by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 28, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Crucial Principle Series #2 What are you giving? What are you taking? You may be giving encouragement, hope, help, or money. You might give care, prayers, smiles, or anonymous gifts. Perhaps you are giving your best, your expertise, your guidance, or your love. When...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 21, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Crucial Principle #1 When conversation, conflict, and confusion arise, you may exert great effort to be understood. “Why don’t they understand what I’m saying? I don’t think they appreciate my situation. How many times do I have to explain this?” Slow down. Back up....
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 20, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Unexpected Paths to Happiness #2 Are you here now? Whether you know it or not, you probably spend an alarming amount of your time like this:…playing out future conversations…wishing you were somewhere else…deflecting imagined pushback…longing for a better...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 10, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Unexpected Paths to Happiness #1 “Distractions waste our energy; concentration restores it to us,” states Sharon Salzberg. We are living in the midst of the age of distraction. In all of human history, it has never been easier to be distracted. It is so...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 1, 2024 | Spiritual Stuff
Calm in the Storm #1 You have surely noticed. The political stage is set for chaos over the coming weeks. As you vote, engage and process as the storm rolls through, how can you retain some sense of clarity? How can you speak and act from your best self? Three...
by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 16, 2024 | Spiritual Stuff
Instigators of Good #2 They pull up into the driveway of the old, neglected house.She hears their motor, and peers through the window.They will be her only visitors today.Their smiles, brief conversation, and hot meal delivery brighten her day.As she eats, she savors...
