Pilgrim, Where Are You Walking?
Not everyone has a friend walking the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James, mostly in Spain). Read my friend Nicole’s blog within the next few days, however, and you will. Let her struggle and achievements help you see your own. Nourish yourself from her journey inner and outer, and her moving photographs. Then ...
Crowdsourced Post #2: Is Patience Truly its Own Reward? Can We Expect Others?
I have learned, at 52, that building the Beloved Community requires patience. I am willing to believe “patience is its own reward.” Two questions: Is this all we can expect from patience? (Does asking this, especially without counting it, make me impatient?) Is patience truly respected when patients so seldom are? NOTE: This is the ...
Crowdsourced Post #1: Is It Workaholism if All Your Work Feels Like Play?
Introduction to these posts This is the first post in a series I hope will be crowdsourced. (Here is the second post in the series. Here is the third.) They are deliberately short on my end to encourage reflection on your end, sent as a Comment to the post. I have got to a place ...
Forgiveness, Freedom, and Fun Learning I Am in the Wrong
It’s a very good day when I learn so well I am in the wrong. This post is dedicated to D, with whom I opened this earlier post. D is a dancer. I honor her in this post with this stunning simple illustration of Loie Fuller doing her “Serpentine Dance.” I know it’s late and ...
Illness and Earning Power: Birth = Worth Interview now Published!
Dudes! Here is an amazing piece of work–a conversation about our intrinsic value, our real worth. Joan Friedlander and I talked last week with lovely guests present on her Lifework Chat teleconference. Joan has just beautifully edited the teleconference and created a blog post presenting it for all of us who like it in print ...
So What?: Action
Well, ok, I’m still alive after witnessing to you about this ascension experience, I guess you could call it. It feels so arrogant and wonderfully freeing to align myself with the Christ: THIS IS THE LOVE I CLAIM. AND OFFER. One reader has asked me why I felt the need to witness: Wanting to embody ...
Thank Yous
We received this handwritten thank-you card recently*: Dear Beth, Thank you so much for your time and for sharing your wisdom about fundraising and how it relates to spiritual practice. Everything you said makes a lot of sense and validates what I have been thinking. Thank you also for the validation you offered for my ...
Are You What You Earn? Live Talk this Wednesday 4/17, noon-1 EDT
RAISING CLARITY is honored to be interviewed by Business from Bed author Joan Friedlander this Wednesday, April 17 from noon to 1pm Eastern. Click here to sign up. (And I was s0 impressed by the email you get when you sign up that I totally wanted to think of challenging questions to ask myself, which ...
Telling What I Know: The Christ Within
I have really good news and it’s harder to tell than bad news: the Christ within is real. It happened on that retreat I wrote you about. My retreat was serving for ten days in the kitchen of a Sufi teaching center: sleeping, cooking, washing dishes, laying the table all over again. It had arisen ...
Living Wage Lending
Soul-colleague Mattie Reitman makes loans out of his garage (to paraphrase the Mitt Romney quote at the bottom of his home page at Living Wage Lending). Never mind Mitt Romney. How about a quote from a satisfied lendee to give you a taste of Mattie’s specialty: Mattie loaned me approximately $3,000 to pay off ...
