by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 2, 2012 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
In the late 1990s there was a movie titled “Hope Floats.” Yes, hope can be buoyant. It can rise to the surface and remain no matter the waters. While I can identify with those “watery” qualities of hope, for me, hope doesn’t float. It sprouts. It grows. It sends...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 7, 2011 | Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Third grade music class. Our teacher asked us to share our musical talents. Only problem: I didn’t play any musical instrument. I didn’t dance (wait for it!). I “only” played soccer. Buuuuuut, it never entered my head that that was a...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 27, 2011 | Mindful Motherhood, Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Parenting with Compassion
Grapefruit. I started to softly cry over my grapefruit the other morning. Carefully cutting the outside circle of my grapefruit, I stopped. The memory of my mother so lovingly and thoroughly cutting my grapefruit for me as a girl flooded my mind and heart. Back...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 17, 2011 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
I love how insight comes at random times. There we were, my fellow mama friend and me working out at the Y, BY OURSELVES with no kiddos at 7:15 at night, moving our tushes on the elliptical trainer, talking about life, what we are wrestling with, letting go of, what...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 5, 2011 | Cultivating Compassion, Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Parenting with Compassion
After I picked up A. from preschool this afternoon, my little honey says, “Mom, ya know what?” Me: “What love?” A.: “I’ve got a thousand hearts in my heart.” Me: “That’s lovely, A.” A.: “Yeah. That...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 28, 2011 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
As Brian and I assess and discern some new possibilities in our life, I am finding that there is a growing awareness of and appreciation for the life we have. Often in the daily “doing” of our lives, day after day, it’s hard to see the “bigger...
