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What’s In Your Spiritual Toolbox?

What’s in your Spiritual Toolbox?

  • May 14, 2019
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Balance and Integration, Books, Gratitude, Paying it Forward, Resilience, self care, Uncategorized

When the first signs of green mold emerged on the railing of my deck, I grabbed a scrub bucket and sponge.  Two days of scrub, rinse, repeat convinced me there must be a better way. Enter the power washer, my…

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Prayer Shawls

Prayer shawls

  • November 8, 2016
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Paying it Forward, sacred ground

Gert wasn’t a fancy knitter. When her cancer returned, I brought her a prayer shawl. Sometime during her final illness, she decided to knit a prayer shawl for someone else. Nothing fancy, a simple rectangle in a nubby brown yarn.…

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Contemplation And Action:  Who Is My Neighbor?

Contemplation and action: who is my neighbor?

  • August 16, 2016
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Community Support, Helping Others, Paying it Forward, Transformation

Humor me. It’s an old story and you’ve heard it a thousand times. Jesus has just finished telling his followers “You must love your God with all your heart, with all your soul, all your strength and all your mind…

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Peer Leaders

Peer leaders

  • March 21, 2016
  • Steve Schewe
  • Paying it Forward, Resilience

Last week, the PBS Newshour featured an essay by educator Keith Frome.  Frome believes that the best way to get more kids to apply to college is peer pressure.  He’s developed a unique way of helping kids from low-income communities…

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Standing On The Shoulders Of Saints

Standing on the Shoulders of Saints

  • November 10, 2015
  • Beryl Schewe
  • From Grief to Grace, Gratitude, Paying it Forward, RAK

I picked apples last weekend. You wouldn’t think one apple tree could possibly be so prolific, but my kitchen tells another story. I’ve made applesauce, apple pies, fruit leather, and apple crumble. We’ve eaten apples with caramel, and apples with…

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An Integrated Life

An Integrated Life

  • September 22, 2015
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Balance and Integration, Paying it Forward, Resilience

Our plan to explore Lake Superior involved renting a motor boat. How hard could that be? We figured Fred had pulled plenty of ski boats, and Sarah and Lisa had kayaked extensively.  Besides, I’d taught water aerobics for years, so…

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Author, Speaker, Columnist, Advocate. Beryl Schewe works with faith groups, healthcare professionals and the bereaved to explore strengthening resilience through grief work. ... Read more.
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