Christmas Eve Eve
Photo credit: Terree O'Neill Yeagle The Moment Photography I am an equal opportunity holiday celebrant. Raised Jewish, I embrace this time as a season of light and love. I have both a menorah and...
View ArticleFor The Common Good
Like many around the globe, I have been following the journey of Pope Francis with interest. I was raised Jewish and am an interfaith minister, so the idea of a spiritual leader also being a diplomat,...
View ArticleLast Night I Said Kaddish For My Father
I said Kaddish for my father last night as today honors the 8th anniversary of his passing. Hard to imagine that he has been off the planet that long. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I...
View ArticleASAP-Always Say A Prayer
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."-Meister Eckhart What is prayer? Some might say that it is asking an outside male entity for a specific outcome as...
View ArticleInitiation Into Trust
My friend Kai Karrel came into my life in the past five or six years as a teacher of spiritual ideology that he puts into direct practice. He refers to himself as a...Read the full post here »The post...
View ArticleSpiritual Abuse
Recently I sat with a client in my practice who shared that she grew up in a fundamentalist church in which she was told that suffering was the way to experience God. Her life experience included...
View ArticleAn Easy Fast
Tonight is Erev Yom Kippur. In the Jewish tradition, holidays begin the evening prior at sunset and so the High Holy Day commenced this evening and concludes tomorrow night at sunset. In the interim,...
View ArticleDeer/Dear Ones
When I contemplated what to write for the Bliss Blog, I realized that there are so many things going on in the larger world, that my personal activities pale in comparison. Blazes devastating...
View ArticleIt’s Not Okay
I was having a conversation with a longtime friend who has been a student of A Course in Miracles likely since its inception. It is a three book series of material channeled through Helen Schucman and...
View ArticleAre You A Spiritual Gangster?
On Memorial Day, 2021, like many, I came out of self-solituding into a crowd celebrating the ability to gather following a year unlike any other most of us have lived. When the pandemic began, I...
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