendipitously (through Gretchen Rubin’s “Moment of Happiness”),...
How it helps to have a Higher Power…

How it helps to have a Higher Power…

Kind promise: I will love without keeping score. While it would be possible to practice the Kind Promises without believing in a Higher Power, it sure makes it easier to have one. Take love, for instance. I don’t like thinking about love without thinking about a...
Living with an open heart

Living with an open heart

Kind promise: I will love without keeping score. Love is so big and I feel small when I think of it. Sometimes, that’s a good thing. Imagining love as something grand and infinite, seeing myself as a single-celled amoeba in an ocean of love is about right. It...
Remembering love

Remembering love

Kind promise: I will love without keeping score. Last week, I went to my aunt’s funeral and saw love in action. Her friends and extended family gathered. We don’t see each other often (some of us had never met), but we gathered to honor and celebrate this woman who...
What if God and love are real?

What if God and love are real?

Kind promise: I will love in this moment. What if I lived as if God/love were real? I think they are synonymous. Frankly, I have more faith in love than I do God. I have been blessed to be surrounded by love. I have only seen hate from a distance. I have only felt it...