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 | 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 | 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...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 22, 2011 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
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 | Jul 20, 2011 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
I found myself bothered by something the other day. I was frustrated with Brian and my son, though they weren’t “the problem.” When I had some alone time I immediately went into “figure it out” mode. You may be familiar with this mode – the one where you dissect and...
by Lisa McCrohan | Mar 7, 2011 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
Lent starts up this Wednesday. For us Christian/Catholic folks that usually means we ask the classic Lenten question: “What are you giving up for Lent?!” We say things like our beloved indulgent “chocolate” or our social lifesaver...
