Posted March 8, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Hallelujah!

Her friend, still hospitalized with complications following back surgery two weeks ago, was very much on her mind as she was getting out of her car to run into Dollar Tree. The song Hallelujah was being played in the parking lot. She had just texted the K.D. Lang version to her friend a couple of […]

Posted March 4, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Marquette

Her sister and brother-in-love had been planning a move from their hometown to the upper peninsula of Michigan, where their youngest grandchildren were. She wanted her sister to be where she needed to be, but to be honest, in her heart a move to Marquette for them felt like loss. Significant relief came when they […]

Posted February 28, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Missing Ear Bud

Finishing her meditation, she popped her wireless ear buds into the charger case, snapped the lid closed, and set it on the bedside table until she got up and plugged it into her computer. Late that evening as she was readying for bed, she put the charger case back on the bedside table so it […]

Posted February 14, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Two Male Cardinals

She and her husband did a ridge hike close to Tucson, Arizona while they were wintering in the Western United States from their home in Western Canada. Her husband doesn’t do heights very well, and he leaned over to one side for many hours as they tackled their big hike.

Eventually, they got to […]

Posted February 14, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Flowers from Friends

After several years of leaving her own home and traveling to a nearby state to provide support — and then care — for her centenarian father, he had recently passed and now now she was executor of his estate.

She writes: “I had just opened the day’s mail which brought a flood of medical […]

Posted February 7, 2024 in Sacred Stories

God's Message in My Boot!

(Reposted from Facebook with permission from Shana.)

During my prayer time this morning, I prayed about a situation I was wrestling to get my mind around. The situation wasn’t news to God. I am pretty sure God was probably like, “Yes, Shana, I get it; we’ve talked about this before.”

Then, as I […]

Posted February 7, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Business Plan - Jaxx

They were text chatting about mindfulness and Buddhism, and the mind states of greed, when he told her he was starting a real estate business, with the name Jaxx in it.

She sent some information about the Buddhist practice of Muditā, a dharmic concept of joy, particularly an especially sympathetic or vicarious joy—the pleasure […]

Posted January 25, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Mary’s Magnificence

She got flowers for a chanting session for their dear friend, Mary, who was on hospice care and very near the end of her life. After Mary retired, she had worked with community based organizations helping seniors deal with issues surrounding death and dying.

That chanting session had been six weeks and 3 days […]

Posted January 24, 2024 in Sacred Stories

Game On!

Her husband absolutely loved watching sports on TV and he ALWAYS had on one game or another.

After he died, the TV would come on in the middle of the night.

Their TV set was old and it would just be static and white noise so she got rid of it!!! (I found this […]

Posted January 24, 2024 in Sacred Stories

They Stay

Making preparations for the interment of his ashes that would take place two days after his birthday — on the one year anniversary of his death — she was having a particularly difficult day. It was the first time in 39 years she did not celebrate his birthday with him.

She was talking to […]