When you consider the hardships of your life, the obstacles before you, the pain you are experiencing or the resources that are needed, what is most difficult?  Is the hardest part in your past, what has already happened or led up to this point?  Or, is the scariest part related to what is happening right now?  Chances are, the greatest…

I have gone to one spot on a number of spiritual retreats for more than ten years.  While there I have spent significant amounts of time looking at a wonderful old tree.  I have watched it change through the seasons, each season highlighting different colors and aspects of this great and familiar tree.…