by Mary Toland Shaw | Oct 21, 2023 | Musings, Sacred Relationship Reflections
“Your life belongs to what you have awakened to.” ― John de Ruiter When I was a very little child, my parents had a beautiful ritual of tucking us into bed every night with stories, poems, prayers, and songs. One of my favorites was from my daddy, when he would sing...
by Mary Toland Shaw | Jul 21, 2023 | Musings, Sacred Relationship Reflections
“Heaven is under our feet and over our heads” ~ Henry David Thoreau A few times in our lives we find ourselves at a location that somehow connects the earthly landscape to something much greater – sublime moments that grab our attention and hold us in their grip. I...
by Mary Toland Shaw | Apr 28, 2023 | Musings, Sacred Relationship Reflections
“The ache for home lives in all of us” ~ Maya Angelou Even as young children, growing up viewing the movie the Wizard of Oz, we ingest into our beings the belief that “there’s no place like home.” Yet, we all may have a different idea or sentiment that comes to mind...
by Mary Toland Shaw | Oct 7, 2022 | Musings, Sacred Relationship Reflections
“Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they’re all individuals and they’re all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.” ~ Carey Mulligan Today, as I’m...
by Mary Toland Shaw | Sep 23, 2022 | Musings, Sacred Relationship Reflections
Have you ever felt a restlessness, a hollowness – sort of a disturbing emptiness within you? For me, it didn’t happen all at once; it had been very quietly building within me for a decade and hit a crescendo by my mid-fifties. In the beginning, I suppressed the...
by Mary Toland Shaw | Sep 9, 2022 | Musings, Sacred Relationship Reflections
“Avoid worrying about anything for your children except whatever may contribute to bringing them up virtuously. For the rest, having entrusted them to God, try to see what His will for them is, to help them along the path in life He has chosen for them. Seek always to...
