by Lisa McCrohan | Jun 6, 2012 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
A few times a year, our church weaves into the mass a time of “anointing the sick.” Anyone who is hurting, in any way, is invited to come forward. The priest and deacon take their time. They lay their hands on the person’s head and they anoint the...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jun 5, 2012 | Soulful Poetry
Sacred Softening My body knows has always known my way back to God. I dance moving in slow sensual swirls under the vastness of a moon-lit night swaying until stillness fills every cell and there are no hard edges striving, panting, thinking only breath and heart....
by Lisa McCrohan | May 31, 2012 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
Ever since I can remember, I had been scared of my parents dying. My dad remembers when I was in middle school and we were traveling with my soccer team to a tournament in North Carolina. My dad was getting dressed and I saw gray hair on his chest (he was all of 40...
by Lisa McCrohan | May 28, 2012 | Cultivating Compassion, Parenting with Compassion
I have no picture. I didn’t want to take one. There is one already etched in my mind. The other evening, we were all packed up in the minivan and off to our friend’s house for a lovely evening to be had. We parked. We started to get out. Then we...
by Lisa McCrohan | May 24, 2012 | Cultivating Compassion, Parenting with Compassion
Today, on my way to work, winding around the beautiful Cabin John parkway in DC, next to the Potomac River, at 6:30 in the morning, I saw a huge turtle trying to cross the road. I let out a gasp. Then I quickly looked around to see if there was a place to pull off. Of...
