Complete work also benefits relationships -Learn to give WHOLE or complete messages. This means not leaving things out, not covering up your anger, not squelching your wants. It means giving accurate feedback about what you observe, clearly stating your inferences and conclusions, saying how it all makes you feel, and if you need something or see possibilities for change, making straight-forward requests or suggestions.… Read the rest
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Spirituality of Aging – types of Completion
TYPES OF COMPLETION:
First – clean up the past – what we did; didn’t do; should have done, did poorly or wrongly.
Confucius once said, “to be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
In the 12 step programs, you learn to make a list of anyone you ever harmed – & where practical make amends.… Read the rest
Desiderata – by one of my favorite singers, Renee Morgan Brooks
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBsF-I9KqAU[/youtube]… Read the rest
Why we don’t change
Perhaps you have heard this story about a frog and a scorpion:
One day a frog was sitting happily by the side of the river when a scorpion came along.
“Oh Mr. Frog,” said the scorpion, “I need to get to the other side of the river to be with my family.… Read the rest
A Modern Psalm for Midlife and Spirituality of Aging
“I will go up to the altar of God
to sing songs of gratitude,
for God gives joy in youth,
joy in middle age
and the greatest joy in old age.
I go joyfully up to God’s holy altar,
not in the chains of obligation,
bowing, foot-dragging dreary, to do some duty,
but to dance drunk in gratitude
before the Source, the Fountain of Joy.… Read the rest
