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 | Mar 10, 2023 | Serendipity
Examinations #1 Books, stamps, coins, dolls, cars, toys, records…all common items that people collect. These, and a million other items find their way into our treasure troves. Personally, I have a modest collection of books, bells, compasses, cap guns, metal cars and...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 3, 2023 | Caregiving
New Book! Receiving Peace #5 Swept up in the forces around us at any given season of life, you may find that returning to this question helps stabilize and prioritize your world. What is a good day? Whether balancing too many demands, managing a life-threatening...
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 21, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Moments That Open Your Heart #1 Guarded. Tough. Skeptical. For survival purposes, you may have gotten very good at putting up a strong exterior. So much comes your way that it seems necessary. No blame. Most of us do this, especially as we travel through adversity,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 14, 2023 | Resilience
You and Your Brain Isn’t this a funny turn of phrase? Making up your mind?But, it’s a phrase you may have used, and if so, you know exactly what you mean by it. In small ways, we may often make up our minds to do this or that. But often, this phrase belies...
