Laura Smith Writer

Category: Nonfiction

  • Fighting with God: Round One

    God and I are fighting. Rather, I am throwing a temper tantrum and God is the target. When I am fighting with God I am forgetting all that I receive in a daily basis. I am not practicing gratitude. I still am ticked, and tired and scared, and I know that my Higher Power is…

  • Survival Means Forgetting God

    This is my brain, well, maybe it is a representation of my brain. Right there in the Pons and Medulla is where my primal instincts reside, instincts that have been firing lately, that have been literally kicking my butt. These instincts tell me to collect, to hold, to keep everything I have and not let…

  • New Years

    Happy New Year everyone. A few days ago we celebrated the beginning  of 2011  and the time of year when we set goals for the upcoming 365 days. One notices an increase in fellow folk at the gym and a decrease in the packs of cigarettes sold per day. For me however, a year is…

  • Plowing the Road to Happy Destiny

    Whenever one thinks of this journey we call life, one may always call to mind a reference to a road. After all we travel from destination to destination following paths laid down by people who came before us. We have all used this road metaphor. Seneca said, “It is a rough road that leads to…

  • Writer's Doubt

    Move over writer’s block, you I can handle, what is kicking my butt today is writer’s doubt, that little nagging sense in my brain that says: “are you sure you can do this?” I opened a much anticipated email the other day, only to read the words: “Although you were among many talented applicants, I…

  • "The Power of Intention"

    Recently Hay House sent “Daily Grace” a copy of The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way by Wayne Dyer. This edition of the 2004 book is beautifully illustrated by Jui Ishida. The website states, “Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has researched intention as a force in the universe that allows the act…

  • Just Do It

    I traveled to Brookline Massachusetts Sunday, 270 miles round trip to see one of my favorite speakers, Mike Dooley, author of Notes from the Universe. It was well worth the drive and Christ’s Church Unity welcomed me into their fold and made me feel part of the family. As I am not a big fan…

  • Life is just a big ole water balloon

    It is the middle of the semester, the research projects are piling up and the creatures that come out at night have decided to mess up my house. Well, maybe I just haven’t cleaned in a few days, or rather months. As this is my fifth semester at my present school, I have had a…