God’s Dictionary: Crowd

By on July 9, 2009 in Healthy Living


Crowd

cruden = to press

 

We’ve all heard the expression “two’s company, three’s a crowd.” But is it? I’m wondering more about how crowded our schedules have become, how crowded we all are with information, how crowded our too many yeses make our lives.

Sometimes I think I feel the most crowded when I’m in a group of people as well as the most lonely. How often do you sit in meetings where people are talking but not listening to one another? How often are you reaching for connection and finding that wherever you’re reaching isn’t available for connecting? How often are you pressed for time? All of these are about crowding.

The Middle English root of this word tell us all we need to know. To be crowded is to feel pressed. The step from pressed to pressured isn’t far. What to do? Ask: How can I express my need for pressure-free living today?

Infinition: I know that crowding is a function of too much in any area of my life. Today I press forward into the flow of life that is there for the living when I remember it.

 

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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood. 
 
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com 
 
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
 
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Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen. 
 
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.

Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz. 
 
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