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Crow. Daily reflection March 24.

Step three is that deepening practice of awareness and acceptance, of taking life as it comes to you, and accepting yourself as you are.  Listening to that boy the other day, I was reminded of how hard that acceptance can be.  How hard our lives are. It is possible for me to fall into disillusionment …

March 24, 2012 – 12:16 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Gifted, daily reflection March 5

A long time ago, I wrote I am not given to be wife, nor mother.  Yet I am given. I’m beginning to wonder what exactly I meant. I think the practice of step three has not only to do with acceptance, but with figuring out exactly what it is we’re working with.  This has to …

March 5, 2012 – 12:11 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Beginnings, Ending. daily reflection January 18

If in the course of time I remember this winter, I will remember it as the year of deep snow.  I live in Minnesota, a cold, winter place by anyone’s standards.  This year in particular, there has been snow.  It banks up over small houses and eats streets.  They began recording snowfall just over a …

January 18, 2012 – 12:00 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Blessings of Silence, January 8

Learning to pull oneself present, to accept each moment fully, to cultivate silence, isn’t easy.  Our minds beg off in a thousand directions.  The world with its bells calls us.  But it becomes easier as we learn it isn’t a skill.  It isn’t a place to be reached, once, or a thing to be mastered.  It’s simply …

January 8, 2012 – 6:16 pm | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)