Precious Gift

When we face our fears, our strength and resilience increase. We feel a knowing that we are seen, heard, valued, and deserving of love and happiness. 

Our sense of worth is knowing that we are here now on purpose. We are a part of a conscience, unconditional loving universe. We are aware that we are continually growing in wisdom and love. We are each a beautiful and precious gift. 

True Joy

True joy comes from the awareness of gratitude in the moment. The here and now is the only thing that really exists.

Happiness always comes from within. It may be facilitated by an outside experience but the final decision is internal.

Our anxiety, greif, and unhappiness come from shifting our awareness from the here and now to the past (guilt) of the future (anxiety). We create stories of what was or what might be.

Our awareness and our decision making process can bring us misery or joy.

Joy can be with us in every moment.

We decide.

Core Beliefs

In quiet, reflect on your core beliefs. What guides your decisions? What lights your path? What beliefs do you embrace that are the core of your identity?

This is your life's energy. Taking time to consider what we believe in gives us a clear sense of who we are. Let us celebrate who we are in service to others and the earth.

Let us open ourselves to life's infinite learning opportunities.

Faith and Love

Love unmasks our fears and they become a dramatic movie we can choose to watch or not.

Faith is a cornerstone for our love of life. Faith is our foundation in the most challenging times. Faith is our anchor that reveals the fallacy of our fears and doubts. Faith reminds us that unconditional love is the current deep within our lifetime of experience. Love is always working, holding us in the embrace of Divine presence.

Allow faith and love to make your decisions. Let your words reflect loves power within you. See the world through the eyes of faith and love.

Faith and love supports all life.

Stardust

We are guided and inspired by the same Divine unconditional love that scatters the stardust throughout the universe. That stardust was you and me and that stardust will once again be you and me.

We are here in our bodies, on this earth, for only a very short time. We are made of stardust and we will return to stardust.

In our short time together, let us share the unconditional love that created us. Let us experience together all the joy, inspiration, and endless creativity the universe has to offer.

Heartbeat of our life

Love is in each one of us. It can never be destroyed. Love is us. Love is the deepest and most essential power in all humans. Love, which is in us, is also the fundamental spiritual nature of the universe. Love is the heartbeat of our universe. Love is the heartbeat of our life. Love is a constant Divine presence that lives and breathes in each one of us. 

Let us become aware of what opens our hearts and minds. Our lives will transform when we act with kindness, empathy, compassion, and love. 

“Someday after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God, the energies of love, and then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

- Pierre Teilhand de Chardin

LifeSkills Conference 2026

We are joined together in gratitude. We have all answered the call. We have come to inspire, protect, build together, and create a community of good humans. Our children are most valueable and this generation will not be lost.

We must do what we can, where we are, with what we know. In these challenging times we will build a community that fills the human spirit with love. We will offer meaning and purpose to every participant. 

Our strength is in our shared purpose and committment. In our time together, we will create a sancutary, a community of refuge and support.

We will create an island of safety and love.

Transformation

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 Love

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. 

Loving yourself

You are the only one who can decide if you are worthy or unworthy. You are the only one who can love yourself of hate yourself. Your worthiness depends on you. How much you are loved depends on you. 

We are all emancipations of the Divine. Unconditional love is incarnated in each one of us. That love gives uniqueness, color, personality, and variation to our lives.

Loving oneself is an inside job. Know that you are loved unconditionally. Recognize your worthiness in this journey we call life. You are part of the vibrant, creative energy that permeates all life.

Beauty, worthiness, and love are yours. They wait for your acceptance.

The Process of Healing

The process of healing is a miracle. Our physical wounds heal from the inside out. Each new layer of skin builds until the wound is closed.

Our emotional wounds also heal from the inside out. We develop new layers of courage and vulnerabilty and our hearts blossom into full transparency.

We stand together

 “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. 

Meaningful work

Everyone reading this wants to make a contribution to making a positive and loving difference in our troubling and chaotic times. We want to act rather than retreat. We want to use our gifts of empathy and compassion in service to others.

Let us join together in meaningful work. Let us see clearly through a perspective of respect, responsiblity and healthy relationships. Let us help and support each other to be brave. Let us find together the courage to join in community. Let us find the common ground to perserve. Let us find the inspiration to do the work that is ours to do.

If you are seeing meaningful service in education, join with me and let us together offer health and healing to students, teachers, and administrators.

If this message moves you to action, share with me at thom@thomstecher.com

There are no small actions

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. 

You are called

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!