Saturday Mornings

So it's searchable: When you're looking for joy , you will always find it hiding in your gratitude . -- Ann Voskamp

It seems we must know a kind of poverty, in our spirit, in order to know God.  This may be true because it is one of the key ways we learn t...

Preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words. -- St. Francis of Assisi

Thanksgiving : Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;     his love endures forever. Cry out, “Save us, God our Savior;     gather us ...

Familiarity creates comfort. But comfort is often the enemy of improvement. When the fear of moving is the only thing holding you back...

Turn your doubt into curiosity. It's not that doubt is a problem, though it certainly can be inconvenient (but, so can the things tha...

Add to this that he was partly a young man of our time -- that is, honest by nature, demanding the truth, seeking it and believing in it, an...

The gospel is a doctrine that teaches a far higher matter than the wisdom, righteousness, and religion of the world; it teaches free forgive...

Pleasing God is not a means to our godliness, it is the fruit of our godliness.  For it is the fruit of trust. -- The Cure

Wow, Frosty is already here and well fed...and before Thanksgiving !

The only constant in life is change . -- Heraclitus

Customer feedback is great for telling you what you did wrong. It's terrible at telling you what you should do next. -- Phil Libin, CE...

Research seems to show it takes seven to twelve points of contact before the receiver of your message starts to pay attention .

In reality no one really cares how we look...except us.  So do this. Undress and stand in front of the mirror. (And don’t do the hip-turn...

I this pray for someone I love: God, before all is said and done, I pray that you would find him.  I pray that he would find you.  I know ...

I am proud of YOU. What goes through you head when you hear that?  If it is offered to someone else, is it something like, "Why doesn...

“They said this would be easy. But it’s not. Unexpected things happen that change everything. This is too hard for me.” Sometimes our...

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating wha...

No one matures in bitterness. No one gets free in isolation. No one heals rehashing the testimonies of bad religion. No one gets to love ...

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes . -- Pope John Pau...

At the end of the day this is a mystery, and God is not a candy machine. We have to live with that.   If people are insisting on a system,...

So I'm up unusually early this  Saturday morning .  I couldn't go back to sleep after a bit of an all-to-vivid dream.  It was about ...

We can't reach any higher if we can't deal with ordinary love... --  U2 ...click image  for video.

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value in...

Sometimes you need a soul quake to find the fault lines in your life. -- Ann Voskamp , A Holy Experience

To our brains , safety is largely based on familiarity . This works against us in many ways now. Most people fear or resist change , even...

It was a beautiful start to an even better Fall day in Winona Lake yesterday!

If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the l...

It could be the colder weather...or the fireplace fire last night...or all the shoes by our back-door from all the kids being home again w...

The key problem with making judgments is that they imply universality. Since a judgment is universal, it exists independently of who is sayi...

When an action is easy to do, you are more likely to do it regularly. Since new habits are often very fragile, the most meaningful changes y...

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's ...

So it's searchable: My job is to not be easy on people.  My job is to make them better . -- Steve Jobs

Everyone has their own way of leading ...and it needs to grow .

The Church is a very human organization but also the garden of God's grace. It is a place where great sanctity keeps blooming.  Saints a...

I was a member of a counter terrorist group. I wore dark camo, a helmet, night vision goggles, a bulletproof vest, and black face paint – th...

Melinda and I are strong believers that dynastic wealth is bad for both society and the children involved. We want our children to make the...

Life is about meaning – the  meaning   that comes from authentic relationships with those we love, and from worthwhile work that we believe ...

Lasting morale comes from being part of an organization that succeeds by providing people the responsibility needed to contribute in meanin...

Managers who don’t lead are quite discouraging , but leaders who don’t manage don’t know what’s going on. It’s a phoney separation that peop...

Stories are keys that release you out of yourself and into the wide freedom of caring about something beyond yourself. -- Ann Voskamp

We love you...and what you love.  More pics here .

What can I do?  Sometimes am I blinded by a lot of what I feel like I can't do , what I can't get to.  To maintain or discover a ren...

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow . -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growth and comfort don’t coexist. -- Ginni Rometty

You do not teach by teaching — you teach by loving . Be humble and courageous. -- Glennon Doyle Melton

Makenzie forwarded this article here ....

Imagine asking two successful people how they managed to accomplish what they have. The first says, “I’m just very gifted.” The second says,...

Nothing would remain stable in human society if we determined to believe only what can be held with absolute certainty . -- St. Augustine

Thanks to our friend Vicky who drew us all in to a great evening of work together at a local  FMSC  mobile-pack. We, and others ( 351 p...

...begins where we dare to enter into foreign, scary places. ...happens when we're willing to dare looking stupid; or, in the words of W...

Just because the clouds are there doesn't mean that the stars aren't.... Many mornings lately I have walked to my work-out a bit ...

Often out of our deepest pain , come our deepest gifts ... ...both the ones we receive and the ones we have to give.

The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, acc...

I’m not one to jump on anybody right now because I understand the problems there are, especially the problems when you’re dealing with 17-...

No legacy is so rich as honesty . -- Shakespeare

In my counseling office, parents like to tell me that their child is so smart. I rarely hear how compassionate or loving that child is to ot...

I am more interested in strength than I am in muscle.

Citing study after study (perhaps too many for an otherwise enjoyable read) Baumeister and Tierney argue willpower actually comes from the ...

Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less. -- Louie Giglio

It's that time of year again! Click here for more pics....

To the inevitable backdrop of John Philip Souza marches and Presidential photo-ops, Big Soda has announced that it will do some vague kind o...

A recent report cited that the single biggest reason families go bankrupt in the United States is because they get wiped out by medical bi...

The odds are very good that the last person to whom you spoke barely heard anything you said. Don't take it personally -- most people ju...

A HEART THAT IS BROKEN IS A HEART THAT IS OPEN -- U2 , "Cedarwood Road", from Songs of Innocence

We all seem to have a fatal flaw.  Or, perhaps better said, we all are fatally flawed.  One way or another, we are all in the same place; in...

What I want for my teenagers is for them to have respect, take responsibility and be resilient. The difficulty is how to teach teenagers ...

I like the thoughts here, as they describe the fickleness of our relationship with God much of the time and, even more, what God  is offer...

I wish I knew more about what is going on.  I just do...it's probably a parental instinct. But life has organized it that, without a...

Resilience  is the  ability   of people, communities, and systems to maintain their core purpose and integrity among unforeseen shocks and s...

Courage is like a muscle; it has to be exercised daily . If you do, it will grow ; ignored, it will atrophy.  Courage helps fuel grit ; the...

Do something that scares you everyday. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want to bring out the talent in other people, you have to look past your own biases, otherwise you will only be helpful to people wh...

The best leaders ...almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories . -- Tom Peters

We should all be incurably agnostic if God had not revealed himself. -- David Watson This is not as tidy as it might sound, at first g...

A little known saying goes: “The worst thing you can do for someone carrying a burden is to take that burden away.” That is a management sin...

Nothing converts cynics like success. -- Stephen Covey

90% of top performers are high in emotional intelligence . These individuals are skilled at managing their emotions (even in times of high s...

Management is the art of making problems so interesting that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. -- Paul Hawken

Becoming a capable leader is an evolution — a co-mingling of training, coaching, and exposure to the types of challenge that bring both ins...

Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He ...

Your skin is the outer layer of your soul. The union of two bodies is nothing less than the union of two souls.   Physical oneness is a h...

I like this line, near the end: "Adventure is curiosity, the willingness to embrace uncertainty ."

Nearly everything around you is conspiring to make you go faster; our culture is shifting towards always-on, always- connected . This is oka...

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. -- Matthew 11:28

A day off work yesterday hardly seemed like rest.  I had been wrestling internally most of the day trying to identify the root of something ...

We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God. -- Oswald Chambers

Last day before dropping my son off to college ...he and I enjoyed a day together.

The revolution in communication technology has caused the tragic demise of listening. Communication today is becoming increasingly a narcis...

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -- Albert Einstein Defer hard-and-fast conclusions and pursue ideas ....

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. -- Corrie ten Boom

Perfect is the enemy of good. -- Voltaire

Failure is, truly, inevitable. It’s what we do when it happens that matters. If there is a recipe for success, resolve figures in it. So doe...

You will only see what you are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson We took our 3rd to college yesterday.  This is getting to be ...

...the media need to expand their understanding of their role in times of crisis. The media's job is to report not just all that's...