Posts Tagged Under Pray
Movie Review: Eat, Pray, Love
I loved Elizabeth Gilbert’s book about her adventurous journey to Italy, India, and Bali to discover herself and God, while seeking escape from a suburban life with her husband.
My son was a few years old when I read “Eat, Pray, Love.” Some days the travel bug hit so hard I would find myself with my hand on my heart, nearly gasping for breath as I pushed him on the swing in our fenced-in backyard. I wanted to sell the house so I could travel the globe with my family. And visit an ashram.
In addition to traveling and eating the world’s best pizza, Gilbert was earnestly fumbling toward finding a sustainable spiritual connection. One of my favorite passages in the book was when she finally broke through her inability to meditate and basically experienced what it was like to be in the hand of God. Continue… »
The Tao of Family Vacations
I can’t imagine a better place to spend my 43rd birthday than Kauai.
I warned my daughter and husband that this was to be a quiet, contemplative trip full of reading, meditation and healthy eating. Mostly because I had been sick with a sinus infection for way too long — and because I had just re-read “Eat Pray Love” and “A New Earth.” I wanted that kind of mind-altering transcendence but I was going to do it on a family vacation right next to the kiddy pool.
Soon after arriving at a Kauai condo, I was unlucky enough to trip and drop an unused compact, shattering the mirror. Thankfully, my daughter Savannah was out at the pool with her Dad and not at my side where she customarily resides. If it weren’t for my unfortunate bout of gastro-intestinal rebellion after the myriad of homeopathic remedies I had been imbibing, she could very well have been hit with a shard of glass.
Lucky. Continue… »
By Robyn Murphy
