
Hello Envy, My Old Friend
By Rev Indira Grace This morning I awakened with some words ready to be said aloud. A few weeks before, I joined an online community and almost instantly became disturbed by the interactions I was witnessing. I had left once because “they were not my people,”...

Is it Love, or Is It a Cycle of Suffering?
By Indira Grace In 1973, Gary Chapman wrote the first edition of The Five Love Languages. I was two years old at the time, with no awareness of the relationships that would move in and through my life. Throughout the last 48 years, I saw the book on bookshelves...

Matters of the Heart: The Heart Knows What it Wants {Part Two}
By Indira Grace Emily Dickinson once wrote, “The heart wants what it wants-or else it does not care” in a letter to her friend Mary Bowles in the spring of 1862. Mary’s husband had gone away for a while and her friend, Emily, took some time to offer her...

Matters of the Heart: Making Decisions from a Place of Love {Part One}
By Indira Grace In Western culture, people are often made fun of for using their heart to solve a problem. We have given so much power to the brain, to thinking ourselves out of a problem, to a force and fear-based system for responding to life that many do not...

Gratitude for Laughter and Honey Buns
Dear Reader, I started this article a couple of times and realized that even I was getting sick of my need for deep and esoteric thoughts this week. Ideas were bouncing around in the “I am grateful for the shadow stuff and you can be too” realm. It is true....