The Cradle of Compassion Pt. 2
Picture a loving person putting a tired infant in a cradle. Or even being the “cradle” oneself and holding that baby in your arms. Imagine both how safe and rested the baby feels AND how restfully alive you feel, beholding and nurturing this little being....Tool # 2: The Pipe Cleaner of Creativity
The Tools of Good Living can be taught. Creativity, like Pipe Cleaners, is flexible, colourful, and cheap to come by. It also liberates you.
Tool # 3: The Bird Feeder of Grace
Grace. It is rather difficult to talk about Grace as a thing, a tool. Particularly as there is nothing transactional about Grace, and you can’t earn it or become undeserving of it. Grace what we exhibit when we choose to give others (or ourselves) the benefit...
Tool #4: The License Plate of Responsibility, pt. 1
What is a license plate but a tool for telling the world “Here I am. I’m covered. I’ll do my best, and if something goes south, I’m accountable”. This relates to our emotional, spiritual, and psychological worlds, too: We all carry...Tool #5: The Kleenex Wad of Resilience
Resiliance is not just taking the blow, but healing from it. And getting stronger because of it. Any athlete whose mom has shoved a wad of kleenex up her nose to stop a nose bleed in the middle of the game, knows this. The message: Avoid harm but keep a Kleenex ready, just-in-case.