A stunning visitor appears out my window. Oh… yes. This is just one of my stunning visitors to my front landscape just outside my window. This cardinal feels like a, "sacred fire" set against winter’s stillness. His visit brings warmth and comfort to my heart. A messenger sent from a loved one in heaven. A symbol of encouragement, hope, steadiness, and dignity. A thread woven into our family's memory of how love continues. He is framed by the dark green branches of the evergreen as if...

Cross the bridge to breathing in peace and exhaling in gratitude. Have you ever sent a gift, written a heart-felt card, showed up for someone in need and not received a simple, "thank you?" I would guess at some point in your life, yes, would be the answer. How does that feel in your body, your heart, your mind? Do you begin to start a story of resentment, "Well, that's the last time I do something nice for someone!" "That so and so is so ungrateful!" I know that I have felt less than...

Lake Pepin at Dawn Inhaling peace and exhaling gratitude is a practice you can feel in your body. There is a lightness felt in your chest. Similar to how the dawn begins in your heart way before it breaks over the horizon. A steady breath has already settled in. This embodiment practice you feel gives your nervous system time to rearrange itself. You are learning a new rhythm. A rhythm to be the peace you want to see, feel, and know in this world and wrap that peace in gratitude....