Saturday Mornings

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. -- Leo...

Regarding 'ubuntu', Eze summarizes it this way: ​'A person is a person through other people' strikes an affirmation of...

' Poem selection ' for the week -- "The Fool’s Song": I tried to put a bird in a cage.                 O fool that I am...

Change happens because ideas compel people to take risks. -- Tom Goodwin Instagram:  bobgoff Great love leaves little doubt. ...

​I've noticed ...that what I know the most, I know experientially. I go for a run nearly every day. Because I do, I have come to know ...

The single greatest people skill is a highly developed and authentic interest in the other person. -- Bob Burg

Who are we seeking to become? We get what we invest in. The time we spend comes back, with interest. If you practice five minutes of ...

The sea enters the rivers before the rivers can run into the sea. In like manner, God comes to us before we go to Him; and heaven enters int...

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence . When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers . -- ...

More often than not, it only takes one simple choice to start things heading in the opposite direction. Each moment provides us w...

​As long as we’re filled with ourselves, we can go no further. -- Cynthia Bourgeault We must learn how to empty ourselves, particularl...

​I've noticed ...that I am surprised sometimes at the significance of the smallest of things. Someone recently asked about my brother an...

Leaders ...must believe that diversity is necessary for future innovation and growth . Only then will...an organization...be willing to take...

​Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. -- Jonas Salk

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. -- Watchman  Nee www.youversion.com So it's...

By His  wounds  we are  healed . -- Isaiah 53:5 www.youversion.com ...even on a long, hope-crushing Saturday like this one duri...

Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all r...

As I contemplate the significance of this day of Holy Week , relative to Lent and to the next 3 days, I find myself aware of several things...

www.youversion.com The son of man came not to be served, but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many. -- Matt...

If we get attached to computers and other machines, we get far more attached to the traditional ways in which we have organized and run our ...

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge . -- Carl Jung This seems like an appropriate criticism in general, but especia...

The apparent eclipse of Christian wisdom by history is an optical illusion, since history itself is an unfolding of the event of Christ . ...

Some conceptual snapshots from the TRINITY Conference : You don't think your way into a new way of living, you live your way into ne...

This icon is displayed this week at the ' TRINITY: The Soul of Creation ' conference in Albuquerque, NM.  Tami and I are enjoying ...

​I go to nature to be soothed and healed and have my senses put in order. -- John Burroughs ...more pics here .

​I've noticed ...that many good conversations are often leveraged by food.

​Your environment always wins. If you hang out with nasty and sullen people, you will become nasty and sullen. If you work for a Machiavelli...

​Pressure to do our best at everything can be paralyzing, and perfectionism is deadly to balanced living. -- Sam Chase

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth , th...

Perspective is a giver. Comparison takes. Perspective is generous. Comparison pares down the loveliness of your life until it appears a t...

' Poem selection ' for the week -- "Causing an Accident": The moon builds its tower Sisyphean project Like a velvet la...

We do not normally see what we are not told to pay attention to. -- Richard Rohr

​I've noticed ...when I have to prepare for something, that I also need to be proactive about it in other ways, too, like considering wh...

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. Do not look for approval except for t...

It’s okay to realize that you’re crazy and very damaged. All the best people  are. -- Anne Lamott

If you wear glasses, you likely often forget that they’re even there! Only when you take the lenses off do you realize how much your capacit...

In a recent interview with Vox’s Ezra Klein, journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates argued that serious thinkers and writers should get off ...

' Poem selection ' for the week -- "Cake": Look, you want it you devour it and then, then good as it was you realiz...

​Most of us live our lives by accident -- we live it as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose . -- Simon Sinek ...

​When do we receive truth ? Many such questions are best answered by the asking of another question.  Perhaps something like, when does soil...

​The selfishness of man creates misery. The selflessness of God creates abundance.

...more pics here .  And then, Michigan went on to land a spot in the 'Sweet Sixteen'!

A post shared by Bob Goff (@bobgoff) on Mar 2, 2017 at 9:36am PST When prayer is authentic, it will always lead to actions of m...

​Another  Saturday Mornings Brunch : ​The best players have curious minds . -- ESPN Interview **** Curiosity is the path to enlight...

' Poem selection ' for the week -- "Spaces": I do not know how she felt, but I keep thinking of her— screaming out ...

​Sometimes you need separation  from something in order to see it again.

​We all need to return at times to the foundation of our lives, to help us keep track of what we are building...of what is truly being built...

​We’ve all worked with people who can’t stop talking about themselves and their accomplishments. Have you ever wondered why? They boast and ...

​Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice bef...

The question for me is not whether there’s a point to giving things up during Lent , but whether I should ever stop fasting from all that nu...

More Saturday Mornings Brunch : ​It takes an incredible amount of focus, on every series, to be successful in this game. -- Eric Spolstr...

' Poem selection ' for the week -- "Poem for My Son in the Car": The wipers sweep two overlapping hills on the glass, w...

​The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. -- Albert Einstein So, we can choose after all... d...

​There is now, more than ever, a whole economy of distraction which, among other things, conditions us to reactivity rather than proactivit...

Leaders are in charge of their emotions, their emotions are not in charge of them. -- Daniel Goleman

​ Opportunity doesn’t always knock; and those people who tend to sit around and wait for it for it often miss the opportunities that are wai...

​I am convinced the main requirement in prayer is honesty... . -- Philip Yancey In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness ...

More Saturday Mornings Brunch : ​The truer you become in being you, the less you and your personality need to enter the room. -- Sally ...

' Poem selection ' for the week -- “Harrowing”, from this most wonderful reflection : The plow has savaged this sweet field Missh...

​There is my reality - the one I live in, the one that I modify because of the way it needs to accommodate the needs of those around me. And...

On Ash Wednesday , we are reminded to  pray anew: God of grace and demand, you challenge us to reclaim our baptismal identity as those wh...

I think a defining element [of a good leader] is a courageous thoughtfulness, the ability to learn fearlessly and be open to different ideas...

The notion that God is absent is the fundamental illusion of the human condition. -- Thomas Keating

The quieter the mind , the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. -- Meister Eckhart ...

More  Saturday Mornings Brunch : The more elaborate our means of communication , the less we communicate. -- Joseph Priestley **** Th...

' Poem selection ' for the week -- "Protest".  Given these days, one might naturally think that this poem was written rece...

Yesterday , Tami and I celebrated 31 years of marriage .  She said some very simple, yet deeply penetrating words to me; she said she's...

Meaning is truth in context.

A leader leads by example, not by force. -- Sun Tzu ...this is not as tidy and straight-forward as it might first appear; example and ...

Many Republican members of Congress have made a Faustian bargain with Donald Trump. They don’t particularly admire him as a man, they don’t ...

​ Cast yourself in the arms of God and be very sure that if He wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength . ...

More Saturday Mornings Brunch : **** In the 1970s, the rules changed: the self-denial ethic morphed into the self-fulfillment ethic....

' Poem selection ' for this Valentine week -- "Heart to Heart": It’s neither red nor sweet. It doesn’t melt or turn o...

Think like a man of action ; act like a man of thought. -- Henri Bergson More than juxtaposed concepts, consider how each of these  inf...