by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 4, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Crucial Principle Series #3 On your “A” game, this is the plan. All exclamation marks! But, things happen. You get stressed, tired, and disillusioned sometimes. One of the primary indicators of stress arrives as you overhear yourself complaining, blaming, or giving...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 28, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Crucial Principle Series #2 What are you giving? What are you taking? You may be giving encouragement, hope, help, or money. You might give care, prayers, smiles, or anonymous gifts. Perhaps you are giving your best, your expertise, your guidance, or your love. When...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 21, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Crucial Principle #1 When conversation, conflict, and confusion arise, you may exert great effort to be understood. “Why don’t they understand what I’m saying? I don’t think they appreciate my situation. How many times do I have to explain this?” Slow down. Back up....
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 14, 2025 | Resilience
Mountaintops #2 What mountain are you climbing? Perhaps you are preparing for a literal mountain climb. More likely, your climb is related to a season or era of life calling upon your endurance to complete the caregiving task, get your child through...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 8, 2025 | Resilience
Mountaintops #1 I spent the summer of 1994 in Japan. Living with a Japanese family, I completed my next-to-last semester of college and enjoyed traveling around the country as well as seeing Hong Kong and South Korea. One of the true highlights was climbing Mount...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 28, 2025 | Caregiving
Love #3 Some songs say what stirs in our souls. And, there is nothing like love remembered. The Beatles say this well in their song, In My Life.There are places I’ll rememberAll my life though some have changedSome forever not for betterSome have gone and some...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 21, 2025 | Caregiving
Love #2 At last, my love has come alongMy lonely days are overAnd life is like a song The opening words of the song At Last! capture so elegantly the sentiment that leapt within almost everyone who has ever known romantic love. This ageless song was written...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 14, 2025 | Caregiving
Love #1 All days are not equal Over the course of all relationships, you encounter blissful seasons and tough slogs as well.My wife and I will celebrate 30 years of marriage soon. Fortunately, we have experienced early years of freedom and delight, and many years...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 12, 2025 | Resilience
Facing Fears #2 You may think that other people have no fears. In that, you would most likely be wrong. Even your heroes have certain fears and hesitations and avoidances. But, they find ways forward anyway. Things people fear: …Asking the question…Trying new...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 1, 2025 | Resilience
Facing Fears #1 “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 comes not from...
