Fear and Courage

Fear and Courage

For Those Who Lead “Fear and courage are not mutually exclusive,” Brene Brown articulates so precisely. You may tend to think that the courageous do not experience fear or that if you have fear, you are not courageous. But, this is not so. The difference...
Snow Walk

Snow Walk

Fresh Tracks, Fresh Start Laying down the first tracks in the falling snow in our neighborhood, my son and I savored the moment. No wind. Temperatures relatively mild, hovering right around freezing. The evening was lit up with the blanket of snow reflecting all...
The Life You May Yet Live

The Life You May Yet Live

Considering Your Next Best Step Whether you are twenty-one and on the cusp of a move or ninety-two and writing your final chapter, you are considering your next best step. For the young, life is wide open and full of possibility. But even for those with decades under...
Holiday Reflection #2

Holiday Reflection #2

They didn’t know it was impossible, so they did it. And now for something different. Amid the holiday hustle, there yet remain some profound moments of reflection as we wrap up a year and launch into a new one. Or, perhaps it is the very sentimental and...
Holiday Reflection #1

Holiday Reflection #1

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? And now for something different. Amid the holiday hustle, there yet remain some profound moments of reflection as we wrap up a year and launch into a new one. Or, perhaps it is the very sentimental and...
Finding Purpose in the Struggle

Finding Purpose in the Struggle

Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too!) Purpose is a tricky word. Loaded, yet it sometimes comes off as trite or insensitive. It seems easy for the person with everything going their way to speak of purpose. But, what does it mean to find purpose in the...
Giving Thanks by Mental Subtraction

Giving Thanks by Mental Subtraction

Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too!) What if? Have you ever arrived at gratitude via the side door or perhaps the back door? Here’s what I mean. As Christopher Peterson articulates, “It may matter whether we think about the good things in our lives...
Survivor Tree Reflections

Survivor Tree Reflections

Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too!) On April 19, 1995, I was on the phone with a college bookstore in California when our office building shook and some of the windows blew out. I was working in downtown Oklahoma City. During those first days and...
A Prayer for the Caregiver

A Prayer for the Caregiver

Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too) November is National Family Caregivers Month Unknown and often unnoticed, you are a hero nonetheless. For your love, sacrificial, is God at his best. You walk by faith in the darkness of the great unknown, And your...
Enough

Enough

Spiritual Tools for Caregivers (and other people too!) 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. The Bible tells of the Israelites in the wilderness...

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