Author Archive | gunilla

I can’t think of a better subject than gratitude for the month in which we celebrate Thanksgiving.  If the first thing I do upon waking is to say thank you, I will approach my day not with a long list of what I need to do (although that list certainly will be there), but I […]

We are always, always choosing even when we think we are not, for that, too, is a choice. In making an important decision I like to be aware of whether my mind is making the choice or if my heart is doing so. The mind likes to be clever and “with it”. My heart wants […]

Counting our blessings is always a good thing to do like counting sheep to fall asleep. BUT absorbing a blessing . . . now that’s dangerous and changes everything! What changes everything is my subject in September. Phrases posted on Facebook, September 2024. Here’s a dare for the month. Can I, can you, will I, […]

Neither more nor less is enough. How wonderful it is to recognize that enough becomes enough, my subject for the dog days of August. Phrases posted on Facebook, August 2024 We each have only so many days to enjoy. A time comes when having tried too long slows us down to the pace of grace, […]

Rest and wrest, two words that sound the same. One refreshes and assembles, the other separates. To wrest something from another something takes effort. Do we divide to conquer, or do we include and come to more wholeness? I’d like to mull this in July as we celebrate freedom on the fourth of July Phrases […]

I have a birdwatching friend who can locate and recognize a bird hidden in thick foliage just by hearing its song. Every bird has its own voice, its own song. So do we. “Our Song” is my summer subject. Phrases posted on Facebook, June 2024 No one can be you and you can’t be anyone […]

Change is always, always, always happening!! The “yet to be”is evolving even in our sleep. Sometimes I like to bless what is coming into my life before I know what it is. Call it a kind of inner hospitality. Phrases posted on Facebook May 2024 It doesn’t matter whether we engage with something of no […]

The blank page waits. So often I am faced with not knowing, waiting for an answer, something I can make a connection to. That word seems fitting for an April mull. Phrases posted on Facebook April 2024 Have you ever met a person for the first time and felt immediately connected? No second guessing, just […]

Here in New England, March is the month between winter and spring. You never know what you are going to get – sleet one day or a sunny warm day the next. This is just one situation where I have to be patient but there are many others. I imagine it is the same for […]

February is the month we celebrate love. That’s no mistake as it is the coldest time of the year at least in New England Love is probably everyone’s middle name. However it expresses itself in our lives it has companions like anger, loss, disquiet and pain. How could we learn to love in depth without […]