by LorraineSegal | Jul 15, 2015
photo credit: via photopin (license) I had a short lived fight with my wife, Linda, recently that I actually feel good about, because it shows the positive results of my ( and her) long hard work on forgiveness. The situation: It was Wednesday, when my wife does the...
by LorraineSegal | Jun 15, 2015
=Can you forgive and accept the whole world? Several months ago, I began a daily practice of using affirmations from a Course in Miracles workbook. One of the affirmations was, “I forgive the world.” When I read this, tears came to my eyes and I felt deep relief. I...
by LorraineSegal | Apr 5, 2015
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.–Ralph Waldo Emerson We have a choice Perhaps my biggest learning on my own journey to healing and recovery is that I have a choice at any moment, to continue to stand in a...
by LorraineSegal | Dec 27, 2013
The Light Returns! All our ancestors, from whatever spiritual or religious tradition, had some kind of celebration at this time of year to honor the return of the light. In the far past, they watched the days getting shorter and shorter, the nights longer and longer,...
by LorraineSegal | Apr 16, 2013
I read recently about a beautiful example of forgiveness for a wrong that happened 50 years before. Elwin Wilson had been a white supremacist, and one of the mob who, in 1961, severely beat up Freedom Riders demonstrating for integration and African Americans’...