by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 4, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
Have you ever fallen into a mental funk? As in, you just keep repeating and rehearsing defeating messages, bad life stories, and discouraging sequences of events? At some point, we are all prone to slip into the habit of bad self talk. But, we must stop it! I...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 21, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
For a moment, I stopped. To listen, to breathe, to focus. And I heard the steady, rhythmic ticking of my cuckoo clock. Time ticking away. In one regard, the slow ticking of time is restful, reassuring, and pleasant. On the other hand, alarming. I am 41. I have...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 31, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
She was up again at 2:00 a.m. After a string of nights spent lying awake, plagued by worries and concerns, she finally got up when she woke up. Knowing that she was likely to repeat her recent pattern and only reap a lack of rest and resolution, she silently crept...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 3, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
As I gazed out the window, small flecks of snow eased their way down to the sidewalk. Sitting in my favorite coffee shop sipping indulgently, I hit the pause button. Too easily, I could drink my coffee and release my mind to race through a bevy of tasks,...
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...
