by Kate | Jan 24, 2017 | Forgiveness, kind promises, meditation
Why even have a kind promise about forgiveness? Forgiveness is about letting go of the stories. The stories about what you did or who you are, what I did or who I am that mean we cannot imagine ourselves enough and we cannot risk opening to each other. This is not...
by Kate | Jan 18, 2017 | Chronic healing, chronic illness, Forgiveness
I can no longer feed myself. It is as if my arm has weights on it. It’s difficult to lift my hand as high as my mouth, especially if I’m holding a spoon full of food. The adjustments your hand makes in order to get a spoon full of food into your mouth are miraculous!...
by Kate | Jan 10, 2017 | Forgiveness, kind promises
Without meaning to, I plunge myself into the muck of judgment. I suddenly find myself believing that there is a bad person in the room. Sometimes, I believe it’s me. Sometimes, I think it’s you. In that moment, I want to “forgive with wild abandon.” The truth is,...
by Kate | Jan 3, 2017 | Forgiveness, kind promises
I am reminding myself of my kind promise “to forgive with wild abandon.” I grew up with an idea that Right and Wrong were absolutes. Doing wrong required begging forgiveness and being wronged required giving forgiveness. As I have aged, I have softened. My ideas of...
by Kate | Jun 7, 2016 | Forgiveness, Generosity
Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy’s “Ripple of Hope” speech, given at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He said: “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth...
by Kate | Nov 24, 2015 | chronic illness, Disability, Forgiveness, Uncategorized
Home from the hospital, Big Emotions assail me. I cannot do what I once did. I grieve the loss. I rage over the loss. What to do with this grief? What to do with this rage? When I was young, I would have pretended they didn’t exist. I was raised to believe a sign of...