by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 21, 2013 | Resilience
Cooking, entertaining, shopping, giving, overeating…these elements tend to dominate the week of Christmas. So, enjoy! But, may I suggest that you intentionally carve out some space for solitude and reflection as well. Perhaps this could happen when guests...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 12, 2013 | Serendipity
Crazy Kazee. That’s what they called her. In fact, she even referred to herself by that term. Travelling to a small eastern Kentucky town in 1989 with a church group, my friend and I stayed with her. With all of the maturity of two kids who just completed their...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 4, 2013 | Spiritual Stuff
A lacuna is a blank space or a missing part…a gap. Some people have a gap in their teeth. Some, it would seem, have a lacuna between their ears! We notice when something is missing in our fast food drive through bag, on a misspelled neon sign, or in the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 29, 2013 | Spiritual Stuff
Quiet. No one else on the trail. Except for the rhythmic sound of the raindrops trickling down through the canopy of trees and the water rushing down the creek beside me, all was quiet. Finally, I was breathing and praying and listening. After two hours of...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 22, 2013 | Spiritual Stuff
Probably the single most famous speech given in the history of game players was given by a generally silent Yankee first baseman named Lou Gehrig. He stood at a microphone on a day honoring him after a fabulous career, suffering from a horrible disease that would take...
