Saturday Mornings

The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King , Jr. ...seems especially appropriate right now, given the status o...

There are many issues tangled up in the on-going discussion / debates about homosexuality and marriage .  We see the fabric of things, but a...

We can’t control our passions (our desires), but we do control our actions. Today we think of sexual desires as mandating behavior; we assum...

We need to realize that sexuality involves our total selves – mind, body, emotions, and spirit. God created us that way, and sexuality is a...

It’s not easy to live as embodied creatures today (to say nothing of previous eras). All too often, human bodies are treated (by others, ...

I have often wondered what makes black & white photographs so compelling.  I'm not claiming to have figured it out, but I think B...

I have become more interested in self-coaching lately.  There are things that I want to do and things I don't want to do.  I need to hea...

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself. -- Bill McCartney

You are usually judged by the team on the way you treat your reserves. -- Lee Corso

Is there a greater muscle to develop than the one it takes to learn to initiate ?   If there is, it may be the one required to learn to wa...

The more you engage with life, the more real it will become to you and the more real you will become. To underscore the point, a counter-t...

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that is has no meaning : just as, ...

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the...

We have to go through periods of UN. Periods of  UN-clarity, UN-feeling-great, UN-clear, UN-able, UN-sure, etc. provide us with opportunit...

So it's searchable: Character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is th...

We need pain and disruption. We really do. They  re-orient our perspectives.

Perhaps what is needed most, when you can't get to where you're trying to go, is to stay where you are. Maybe someone where you ar...

Time starvation is both a function of how we perceive it and also founded in reality. People on average take in 5 times more information tod...

And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith . -- Matthew 13:58 When is this happening to me?

A most remarkable story: Phineas had earned his reputation as “the most efficient and capable foreman” in the company. The discipline an...

Why is it from the church, that people seem to feel the most scorn? Or, is the church, just a another place from which they feel it?

Ignoring is not the path to redeeming. -- Wesley Hill by way of 'Jenna', Washed and Waiting

They say that we are the sum of the five people we spend the most time with. I think that’s absolutely true. And that fact makes me all the ...

One of the joys of Easter !

Easter is a day to put everything upside down and inside out. ...once more, they are told not to be afraid (v 5). What is there to be afra...

Christians need to observe a Holy Saturday moment. On Holy Saturday, there is nothing you can do except wait . We aren't sure why we...

Overwhelmed with horror at what we are seeing, we join the crowds as they hurry along behind the soldiers with their prisoner. Forget the ca...

Can anyone grow, without challenge ?

" Exercise ," she writes in this New York Times article , "...does more to bolster thinking than thinking does." -- G...

The point isn't so much that something new has to be said; I' m not so sure there is that much that is really all that new (as the s...

Great leaders don't see themselves as great ; they see themselves as human . -- Simon Sinek

This is the wonderful exchange which, out of his measureless benevolence, he has made with us, that, by his descent to earth, he has prepa...

I heard a fascinating program on the radio this week on hatred and the Holocaust (click here to listen to the program...a segment about...

Doubt is an unsettling condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. -- Voltaire I asked a young lady who she thinks she would rather...

To varying degrees, there may be something within all of us that desires to collect things.  These can certainly be physical things, but the...

Holding on is easier than letting go. ...depending on what we are holding on to.

The greatest asset in any negotiation is patience . -- Simon Sinek So, what creates patience? Perhaps more to the point, what creates i...

The moment of truth for me came in the spring 2013 semester. I looked out at my visual-communication class and saw a group of six student...

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in pea...

Mens natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. -- Confucius A habit is something we do without thinking. Anyone who’s l...

Because we do not rest we lose our way…poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tirel...

Roughly 10 percent of the children born to college grads grow up in single-parent households. Nearly 70 percent of children born to high sch...

Let everyone understand that the real love of God does not consist in tear-shedding...but in serving God by serving those around us, in jus...

Love is not consolation , it is light. -- Simone Weil

Our society will really become human as we discover that the strong need the weak , just as the weak need the strong. -- Jean Vanier $1...

The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing . -- Dallas Willard And God is faithful to reveal this to us...

It seems we all are trying to be somebodies. ...what would happen, if we recognized our commitment to this and acknowledged that we mostl...

Our schools do amazing things with our children. And they are, in a way, teaching moral standards when they ask students to treat one anot...

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, s...

We are both -- already and not yet.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. -- Mark Zuckerberg

In my experience, it is those with the least who are most desperate for God. In fact, having everything one needs can greatly reduce one’s c...

It seems increasingly true as a culture that we believe the only way we can be heard anymore is to yell. The media is either creating some...

"We're most like ourselves when we're laughing," said the doctor, "it's very easy to kids as the condition they h...

The piano became a safe place for me as a child to figure out stuff that I didn’t have words for. -- Linford Detweiler There are things...

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start . -- Nido Qubein

It doesn't matter when we start, it doesn't matter where we start, all that matters is that we start . -- Simon Sinek

Faith is not being sure where you’re going, but going anyway. A journey without maps. -- Frederick Buechner

We need to be more honest about our spiritual experiences.   The vast majority of people are not like Mollie. God’s tangibility, his “ fe...

Need and gratitude seem to be inextricably linked. Numerous situations in the lives of friends lately (Sue Ford, Nathan and Julie Baker, ...

What you do on the inside effects your brain and chemistry and blood and DNA much more than anything you can do on the outside. I know ma...

We need to not only recognize things for how they feel, but also for how they really are .  At times, those can be quite different.

Beware of a life that is full for too long; where there is no room, lack of space dulls important things in us.

You’re meant to do hard & holy things because they are the next thing -- to get to the best thing. It’s true, it’s hard, but there’s ...

This card snapshot pretty much captures what I feel today about our 29th wedding anniversary .  With a deep sense of gratitude, we are bot...

What a 'cool' place to go -- Chicago's 'the ribbon' in Maggie Daley Park .  A fun way to be with our kids and their frie...

Technology is great. I have one of just about every gadget made. But we all know that our technology-enabled, full-on lives can get out of c...

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no wat...

Busy stems from the fear of never being enough . Busy covers our emptiness . Busy says, I am in control. -- Lara Casey I am str...

Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of ...

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses . -- Simon Sinek

Sometimes the path of the Christian’s obedience becomes very difficult. It climbs upward; the gradient is continually steeper; the foothold...

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Leaders who express anger, frustration and impatience—even in relatively small doses—may prompt action, but those emotions also drive their...

Data from the million-plus people TalentSmart has tested in order to identify the behaviors that are the hallmarks of people that have high ...

We often can't hear very much of someone's judgment of us, until something else is in place.  If, for example, we feel that we aren...

Sometimes we seem to get frustrated that people won't act like us ...it would just be a lot easier, if they would (smile). These are g...

Often times our best thinking is done when our beliefs are being challenged. -- Gregory Ciotti

I’ve tried to be as transparent as possible about the rawness of this. But honestly, it has not been the rawness of wanting to shake my...

He begins to die, that quits his desires . -- George Herbert

This year, industrialized countries will spend $10.4 billion helping poor countries cut carbon emissions and brace for the impact of climat...

There are many factors which influence our  growth , but if I had to pick one, it would be the willingness to try ...and to keep trying .

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. -- Thomas Fuller

You may delay, but time will not. -- Ben Franklin Interesting notes from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting: Regarding Europe:...

The story line of this tragedy is almost unbearably heart rending. I can’t speak to Dr. Davidson’s character corresponding to that good ...

Overloading is often what we do when we forget who God is. It is time for us to breathe and build margin into our lives for God. By neglec...