by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 12, 2014 | Serendipity
1. Send notes to your 3 favorite people of all time. 2. Pay for the car behind you in any drive-thru. 3. Put on a traffic cop reflector vest and a whistle and escort the elderly through a crazy parking lot! Okay, maybe just offer to escort an elderly person through...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 5, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
“You have to see it to believe it.” Isn’t this how we normally think of it? But today, I’d like to share 7 things that must be believed to be seen. As you glance over these you may push back a bit, but I challenge you to consider the crucial...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 1, 2014 | Caregiving
When I went out to chop wood while waiting for the internet to be resurrected, my mind eased over into another category – a relative of dropping, but deeper and wider: Letting go. As in “turning loose on purpose.” Big difference. For example: Dropping a dish is fast...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 21, 2014 | Caregiving
The request took me by surprise. “Bruce, we have a gentleman here who needs to get to a sober house. He says he can’t find it,” our receptionist explained. Okay. So, I went out expecting to find a jittery drunk. I shook his hand and looked him over, but he was not...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 14, 2014 | Caregiving
I had a lovely conversation with a funeral director in West Tennessee about unusual funeral songs. As we rode along in the hearse across the farmland near Bells and Alamo after a graveside service, he told me this story. He was in charge of the music for the funeral...
