Three Intentions
for Soul-Inspired Living

To venture causes anxiety
but not to venture is to lose one’s self,
and to venture in the highest
is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.

~ Søren Kierkegaard ~

In July 2020, I published To Show Another Way: How to Learn, Heal, and Serve at a Time of Crisis on Planet Earth. I wrote this book to be a practical guidebook for this unique time of monumental transition on Planet Earth – a time when extreme chaos proliferates on personal, national, and international fronts.  Humanity – you, me, indeed, ALL of us – is being asked to “take the hand of tomorrow for the yesterday is no more.” 

The Yesterday Is No More

What does it mean – that “the yesterday is no more”? Our foothold in the past has given way, and we have stepped onto uncharted land.  Familiar, if outmoded, organizational structures and belief systems are collapsing around us as new ones emerge.  Our beloved planet calls on us to rescue it from extreme ecological and spiritual distress.  Conflicts arise between the old and new and the known and unknown.  We “take the hand of tomorrow” when we answer the call to adapt to these changes and develop new models of living on our planet before we do further harm to ourselves, others, and nature. 

Three intentions can show us another way to view the world at this time of planetary crisis and invite us to affect change with heart-centered commitment and in alignment with our Soul.

In one of the teachings in To Show Another Way, I share an experience I had while visiting Medjugorje, the village in Bosnia-Herzegovina where apparitions of the Virgin Mary first appeared in 1981 and where millions of people have since visited to receive the healing that pervades this sacred place.  My experience on this trip revealed three intentions that can show us another way to view the world at this time of planetary crisis and that invite us to affect change, not from a sense of panic or desperation that such crisis provokes, but rather with heart-centered commitment and in alignment with our Soul.

Three Intentions for a Time of Global Crisis 

I offer this teaching as guidance for the coming year and beyond: may its three intentions support us to show another way to ourselves and others to awaken to the potential within us that is uniquely available at this time.  As we awaken to and welcome the new phase of life on Earth that is struggling to be born, we can lead the way for humanity’s unprecedented evolutionary leap into a higher consciousness of peace, harmony, and joy.

Statue of Mary in a garden in Medjugorje

Awakening to Our Potential

(Chapter Six, Teaching Four from To Show Another Way:
How to Learn, Heal, and Serve at a Time of Crisis on Planet Earth)      

The chaos currently proliferating on personal, national, and international fronts in our world has transported me back to an experience I had in 1990 when twenty people joined me on my third pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a village in what was then Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. Six teenagers who lived there had been seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary since 1981. Although my first two visits to Medjugorje were filled with awe and peace, a sense of dread pervaded my third trip.

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