Saturday Mornings

A new, undiminishable Hope has Come!  Truly, Happy Easter ! The ultimate droop of our collective human heads has paused their seemingly fi...

The Saturday between Good Friday and Easter.  What must that have been like -- that day between an utter dashing of hope and the re-brighten...

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hea...

Effectiveness part is choosing which priorities to focus on. Efficiency comes in when we streamline how we do those things. “This is why ...

Wisdom without compassion is ruthlessness, and compassion without wisdom is folly. -- Fred Kofman As a follow-up to yesterday's po...

The ability to be a spectator to my own thoughts, especially when becoming emotional; putting myself in the shoes of others and seeing the w...

It is often easier to fight for a principle than to live up to it. -- Adlai Stevenson

I headed in. It was through a familiar, but little entrance in an otherwise dense wall of trees and brush. All shades of brown and gray, ...

To acknowledge the truth of ourselves is to claim the sacredness of our being, without fully understanding it. When we trust that our soul...

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. --Bill Gates

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. -- Henry Ward Beecher

The culture of 'boys will be boys' — means 'girls will be garbage' and you were made for more than this, Son. Your Dad and I...

Research that shows the opportunity to build mastery is one of the three most motivating things for most people, professionally.  The othe...

Being a mentor means fulfilling many roles but the most important is being a soundboard that steers an entrepreneur to their own answers to...

The veil was different this morning. I couldn't tell whether it was gone or whether it was no longer above me, and had just descended ...

I don't know what I think until I try to write it down. -- Joan Didion Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos preaches the value of writing long fo...

Once you're motivated to learn something, you can get a lot done in a short amount of time. -- Logan LaPlante

I was swept off my feet a few days ago. By the massive cold hand of a wave—an ocean wave twice as big as its brothers. I was there on the ...

O Lord, this holy season of Lent is passing quickly. I entered into it with fear, but also with great expectations. I hoped for a great bre...

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. -- Proverbs 10:12

  ...I remember my father asking me why I was upset. After I told him that I wanted to be pretty, I remember his response even better: “...

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, a...

A fascinating WSJ article is referenced below in this helpful consideration about matters of faith. Both are good, but I especially like th...

Thanks, Randy, for sharing this one.

You may have heard that we're born with a huge amount of brain cells, and then we lose them steadily until we die. Now, the good news: t...

My view of things is limited by my experience of things.

The truth most often just sits there...waiting for us. There are exceptions to every rule, of course, especially since truth rides above a...

...only by being fully conscious can you arrive at a realistic assessment of yourself and others. Objective data can deliver information, bu...

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because is works in us patience, humility and the cont...

Unless you try to do something beyond  what you have already mastered,  you will never grow. -- Ronald E. Osborn

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.  Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates actio...

"The harder you work , the luckier you get." There's some debate about who first made this statement. Ben Franklin apparen...

  Success, he said, doesn’t just happen. It requires daily effort . And he began to list the things that went into it. This list seemed ...

Revel in working hard no matter what the job is. You might be smart and clever, but a solid work ethic is the main thing that'll separa...

Want to be taken seriously?...become a better writer. A tourist in New York asked a woman on the street, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” ...

Prayer of an Unknown Confederate Soldier, The Creed for the Disabled I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak th...

Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures. -- James Cash Penney I was talking to a friend yesterday about...

It feels like I can't punch through a veil today.  It seems like there is a veil between me and God...like a bubble or a force-field sur...

"...they have enjoyed earning and spending that money far more than they have enjoyed their allowance or birthday money." The b...

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G.K. Chesterton

Getting even...has never healed a single person.

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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied . -- Matthew 5:6

What is the purpose of grace? This is what all the work of grace aims at—an even deeper knowledge of God and an ever closer fellowship with ...

Ultimately, to fast means only one thing - to be hungry - to go to the limit of that human condition which depends entirely on food and bein...

Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the mansion, hunger in the rented room Hunger on the TV, hunger on the prin...

It has been said that forgiveness is among the more powerful forces in life. Yet even its glory cannot be realized without a personal ack...

No one can truly innovate based solely on the contents of his or her own head. You have to close your laptop, get out of your chair, and tak...

A leader has to be aware of other people and quite often aware for other people . That is, he anticipates what the group is thinking and fee...

Be still , and know that I am God. -- Psalm 46:10 One of the implications here appears to be that there is an integral link between our...

We so often try to strengthen ourselves by 'being strong'.  More often than not, though,  it seems we are actually strengthened when...

We need silence in our lives. We even desire it. But when we enter into silence we encounter a lot of inner noises, often so disturbing tha...

C harles Duhigg’s excellent book The Power of Habit cites a Duke University study that says at least 45 percent of our behavior is habitual...

Love is a gift , not a reward for service! -- Jack Winter

It is not your love that sustains the marriage -- but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. -- Deitrich Bonhoeffer

This is how to make love out of a marriage:  Love lays down it’s own wants to lift up the will of another. Love lets go of its plans -- t...

"Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow..." -- ...

One of our more common and basic complaints at one point or another is that our needs are not being met. They can become a general view of ...

Expertise, it seems to me, is built on repetition. I was introduced to someone the other day.  I didn't think much of the person's...

Be yourself ; everyone else is already taken. -- Oscar Wilde

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear . -- Brian Tracy One might debate what 's...

To love at all is to be vulnerable . Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken . If you want to make sure of...

I believe more firmly than ever that He does (answer prayer).  He just doesn't confine His answers to the ways we envision, nor to the p...

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurr...

What is the difference between being dormant and being dead? Seeing trees this time of year has reminded me that being able to tell the d...

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. -- Don Herold Thanks Dav...

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else . -- Leo Aikman

When I decide to help someone -- personally, professionally, wherever -- it’s easy to think about what I want to do, even if I'm w...

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace --only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. -- Anne Lam...

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction , it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him....

True dependence is not simply asking Me to bless what you have decided  to do. It is coming to Me with an open mind and heart, inviting Me...

A most fascinating little reflection on the power and role of money in our lives: I'd been ignoring the task of addressing my ideas a...

When my brother and I first started out going door to door to our neighbors' homes with our push lawnmower and rake (I was only 9 years ...

Our parents were well intentioned but wrong: We can’t be whatever we want to be. We can all achieve amazing things, but we can’t do anything...

Every time you resist temptation, you grow stronger. Every time you choose to avoid areas that offer you temptation, you grow stronger...a...

Motivation comes from vision, not from fear. -- Geoffrey James

Love is like water. It flows. Sometimes like a flood, sometimes like a trickle, but it flows. It's always moving downward, seeping thr...

But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace ...

People with good self-control avoid temptations and problem situations, rather than battling with them. ...research confirmed that self-cont...

You must unlearn , what you have learned. -- Yoda

Be at War with your Vices , at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. -- Benjamin Franklin , 1755 Poor...

Obviously, no one likes paying taxes. And everyone wants someone else to pay all the taxes. But it's impossible for a government to ...

Luke:  I can’t believe it. Yoda:  That is why you fail.

It is hard not to notice that we respond to 'hot' personalities - those that require attention.  ...especially in the short-term.  B...

More often than not, man becomes like those he spends the most time with.

The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love . -- Galatians 5:6 My wife wrote this on one of our windows...I am so...

The desire for immediate relief from specific problems has driven Christians and psychiatrists to seek and prescribe quick solutions with li...

If a litany of naming all things good and beautiful directs us into grace , then a litany of complaints deforms us. I have been cataloging m...

How do you become better tomorrow ? Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes , but remember wh...

Most folks are about as happy as  they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham Lincoln

To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - to the only ...

I ran across this reading recently and these 3 things in particular stuck out to me; I think they're helpful advice for daily living.  ...

If someone tells you to go someplace and you don’t know where to go and, from what you have heard, it’s quite tricky in getting there becaus...

I love feeling superior, more influential, more important, and more noticed than everybody else. I cried about what a fool I’ve been... -...

When one loves, one does not calculate. -- St. Therese of Lisieux

Circumstances allow us opportunity to be shaped. In our culture, circumstances  (particularly bad ones) are often viewed primarily as som...

We all need space. Sometimes, the best thing we can give to another person...is space. Space to think often gives me opportunity to feel. ...

Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and u...

Those who believe in God can never in a way be sure of him again. Once they have seen him in a stable, they can never be sure when he will a...

When we are at peace , we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times, we empty ourselves so that God may more ...