by Kelly Buckley | Aug 16, 2016 | Gratitude
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ~George Bernard Shaw~ What’s got my attention today? My garden. It is one of my most favorite things. It is not a sweeping landscape or a professionally groomed masterpiece that could grace...
by Kelly Buckley | Jul 31, 2016 | Grief
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to...
by Kelly Buckley | Jul 27, 2016 | Gratitude
As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their...
by Kelly Buckley | Jul 20, 2016 | Gratitude
Progress is impossible without change. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ If you are part of the JOLT family, you know that our Wednesday thought of the day asks “What Can YOU Do” to help another....
by Kelly Buckley | Jun 30, 2016 | Grief
I’ve been revisiting some of my writing over the past number of weeks. I find that it is helpful and grounding to return to your starting place. It can help you renew your motivation and purpose, explore if it still rings true for you, celebrate how much...
by Kelly Buckley | Jun 14, 2016 | Unity
I know I’m not alone. Sunday’s news from Orlando just gutted me. I feel numb. I am feel angry. I am just pissed off about some of the exhausting social media rhetoric that has been trending for the past 48 hours. But mostly, I just feel saddened....
by Kelly Buckley | Jun 1, 2016 | Hope
Each time I perform an act of kindness, a part of me heals. ~Lupi Ngcayisa~ Rough on one side and smooth on the other…just like the balance of life. Place it in your hand, resting between your thumb and index finger and hold it…let it remind you that there...
by Kelly Buckley | Apr 4, 2016 | Hope
April is National Poetry Month. Poetry has played such an important role in telling the story of humanity. It illuminates the commonality of our human experience, connecting us through the power of words. To celebrate, I want to share one of the poems that has shaped...
by Kelly Buckley | Feb 25, 2016 | Hope
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ~ Nelson Mandela ~ Rough on one side and smooth on the other…just like life....
by Kelly Buckley | Feb 2, 2016 | Hope
Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? ~Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton~ Well Happy Groundhog Day! This is the day each year that we gaze towards a nervous rodent in a hole to predict the future....
