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Thin Places: Seeing the Divine in Every Day Life

I was introduced to the notion of thin places several years ago by a dear Christian friend of mine from Ireland.  The concept of thin places has its origins in Celtic spiritualism and later in the Christian movement in Ireland. Thin places are points in time where the distance between the heavenly and earthly realms grows thin and you encounter the sacred. Thin places can occur in the midst of everyday conversation and happenings or in experiencing God’s beautiful creation in the outdoors – a sunset, a mountain vista, an [...]

By |2019-05-30T06:10:35-05:00May 30th, 2019|General, happiness, joy, perspective|15 Comments
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Joy in the Journey

Over the past several weeks, we talked about the unique and varied challenges that face a marriage when couples are parenting a child with special needs.  We mentioned last week that couples often feel isolated, finding it hard to physically get out the door and hard to “fit in” once you get there. We’ve talked about the hurts individuals have felt because sometimes people that are close to us, who should understand our situation, often don’t.  These things are true and representative, at times, of what our lives are like; [...]

By |2018-11-08T17:39:30-05:00November 8th, 2018|happiness, joy, perspective, thankful, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Joy in the Journey
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Happiness and Success Through Mary’s Eyes

We are shaped by our environments. My career centers on the tech sector and higher-education. Both worlds can be very performance-driven; the tech sector with its focus on company valuation, innovation and financial performance and higher-education with its focus on research, publications and teacher evaluations. While these worlds do not have to be seen through a performance-driven lense, it is predominately how I saw both worlds. These worlds shaped my definitions of success and happiness and I eventually realized that I had largely viewed success and happiness from these secular [...]

By |2018-09-06T06:12:55-05:00September 6th, 2018|General, happiness, success, Uncategorized|3 Comments
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