Joan Marie, the Gift's Page

Some madman comes into your home and kills your family. It obviously alters your very existence--your life will never be the same. The question: "Is forgiveness possible for you?"

Nearly 16 years ago, during the genocide that wracked Rwanda that is exactly what happened. Today the people within this country are doing just that---forgiving their perpetrators. The country is healing from their atrocities and both sides--the forgiven and the forgiver are living side by side, feeling the peace and… Continue

From the moment we are born into this world, we are in the process of what I’ll call “transition.” Transition in life is constant; and it guarantees that we will always be transforming throughout our lives — even in death. Remember that energy never dies — it transforms; this is how we as human beings “transition.” We change from one form to another…sometimes in more subtle ways with regard to personality, and in physical forms through growth and even weight loss. Nonetheless, all are forms of t… Continue

In perfect harmony… Remember that old jingle by Coke? Imagine if everyone sung in unison – we could all work and live in harmony in such a way that would be conductive in making

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Following the Olympics and the USA athletes, I was reading about Shani Davis and his desire to be the first man to win two speed-skating gold medals in the 1,000-meter race. He won by the way and did you know that he is basically his own Life Coach? He writes daily in his personal journal--outpouring his feelings about how he perceives his races---how he feels during his practices and he allows those feelings to help him

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Have you ever noticed that when opportunity arises, it’s never in “our time”? Rather, it comes at sometimes the most “inopportune” times – meaning that we’re often not prepared to receive it and use it to our advantage.





Here’s a great example: An individual I know (we’ll call him Dan) had a fairly-good career, but he was pining to move to another part of the country to be near the rest of his family. Dan had begun submitting resumes to different employers for a couple of months,… Continue