by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 31, 2018 | Resilience
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 14, 2018 | Serendipity
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 7, 2018 | Serendipity
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...
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...
