by Lisa McCrohan | Nov 12, 2014 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Belonging My Darling, how is it that you search for belonging like a poor beggar on hands and knees frantically scrounging the dirt floor for food? My Dear Heart, if you wish, I can continue to beg and scrounge alongside you, and we can keep bruising our hands and...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 20, 2014 | Cultivating Compassion, Nourishing Our Connections, Soulful Poetry
The Ache of Monday Morning by Lisa McCrohan I watch my husband and children hop into the car and drive off to school. I stand there on the front steps, barefoot in my pajamas feeling the cold cement underneath my feet, my empty hand still warm from the toast I ran out...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 8, 2014 | Cultivating Compassion
The other week, my husband and I actually went out to a nice restaurant to celebrate a friend’s birthday. We never really “go out.” But this time, we got a babysitter and found ourselves sitting at really nice Thai restaurant. There were several people there I...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 25, 2014 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
(Part 1 of 2) I remember walking into the cafeteria of my new school and it was like someone punched me in the stomach. I was in sixth grade. My family had just moved from Virginia to Ohio. At first, I attended the local Catholic school. Within the first two months, I...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 24, 2014 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe
She opened the sweetly wrapped gift from her sister, felt the soft leather between her fingers, and slowly read the words inscribed on the poetic wrist wrap. “What delights your heart?” It read. Four little words. Four seemingly simple words. Four powerful,...
