Saturday Mornings

Believers often repeat these words to each other: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracio...

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage . -- Anaïs Nin

After watching this, this  post  seems even more true.

You are stronger than you think you are, and you are weaker than you know.

I heard this story about Bill Murray once. Apparently he was alone in an elevator at a hotel when a guy got on and recognized him. The man...

The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you hear what is sounding outside. And only he who listens can speak. ...

Part of the opportunity to grow is to decide each day whether or not you want to.

It is important to remember.  It is important to make time to remember . To remember: things past, things that have been done things pr...

Higher education should be equipping students to answer these four questions:     What is worth knowing?     What is worth doing?     ...

A caricature of the difference between education and learning:  

True religion is always a deep intuition that we are already participating in something very good, in spite of our best efforts to deny or ...

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you want to live a longer, happier, and healthier life, take all the usual precautions that your doctor recommends, and then...get out t...

Feedback of any kind is an invaluable mirror.  If we're fortunate, we grew up surrounded by a lot of mirrors -- and they reflected impor...

I will not let you have life on your own terms . -- God

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. -- Albert Einstein

No one can live happily who has regard for himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility . -- Seneca

The seven deadly sins are still deadly, because they separate us from other people. They are all about putting 'me' first and that...

  No one can deny that today’s technology is fun. It’s loaded with eye candy, which is an addiction. It’s loaded with social media, whic...

God comes to you disguised as your life. -- Paula D'Arcy

What’s the difference between you and God?  God never thinks he’s you. -- Anne Lamott , Help Thanks Wow

Ignorance of God and ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and this ariseth mostly not from want of light an...

Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of our...

  Read more  here  about how sitting may be killing you...

It doesn't matter how slowly you go, as long as you don't stop. -- Confucius

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear . -- Florence Nightingale

One of the best books I have ever read is The Logic of Failure, where Dietrich Dorner demonstrates through real life case studies how often ...

...our western notion of body-mind duality is entirely false. The study shows that we are a whole organism, and when we get healthy that me...

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. -- A.W. Tozer

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Duct Tape Surfing from Mark Tipple on Vimeo .

Speaking of character : The most common cause of leadership failure is ego , which means that someone is looking out for number one rather...

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by t...

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -- Martin Luther King ...

It's for your own good. Cut these things out of your day and you'll see gains in productivity -- not to mention happiness: 1. Chec...

God doesn't promise an explanation,  but he does promise to walk with us through the pain . We have a choice - to be angry over what we ...

The first time I found myself today was on my routine morning  run , when I finally panted, " God , I need you to crack open my heart.....

...a meaningful expression of care is far more dramatic than gun-fire. -- Mister Rogers Times have really changed...or, have they?  ...

No matter what people say true success does not come easily. Like everything in life, if you really want something you are going to have to ...

You can’t do good business with bad people. -- Trammell Crow

Do not boast about tomorrow,     for you do not know what a day may bring. -- Proverbs 27:1

Few can willingly walk into the dark without anticipating light. I felt that heading into the trails  this morning; the possibility of su...

Lately, I've sat in different chairs at my house and noticed things I can see from that perspective.  Like this morning, a glorious one ...

An extended reading from Robert Rohr's book, Falling Upward : "The tragic sense of life" was first popularized by the Spanis...

We seem to be enlivened in areas where we are the most comfortable. We are energized where we feel natural.  And, these tend to be areas t...

We tend to see truth mostly through the lens of things we are comfortable with...things familiar to us. Or, to say it differently, we ar...

Proactive bonding is a mindset . You actively look for the common goal between yourself and the other person or team. This helps eliminate a...

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful  form of love .  In return, you will receive  untold peace and happiness. -- Robert Muller

I am mindful of my sin today. Sin is ugly. It is damaging. It is evil. I am only a couple of choices away from the kind of thinking and...

Science believes. It believes that something is knowable - otherwise, why bother. It believes that knowing matters, perhaps because knowin...

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Could a greater miracle take place   than for us to look through each other's eyes                                                   ...

Despite how unfashionable they are, some old ideas are still quite good, like this one: When I was 21, the U.S. Navy taught me how to fly ...

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been open...

Our celebration of Tami's Dad was soon over as we left town last night and learned that his sister was killed in an  auto accident  jus...

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. -- C.S. Lewis

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It takes seasons of grieving to be reconciled to it.  -- Holly Benyousky

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. -- Charles Swindoll

Life is a slow accumulation ...of good or ill.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work . -- Peter Drucker

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is  better off  with you having tried . -- Tim O-Reilly

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchbac...

Poverty is not a natural condition; it is man-made. -- Nelson Mandela Some time well-spent...a Charlie Rose interview with Bono at ...

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that th...

We are on the back-side of democracy when citizens vote primarily in their self-interest based on unrealistic promises. -- David C. Bake...

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. - King Edward VIII

Only 7 percent of the information people take in comes from the words they hear . Most of the information comes from vocal inflection and bo...

You can’t really talk effectively until you understand what your audience wants. Digital is creating all sorts of hints and clues that a go...

I've been collecting observations about listening this week.  I've been doing more listening this week. It is a powerful action t...

To enter into solidarity with a suffering person does not mean that we have to talk with that person about our own suffering. Speaking abou...

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. -- Peter Drucker

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. -...

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen . -- Ernest Hemingway

  ...plus Joel and Makenzie  are participating in the Momentum 2013 Youth Conference this week at Indiana Wesleyan University. Click ...

The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt he is. -- Ann Voskmp

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. -- St. Augustine

The unexamined  life is not worth living. -- Socrates

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old . -- Peter Drucker

Speaking of change : Let nothing upset you, Let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless . Patience attains t...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to ch...

It is hard to fail , but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. -- Theodore Roosevelt

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For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey ; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step. -- Thomas à Ke...

At times it seems like a long walk through this life.  It strikes me that it takes a while to figure out what is going on. We often start th...

...with joy ! And what is often the beginning of the journey towards joy?  Click here ...for one perspective.

And , it is service that surprises  us...

I regularly have to be brought back to the truth that what I really need the most is something that someone else cannot provide...only God c...

I stand holding the apple in both hands. It feels precious, like a heavy treasure. I lift it up and smell it. It has such an odor of outdoor...

In an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review, Ndubuisi Ekekwe wrote, “There’s an assumption that using smart devices boosts pro...

There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything. -- George McDonald

Awareness of others can lead to self-awareness . But, many times it doesn't seem to.  Something blocks the otherwise natural transitio...

...to serve .

And , it is love that enables us...

The basal ganglia plays a key role in the formation of leadership habits, both the good ones and the bad ones. As we keep repeating a routin...

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character , give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln

Many people seem to think you have what you can get .  The secret, however, is that whatever you have has been given .  ...and that changes ...

Our capacity to hurt another person is great. ...our capacity to love another person is even greater.