Author: Margie Cole

( Reminder! Please click on green header to comfortably read these blog posts.) Dear TSJ Friends, Greetings to one and all!  I wonder  (as I write to you) how your week is going. I always hope something about mine will stir up something useful for you in your week. So this week I have been excitedly planning for our new gas fireplace to be installed. As you can see from the picture, it is certainly a fireplace in process.  And the mess reminds me of so many things in life – both internally and experientially. However, magnificent creations often come

(Remember to click on the green header for a readable format on your cell  phones) Dear TSJ Friends, Have you ever really needed a restroom so badly that is all you can think about?   Now that is real focus.   When things pile up inside us it can also become a crisis.   For example, you may be in a concert – smack in the middle of the row – or you may be in a quiet museum on the top floor and the restroom is in the basement.  Or how about in a traffic jam?  You suddenly feel

Dear TSJ Friends and Encouragers, Have you ever misplaced your keys?  Have you learned that it is always in the last place you looked that you found them?  Mr. John loves to playfully remind me that you will always find them in the last place you look!  Of course – because you don’t have to keep on looking after you find them! Today over my cup of tea, I am reflecting on where and how do we seek and find harmony when we feel it is lost or temporarily misplaced in our lives? Sometimes the search itself is important.  It is amazing

(Remember to tap on the green header for easier reading on mobile devices!) Dear TSJ Friends, I am filled with enthusiasm this week for being part of so many of your journeys. Your emails, your texts and coaching chats here at TSJ headquarters inspire and convince me that each of us lives with a constant awareness of the difference between who we want to be and who we are at the moment. How disturbing or discouraging that gap can be between what we want to be and what we actually feel right now. We frequently feel out of harmony. Yet

  (Reading this on your phone? Click on the green header for a readable format!)  Dear TSJ Friends, In last week’s WW blog I promised you there is always, always hope.  And I believe that.  Yet sometimes it seems elusive.  Just when you think you have found it, more bad “stuff” happens.  You feel you apparently looked for hope behind the wrong tree. It seems that happiness really needs hope and the less happiness we have the harder it is to find hope. Both can be quite elusive and hidden from view in tough situations. They play hard to find

Warm Greetings to our TSJ “Peeps,” What makes change so hard? I learned this week about a force called Resistance. Today’s blog was inspired by the fact that I recently read some of my older personal journals. I was startled and discouraged at first by how many things I still say and fret over that I journaled about eight years ago! The bad news seemed clear –  old patterns seem to cling to us like plastic wrap sticks to itself.  The good news is there is always, always hope.  How about you?  Are you the parent, teacher or success you always dreamed of?  Do

(Remember to click on the path if you are reading this on your smart phones as it will bring up an easier format to read!) Dear TSJ Friends, I am really trying to adopt a healthy attitude about mistakes.  And that is to remember that to live is to learn and there is often a nugget of wisdom we gain from our mistakes.  There are messages that come out of our messes in life if we are open to seeing them through the lens of love versus the lens of fear and negativity. Today’s Story:  His Eye is on the

Please remember to click on the green header (the trees) to read this easily on you phones.  Dear TSJ Friends, Perhaps you read my last blog that talks about me getting inspired and renewed recently when I heard a minister tell a story of when Jesus told his weary disciples to feed the crowd of thousands. The disciples resisted  – not out of unkindness, but out of overwhelm because there were so many people to feed and what they had available was meager at best. When they protested, Jesus basically asked, “What do you have?”  (And in the material world’s

Happy Wednesday, Dear TSJ Friends, Today I want to share a short and recent story from the pages of my own spiritual journey.  Perhaps some of it may resonate with you too. With that in mind, I have been thinking once again about how attached we often are to the three letter word “but” and how that little word can cloud our perceptions, prevent great things from being created and cast shadows of egregious doubts and fears that block the light we can shine in our world.  Now, rest assured I do realize, of course, when “but” follow a negative