Tag: Forgiveness

In our lives, we often unknowingly harbor numerous grudges, nurturing pain within ourselves. These emotional burdens can make our journey through life less joyful. The great Lord Mahavir provided a profound solution to this state of mind — forgiveness. Forgiveness is a state of mind where a...

He stared at her for a while then questioned, “so by not learning from my mistakes, I will always be in need of forgiveness?” Image by Annelise Lords Because of the heat, I haven’t been able to walk much. Yesterday, I could. I sat watching the birds flying around with the...

For six months, I have been living on a coffee farm turned artist residency in the rolling Andean foothills of Colombia. Its 200-acres have provided the space and stillness to truly immerse myself in the language of the land. One observation in particular has stuck with me: guilt does not exist i...

Inthe fall of 2009, I stood at my stepmother’s hospital bed as she slowly died from late-stage breast cancer. I told her that I loved her and thanked her for being a grandmother to my two children. That was the last time I saw her. A few months later, I found out that she’d created a sec...