“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick It is easy to become angry and bitter after losing a loved one. Finding or feeling joy and hope seems impossible. We may even feel that the loss is somehow a punishment, an action taken by the universe to ruin our lives. We may even lash outContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Open With Loving-Kindness”
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Monday Meditation: The Lonely Holiday
“Christmas is a holiday the persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.”-Jimmy Cannon The Christmas season is upon us. It is a bittersweet time for grievers. First Christmases without a loved one are difficult, of course. But it’s the second, third, and rest of the Christmases without your loved one that may be theContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: The Lonely Holiday”
Monday Meditation: Survival Requires Love
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”-The Dalai Lama When we think about what humans need to survive, we often reduce the list to the basic essentials: food, clothing, shelter, and water. Perhaps we can add an income with which to pay for these basics. What gets omitted is interesting:ContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Survival Requires Love”
Practice Self-Kindness
We seem conditioned to believe that kindness is an outside offering that comes to us rather than a gift we bestow on ourselves. I was struck by how simple kindness was undervalued among some grief supporters. Kindnesses are paid during the funeral period, but after the funeral kindness slowly evaporates, perhaps as part of theContinueContinue reading “Practice Self-Kindness”