by Sarah Varga | Oct 3, 2016 | monday message
A beautiful poem about hope not only for the future, but for the past! Do you have hope for the future? Someone asked Robert Frost, toward the end. Yes, and even for the past, he replied, That it will turn out to have been all right For what it was, something we can...
by Candyl Eyster | Sep 26, 2016 | inspiration, monday message, Spiritual Care
I subscribe to the “Happiness” theme on a news app on my phone. It posts scholarly research about what types of lifestyle choices bring us happiness and which do not. These scholarly articles are joined by testimonials from people who are in hot pursuit of happiness,...
by Candyl Eyster | Sep 12, 2016 | monday message, monday motivation, Spiritual Care, spirituality
A woman named Candy Chang was feeling deeply sad after losing someone dear to her. To help her cope with her grief, she got permission to paint the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood in New Orleans with chalkboard paint. On it, she stenciled the beginning...
by Candyl Eyster | Aug 29, 2016 | blog, monday message, monday motivation
Denmark consistently ranks highly when it comes to happiness and satisfaction with life. One possible explanation for this record level of contentment is a word which characterizes something deeply embedded in their culture. The word is “Hygge” (pronounced...
by Candyl Eyster | Aug 22, 2016 | blog, monday message, monday motivation, Spiritual Care
Do people ever get on your nerves? Rub you the wrong way? Are there people who when you see them in the produce section at the grocery store you duck behind the Campbell’s Soup display? My parents used to have a funny phrase that they would use sometimes,...
by Candyl Eyster | Aug 15, 2016 | blog, monday message, monday motivation, Spiritual Care, spirituality
Simone Weil once wrote, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Truer words have never been spoken! What a precious gift it is when we give our loved ones, our colleagues, and the people we serve our undivided and unhurried attention. Let’s...
