Here are my favorite excerpts from Don Miguel Ruiz’s chapter on the third agreement (in “The Four Agreements”): The whole world of control between humans is about making assumptions and taking things personally. Our whole dream of hell is based on that. … Because we are afraid to ask for clarification, we make assumptions, and…

NPR features a collection of inspiring essays in a series called “This I Believe.” On the plane ride to my college alma mater, Saint Mary’s College (across from Notre Dame), for my 15-year reunion, I read through some of the older essays now compiled in a book. As I ran around the lakes of Notre…

Interestingly enough, when I shared my essay with my editor (Beliefnet’s health editor) Holly, she said that she had written her own essay, as well. I was very moved by it. And thought you might be, too. In a way, our essays formed a circle: mine was about what happens when families break and all…

Dear God, In today’s reading (Matthew 9:36–1:8), Jesus talks about harvesters: Jesus said to his disciples: “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” I’m always intrigued by what you have to say about harvesters, God, because my name, “Theresa,”…

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