For Freedom
This is freedom to be the truest, most authentic, empowered version of yourself possible. This is a freedom that no external, worldly circumstance or experience can offer.
Ruach
It is not many steps beyond breath awareness that comes a conversation around the spirituality of the human being. Though many people may draw the line here, there will be much missed by stopping short of this recognition. It is difficult to put to words the complexity of the multi-dimensional soul of man and terminology such as self-awareness, awakening and self-care are quickly followed by ideas of divinity, sovereignty and globally unified human consciousness.
Love is Alive.
Our experiences - the traumatic, dramatic, surreal and sensual - are often the defining points of our lives and have the power to alter the course of our chosen reality. Yet when we consider the summation of our life and reflect on the quality and reason for what we’ve learned, it’s relationship that matters most - whether we went with or without.
Mirrors and Magnets: Breaking the Self-Love Culture
Self-love is the culture of self-centeredness, or selfishness, masked in wispy fonts, floral journal covers and rousing conversation about the “true self.” Of course, this doesn’t feel as fuzzy and warm, but Truth is not measured by the subjective ways we feel about a thing.
The only way to discover your True identity will come through awareness of your intended creation, not self-created love. There is no balance of Ego and self-love; they side the same.
Friends of Bethany
The Friends of Bethany annual retreat is about a union and reunion of young women with amputations or limb differences who are made whole in their identity, bonded by faith and made strong in community, fitness and surf.
2020 Vision
If we choose to see the accomplishment of goals as a byproduct in the pursuit of becoming the person we believe our imagine ourselves to be, our task inevitably becomes to live in harmony with the value, rather than the practice, of the goal. In doing so, we diminish the risk of blinding ourselves by the meaningless measure of the task alone.
You are enough.
We find pride and confidence in our ability to carry more and we admire those who juggle the world like a circus clown. We fervently seek after something we don’t fully comprehend, we drive hard and fast to no visible end, yet we find our identity in work ethic or maybe passion of the moment. This badge of honor has become the mask of our culture but what we fail to recognize is that we need no credit, we need no mask.
Take a Walk
You are made to be strong, confident and capable of doing hard things as a process of being in the flow of who you are created to be. So why is it that when the challenge is physical, when you exercise your body, that you accept panic, pain or punishment? Or do have a list of excuses for why you don’t do hard things at all?
Counting Sand
Exactly two years ago today, I envisioned from my bed the vastness of all the ways in which I could choose to live my life. Like grains of sand, I saw like little packages the reality of every split moment and decision I had and could live by. Faint threads interwove the fabric of all that I could be and I felt this all the way into my very bones.
I also saw that this was the same for every human being. In all the tremendous moments of my own conscious revelation, I also realized how every thread of my being was intimately connected to every person in every moment I ever had or would choose.
I believe this is the moment where most people wake up.
Where does the light come from?
Many people live at the bottom of the cave and even given the chance of escape, don't take it - or having escaped, return to it. But some were born into the world in front of the light and some brazenly dare to depart the cave to never return. These are the artists, the creatives who work with the light to shine stories onto the dark canvas of the deep and pray to tell a story that invite the prisoners to ask questions that seek beyond their shackles. These are the ones who echo their sounds into the souls of the living dead.
At The Den in Medford Oregon, you can see it all.