Category: Women’s Corner

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.     ~Thomas Merton Yesterday (Monday) I racked my brain looking for something to write.  I found myself looking for a word or words that would stir up my heart and mind to be creative.  I found nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  So I decided […]

I have a copy of Aesop’s Fables that I treasure so.  I heard the stories as a child and mistook them for Palauan stories –  Eldecheduch el Chelidqq – like “A Beab ma Rekung…” (The Mouse and the Land Crab). When I was a child I had an imaginary friend. He was a very faithful […]

It’s impossible to learn that which one thinks they already know. – Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135). “Myth is a story, like parable, that speaks of Eternal Truth.” writes John Eldredge in his book WAKE THE DEAD.”  I met Dr Eldredge over 20 years. He changed the way I see God’s love for us. […]

(Life of Grace) Seek revenge and you should dig two graves. One for yourself.  ~Confucius I have come to see clearly that forgiveness is one of the most selfish act one can do.  Why I think this way? Because it is for my own good to forgive. I don’t forgive you for your well being.  […]

Jesus taught about empathy, but in a surprising way: In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you,  for this sums up the law and prophets. (Matthew 7:12). Quite remarkable teaching because he didn’t condemn our needs as selfish.  He used them as starting point for learning how to love. In […]