Tag Archives: healing
An Irish Story of Love and Peace
When I was in Northern Ireland, I signed the Peace Wall on the Irish Catholic side. This was a big deal because my last name is Rankin. My ancestors were Scot-Irish and even though they fought in the Siege of … Continue reading
Piper Forgives Herself
I’m a good girl. Really I am. Mom tells me so all the time. She never reminds me of the day I wasn’t a good girl. The day I sent my Yorkie sibling over the doggy rainbow bridge. I was … Continue reading
Phillip’s Wisdom on Anger
Phillip: Anger is a form of fear. Fear is the opposite of love. To truly know the appreciation of love, fear must be known. Do you not judge evil by that which you call good? Is it not in … Continue reading
Who or What Is God?
If we ask, “What is God?” as opposed to “Who is God?” our deeper listening gives us a different answer. In our language, we have reduced God to a pronoun. By doing so, we have created God in our image … Continue reading
The Gift of Illness
It is hard to imagine illness being a gift, and yet we hear over and over of those who benefit or who benefit others because of an illness. We may have even experienced an illness ourselves and grown from it … Continue reading
3 Levels of Soul Pain and the Depth of Healing
We are both human and spiritual beings. The spiritual part of who we are lives in joy; the human part of us experiences the joy . . . but to experience the joy, we also take on the experience of … Continue reading
Are the Words You Say to Yourself Helpful?
Words have a powerful effect on us, especially those words we either use against ourselves or to show love and acceptance of ourselves. To be loving to, and accepting of, ourselves begins with the words we say to ourselves. Do … Continue reading
Calming the Violence
Violence is erupting as you read this, and violence will continue to explode today, tomorrow, or the next day. There is a seething anger, fueled by fear across the US and the people have had enough. What does this have … Continue reading
Phillip’s Wisdom on Respecting Our Differences
You pull into your life that which you must experience. All that is within your life cooperates to give you the experience. This is not to say you control the experience or how another cooperates. Although we all are connected, … Continue reading
Learning Patience
In the Western/US culture in which I live, we are impatient. We do not like being in the space between what was and what is to come. Sitting in the Irish mist, I call it, because it reminds me of … Continue reading