spirituality
One of the first things that people started asking when I announced I’ll be getting married this summer was whether I plan to change my name. My last name, already, is hyphenated because my father took on my mother’s maiden name attached to his. Over the years it’s been a source of pride for me. I always that it was cool that my dad loved my mom so much that he didn’t want her to be the only one to change by getting married.
The truth is that faith in who we are and who we came into this life to be is the key component in creating the life you desire. And we can start at the basest level – ourselves. Self-care is the surest way I know to ensure our ability to have faith in our own magnificence. It is in expending the time and effort to create the highest vision of me that I can present to the world, every day, that I develop a sense of faith in myself and my capacity to be, do and have anything and everything I desire.
Many people struggle with the understanding of what they want to be when they grow…
By Andie Lyons As I sit down to write this, the third night of Hanukkah…
As I sit to write this, we are in the throws of the Christmas shopping season. My niece-in-law got up from our Thanksgiving gathering to catch the pre-Friday sales that are sadly becoming the new norm. We have Black Friday starting on Thursday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday to entice us to open our wallets to feed our need for products consumption before the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone.
As we turn to this season of holy days for several faith traditions, it strikes me that inherent in each one is the theme of journey. The faith traditions we share and celebrate with family and friends provide nostalgic memories of stories and scenes from years gone by and allow us to reenact the narratives of faith that have provided hope and meaning to generations of ancestors before us.
Your ‘you-ness’ is the thing that makes you, you. Your ‘-ness’ is the essence of everything that makes you truly amazing and wonderful. There are many things about us that are similar, yet even identical twins aren’t really identical. Everyone is unique and wonderful in her or his own way. Everyone has her or his own ‘-ness.’
