Veil Sale | A Twelvemonth of Self Love

Tears To You

Eva Lisle — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 23:54:41 +0000

It seems we all have bits of kryptonite embedded within ourselves that undo us, or one close to us in order that love may flow freely. Usually it is something we don’t like or appreciate about ourselves. My kryptonite is tears. Tears are how I release powerful feeling whether it is delight, anger, panic or appreciation of beauty. I eventually came to see my tears as Holy Spirit speaking to me…

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Facebook: Torment, Time-waster or Spiritual Practice?

Eva Lisle — Thu, 05 May 2016 22:08:57 +0000

A little over 10 years ago, none of us had even heard of Facebook, let alone imagined how it would come to impact our daily lives. My first introduction to Facebook was through my daughter Savannah who began her freshman year at CCA in Oakland, California in the Fall of 2005. I remember how excited she was about this “cool site for university students to connect”. I have no idea who told her…

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The “Artistic” Kid

Eva Lisle — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 21:59:00 +0000

April is Autism Awareness Month so I decided to share this brief story. Many years ago when my daughter was in early middle school she and a friend helped babysit children who came to a party we were hosting for our directors. The parents were on the property but since we have a pool and I wanted the parents to relax I hired Madison and her friend Kristin to look after the few children who were…

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Love: Fool’s Errand or Lion Tamer?

Eva Lisle — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:08:20 +0000

Two years ago today I began my adventure of a Twelvemonth of Self Love by extending love to my epic fears (one fear a month for twelve months) and blogging daily about my experience. I purposely began blogging on April Fool’s Day as I wasn’t yet totally sure that I wasn’t sending myself on a fool’s errand to see if Love really was enough to meet fear head on. It feels dramatic to say it changed…

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How Can Joy & Grief Live Side By Side?

Eva Lisle — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 16:52:22 +0000

As I began to take in the miracle of integration happening during the intensity of last year I sought daily guidance for living what felt completely and utterly impossible; daily wedding joys and deadlines coexisting with moment by moment prayer requests and updates from the bedside of my cousin’s son in (what we would learn were to be) his final days. This was intense joy intertwined with deep…

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12. Day 30: Joy, It Takes A Little Longer

Eva Lisle — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:50:04 +0000

“Today is a stepping stone in the discovery of who I am and what brings me joy.”——March 30 (from my daily affirmations calendar from Louise Hay, given to each of us at the Writers Conference last week). This quote is perfect for me as I finish up my Twelvemonth and actually not a bad way to look at each and every day now that I think about it. How lovely would it be to look at each new day…

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12. Day 25: A Crash Course In Feeling(s)

Eva Lisle — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:30:57 +0000

Feeling is another dimension. It is what is present underneath all that you are thinking, seeing, noticing. It is that animal of light that shines warmth on your belly and releases a thousand, thousand butterflies into your chest. This presence of “more” is a live currant running through every cell of your body, not just nerve endings in your fingertips and gut. Feeling can thrash you…

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12. Day 15: This Quiet Knows Me

Eva Lisle — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 12:58:51 +0000

I had a dear friend say to me the other day, “I am relentlessly happy. All the time now.” It was such a significant departure from the majority of her years dwelling (not living) in the pseudo safety of feeling nothing. It has been a long and revealing process, this unmasking of her true nature of happiness. For so long she didn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t feel happiness. Couldn’t recognize or trust…

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12. Day 10: The Real Shabby Chic

Eva Lisle — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:02:45 +0000

Years ago in one of the earliest spoof films called “Flying High” (maybe called “Airplane” in the USA) there was a character that throughout the film would be in various states of becoming stressed and disheveled and say “I picked a bad week to give up drinking/smoking/glue sniffing”. It just get getting crazier each time he showed up. I feel a lot like that with this month of extending love to…

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12. Day 7: A Kitchen Miracle

Eva Lisle — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 13:19:55 +0000

I discovered something about myself the other day; accidentally, in the middle of a conversation with my daughter. She was bemoaning my frustrating habit of talking in non sequators, ie, one thing that does not obviously follow another. I wasn’t trying to confuse, but I was. She wasn’t trying to be confused, but she was. There we were, rinsing the lunch dishes to put in the dishwasher…

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