by Bruce McIntyre | May 17, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
Serenity Secrets #3 With my energy and spiritual reserves running low, I knew that some time on one of my favorite trails would refill my tank. Last week, my feet finally hit the trail around Lake Placid at Chickasaw State Park near Henderson, Tennessee. At about 5:55...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 14, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
Serenity Secrets #2 You can do one thing right now. Sure, you have lots of things to do. You have a gajillion emails, meetings, and projects to finish if you could ever quit going to meetings. You have things at home to clean, fix, and maintenance. You have people to...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 7, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
Serenity Secrets Have you ever just lost it? Lost perspective, lost control, lost it? In these extreme instances, unwinding and de-escalating will take more than one breath. But the practice of removing your focus from the problem, the worry, or the situation, and...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 2, 2019 | Serendipity
Cathartic Conundrums The backdoor to gratitude is always unlocked. If you think more in terms of absence than presence, you are well on your way to a contented smile and maybe even a silent chuckle to yourself. What are you glad didn’t happen? What jobs, tasks,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 19, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
Cathartic Conundrums Faith in yourself, in other people, in God. You apply what you’re thinking of. Over the years, faith in any of these and more can not only be tested, but sometimes lost, reshaped, and rediscovered multiple times. Could it be that you… Lost...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 12, 2019 | Resilience
Cathartic Conundrums She just couldn’t do this any more. Surely this was hitting the bottom and not another ledge on the way down. Broke, exhausted, depleted, spent. She didn’t even have the energy to…well, to do anything. She was at her breaking point....
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 5, 2019 | Resilience
Living with Paradox Making peace with paradox. It’s tough, but essential for better living and better perspective. She received infusion treatments on her birthday. This was decidedly NOT the way she wanted to spend her birthday. But, her parents brought cake anyway....
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 29, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care As you lean into your unique situation, remember, there is grace for you! If no one else has ever extended it, or if you have a supremely difficult time believing it, allow me to extend some grace to you: You are forgiven. Today is a new...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 26, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care She keeps going. Her voice is soft. Her attempts at annunciation tend to leave her words slurred together due to the effects of Parkinson’s disease. She walks slowly, precariously on the verge of a fall at any moment. The disease has...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 26, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care I fully concur with this elegantly pointed observation from Elizabeth Kubler Ross: “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the...
