by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 24, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Places #1 Do you have places that help you create calm? Places that prompt better thought and perspective?When I visit my family in Tennessee, I look forward to at least one morning meandering along the trails around Lake Placid at Chickasaw State Park near Henderson,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 17, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Examinations #2 In what area of your life do you need less? In what ways do you need more? For instance, when I take time to hike a state park trail, I often think that I need to do this more. Engulfed in the smells of moist earth, oxygen-rich trees and morning mist,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 25, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
New Book! Receiving Peace #4 Today, you have enough. Enough love, enough energy, enough courage to get to the end of the day and manage everything that comes your way…at least for today. No, you may not feel like it at the moment. I found this exercise hard to receive...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 25, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
New Book! Receiving Peace #3 Relational Spirituality suggests that strengthening one’s relatedness to other people and to other sources of interest beyond self interest produces joy and vitality. To be sure, not all people produce this effect. But long-term isolation...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 18, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Receiving Peace #2 Whether you consider yourself religious or not, caregiving and chronic illness soon leads you into inherently spiritual terrain. These scenarios are frustrating. They make us mad and sad; and they prompt us to cuss and pray. Everyone experiences...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 3, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Receiving Peace #1 Whether or not you consider yourself religious, the experience of adversity soon leads you into inherently spiritual terrain. Like most of you, I do not wake up every morning with the proverbial bluebirds of joy and serenity on my shoulder. They...
