Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old stories. I realize that in my life I've made so many physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up." Time for my spirit to look at my friend through the new glasses of current life experiences. Old friends are precious. They become even more treasured when they are wrapped in the currentness of life experiences and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.

Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

I rest in the light of forgiveness.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.