Thoughts on the Christmas We Just Celebrated........... 12/31/20

Taken from my favorite Christmas book,
The Christ Child, Iilustrated by Miska and
 Maud Petersham 

     I hope you had a Merry Christmas. 

    What is Christmas?  Nope, it isn't about gifts.  It's about one Gift, Christ.  This holiday is about God's incarnation, dwelling among us, full of grace and truth.  (John 1:14)

    Thank you, for journeying with me this year.  I appre-ciate your visits.  Inspired and cheered, is my hope, each time your drop by. 

The Second Favorite Christmas Story.. 12/31/20

Innkeeper's Note:

   How are things going for you? I'm exhausted, experi-encing Covid fa-tigue.  My work ramped up when the pandemic hit this world.  

   Many I see are afflicted with anxiety, depression, grief, and suffering from the loss of their normality. Gone is meeting with friends in person, no more hugs, and plenty of isolation, along with confusion, fear, and frustration.  

   I'm leaving a Christmas story written for this inn.  It is my second

An Overview of Codependency, Revisited ........... 12/13/20

"I have been young, and now I am old; yet
 have  I not seen the righteous forsaken, 
nor His seed begging bread."  Ps. 37:25

“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is
missing in his or her humanity.A person can almost
be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”
        Elie Wiesel

A Provision Perspective that Promotes Peace 
     In this weak economy, many are anxious about financial security.  Neither our income nor our job is the source of our provision: 

Moving Beyond Our Painful Past, Revisited.............. 12/10/20

     I love seeing clients get better.  They learn how to handle a tyrant that lives within everyone during our time together.  Our default mode.  

    This unhelpful pattern shows up when we are stressed. Our limbic system activates this default mode, created by our reptilian mind, the non-cognitive part of our brain. It is the source of our felt sense----which makes us feel alive, frightened, or elated. 

     It is startling, realizing we mostly live throughout life with beliefs created in childhood by the part of our mind that does not think.  Yes, that is insanity, but we do.

Improving Our Lives: Having Presence, Overcoming Fear 11/30/20

      We can develop our patience.  Even if we already have plenty.  Patience improves when leaning into the negative circumstances we face. 

      This is being present.  We become situational surfers. No matter what circumstantial waves

A Healthy Perspective That Brings Healing, Wholeness, and Self-Acceptance ...................11/29/20

"I am a perfect hu-man being, I'm not a perfect God."

   What a relief, this sen-tence. My father suffered from the disease of per-fectionism. I did not know

Thanks Following Thanksgiving Day 11/28/20

Today's Gratitudes

1.  I spent time with a friend.  Today, we enjoyed the Califor-nia coast.  Our con-versation was authentic---there was no pretense.  

     We were trans-parent with each

The Central Day for This Inn---Blessings to Each of You!............. 11/26/20

   Happy Thanks-giving everyone.  Many suffer from worry. Multitudes endure the crip-pling power of depression.  

    Frustration, self-loathing is the plight of many.

    An Attitude of Gratitude coun-teracts these ills. Today is the cen-tral day of this inn.  May this Thanksgiving Day be your best.

      
     Cherishing loved ones, counting our blessings are

The Self-Torture of Interpretations and Conclusions 11/25/20

      This morning I spoke with someone I've known for several years.   He interrupt-ed me.  I told him I didn't like it. 

     "Well, I was answering what you wanted to know," he said. 

     Sounds reasonable, does it not?  It isn't.  Even if he was right about his assump-tions he was wrong. 

      Interrupting declares

Staying True to Our Values, Despite Pressures from Others ............. 11/19/20

          Sunday, I was chal-lenged, emotionally.  Three people banged upon my ser-enity, with urgent text messa-ges.  They wanted to rent big swaths of territory within my mind.  Each presented prob-lems they desired to add to my life. 

        We do not want that to happen.