by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 30, 2018 | Caregiving
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 27, 2018 | Caregiving
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 16, 2018 | Caregiving
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 6, 2018 | Caregiving
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 6, 2018 | Caregiving
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 29, 2018 | Resilience
Transcending Adversity When life gets fuzzy and decisions are elusive, or hope and joy go absent altogether, consider these 10 moves: 1. Read or listen. Find someone who guides people through your type of struggle. You’re likely to glean at least one good idea....
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 29, 2018 | Resilience
Transcending Adversity When you have faced unexpected adversity, did it make you bitter or better? Whether it was or is related to a health problem, career setback, relational implosion, financial crash, or spiritual disillusionment, my guess is that you have...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 29, 2018 | Resilience
Identifying Priorities The best thing you bring is a full cup. To work, to your marriage, to care scenarios, to anything you do. Having a full cup requires priorities and carving out time to refill your cup. Think of it. When you drag into any situation, your...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 28, 2018 | Resilience
Identifying Priorities In his book Half Time, Bob Buford tells the story of strategic planning consultant Mike Kami and his experience in the 80’s with Coca Cola executives. They were releasing “New Coke” and after many positive taste tests had...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 14, 2018 | Spiritual Stuff
One word can make the difference What if one word could change your mind? What if your whole posture toward a person, a job, or a task could be improved by adopting a new key word that resets your expectations? You zoom in and zoom out. You vacillate between near and...
