WHY MARRIAGE? ~ By: Mari Nichols-Haining ~ Because to the depths of me, I long to love one person, With all my heart, my soul, my mind, my body… Because I need a forever friend to trust with the intimacies of me, Who won’t hold them against me, Who loves me when I’m unlikable, Who sees the small child in me, and Who looks for the divine potential of me… …
As many of you know (or may have guessed), part of what I’ve been up to, during my year-long hiatus from writing, is exploring Christianity. There is SO much to share with you about this journey but, in the interest of time… for this post, at least, I’ll just cut to the chase: I am Christian. To be clear… I define this as a FAITH, not a religion. There’s …
Truth is Poetry. It resonates with a stillness that captivates the heart and soothes the soul. I keep hoping that the time I set aside to write this blog each week isn’t used up by other, more urgent things… that is to say, that I can write the way I like to write. Under the conditions which I prefer to write. Where I am writing according to a pre-determined schedule …
Dear friends and followers… I am so grateful for those of you who have found my blog and my corresponding posts to be helpful, entertaining or inspiring over the past several years. As the title of my blog indicates, what is enclosed herein is, in fact, a documentation of my personal ‘Process Of Illumination’ and, therefore, I feel it’s important to let you know that I’ve experienced a very significant …
