Let Truth Bloom

  Is there something in your life you have been seeking that just isn’t working out the way you planned, hoped, dreamed? Have you been doing all you feel you can do? Knocking on the door, asking, trying, waiting and feeling like God isn’t listening? My father was a wise man. When I was younger I was aggravated by something not working out the way I was convinced it needed to, despite my best efforts at the time. My dad, while filling his pipe with tobacco, asked me if I had prayed about it. I told him I had and that God hadn’t answered my prayers…yet.  Dad paused to light his pipe and drew a few thoughtful inhalations. He turned to me with his gentle, understanding eyes locked to mine and said, with his classic kindness: “you know that “no” is an answer too?” Although ‘no’ was not the answer I desired at the time, it was a relief to hear. I could stop trying so hard. I could let go. I could accept the ‘no’ and move on, change course, put my energy elsewhere.  God i...

When you look back at your day today (or if reading this in the morning, looking back at your day yesterday), do you feel you did enough? Hmm… I used to look back at most days and feel like a failure. I rarely, if ever at all, thought “ah, today was a great day. I did enough”.  Enough what, though? Laundry? Cleaning? Organising? Connecting with loved ones? Praying? Prepping healthy meals? Exercise? Fun with the kids? Penance? Work? Helping others? Resting? Even taking just one of those on the list, I don’t know if I knew how much was what I’d have considered ‘enough’.  What is enough? As much as is required . Well, that’s pretty subjective, isn’t it? And when you throw some perfectionism into the mix, high expectations, some people-pleasing and a tendency to over-do for others….yikes… “enough” is pretty unattainable! Peeling it back…back to the basics: what is as much as is required? Well, I’m a wife and mother. First and foremost, though, I am a daughter of God. What ...