I was sitting at an Iftar, and confessing to a friend that I did not fast again this year, due to health reasons or were…
The message behind the words is the voice of the heart - Rumi
Category: Inner Peace
Ramadan 1445 started tonight with the first taraweeh prayer. For those of us in grief about the prolonged and barbaric violence against the Palestinians in…
Accept, Endure, Embrace, Heal, Pray On my to do list was to talk to a locksmith to get a key for the door to our…
In one of my previous blogs- Gifts of Adversity – I talked about how exciting it is to have the opportunity to use adversity to go…
Painting by Sliman Mansour, Palestinian Artist and Sculptor Last year, we — meaning our community- completed 2022 on a very sad note as a dear…
I am in my third month of being confined inside due to a severe ankle/leg injury and surgery. It took me a while to accept…
Conflict is like lightning. It strikes suddenly and briefly and lights up the dark, making hidden things visible. In human relationships, it casts a light…
Today we mark the middle of Ramadan. As we all go through the new schedule of eating and sleeping of Ramadan, we slow down and…
Whenever I seek inner peace, which I think is a basic human need, I go inward and silence the signals from the outer material world.…
I was riding in the car with my grandson to our granddaughter 7th birthday, and he said I am older than 9 years, as I…