Saturday Mornings

The most valuable skill isn't inspiration, but the ability to work without it. -- Shane Parrish

Ever noticed …when people deny reality? I don't know (sic), what does that look like to you?  Why do  you think Greg Bovino is wearing w...

The world presents itself in two ways to me. The world as a thing I own, the world as a mystery I face. What I own is a trifle, what I face ...

Some people pursue their commitments with intentionality; others with spontaneity — and yet others with both. Conscience is still a thing ...

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Somehow, our President managed to grab the whole world's attention (again) this week: Dear Jonas:  Considering your Country decided not ...

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you. -- Sue Monk Kidd

We are inclined to things like…status quo. Perhaps, we are because we believe there is more to be gained (or less to be lost) if we just ke...

Whether you are a leader or a follower, it matters what kind of a person you have become — because when the chips are down, that is what y...

We need leaders not in love with money, but in love with justice .  Not in love with publicity, but in love with humanity . -- Martin Luthe...

We have made the Bible into a bunch of ideas—about which we can be right or wrong—rather than an invitation to a new set of eyes . Even wor...

Good is not simply a personal thing. Personal and collective responsibility meet somewhere — ‘minding my own business’ is not enough. Ther...

I want to leave it right there so badly.... But, the contrasts, especially with regard to money, are unavoidable (without just sticking-our-...

Of all the skills that I have developed in my life, storytelling may be one of my least developed (although, this one isn't terrible). ...

The only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent. -- Martha Beck In other words, holding on to the pas...

What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them. -- Annie Ernaux

I'm wondering ...about how we know who we are. Do we, for example, know this ontologically ?  Or, do we know this much more practically,...

All my life, I have been enamored of the God-intoxicated ones. Those rarified souls who slip into ecstatic states and spontaneously utter po...

You can only outrun yourself for so long.   We use medication to address our symptoms (of our stress), when the whole while we could be ad...

On the Lighter Side :

We've got a staggering relationship with  power  these days. Perhaps this is nothing new.... But culturally, right now, we seem quite di...

You build your mind , so make it into something you want to live with. -- Marilynne Robinson

It's better to endure the discomfort of the truth now, than to suffer the discomfort of the lie later. -- Simon Sinek

Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened  — stories of actual people involved. A broader telling... here .   You really can't ...

I’ve noticed …that sometimes it takes conscious effort for me to notice what is happening inside myself.

A Rule of Life is not a rigid checklist or a spiritual productivity plan. It’s not about doing more for God. It’s about ordering our lives ...

An Economist/YouGov poll released on December 30 showed that 80% of Americans believe that “ political institutions have been captured by t...

What can I do in the next three to five years, that I will respect looking back from my deathbed? -- Ron Shaich     The really important kin...

' Poem for the week' -- "We look with uncertainty":   

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Such a recommendation may be r...

Leave the year behind the way you leave a ridge — look back once with gratitude , then turn toward the next climb with steady breath and a l...

When your primary goal is to be liked, you can't take risks. You can't disagree. You can't push boundaries. You become a prisone...

Ever noticed ...that being right doesn’t really get you very much of what you really want? What if, as we approach a new year, we resolve to...

Whether it be the experience of the sublime in the Christmas season on one end or the trauma of our cultural chaos in 2025 on the other en...

We change most when it hurts bad enough …not to.   You receive and then you give and then you receive — thus is the cycle of life.  We nee...

From earlier this week: Speaking today at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference, Vice President J.D. Vance said, to great appl...

So much to be thankful for:

' Poem for the week' -- "Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child":    Lady dear, if Fairies may  For a moment lay asi...

To bear the Word, to enter the kingdom, we must indeed be born from the Spirit, not for the second time in the womb of our natural mothers, ...

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders . -- Charles Kettering

I'm wondering ...:  In simple and unexpected moments of epiphany , you will sense that you are connected to creation in ways that bypass...

Don’t try to explain the Incarnation to me! It is further from being explainable than the furthest star in the furthest galaxy. It is love ...

We are only vaguely aware of most of what deep money systems are really about. Something about Christmas and nostalgia seem inextricably li...

Letters from an American   For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was to a certai...

This morning, I saw this t-shirt my wife laid out for herself as she readied for her school day. And, it hit me, my disposition yesterday  h...

It’s happening again this year…I’m right up against Christmas and I feel nearly nothing about it.  It's like I’ve missed the spirit of ...