Thom Stecher and Associates is dedicated to assisting schools, educators and students in achieving their highest level of potential. We strive to foster open relationships where the sharing of ideas, philosophy, knowledge, beliefs, values and passion is channeled into creating constructive solutions. We aim to build healthy communities where we grow as instruments for positive change.
The power of unconditional love is transformational. Love is the Divine spirit that calls us to greater awareness. Human transformation is an incremental journey. Prayer by prayer, we move beyond our old beliefs of you and me to the we of highest good.
The journey of love begins in the opening of our hearts. Our hearts are broken open by the bittersweet transformations of life.
Our resistance softens and we see new possibilities. Our thoughts see the glass half full. Our hearts sing the song of commitment and love.
We surrender to God's will and compassion for all. Let us soak our fears in unconditional love and feel the grace of God. Breath in spirit and flow with infinite creativity.
We are the beloved. Allow our transformation to be the spirit at work in building a loving community for everyone.
Divine unconditional loving energy moves through all life. This universal energy is the creative force that creates life, plants, winds, rocks, streams, and you and me.
We can not be separated from this energy. It moves through us like an artist weaving love. This love connects all of us. We are connected to the stars, the moon, the sun, and each other.
Allow yourself to be aware that you are a part of this love. Know that you are a particle of this unconditional loving Divine light.
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
- Albert Einstein
I have faith that our shared challenges will find a resolution. We must continue to be willing to work together to discover the solution. Our faith and spiritual practice expands our commitment. We increase our empathy, compassion, courage, resilience, and love.
We stand together in faith and community.
For many of us, our hearts hurt. We see and hear so much hate, so much violence. We see and hear it on the streets, in the news, and from our supposed leaders. We are grieving. We are grieving the dream of democracy in need of intensive care. From our neighborhoods to our world, we see pain and tragedy.
We may want to hide, bury our heads in our hands and weep. Then weep if you must and rise again. Rise again as you have done time and time again throughout your life. Resilience is your identity.
So today, take a step out into the chaos. Your love and positivity will make a difference. Be engaged to your level of comfort. Take small steps. Connect with a friend, call a loved one, support a child, thank a teacher, take a walk in nature, take a bath, or go for a swim. Your compassion, empathy, prayers, mindfulness, and hope all make a difference. There are no small actions.
Be gentle with yourself and others. Love is our healing power. Ask, as Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz’s did, “what is being asked of me?” Follow the calling.
Send love, speak love, be love.
Within the deepest silence of the heavens, the angels whisper your name.
You are called.
You are a part of all that is possible in our world. The Divinity that breathes life into everything, breathes through you. You are the answer you have been waiting for. Believe in the gift that you are. You are the truth that you want to know. You are part of unconditional love.
Believe!
Fear is our only adversary. The challenges of life are not your adversary. Those of a different color are not your adversary. Those is a different faith are not your adversary. Those who speak a different language are not your adversary. Those who are immigrants are not your adversary. Those who are LGBTQ are not your adversary. Fear is your only adversary. Fear reduces God’s plan for your joy and love.
Ask yourself whenever you feel anger, which is really fear, does this feeling bring me growth or does it diminish me?
We all feel fear. There is no judgement in feeling afraid. We must feel our fear and move forward. The joy, purpose, and fulfillment of our lives will be found in our ability to conquer the walls of fear.
The quality of our truth and integrity has a specific connection to how much we value everyone and everything.
The essential skill of self awareness is an ongoing learning about who and how we are in the world. We must self assess every day. In this assessment process, be truthful and also be kind. Allow grace to be the lens by which you examine your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
May we all live with integrity.
“To be yourself in a world that is consistently trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are a singular gift to the world. No one can replace you. You are a unique expression of universal love.
You are loved for who you are.
I leaned into the rails on her hospital bed. Tears streaming down my face. Great gasps of grief closing my throat. In this moment of knowing the end was near, there was a light of awareness that soon she would be released from a lifetime of physical pain and ascend to limitless peace. We were at the end of our long goodbye.
The long goodbye from the first diagnosis, the countless seizures, the life giving surgeries, the long recoveries, the medicines, the treatments, the experiments, and the grace to witness her transcend every challenge.
This was our sacred moment.
