February 2012

Higher Love

February 26, 2012

I’ve heard it told that fate is what befalls you and destiny is what you make of it.  When a friend of mine was abducted at knifepoint, her first reaction was to scream in terror. It was only when she thought of love for her daughter that the calm took over her heart. Her assailant […]

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Enter The Holy Land

February 13, 2012

The edge of her voice cracked and gave way to a stifled sob. This was cancer my sister was coping with, a cancer that had taken hold of her husband’s body. I held the other end of the phone line and folded on my knees in prayer. A strange quality of light that brought everything […]

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Déjà Vu in the Zen Garden

February 3, 2012

Some would say it was synchronicity. Others might even call the moment a miracle. A chance meeting between my cousin Jackie and Barbara took place a week before my arrival in south Florida. A glance between them across a neighborhood cafe seeded what soon would become a friendship shared with me.  It was a sweet serendipity […]

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