Stacie (Page 9)

Since it’s Sunday, I’ve been contemplating the idea and practice of worship. Personally, I tend towards reverence instead of formal worship in my own spiritual life. To me, reverence is respecting what inspires awe. I don’t have to understand God, All That Is, the Tao, or any of the other ways humans have tried to bottle up and describe the mechanics of the creation that we are a part of, live in and return to when our bodies take their last breath. But I do revere it. I sense the power and intelligence that is within and part of all that is, and although IRead More →

I first heard of this idea about turning your waiting room into a classroom from Jessica Sowards of Roots and Refuge fame on Youtube. She is a homesteader that has built a fandom revolving around sustainable gardening and growth. She grows things for a living, and not just food. She’s a terrific sower of all things good–physically and spiritually. Jessica grew up in the Vilonia, Arkansas area, which is close to where I grew up in Cabot, so I feel a certain kinship with her because we started out in the same soil. Yesterday evening, I decided to take a long walk and I calledRead More →

I believe compassion is one of those concepts that gets misinterpreted A LOT today. I remember when I experienced true compassion for someone that, to put it bluntly, I despised with every fiber of my being. I disagreed with her on pretty much every level. She was in my extended family circle, so she was in my life periodically due to who she was married to, but I tried to avoid her as much as possible. Her husband was having severe health issues, and I knew that she was cheating on him. In an unguarded moment, I witnessed her emotionally fall apart while he wasRead More →