I don’t feel even close to tranquil. Recently, I reached out to my life coach, Rachell, because I’ve been struggling with anxiety and felt stuck. I wanted to write a blog post about the death of George Floyd but couldn’t get started. Prayer hadn’t help me to move ...
Auden defines prayer in this way. “To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.” As he goes on to say, “whenever we so concentrate our attention—on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God—that we completely forget our own ...
Prayer for You We’re all trying to cope with what we’ve been through recently. It is not something we can put behind us right now because it’s still on going. I realized that my brother’s unhappiness was not a direct result of our dad’s parenting. He hasn’t seen our dad in...
I don’t know what you are going through, but it is my prayer that good will come out of it. The world needs more beautiful “what if” scenarios. It needs your love and joy. To conclude, let me pose my own “what if”: What if, instead of running from the waves, we create ...
Simone Weil describes prayer as paying attention. I thought I stopped praying when I was a teenager, but now I think perhaps I’ve continued to pray all along. Painting is an act. Painting is living. The problems of painting — the problem of whether to paint ...