The 4 Essential Essence of Hope & Resilience

Sharon Campbell-RaymentInspiration

Hi my friends! I’m sorry I have been MIA. As you know Doug and I have moved which has been a huge change for us. To be honest, I have experienced a great deal of anxiety with the move, complicated by an inability to find a call, a wee health challenge, and the loss of a beloved friend. The Big …

Don’t Just Survive – Thrive!

Sharon Campbell-RaymentInspiration

4 Characteristics to Thrive Rather than just Survive First, joy is essential! There is more than enough struggle and challenges that we face so let’s pause at least once a day to give thanks and to feel joy. Did you know that if you do this often enough throughout your day that you will rewire the mind for joy? And …

Being Present

Sharon Campbell-RaymentInspiration

God is our Source Life, Love, & Being Allowing us to Be Grounded, to Be Present, to Be Love. I’ll be honest, I cannot tell you who God is or what God is. No one can really do that. Our human language is woefully inadequate to describe God, and the human mind does not have the capacity to fully grasp …

Connecting by Heart

Sharon Campbell-RaymentInspiration

Richard Wagamese in “Embers” writes: Me: What is the point of prayer and meditation? Old Woman: To bring you closer to the Great Mystery. Me: So I can understand it? Old Woman: No. So you can participate in it. Rather than just trying to quiet the mind and create inner silence in the case of meditation, prayer has an aspect …

The Sacred Pause of Possibility

Sharon Campbell-RaymentInspiration

This is a second part to my writing a week ago when I wrote re: Viktor Frankl and the pause to choose. What I call the “Sacred Pause of Possibility”. Viktor Frankl and Dr. Edith Eger share with us the wisdom to choose to hesitate before we answer, pause before we react, enter within to find that peace that Paul …

Choose Hope

Sharon Campbell-RaymentInspiration

  Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. —Viktor Frankl I wanted to share this with you from the writings of the Center for Action and Contemplative Center with Richard Rohr. Viktor Frankl shares the one thing that even under …