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Heal well...

Healing from pain – how do we do it?   Physical pain needs healing and we may take herbs or medicine or exercise or…a variety of ways for healing – some short term and some long term.   But what about ‘heart pain’?   That is what has been on my mind for a while now.   We said goodbye to my Mom two months ago today, and I was at a memorial service for my nephew (cousin’s son) this past Friday night….he passed away very suddenly and was only 21 years old.   So that is deep heart pain…that kind of pain can actually feel like physical pain – it hurts! It is numbing really…shocking…I’m not even a parent and I can’t begin to imagine the pain. So how do you heal?   How do I heal?   Perhaps to ask it more appropriately and could be part of the answer is “How do WE heal”? I have not been in California all week but I’ll tell you what – what I have seen from afar is that this family has had an impact on their world.   They have literally 100’s of people at their house daily; their frien

Stuff, balance, focus...what?!

February 9, 2016 ‘Stuff’ – I don’t want ‘stuff’ and yet I have ‘stuff’.   I have too much ‘stuff’…my brain is starting to process that I’m headed back to Budapest in 17 days…just over two weeks.   I have a suitcase that is already too full – how did THAT happen?   And what do I do to fix that…since I have yet to get my big jar of peanut butter or a box of graham crackers?   Really – it’s just stuff!   And yet I’m fairly sentimental so there are some things that were Mom’s…I want to take those but really maybe it's too much and then it once again becomes 'stuff'. Life is a balance – and sometimes my life gets out of balance.   I hold onto things that perhaps I shouldn’t…so I have to work through that.   How to do that?   That leads to the question of what is my focus?   Is it my comfort, my sentiments…or the work I feel called to and others?   I’ve spoken about refugees recently with groups of people and we talk about backpacks.   Most refugees only have a back