Laura Luz says…

Do your mistakes become lessons or guilt? My mistakes always eventually become my lessons, however I have noticed that they have often, in my past travelled through a default route of Guilt and Self-doubt first.  Even so, I am noticing that as I learn more and more about myself, and become kinder and gentler with myself, that the time I spend on the path of Guilt and Self-doubt has reduced [...]

How often are you silent enough to hear God? The truth is, I’m not silent enough! That doesn’t mean that I don’t set things up in my life to restrain and curtails media and loud music blaring through my space.   I don’t watch TV unless it is strategically neutral (in order to help balance my work load) and additionally mindless, without any commercials or News.  I rarely listen to music [...]

Letting go … Not giving in The past few days of my “reading-break” have proven to be interesting as I watch myself struggle with balancing my need for rest and integration, with getting the major project and the exam completed.  I work for durations of time each day on school work, and then I reward myself with things that are restorative, like a walk in the sunshine, or a Himalayan salt-bath [...]

Dear Family:  Thanks to each of YOU who are both my friend and part of my family.   My gift for each of you this week is a variety-pack of LIFESAVERS.  They are representative of US (all who are in our family) and how we are present for each other when ever any of us needs help.  Personally, I have felt so supported by you all in my major decision to [...]

When I leave my computer alone for long enough, and it is ON, it defaults into my picture file, and I might walk into my room and see pictures appear of my children when they were much younger, or of myself when I was at different doorways of my life.  Each fleeting glimpse becomes a gift to me, reminding me of all that I have experienced, reminding me of the [...]

The concept of “Crossing over the bridge to another” has been active within my life for some time even though it had no name.  Hedy Schleifer identifies it while sharing a touching story in her video link (below my article), and while I listened to her, I fully resonated and understood her described concept.     Years ago, I found “crossing over the bridge”  illusive and often not a cognizant process for [...]

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am sorely “directionally challenged”.  Without maps or compasses I could never get to unknown addresses on time. Thankfully, technology has assisted my diminished capacity for course-correction by giving me a device with quick answers when I get lost. It’s called a GPS (Global Positional System).  In a way, my spiritual direction was also challenged through out my life until I realized that [...]

Does the word “change” mean FEAR or EXCITEMENT for you? Change has been a familiar companion of mine over my years upon this earth.  As a young child, my father worked for a company that transferred both he, and his family to different locations regularly; resulting in my early learning about goodbyes and hellos to friends, peers and surrounding neighbors.  I left home at 17 and travelled alone across the [...]

How long will you leave it until you live your life to the full?   I have forever asked the question WHEN?  I was the little girl who asked incessantly when will I get breasts and have a boyfriend”.  I’ve been the young pregnant wife asking “when will this baby come so I can be just me again?” I’ve been the woman with a broken heart – split so wide [...]

Does your generosity match your desire for gain? Generosity and Desire for gain; rarely do the two ideas coincide.  Here we are within the holiday season of generosity, and many of us jog our memories of these two ideas when we reacquaint ourselves with Charles Dickens’s story of Ebenezer Scrooge.  Scrooge lived the extreme version of “desire for gain” to the extent of hurting others around him; both family members [...]