Saturday Mornings

​The personal mission statement was important for me because I believe that you can’t lead others unless you have a strong sense of who you...

​The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-accept...

More interesting to me is that the book contains themes that I believe are particularly relevant to evangelicalism today, one of which we’...

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. -- Marcus Aurelius  We enjoyed some R&R this week and this year's colors ...

Poem for the week -- "Upon the Heights": And victor of life and  silence , I stood upon the Heights; triumphant, With upturne...

What will you do with your surplus? If you have a safe place to sleep, reasonable health and food in the fridge, you're probably livi...

​I've noticed ...that there seems to be something a little bit fraudulent in everyone.  And, as much as I hate to admit it, there is fra...

​Success is not determined by flawless execution of a plan.  It is determined by how people react to failure . -- Don Schmincke

​You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it. -- James Clear

​ Everything is holy now. The only resistance to that divine flow of holiness and wholeness is our human refusal to see , to enjoy, and to ...

Instagram:  mariagoff Don't let pain keep you from going to deep places, from doing some work on your hurts so you can get on wi...

Poem for the week -- "Strictly Speaking": There is the question of bearing witness, of being yourself seen by yourself, ...

Instagram:  bobgoff Don't let other people decide who you are. -- Bob  Goff

​I've noticed ...that life seems to unfold in a series of periods; periods where I live with a lot of unknowing , followed by periods of...

​Being a leader means that it is my job to help others do theirs.

​It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield. -- W.B. Yeats

​God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness , because if we fully knew what was happening, and what it will eventually ask of us,...

After some consideration of this, it might dawn on us that such things are happening, as they were designed to happen.  Perhaps, the goa...

Poem for the week -- "In Autumn": When within ourselves in autumn we feel the autumn I become very still, a kind of singing, a...

​Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. -- C.S. Lewis

​ I've noticed ...that I need to feel my anger , but not hold on to it.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves. -- Jim George

​It is interesting to observe how we feel -- how we see ourselves -- when we no longer clearly see our impact on others.  Though, at times d...

​More often than not, all we want from God is relief.... He's not too happy about that; not for His sake, but for ours. God knows that...

Poem for the week -- "The Sin of Pride": turns out not to be a sin at all, but in the guise Of self-esteem a virtue; while poe...

​ Possessions are very confining; pretty soon you don't own them, they own you. ...a quote from a recent episode of  Michiana Chronic...

I've noticed ...you can't legislate attraction.

Great leaders know that the total knowledge of those around them is vastly greater than everything they know alone. -- Simon Sinek

​When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. ‪-- William Arthur Ward‬

First the fall, and then the recovery from the fall, and both are the mercy of God. -- St. Julian of Norwich Here, perhaps, is anoth...

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but ...

Poem for the week -- "Fledgling": I scare away rabbits stripping the strawberries in the garden, ripened ovaries reddening th...

The best thinking has been done in  solitude . -- Thomas  Edison

​Whatever I feel is not the only thing .

Many people believe great leaders are charismatic, have a commanding presence, are visionary, and educated at elite schools. Almost all of t...

Truly self-aware individuals are always looking for ways to learn . -- Justin Gray

​ The more I seek you, the more I find you. -- M. W. Smith

The central issue here is not political correctness, free speech, or affirmative action. It is relating to people as authentic human being...

Poem for the week -- "The Weaver": My life is but a weaving Between my Lord and me, I cannot choose the colors He worketh st...

​If we deny our disappointments , not only do we lose a significant opportunity with God, but we also risk establishing a stronghold of disi...

​I wonder  sometimes, if certain things in me that just won't die are being kept alive somehow for some purpose or if it is just me and ...

In Good to Great , Jim Collins sets up an interesting metaphor using a mirror in the corner office to explain the difference between a serv...

​The truth will set you free, but not until it's done with you. -- David Foster Wallace

We are all living in the current chapter of the story of our lives.  The longer we go, the more we can see all that the prior chapters hav...

​Conspiracies seem to bounce back-and-forth between 'yeah, right...' and 'are you serious?'. What seems to move the dial is ...

Poem for the week -- "To Kathleen": Still must the poet as of old,  In barren attic bleak and cold,  Starve, freeze, and fash...

​Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. -- Flannery O'Connor

​Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that. -- Richard Rohr

When we romanticize - and focus exclusively on - the role of the individual, we deny - what allows that individual to succeed, which is - th...

Instagram:  bobgoff Quit being " right " be humble -- Bob Goff

Deep down, I suspect many of us recognize the inadequacy of our past and present efforts to combat racism. Yet, as James Baldwin observed,...

Another beautiful day in Ann Arbor : Game story here ....

Poem for the week -- "Hummingbird": I love the whir of the creature come to visit the pink flowers in the hanging basket as ...

​Most of us unknowingly surrender our lives to the messages that most perforate our beauty . -- Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back To You

"Nothing matters more than results" Except for: Community , contribution and what our friends think Trust The perception ...

​The most successful seem to regenerate — they keep coming up with newness. Perhaps this is because they actively try to free themselves fr...

What a night last night in Noblesville, a thing of beauty in so many ways: The talent and artistry of musicians -- nothing short of a...

Here is the world.   Beautiful and terrible things will happen.  Don't be afraid . -- Frederick Buechner

​We are so disconnected, aren't we? This should be rather obvious by the appetite we seem to have culturally for trying to be connected....

Poem for the week -- "Old Selves": Ok, I no longer want them, the many selves I had to manage that once exhausted friends. I...

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are . -- Bernice Johnson Reago...

​I've noticed ...that overall meaning gets increasingly illusive, for me, when the requirements of performance persist.

​The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully.... You ca...

Before we can become who we really are , we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now , is at bes...

Instagram:  bobgoff God's first priority isn't for me to understand what He's doing in someone else's life. -- Bob...

​I admire, or at least am drawn to , someone who seems to just know their place in the world - the spot they occupy, what they offer to the ...

Poem for the week -- "Pomology": I will eat the apple read Stephen’s note this morning. He is volunteering to play Eve. He ...

​If I don't do things that help you look good, will you still like me? Whether they (we) realize it or not, how far off is this from t...

We must all assimilate other lives   in order to live. -- W.H. Auden

Our country is in desperate need of servant leaders , of men and women willing to kneel and embrace those who are not like them. Everyone se...

​Attractive people—people who attract others—keep moving and growing ; they don't just 'hang on'...especially to the past. The a...

​Both Jesus’ and Paul’s notion of faith is much better translated as foundational confidence or trust that God cares about what is happenin...

​We seem to long for something along the lines of  immortality , wishing that we could abate the physical declines that come with aging . Ye...

Poem for the week -- "Ancient Sunlight": Shame on you for dating a museum: Everything is dead there and nothing is alive. Not...

​We all have a need for order - the question may be about the degree to which we will become obsessed with keeping it. One way to observe ...

​The more you give, the more you get.     The more you get, the less you'll have.     The more you take, the less you'll have. ...

​What we have to offer is largely born from our experience.

​As long as you live, keep learning how to live. -- Seneca Be  awake .

Instagram:  bobgoff More from a series on faith ... here . Wanting to have all the answers now isn't bad, it just isn't fai...

From one morning earlier this week: The full moon, brilliantly speaking from its place just moments before, waved goodbye as it sunk silen...

Poem for the week -- "The Voice of Things": Forty years—aye, and several more—ago,       When I paced the headlands loosed fro...

​True belonging doesn't require that we change who we are. It requires that we be who we are. -- Brene Brown

​I've noticed ...most things of interest to me are things I believe or hope could change me.

​Just do your work well; and don't stop...doing it well. It doesn't matter whether your peer is doing their work well or not, at l...

​There can be something so healing to the spirit about silence . We seem to grow into this knowledge of serenity, particularly as we age .

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​I am reading a book about skepticism and belief. I was reading the book on my way to some extended time away from my normal context for lif...

Poem for the week -- "Both And": It is almost always more both / and, than it is either / or.

​ We use what we call reason to preclude thought . -- Marilynn Robinson

​What if we are actually more free to do what we are afraid to do than we think?

The most productive people learn first to interpret the messages from their own emotions, and secondly, pay more attention to the motivati...

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. -- William Bruce Cameron

​Faith now, for me, has become more physical.

Instagram:  bobgoff Quit waiting for an invitation. Go live your life. -- Bob Goff

Poem for the week -- "Original Hope": One borrows time not to be left out. Been in the pattern of sun—secure, re-creating. ...

Whether with  silence  or noise, nature makes its voice heard -- Palisade Falls (Hyalite Canyon). More pics here ....

​ No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied -- it speaks in silence to the very core of your ...