Amy Secrist

Tag: understanding

  • You Are Nature & Standing in the Midst

    You Are Nature & Standing in the Midst

    Look at your hands. They are blossoms, your fingers, petals. Look at your feet. They, too, open and close, your toes, each one, precious petalsit doesn’t matter they curved, crooked and callusedwhen the magic happened inside of you,the energetic core of youthe magic always happening. Look at you. You are the interstices of love and…

  • Practice in Virtues, Catholic and Yogic

    As we continue to move through this season of anticipation here at the Catholic Yogi, the second week of Advent found our family practicing Understanding, and now, in the third week, the week of rejoicing, we are practicing Kindness.  As the weeks pass, much to my children’s dismay, we can’t happily throw out the patience…

  • A Mother’s Prayer for Tenderness

    Lord, help me; may I be understanding instead of judgmental; may I be kind instead of quick: may I be compassionate instead of angry, and may I always remember we are in this together. Amen.